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PEB's avatar

The saddest part is when it's your family and friends. It's like they died. That person you thought they were died & the grief and sadness is real!

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ASensibleMan's avatar

You know who died and is dying at amazing rates? The vaccinated

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

We’ve got a MAGAT in the woodpile. Be gone!

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Frank Moore's avatar

You’re one stupid cunt.

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ASensibleMan's avatar

Classy

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Little Gray's avatar

Here’s a pithy statement about this:

“He allowed people to express their racism and bigotry in a way that they haven’t been able to in quite a while and they really love him for that. It’s a shocking thing to realise people love their hatred more than they care about their own actual lives. The hatred – what is that about? It’s a fear of your own weakness.”

Fran Lebowitz

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JD Free's avatar

This post perfectly captures the driving force behind every left-wing person, and the only way they can live with themselves is to project this mindset onto the Right.

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Buea's avatar

It is legitimately hard to believe that lefties have zero self-awareness when they say crap like this. Lefties are the ones clearly motivated by hate and spite (of white people mostly) and it’s obvious to everyone from the way they talk about right wingers. They fundamentally can not conceptualize the motivations of someone who disagrees with them, they HAVE to believe they are the good guys in the Marvel movie and on the “right side of history” so to speakTo them, everyone on the right is pathologically evil and that is what motivates their political positions. They can not acknowledge that someone can disagree with the current liberal consensus based on logical arguments or principles, bc that would implode their entire worldview and self-conception of themselves as the sophisticated, moral arbiters of society

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Zorost's avatar

I doubt you've actually talked to anyone MAGA. Trump's bill did not take any gov benefits from legal citizens, which you'd know if you did even the most basic of research. I doubt there are many MAGAs who are illegal immigrants.

FYI MAGA is the moderate wing of regular conservatives. So you've got some surprises coming up.

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Bill Gullo's avatar

You are an amazingly precise writer. Thank you for all the time that goes into it

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Miranda R Waterton's avatar

It’s exactly what happened in the UK over Brexit. They stopped the programmes that would allow young people to travel and broaden their outlook and love people who’d grown up in different countries. They despised people who wanted those things, for themselves of their kids.

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Mitch Benn's avatar

Best analogy I ever heard for Brexit was that it was like watching a mob of illiterates burn down your library

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Michele Pfannenstiel DVM's avatar

This is an excellent explanation... because damn I do not get having spite. But yeah... makes the most sense

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Joseph Cullen's avatar

These are all valid points about MAGA & Co. However, the libs, in all their short sighted adulation of Biden and the hapless Democrats, laid the groundwork for the emergence of Trump and the rabid right. So here we are!!!!!

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Jessica's avatar

I agree. Sometimes, I have to put that point way into the background or it will open a whole new can of worms.

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PeachBlossom's avatar

It's not hard to admire someone with integrity and empathy and who wants everyone to share in good things, not just the elite!

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Joseph Cullen's avatar

And who might that someone be, perchance?

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PeachBlossom's avatar

Joe Biden -- of course!

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Ingrid Wagner Walsh's avatar

This is so spot on. The idea of the liberal media cabal, seemingly headed by Rachel Maddow, is so interesting, because I think this ongoing, willfully ignorant spite is engendered by the MAGA media cabal. We have a president who makes proclamations of “fact” by screaming into social media, not through official channels based on anything actually factual. We have a news network (Fox) whose past pundits have admitted that its sole goal is to manipulate Americans, especially older ones. We have a MAGA base born of right wing podcasts and shouting into a void. When does the rest of the sane world go after the MAGA media cabal? Cut the snake’s head off. It seems like we have to rebuild the citizenry from there. And get the white nationalists out of office. Oof.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Rupert Murdoch and his family of lying liars have disrupted governments around the world with their daily disinformation campaigns.

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Fred Lunau's avatar

Bitingly on the point. You totally nailed the subtle hues by which idiocracy expresses itself.

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Brian Jones's avatar

Heart-breakingly beautiful perspective, thank you for sharing. The image of MAGA as Wily E. Coyote is a powerful one … as accurate as it is comically tragic.

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John Schwarzkopf's avatar

Excellent analogy. You're identified the problem perfectly.

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J. Thomas Dunn's avatar

Excellent and heartbreaking piece.

The only part I question is this...

"Eventually, they’ll come to see the loss of their future as the price they had to pay to own the libs."

Unless Fox News tells them, I doubt most of them will ever come to see this.

They will stay willfully ignorant to their Graves.

Just a thought.

Well done!

J.

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ASensibleMan's avatar

This is just straight up stupidity. Hilariously so. Midwit drivel.

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Mitch Benn's avatar

Well this changes everything

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Jim Bergquist's avatar

I admire your writing. Thank you.

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Bob Venus's avatar

You made the perfect analogy, I remember those cartoons well and will never forget this line of reasoning!

Also, thought it was a great insight separating the elite liberals from the rest of us who get hit by the train, very true!

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David Bomse's avatar

A brilliant essay! One of your best (and that is high praise). Wile E Coyote vs Road Runner is a terrific analogy.

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ASensibleMan's avatar

Boomer detected

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