Summer Kerksick waited in line for two hours Tuesday to receive a box of canned and dry goods at an event organized by a DC food bank and local religious group for federal workers amid the ongoing government shutdown.
“I disagreed with Kamala on a single issue involving two nations on the opposite side of the planet, so I didn’t vote for her and held the door open for fascists instead.”
Yeah, not a bright bunch.
EDIT: Looks like 10 people so far have self identified as these dim bulbs. These are the people we need to worry about come 2026 and 2028. They’re going to make the same mistake again, because learning isn’t in their wheelhouse.
Some of them are still around here and have the fucking balls to pop up here and chastise people they have derisively labeled “liberals”. They think they have the moral high ground. Even now. And, if it sadly comes to it, when everyone is being put into FEMA camps, I doubt they will admit their wrongdoing and will instead lecture people on things like “don’t blame the voters”. FFS. It’s bonkers.
I know a few of this type IRL, too, unfortunately. No self awareness and no apologies. I think it’s mostly narcissism, really. The ones online are possibly paid actors/bots put there to sow division.
Oh yeah. I know a few IRL as well. Like talking to a brick wall. These are people that want their fantasy scenario to become reality but don’t grasp the actual reality we live in and also aren’t willing to put in the hard work to make their fantasy a reality.
It’s sad and these are the main people we have to worry about in the coming elections. We know we don’t have to spend time trying to convince Trump supporters. They’re cultists and they aren’t changing. But to see these people who generally want the same things we want, but are completely out to lunch regarding how to achieve those things is just really depressing.
I’m crossing my fingers that things get so bad in the U.S. that these people wake up and do the right thing, at least for 2026 and 2028, but I’m not holding my breath.
Theoretically, the argument would have been “Then vote in the primaries”. Problem being, a lot of people have been betrayed on Democratic primaries. Bernie Sanders was shown as popular before, and they still nixed him as an option. People largely agreed Joe Biden was too old to run, and yet he was way too late to offer up Kamala as an option; skipping past any primary that would have given people other choices.
People want to demonstrate “their choice” is popular, and the Democrats have taken away that choice pretty consistently. To me, it’s not enough to surrender a vote to fascism, but I think I understand the feeling.
She magically appears right before elections, gets absolutely crushed while taking votes away from the Democrats, then disappears again. She does not care. She is not trying to make a viable 3rd party. She got half of a single percent of the total votes cast.
Anyone that voted Stein in the last election is not a very intelligent person.
Yeah, they definitely annoy me as well. It’d be one thing if they were sort of daffy and later admitted what they did was shortsighted, selfish and/or stupid. But as a general rule, I don’t see them owning up to it.
Just being super-sanctimonious about how pure they think they are for their vote and their continued bothsiderist bullshit that helps no one and does nothing to move things forward. Equally as bad are the ones that sat out elections for similar performative “morality”. The accelerationist types are even worse than both of those two - the ones that go out of their way to vote for Republicans in the hope of watching everything burn down so it can be started over using their utopian ideals as a template.
But voting for Kamala would be bad for Palestine! Not voting was the only way to save Palestine! /s
“I disagreed with Kamala on a single issue involving two nations on the opposite side of the planet, so I didn’t vote for her and held the door open for fascists instead.”
Yeah, not a bright bunch.
EDIT: Looks like 10 people so far have self identified as these dim bulbs. These are the people we need to worry about come 2026 and 2028. They’re going to make the same mistake again, because learning isn’t in their wheelhouse.
So very well said.
Some of them are still around here and have the fucking balls to pop up here and chastise people they have derisively labeled “liberals”. They think they have the moral high ground. Even now. And, if it sadly comes to it, when everyone is being put into FEMA camps, I doubt they will admit their wrongdoing and will instead lecture people on things like “don’t blame the voters”. FFS. It’s bonkers.
I know a few of this type IRL, too, unfortunately. No self awareness and no apologies. I think it’s mostly narcissism, really. The ones online are possibly paid actors/bots put there to sow division.
Oh yeah. I know a few IRL as well. Like talking to a brick wall. These are people that want their fantasy scenario to become reality but don’t grasp the actual reality we live in and also aren’t willing to put in the hard work to make their fantasy a reality.
It’s sad and these are the main people we have to worry about in the coming elections. We know we don’t have to spend time trying to convince Trump supporters. They’re cultists and they aren’t changing. But to see these people who generally want the same things we want, but are completely out to lunch regarding how to achieve those things is just really depressing.
I’m crossing my fingers that things get so bad in the U.S. that these people wake up and do the right thing, at least for 2026 and 2028, but I’m not holding my breath.
I’m not going to say I’m happy about her non-stance re: Palestine, but also, fuck anyone who didn’t vote for her and allowed literal fascism.
Theoretically, the argument would have been “Then vote in the primaries”. Problem being, a lot of people have been betrayed on Democratic primaries. Bernie Sanders was shown as popular before, and they still nixed him as an option. People largely agreed Joe Biden was too old to run, and yet he was way too late to offer up Kamala as an option; skipping past any primary that would have given people other choices.
People want to demonstrate “their choice” is popular, and the Democrats have taken away that choice pretty consistently. To me, it’s not enough to surrender a vote to fascism, but I think I understand the feeling.
Less bad than Trump, but non-voters don’t want to hear that.
Neither do the Jill Stein types.
Jill Stein voters make my blood boil.
She magically appears right before elections, gets absolutely crushed while taking votes away from the Democrats, then disappears again. She does not care. She is not trying to make a viable 3rd party. She got half of a single percent of the total votes cast.
Anyone that voted Stein in the last election is not a very intelligent person.
Yeah, they definitely annoy me as well. It’d be one thing if they were sort of daffy and later admitted what they did was shortsighted, selfish and/or stupid. But as a general rule, I don’t see them owning up to it.
Just being super-sanctimonious about how pure they think they are for their vote and their continued bothsiderist bullshit that helps no one and does nothing to move things forward. Equally as bad are the ones that sat out elections for similar performative “morality”. The accelerationist types are even worse than both of those two - the ones that go out of their way to vote for Republicans in the hope of watching everything burn down so it can be started over using their utopian ideals as a template.
ROTFLMAO - as if that is going to happen.