Writes Evan Barker, in "One Year Ago Today I Ruined My Life" (Substack).
"In the past year, nearly all of my old political friends have stopped speaking to me. One of them said: 'fascism doesn’t look good on you'.... I’ve lost friends I’ve known for fifteen years. My toddler stopped getting invited to birthday parties. He was rejected from preschool. We even had to move to a new town."
Adding tags to this post, I had to stop a while to remember what was my tag for the inane nonissue of Kamala's joy. It was "how does Kamala feel." Let me publish this post with that tag so I can click on it and see what that looked like in real time. In retrospect, it looks awful.
ADDED: It's interesting — the first "how does Kamala feel" post was 6 days after election day in 2020, in a post titled "Where will Biden put Buttigieg?"
Axios had written: "One key question: How would Kamala Harris feel about having a potential 2024 rival lurking the Cabinet and building a donor base from a perch at the United Nations — and around New York City's big donors?"
I wrote: "I hope that doesn't become the key question at every turn — How would Kamala Harris feel? Ugh. I hope this isn't the beginning of a new phase of semi-conscious misogyny: Because the Vice President is a woman, we must think about the Vice President's feelings. Does anyone ever wonder how Mike Pence feels?"
I wrote: "I hope that doesn't become the key question at every turn — How would Kamala Harris feel? Ugh. I hope this isn't the beginning of a new phase of semi-conscious misogyny: Because the Vice President is a woman, we must think about the Vice President's feelings. Does anyone ever wonder how Mike Pence feels?"
But then I didn't use that tag again until July 27, 2024, when I wrote: "I see I made a tag 'how does Kamala feel,' but then I never used it again. I wanted to keep an eye on an unwholesome phenomenon. Sorry. I forgot. But I want to remember again. The question facing us in this election is what the candidate is offering to do for us and whether she or he will be very good at it. Your support should never be about wanting to boost the spirit and self-esteem of the candidate."
The next few tag appearances were about Kamala's laughing, but by early August, the word "joy" had become the campaign theme. On August 9th, I blogged a NYT article titled, "Writes Katie Rogers in "Harris Used to Worry About Laughing. Now Joy Is Fueling Her Campaign. Democrats are smiling again, and so is a vice president who once weighed the political risks of cheerfulness. The high spirits are also providing air cover for scathing attacks on Republicans" and the Glenn Greenwald tweet "You tell me how and why corporate media constantly speaks from the same exact script this way, verbatim. #KamalaIsJOY."
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She discovered she needed a better class of friends. But then "she's speaking from a position of privilege" or whatever the heck that means. LOL
Typical reaction by the Left. If you don't conform and toe the party line, you are punished. No free thinking. Talk about authoritarianism!
This guy is better off without his so-called friends. Losers all.
If people can't see that Trump is doing a great job, they're hopeless. They can't even believe their own lying eyes.
It's a cult.
How To Recognize The Signs You're In A Cult - For Dummies
Sorry I used the wrong pronoun. Evan is usually a guy's name.
So, Evan has had a damn good year! Getting my TDS acquaintances to shut up and ignore me sounds like Nirvana.
If a friend says this to you "'fascism doesn’t look good on you'"
Not your friend. A mentally ill hive-mind loser.
If you have a penis and aren't tranz...WHY THE HELL ARE YOU STILL A DEMOCRAT!?!
Messages advocating conversion are literally that simple.
Between the two videos, she looks happier -- and hotter -- in the latter, after leaving the Party.
"Finally, if you ever get the chance, I hope you find the courage to be widely disliked at least once in your life. It will expand your world in ways you never thought possible."
- Evan Barker
In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.
- George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"
so much for "inclusion"
The American Democratic party Left are hypnotized by something very dark and very sinister.
(such good Christians - right?)
If she "ruined her life," it was by populating it with people who placed woke/dem orthodoxies at the center of theirs.
The party of empathy and kindness.
Future Althouse, with a link to a post from 2027!
This place just gets better and better.
Anyone who uses the word "fascism" is in the grip of a primitive ideology and might as well talk about vital force, phlogiston, minotaurs, and other things that don't actually exist. You can accurately say "I hate your team. My interests don't match yours so I'm on the opposing team." but that's about it.
Please watch her tik tok video. It's very good. REAL.
No way can I see but does the I ruined my life come from xer mouth or is it a propaganda headline? Does xe regret leaving the party? This story itself feels like propaganda to stop the others from defecting.
…as per usual Peachy is right- these people are ir were not your friends. I received good advice about people like this in my life- cut them out of yours. Don’t mourn their loss, don’t try to change them or bargain for their attention. Don’t waste energy on emotions about the breakup. Cut them out. People say you can't do it to family but you can- when they try to shame you font accept it, then follow the rules as above. Let them sound like the ruthless jerks they are at Thanksgiving and don’t let it affect you. Pretty easy…
This demonstrates the minefield conservatives have to face when working in liberal dominated professions. I worked in science and law, both overwhelmingly flooded with progressives. I was also educated at Yale and Berkeley, two hotbeds of progressive thought. I had to keep my mouth shut about many issues just to pursue careers that I love. I fully believe I would have been fired if my superiors could have read my mind.
"In the past year, nearly all of my old political friends have stopped speaking to me. One of them said: 'fascism doesn’t look good on you'.... I’ve lost friends I’ve known for fifteen years. My toddler stopped getting invited to birthday parties. He was rejected from preschool. We even had to move to a new town."
Too bad she can’t bottle IT
Evan Barker has a toddler in preschool?! Is that normal Democrat behavior? Where's the father? Not married to Mommy, of that we can be certain. Is perverted parenting the edge thing with soi-disant progressives? What does Barker Junior have to say? Are you my mommy?
As I've alluded to in other posts, my husband's brother and his wife, and one of my husband's close cousins, stopped speaking to us after the election. (I'm not sure about the cousin's wife and kids - initially none of them was speaking to any possible Trump voter, which included most of this cousin's family, but then the wife and kids returned to family gatherings, so maybe they're over it.)
For a while my husband continued texting them, just normal things about how our kids were doing and what we were up to and asking how they were, but since they would never respond, he gave up. He has periodically said that he'd have voted for Harris if he'd known this was going to happen. (We live in Texas so he could've done so without consequences or much of a guilty conscience.)
It hurts. It's all very well for people to say "you're better off without them" and "they never really cared about you" but neither of those statements is either comforting or even true; we have lots of friends and family members who disagree with us politically - some quite vehemently - and our lives are still better with them in them; we just have some no-go or tread-carefully zones. We're mostly... "at peace" isn't correct; we've mostly come to terms with our situation, but it still causes my husband daily pain.
I hope this woman is doing well now.
btw- This brave young woman did not ruin her life at all.
She rejected the ruining.
"In the past year, nearly all of my old political friends have stopped speaking to me. One of them said: 'fascism doesn’t look good on you'.... I’ve lost friends I’ve known for fifteen years. My toddler stopped getting invited to birthday parties. He was rejected from preschool. We even had to move to a new town."
Wince said..."It's a cult."
Inga is always calling Trump supporters cultists but, man, read that and ask yourself, 'who are the cultists?'. And we all know this is not an aberration.
“She rejected the ruining.”
Exactly right, Peach.
Trump is doing to the Dems what the Dems did to him:
https://www.racket.news/p/they-sowed-the-wind-and-now-they
Who on the left has the courage to say that what they did was wrong so we can end this spiral? How do we get to sanity?
Interesting essay, but she her ending shows she has learned nothing:
"This means they [Democrats] need to stop only defining themselves against Trump, and decide what they are going to stand for.... What the public craves more than anything is authenticity.
"Besides this, Democrats need to come to terms with accepting more heterodoxy within their own party. Throw the purity tests in the trash can. It isn’t a moral failing to have a different opinion when it comes to immigration, gender ideology, or identity politics. If the Dems want to truly be the party of diversity, then diversity of thought must be included."
She needs to explain how the Democrats can define what they stand for while similtaneously allowing diversity of thought. And the belief in "authenticity" is touching.
The problem is that we are seeing the authentic Democrats and many of us don't like what they are. Moreover, the Democrats have repeatedly told us what they stand for: open borders, defunding the police, lax enforcement of criminal laws, abortion until birth (and maybe beyond), funding radical NGOs through our foreign programs, etc.
Is there an overarching philosophy that unites all these positions? Socialism? Hatred of free enterprise? Hatred for western civilization, Christianity, and the United States? These all seem to be good possibilities for the authentic core of the Democrat Party.
Once we recognize that the party already has an overarching philosophy, then it is easy to see that the party already has diversity of thought. Some its followers want to eat the rich, while others want to abort their children (or at least the black children). Some want to sexually mutilate our children, while others what to have sex with them. Some want government ownership of the means of production, while others just want the government to dictate policy to the corporations. Some want to ensnare the black underclass in government dependency, while others want to import a new underclass to harvest our crops, clean our homes, and do the yard work.
Although I expect the Democrats to remain in disarray, they still have the power to do a lot of damage to our society. Evan just seems to want them to be more focused and effective at that destruction.
Jamie - that your own family would disown you, is proof of how dark and sinister the leftwing propaganda is.
Remember - the Democratic Party TOLD them to do this. The democratic devotionalists/ cultists - obey.
If they decided to talk to you again - you would accept them back.
You used that tag in 2027? How prescient! The future, Conan?
You may have begun the long wait for them to regain their senses, Jamie… which may or may not happen.
It’s what happens when people hate one individual more than they care for not only family, but their fellow countrymen.
Narr at 854...funny.
I read a column by Victor Hanson today about the reasons the Democrats have gone crazy. A large part of the reason is what Evan identifies as well. They have abandoned the middle and working classes. The party has been taken over by "elites" that not only have no concern for working Americans but actively disdain them.
Now she can start making real friends.
My college age self was a complete idiot. I wish I could of told him that back then, but he never would have listened. It all turned out good, but there was a long learning period that could have been a lot shorter. I credit working hard for a living, and then running a business as the detergent that finally cleaned out the gunk. I still have a lot of friends that disagree with me on key issues. I just avoid those discussions, because you can't change people's minds for them. Trying is counterproductive.
rehajm, the problem with your "Let them sound like the ruthless jerks they are at Thanksgiving and don’t let it affect you" is that, in our case as an example, either we or they can't come to Thanksgiving. And that hurts my in-laws. Yes, they know and acknowledge to us that their other son and his wife are being ruthless jerks. But they still love them and want to see their other grandchild. And we don't want to punish them - my husband's parents - so we lose.
Steven - good points.
The democrat party is this. This is who they are.
" They are not going to stop." - As Kamala would say.
“And the belief in "authenticity" is touching.”
This approach is really “touched”… as in “fucked in the head”.
This happened to the Democrats on the eve of the Civil War, starting with the assault by Preston Brooks on Republican Senator Charles Sumner, which csused many Northern Democrats to quit the party. “Do not save a place for me at the table,” wrote one Democrat to a former colleague, “For I shall not return.”
I went through something like this myself back in the early 1980s when, as a (then!) young Republican activist I walked away from my friends and mentors to join the Reagan wing of the party. And I was right.
Evan, my friend, next time a colleague tries to call you a fascist, look him square in the eye and coldly tell him that if he really thought you were a fascist, he’d never have the guts to say it to your face.
Bagoh - Don't be so hard on yourself. Back then the Democrat party wasn't nearly as awful, or as evil and corrupt as it is today.
I don't know how they get to authenticity when their defining character trait and main M.O. is being inauthentic. It permeates everything they do and every leader they have. None of them live the life or respect the values they champion. Everything is a performance, even when the truth is easier.
Liberals would rather you get mugged or raped or even shot dead by criminals than, you know, say Trump was right. They love to virtue signal.. even at the day they attend your funeral!
This place just gets better and better. Heh. Needs a "divination" tag.
Evan Barker committed the crime of honesty.
People like that can't simply jump onto the other side's bus. In a way, she needs to re-start her education, taking things back to first principles, simultaneously applying her new found skepticism to the propaganda that surrounds us all.
My career was not political, but at work I knew I could not mention politics. The corporate level was 100% Democrat and we were dealing with political entities at State and Federal level that were all effectively Progressive/Democrat. I could however keep my mouth shut on such professionally irrelevant matters.
Out in the field the workers were Republican almost to a man. I rode along following pipelines and etc lots of times with guys who would tune in Limbaugh. There were no Democrats along I5.
Lets say there were deep differences between workers and that part of management in the big cities.
Thanks Peachy, but the guy was a total loser, and I'm still paying the price for some of his bad decisions.
Paul at 922 - The liberals won't even go to the funeral.
Go read the comments to her Substack. The people against her just say "white privilege, Trump bad, fascism". Guess they did not get the Third Way memo about words to stop using.
But her problem is that her career WAS politics. Thats an awkward situation. Shes got to find something else to do.
WAH. That's what happens when your "friends" are only your friends because of your ideology.
July 27, 2027
@Althouse, are you sure you should be using past tense with a date two years into the future?
"I'm not sure if I'll be voting for Kamala. I hated the DNC."
"You're saying that from a place of privilege."
Holy shit. The insanity of this! You're not allowed to feel anything, and you're not allowed to vote your conscience. There's only one way to vote and you have to do it. Ugly.
My first instinct was to suggest that having a baby made her naturally more Republican. Caring for children is the Republican brand, while Democrats prefer to abort them.
"How dare you have a baby, you privileged person! You are ruining the Earth."
So maybe it was maternity that helped her discover her humanity. But to have your friends speak that way to you! And they all left her.
Were they even friends? Did they ever like her? The answer is no and no, apparently.
"Future Althouse, with a link to a post from 2027!"
Thanks for the nudge. Fixed.
The cult hates an apostate much more than an infidel.
But somewhere around 2022, things started to feel different, and I took some time off, prioritizing caring for my young infant son over my career.
That's a Republican idea, of course. But I would also suggest that people who put anything over politics (God, love, family, friends) are more naturally Republicans. The problem with Democrats right now is that they are Party First people.
Her whole article is thoughtful and well reasoned. Actual liberal-minded people are adrift without a party that even attempts to reach them now. I've seen many versions of this article now, always a lefty, and in every single instance withdrawing support from a bad candidate was interpreted by their "friends" and relatives as rejecting everything. One cannot even "sit out" a cycle without being called a fascist.
At least Trump is attracting more voters to our side not repelling them (other than Megan McCardle etc.).
People like that can't simply jump onto the other side's bus
This is exactly right. My blog reading and podcast listening is heavily in the "political changers" vein a la neo, and it rarely happens that a person leaves the Democrats because they find that they disagree with what Democrats say they are - they break with the Democrats because they realize that Democrats are not what they say they are. These people still lean left in policies, in large part.
But what they all find - at least, every one I've encountered who writes or speaks about it publicly - is that this side will listen and try to persuade, this side will accept that you don't agree, this side doesn't demand unwavering orthodoxy.
I haven't read the Substack yet (I've been relating this post and the comments to my husband), but this is what I expect I'll hear from her.
Guess they did not get the Third Way memo about words to stop using.
Well the fatal flaw in that memo (and trust me that in the corporate world a well-crafted memo is important) is that they say "don't do it like this" without an equal and offsetting suggestion about what to do. So basically they say "stop using X" but fail to empower the reader with what they CAN say. "Shut up!" is then the summary of what Third Way provides in their stupid memo.
Prior to this that was every leftists' advice to Republicans. We of course encourage them to talk as much as they want, even more. Because they can't help sounding stupid.
WAH. That's what happens when your "friends" are only your friends because of your ideology.
We never even MENTIONED politics to my husband's brother - his younger brother whom he has, by definition, known and loved since he was born, long before either of them knew the word "ideology." Yet "that's what happened" to us. And yes, "WAH" - it is heartbreaking.
Bob Boyd said...
The cult hates an apostate much more than an infidel.
This.
Some unsolicited advice for Evan. Over at the Republican side Donald Trump is building a large tent centered on the working class and middle class. If you actually care about them, if you actually want to feel the “pulse of America,” you could come over and help him build it. Yes he’s rude and yes he’s crude, and I wouldn’t have him over for dinner on a bet. But from the perspective of the people you claim to care about, he’s heading in the right direction.
Oh, and Evan? Your Democrats didn’t just “stop talking” to the working class — they actually ran them out of the party. And Bernie fid nothing but bluster, and damned little of that. Think about it.
I must applaud Evan Barker's metamorphosis, from robot to actualized human is an epic leap. However, her reformation needs to start at the bottom, beginning with her rhetoric. For example, that formless screed she quotes at the end of her essay. We had a discussion lately about writing versus typing... Evan's ending quotation isn't even typing.
Oh, and Evan …. Think about the courage of Abby Johnson.
Jamie - sorry. Really - it is heartbreaking.
All of that came from the highest levels of a corrupt political party.... and the highly paid apparatchiks that we know as the "Media."
Shouldn't there be a #WalkAway tag, too? I don't know her, or her views, but I applaud her resolve, and for having the courage of her convictions. She's done a hard thing, but she's also wise enough to view the results critically. Her 'political friends' were never her friends. I suspect many MAGA people might find the same kind of treatment, if they were to step away, to be honest, although I don't think it would be so authoritarian. The MAGA tent welcomes a lot more people than they're given credit for, but we don't hear stories about the disillusioned very often, or what happens to them. It cannot be because it doesn't happen.
We just listened to the Young Turks on the Third Way memo. Ana over there, often a voice of reason, I understand, certainly had worthwhile thoughts on the subject of the memo's "recommendations." But she couldn't say anything without jargon, herself. Things were "exhausting" - not irritating and frustrating, for instance.
Other examples elude me - except that they were all chortling about the memo's use of the entirely correct word "obfuscatory" - designed to hide meaning. As usual, their takeaway was that Democrats need to dumb it down for the poor uneducated independents and Republicans - not that Democrats need to stop hijacking normal words to mean deeply abnormal things.
Unless i missed it she doesn't say whether she supports Trump. Totally understand why she would want to ditch the dem party. Lots of people do for the reasons she mentions and more. But then jump to Trump? Seems odd.
"Before Obama won the primary in 2008, I was an alternate delegate for Hillary in Kansas’ third congressional district, one of the youngest ever in the state of Kansas."
I think we can deduce the history of this case: Evan Barker was captured by the Cult before her brain gelled. Commies, Nazis, Ti and Do, People's Temple -- they all prey on the babies.
Right now all the Democrat party has is its self-righteousness. Their stuck in a purity spiral. Pointing out that Joy Reid and St. Felix are driving normal white people out of the party will get you canceled.
My toddler stopped getting invited to birthday parties. He was rejected from preschool.
Sure, the Left isn't a cult
Shall we roll the tape of Democrats in power -TELLING their cultists to "get in their faces" etc... and worse.?
This is the party who threw Molotov cocktails and set fire to Tesla dealerships. But YOU - are the fascist.
Again - Top level democratics called for violence and more.
"and they are not going to stop."
Kamala asks/ asked for donations to spring arsonists from jail.. (not that they need any help with all of the Soros DAs)
If they democratic party could - everyone who rejects them, would be in a re-education camp.
"As usual, their takeaway was that Democrats need to dumb it down for the poor uneducated independents and Republicans - not that Democrats need to stop hijacking normal words to mean deeply abnormal things."
The jargon is meant to separate the "ins" from the "outs." The obvious reason they need to get the "in" people to stop using it is so that they don't make regular people feel like they are in the "out" group. The fact that the Young Turks can't figure that out is hilarious.
I'm truly sorry for you, Jamie. Just keep the door open. I hadn't talked to my younger brother for over 25 years over religious differences. His sect of christianity didn't allow association with anyone not in their sect. Then one day a phone call. He apologised for being a dick and now we're brothers again.
Sasha Stone had a similar experience. And now does a podcast that tries to explain the process of becoming sane, after being in a cult.
The Democrats, with Obama, decided to take all the worst parts of Orwell and make them into a foundation for their 'new' party.
Totally understand why she would want to ditch the dem party. Lots of people do for the reasons she mentions and more. But then jump to Trump? Seems odd.
That's what I was saying above. It's a fantasy to assume that someone who leaves the Democrat Party does so because she suddenly realizes she agrees with Republicans. Rather, she realizes that Democrats aren't who they claim to be.
Republicans have an opportunity there - to convince that person that Republican policies, for all that they seem heartless to those steeped in Democrat rhetoric, work better than Democrat policies to actually bring relief to the working class (for instance).
Rusty, thank you for the ray of hope!
A political party is like an onion. The surface skin may dry out and flake off, but the inner core isn't affected by what's going on on the surface or outer periphery.
Or maybe a political party is like a planet whose molten (or frozen) core is well insolated and isolated from surface phenomena. So if you're a party true believer, there are usually going to be layers and layers of party faithful separating you from the renegades on the fringes. If you are on the periphery, you are already half-way to being a heretic anyway, so the final break isn't so traumatic.
Does anyone ever wonder how Mike Pence feels?"
Now that you mention it, this would be a good time to reach out with a phone call or a stop by, just to see how he's doing.
"Where will Biden put Buttigieg?"
In other words, where will Biden plug Buttigieg in? Is there some vacancy or hole in the cabinet that Pete would fit into?
That reminds me of what we used to call Mayor Pete before we realized how much it was in bad taste.
People who filter there relationships through politics are toxic.
When I was back in college in the ,ate 70’s Alan Dershowitz was omnipresent in Boston media obnoxiously pushing the ACLU line on everything. We hated him.
Somehow we scored some tickets to be in the audience of a Channel 38 public affairs show. The featured guest was none other than Alan Dershowitz.
During the show we asked obnoxious questions that only college students could ask. After the show I made a beeline for Dershowitz to continue the debate. Instead of a debate we had a conversation. I walked away still disagreeing with him but I gained respect and actually liked him.
Where are those liberals?
Unless i missed it she doesn't say whether she supports Trump
That's the point Jim. She didn't switch parties or even say she left the democrats. She simply said what Althouse quoted: “I’m not sure if I’ll be voting for Kamala. I hated the DNC.” That's all it takes. She wasn't sure. Yet her "friends" were so certain they rejected her...for being "unsure" about a wholly unqualified DEI hire running a shitty campaign without actually campaigning for anything.
You're either 100% for the Democrat Party all 100% for 100% of the time or you are unpersoned. Like Bernie the schlub who let's them change rules to eliminate him every time, yet he's 100% the party man and never says boo about it.
cult member jim5301 said...
Unless i missed it she doesn't say whether she supports Trump..
..But then jump to Trump? Seems odd..
file this under: "Say you're IN a cult, without using the words"
Where is the evidence that a Trump supporter who starts to distance himself from MAGA's reactionary views is treated any better by MAGA than she is by her former friends. I don't see it. What I see is Trump's endless tweets demonizing anyone who disagrees with him in the slightest. And MAGA is 100% behind Trump in everything he says and does. Disagree you are a RHINO and ostracized.
"Does anyone ever wonder how Mike Pence feels?"
There you have it!
The PERFECT SOLUTION to the democrat's problems!
forget Bernie (the Loser!) forget AOC (the barmaid)..
HERE is the New Democrat solution for 2028
Mike Pence for PRESIDENT! (and Lizzard Cheney for Vice)
It's PERFECT!
No more worrying about the popular vote!
No more worrying about the electral college!
a New Democrat slate of Mike Pence and Lizzard Cheney!
it is TRULY the FINAL SOLUTION!
Barack and Bill
Barack and Bill
They gave Harris
The poison pill
There are no MAGA types who think Trump's reactionary. Can't you stay sober long enough to post on here?
Religion & Politics shouldn’t ruin relationships. But if you are in the Religion or Politics industry it’s understandable that it will.
It's called politics, Jimbo. Trump has attracted more voters than he repelled, and the ones he repelled were repellent people like Liz and Mike and Adam. Why do I think they are repellent? Because they suddenly did not believe in any of the conservative principles they ran on and instead turned "democrat" and wanted to prosecute Trump for nothing.
Two impeachments for nothing. No high crime. Not even a misdemeanor. Just democrat wrath and fury because he beat Hillary.
"...Where is the evidence that a Trump supporter who starts to distance himself from MAGA's reactionary views is treated any better by MAGA than she is by her former friends. I don't see it....."
Are you asking the forum to prove a negative for you? What you haven't produced is any evidence that supports your case. I raised the same question and speculated that the odds state that this must happen in MAGA world too - but that I think it's a bigger, more welcoming tent in general, and that shunning is less likely because the message is more welcoming, less authoritarian. Do you dispute that, and is it with evidence?
"Can't you stay sober long enough to post on here?"
You're sort of proving my point. If Ann blocked ad hominem attacks the number of posts would drop 80%
With the 'Russia Collusion' farce, and the supporting efforts of the DOJ, the I.C., and the media, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama could not have more effectively sabotaged the next 20-years' future of the Democratic Party than a professional on the payroll of Republicans - assuming that Republicans would stoop that low.
Well, I 'm an actual reactionary. I'm a Carlist (to the extent possible, lacking a Carlist pretender). I want to restore the Spanish empire under the Bourbon monarchy, including what is currently the United States, and bring back the Inquisition. Trump is not a reactionary.
She's got over a thousand comments. What kind of money does that translate to from SubStack?
Please stand by. "Affable Wilford Brimley personality" is down for prompt re-engineering and will return soon.
I didn't read the article, but perhaps there's more to it than the writer claims. It seems a little extreme.....I guess it's possible. I was reading about the French Revolution. Robespierre started his public life by writing an essay in which he preached against the use of capital punishment. Later on, when he became a dictator, he proscribed the guillotine towards those Girondists who had opposed his use of capital punishment towards the aristocrats. I don't know if his evolution is typical of all leftists, but it's certainly true of some leftists. People of the left think their resentments are ennobling. They're not. They're just another form of bigotry.
Am I the only one wondering how she has financed all this? It doesn't sound like she has ever had a job. Is she a trust fund baby?
To jim5301: where your thinking is skewed or completely wrong is the MAGA folks don’t behave poorly. We think Trump has good ideas but are not always 100% on board with all of them. We accept differences of opinion. Dems are unable to do that. Either you are in 100% or you are OUT.
For goodness sale I have been married 45 years and I don’t agree with my husband 100%. THAT’S what Democrats are too stupid to understand.
Paminwi - January 6 was not behaving poorly? Beating the shit out of police officers simply doing their job is not behaving poorly? Let's agree to disagree on that.
It’s Monday morning, please stop asking me where Beiden put the Buttgig and that I get the taco after the vasectomy, you are not helping.
My toddler stopped getting invited to birthday parties. He was rejected from preschool. We even had to move to a new town.
Rejected by people who are convinced they are the "good ones".
Schism.
That's the main thing about many modern Democrats that worries me: Complete intolerence and irrational hatred of differing opinions. In the past, Democrats and Republicans could still be friends, but that's not so anymore. I have never flushed a friend or family member because they were a Democrat, but so many of my Democrat friends stopped being my friend because I didn't share their political opinions even though I didn't vote for Trump (I try and vote for third party candidates whenever possible.) I became their enemy because I didn't agree with all their political beliefs. They called me a fascist, a racist and a "heartless bastard." Many of them unfriended or blocked me on facebook right after the election. This worries me because it is not a mentally healthy thing to do.
Somehow we scored some tickets to be in the audience of a Channel 38 public affairs show.
Oh Channel 38. I miss Dana Hersey.
and I wouldn’t have him over for dinner on a bet
He won’t drink much…
My friend’s uncle helped raise her. He is a homosexual and has convinced himself Trump hates gays. He has called the niece he helped raise a fascist and since the start of Trump’s second term in office has told her he wants nothing to do with her. Lefties in the Althouse comment section keep referring to Trump supporters as cult members. Yet this sort of shunning is primarily on the left. And where are the lefties, the diehard Democrats, the prominent Democrat leaders who advise other Democrats not to be cruel to their relatives who are Trump supporters? Do kind Democrats exist?
jim5301 said...
Where is the evidence that a Trump supporter who starts to distance himself from MAGA's reactionary views is treated any better by MAGA than she is by her former friends.
And what “reactionary” views would those be, Jimbo? Are you referring to the notion that poor people in Washington, D.C., should be able to walk about the city with the same degree of confidence that Chuck Schumer, with his taxpayer-funded security detail feels? Or the idea that our service men and women should spend more time at the rifle range than doing mandatory attendance at drag shows?
As it happens I have an acquaintance who turned from being a strong MAGA Trump supporter to being angry at Trump after losing his job in the DOGE cuts. It may come as a major shock to President Trump that some workers in the government actually do (did) useful work, and my friend was one of them. But our friendship was never based on shared politics and we continue to be friends.
"And what “reactionary” views would those be, Jimbo? "
They like keeping things vague, that way they can just lecture us without having to defend their actual views. They just assert stuff, and then explain, when asked to elaborate, that they don't want to "relitigate" old news. Very convenient little trope of theirs.
I was a young child in Alabama when Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in the door saying, "Segregation now. Segregation forever". About the same time, Democrat (and DNC member) Bull Conner was turning firehoses on civil rights protesters in Birmingham. Another Democrat, Lester Maddox, was handing out axe handles to his restaurant customers in case any black people decided to hold a sit-in. IIRC, he was later elected governor of Georgia.
Even at an early age, Democrats left an impression on me. That's why I never have and never will vote for one. Democrats were the party of slavery, Jim Crow, the KKK, and massive corruption. They still are.
i just got done rereading the previous Kamala Thinks? posts.
which included the infamous fag U are! post from last year..
This made me wonder whatever happened to Jaguar?
i did a news search, and found this,
about their NEW "double O" electric car
https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/35821560/jaguar-woke-rebrand-car/
"New Jaguar car that lead disastrous ‘woke rebrand’ seen for the first time"
.."horrendous," said one fan..
Another assessed: “They’ve wrecked the brand"..
Seriously, y'all should take a look at this new thing..
It's OBVIOUSLY, NEVER going to be made.
@jim5301, if you don’t know any normal people, and you aren’t a normal person yourself (you aren’t!) then you won’t get it.
@Jaq, I’m aware. My response is one way to needle them. I don’t really try to engage them because they cannot be reasoned out of positions that they used no reasoning whatsoever to get themselves into in the first place.
“Do kind Democrats exist?”
There have been a few rumors of their existence - without evidence - over the last two or three decades, but their existence has never been proven.
It's like people on the left have to come clean when they realize they prefer reality to whatever it was they had been playing for years.
They don't have to confess publicly. No need to write a substack about it. No serious sounding podcast necessary. Just...get on with your life. It's not something the world will spend a minute thinking about.
Wait...I want this minute back.
"And what “reactionary” views would those be, Jimbo? "
You're missing the point. I'm focusing on the intent of the person leaving MAGA. You can argue they are wrong but that's beside the point. Assume I said "alleged reactionary views"
Big Mike - why do you say I'm not a "normal person" Because I disagree with you?
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