"... to roast rank-and-file liberals who were horrified by Trump’s buffoonery and malice throughout his administration, and to celebrate their impotent anger. (This picture of a young woman screaming in agony at the 2016 inauguration became something of a stand-in for the typical seething Democrat.)... [T]o command someone to 'seethe' was part of owning the libs. But the libs themselves have slowly started to appropriate the confrontational, 4Chan-poisoned language of a post-Trump internet—we currently inhabit a country where sitting senators are sharing Dark Brandon memes...."
From "The Audacity of Cope/Laughing at other people’s politics-related sadness is fun, actually" by Luke Winkie (Slate)(click through if only for the illustration).
"[A]fter Trump lost in 2020, I spent days trawling through the most
deranged MAGA forums I could find, washing myself clean with the pungent
cope of my enemies. I did the same thing after the midterms, because no
drug can match the rapturous high of Kari Lake dead-enders believing
they can convince the government to issue a 'do-over' on the Arizona
Senate race. This is how I’ve learned to process politics now: a
winner-takes-all bloodsport where ownage is the only currency and coping
in public is the ultimate disgrace. You might believe that to be a
shallow perspective, but in a world where Congress is doomed to be stuck
in eternal gridlock, where the sole achievement on the docket is a
one-seat majority in the Senate, where every step forward is haunted by
the shadow of Kyrsten Sinema—in that world, interpersonal vengeance,
meted out at a distance, is all we can really count on."
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Slate...
Now do Al Gore 2000
Now do Hillary Clinton 2016
Now do Stacey Abrams (never ending)
Now do Beta-male O'Rourke (never ending)
Now do Gavin Newsom's tit-for-tat creation of an 'anti-constitutional' but 'tyrannical' law to block and export payment for pro-gun suits in response to the Texas abortion law
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/12/19/governor-newsom-issues-statement-after-court-strikes-down-provision-of-gun-safety-law/
Cope, seethe, spiral toward self-destruction. All the same. I need a nap.
I suspect the author, Mr. Winkie, has been "coping" with his last name throughout his life and all the different definitions of the word apply.
This is how I’ve learned to process politics now: a winner-takes-all bloodsport where ownage is the only currency
God forbid you make an effort to understand the issues and figure out whether an event is good or bad, helpful or harmful, true or false. All that matters is what helps my team and/or hurts the other team. After all, it's not like you present yourself as some kind of journalist.
That iconic photo’s subject was a young woman? Who knew?
Mr. Winkie? Fellow belongs on South Park…
I always find it surprising when people publicize their mental illnesses and cruelty.
Written by Mr. Winkie.
From the Guardian in 2018:
The Japanese have a saying: “The misfortune of others tastes like honey.” The French speak of joie maligne, a diabolical delight in other people’s suffering. In Danish it is skadefryd; in Hebrew, simcha la-ed; in Mandarin, xìng-zāi-lè-huò; in Russian, zloradstvo; and for the Melanesians who live on the remote Nissan Atoll in Papua New Guinea, it is banbanam. Two millennia ago, the Romans spoke of malevolentia. Earlier still, the Greeks described epichairekakia (literally epi, over, chairo, rejoice, kakia, disgrace). A study in Würzburg in Germany carried out in 2015 found that football fans smiled more quickly and broadly when their rival team missed a penalty, than when their own team scored. “To see others suffer does one good,” wrote the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. “This is a hard saying, but a mighty, human, all-too-human principle.”
There has never really been a word for these grubby delights in English. In the 1500s, someone attempted to introduce “epicaricacy” from the ancient Greek, but it didn’t catch on. There could only be one conclusion: as a journalist in the Spectator asserted in 1926, “There is no English word for schadenfreude because there is no such feeling here.” He was wrong, of course.
That he has to go hunting for MAGA-related angst after 2020 when the liberal world was full of discussions of the need for 'safe spaces' after 2016 should have told him a lot.
And haunted by the shadow of Kyrsten Sinema ... Physician, heal thyself (first).
Luke Winkie!
From Coleridge..... to Dylan..... to Zappa..... to Winkie.
Ah, Althouse! Ah, humanity!
Some of the liberal Karen freak out montages are hilarious. Being able to laugh at the absolute unhinged stupidity is comforting...helps you realize you're on the right side.
It's kind of like when Slim Pickens rode the bomb toward his ultimate doom in "Dr. Strangelove". You gotta have a little fun on the way down.
That's why I Troll Trumpers here. It great fun and informative. It's a form of palpation to diagnose the situation. Thanks again to all who eagerly and earnestly participate in my written Rorschach test.
He seems intellectually and spiritually healthy and stable.
This is very troubling. I've been telling people for a while that 'own the libs' is not a cohesive worldview. Sad to see the left embracing this kind of thinking
“Luke Winkie is a writer and former pizza-maker from San Diego. In addition to Slate, he’s contributed to the Atlantic, the New York Times, Vox, and Rolling Stone.”
He’s really a Russian spy.
I believe we use the word schadenfreude.
"But the libs themselves have slowly started to appropriate the confrontational, 4Chan-poisoned language of a post-Trump internet..."
Just recently started? Seriously, these people have no awareness of their own actions or words. And nothing, none of this, started with Trump. Again- Trump was the symptom of years of things being done to us, not the cause. The Libs were at it long before Trump.
Never forget that the people being mocked are the pussy hat wearing Karens that support lockdowns, masks, censorship, tranny shows and body mutilation for kids, and want to shove the poison mRNA shots up the asses of America and the world's children.
They should have their heads shaved and paraded around Paris.
But since we can't do that, mocking their Elizabeth Warren like shrieking videos will just have to do.
"... the pungent cope of my enemies"
It's a pretty good phrase. And thanks khematite for the info.
What a desperate excuse for journalism.
whenever the dems need a win - they slow the vote.
The libs have "slowly started to appropriate" the confrontational style? They have been doing it for decades. I was part of it in the 60s and 70s and reveled in it. So they never read "Doonesbury?" The have never watched "Saturday Night Live?" The never go to the movies or see one of the better magazines? Making fun of conservatives rather than arguing with them - the social rather than intellectual arguement - has been their stock-in-trade!
It is this shocking lack of self-observation that keeps liberals clueless about the world, though they understand many things.
"Young woman screaming in agony"? I thought that was a dude! My bad, I guess.
I want to thank Ann for introducing us to the work of Mr. Winkie.
Laslo will be here by noon Central. He has a sixth sense for these posts.
Kai:
Great comment.
Althouse does that all on purpose. She has a plan. Taking orders from Q Anon.
"[N]o drug can match the rapturous high of Kari Lake dead-enders believing they can convince the government to issue a 'do-over' on the Arizona Senate race." Does the author not know which office for which Lake was running?
Ds are more traumatized by political defeats than Rs because politics is more central in their lives.
The weirdness of Libtards never ceases to astound me. I don't know any MAGA supporters who plowed through "Days" of Liberal/Left message boards to laugh at their pain. Of course, the Liberal/left controls the MSM, so its pushed in our face 24/7. We can't avoid it, so we react.
But we don't go looking for it.
This just confirms my previous opinion about the Liberal/left. They LOVE Poltics. They LOVE fighting. They LOVE the idea of getting power and destroying their "enemies". That's why, even though they control 95 percent of the media, they're constantly raging about "Faux News" or the New York Post. Or MAGA supporters on twitter.
I found website on Youtube, where a couple libtards spend HOURS attacking and making fun of Rod Dreher. Rod - fucking Dreher. Mr. Harmless wimp. That's how crazed they are.
Al Franken wrote a book satirizing this midwit emotive bullshit in the 90s. I think it was called Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot. I read it at like 20. Mr. Cute Name for Penis probably wasn’t even alive then. Oh my word people like him are so so ignorant. They think everything that exists popped into being like eight minutes ago.
Howard: "It's a form of palpation to diagnose the situation."
LOL
The very next time you correctly "diagnose" a "situation" will be the first time.
Does the author not know which office for which Lake was running?
In the Land of the One-Eyed the Blind are Kings.
---She has a plan. Taking orders from Q Anon.
Thank you, Dave. Althouse is not merely recording the decline and fall of western civilization, but actively contributing to it, too? I long suspected it!
Re: Kai Lake do-over for Senate.
Luke Winkie is a doo-doo head.
Ron Nelson said...
"[N]o drug can match the rapturous high of Kari Lake dead-enders believing they can convince the government to issue a 'do-over' on the Arizona Senate race." Does the author not know which office for which Lake was running?
Doesn't matter. He's on a role. Who cares if the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor ?
The vote fraud in Arizona was so blatant because the fraudsters wanted to rub our noses in it. It was much more obvious than 2020, which the left also bragged about in that Time magazine article.
The courts have been intimidated and will do nothing in the face of such blatant behavior.
Ron Nelson said...
"[N]o drug can match the rapturous high of Kari Lake dead-enders believing they can convince the government to issue a 'do-over' on the Arizona Senate race." Does the author not know which office for which Lake was running?
Doesn't matter. He's on a role. Who cares if the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor ?
The vote fraud in Arizona was so blatant because the fraudsters wanted to rub our noses in it. It was much more obvious than 2020, which the left also bragged about in that Time magazine article.
The courts have been intimidated and will do nothing in the face of such blatant behavior.
I never saw any "malice" from Trump, unless four years with no new wars counts as malice. I guess it was malicious to make all of the other presidents look bad.
The level of immaturity is breathtaking. Look at Howard for example. A life so devoid of purpose he thinks he's trolling here. Howard. You're comic relief. You're not getting anything over on anybody here. But you just keep pluggin' away there, hoss. Someday you'll get good at it.
The best freakouts about politics come about from surprises. That is why 2004 and 2016 were so great for our side and 2022 was so good for Democrats. Bush and Trump were losing most polls all election year (Trump more than Bush).
Even though we all hoped for the best in 2020, it couldn't really surprise any of us that he didn't win. Ever since corona started, Trump's numbers were looking dismal.
“The vote fraud in Arizona was so blatant because the fraudsters wanted to rub our noses in it. It was much more obvious than 2020, which the left also bragged about in that Time magazine article.
The courts have been intimidated and will do nothing in the face of such blatant behavior.”
What loonery.
Blogger Michael K said...
Doesn't matter. He's on a role. Who cares if the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor ?
That's the first thing I thought of when I read that, too. I was going to post something similar but figured it might be a good idea to read the rest of the comments first.
Probably a good thing I did.
IN 1969 I was a lefty but horrified by a button someone was wearing "Where is Lee Harvey Oswald, Now that we Need Him." The left is not an innocent party in the radicalization of our political rhetoric.
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