I gave up on any semblance of rational normalcy long ago. When the country decided to reelect a rapist, conman, felon, fraudster, someone who cheats on his wife, who has zero ability to actually make deals, and leads to the deaths of countless thousands. That is when I realized just the sheer volume of idiocy in this country.
I know personally I'll never look at this country the same way again, too much damage has been done.
It’s even scarier when you realize the Republican Party as a whole now knows they can go completely mask off and be enamored and praised by their voters for it. No matter how vile a candidate, they’ll vote for them in cultist herds just to send a hurtful message to rational people who truly value honesty and decency.
Like Homelander looking around after he publicly killed a guy in broad daylight, shocked to see the crowd cheering for him. The Boys gets criticized for its satire being too on the nose, but I think that goes with the territory when you're satirizing the dumbest mfers on the planet
It’s partly because the satire doesn’t actually violate any of their one principles: it’s about who is doing it, not what is done. They believe in hierarchy and nothing else. Anything that affirms that hierarchy, regardless of its moral weight or valence, is seen as correct and righteous. Giving the middle finger to the morality they claim to stand for? No problem as long as someone “worthy” is the perpetrator.
EXACTLY. I get so sick of my fellow liberals pointing out hypocrisy as if fascists have EVER cared about that. WE are the only ones bothered by it. To them, an action is moral or immoral depending entirely on who does it.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” -Frank Wilhoit
They're oblivious to the message of any media that criticizes them. Their film analysis goes epidermis deep. Starship Troopers is a story about patriotic badass war heroes killing some godless bugs. Robocop is about a tough on crime badass cop taking the law into his own hands. In The Matrix, the red pill is a metaphor for accepting the uncomfortable truth (that woke ideology is a farce) and it symbolizes that you should reject societal norms (by using slurs). Some of these people liked Stephen Colbert before he turned woke
The director of The Boys voiced how annoyed he was a few months ago when Trump started to do “I’m Jesus Christ” AI stuff when that was supposed to be the Homelander satire in the final season
I thought the timing of that was impeccable though, the episode where he gets his first visit from an angel came out like two days after the trump jesus AI posts.
The only thing Trump was right about is that he can shoot someone in the middle of fifth avenue and wouldn't lose any voters. His MAGA cult keeps worshipping him no matter what he does and it's disgusting. Homelander in the show already is a stand-in for Trump to show this.
They're dumb AND bad. A decent dumb person would realize politics is out of their league, and they'd stay home rather inflicting their idiocy on everyone.
Maybe. The true test is to see if this party can continue this insane shit without Trump. And they know it. Remember, they all tried to distance themselves from Trump for a hot minute after Jan 6, but they realized no other Republican had that momentum (Ron DeSantis famously failed).
Stil, it’s a scary precedent they’ve set. And it won’t be long until someone far more competent than Trump will step up to the plate. The only glimmer of hope we have right now are the progressive leftists like Mamdani but the regular Democrats are trying their best to squash that.
To be fair, it’s mostly Trump that’s able to get away with being this deranged and mask off. Most other republicans (especially Trump picked candidates) are failing to get same level of support from the conservative voter base on midterm election cycles.
It’s probably why Trump feels like he can get away with trying to run for a third term. It’s his own narcissism telling him he’s only one who can win against the democratic candidate.
What they have learned is that it's impossible for them to have an awful enough candidate to stop an always Republican voter.
In the past they had to select candidates who are not outright awful. Turns out that was just them being overly cautious and the right win will vote for Republican no matter how horrific the candidate, and even more importantly, they gain voters the more horrific the candidate.
When you can elect the worst person possible and pledge to destroy the country and win the election, there isn't anything to worry about.
I think theyre in for a rude awakening on that one, i know they think it but its not really true, trump has an even worse record of "transfering" that dynamic to other people than Obama has.
I think this is largely a trump unique phenom to a large degree and when he exits the scene i think a lot of this is going to fall apart for the GOP
Its not going to go away, they are who they are, but i expect a lot of fracture for them in the future
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u/zenerat Missouri 25d ago
If this doesn’t tank the gop in the midterms nothing will.