u/Oh_TheHumidity

Every day since 2016 has felt like we were collectively transported into a nightmare parallel universe. All of the absolute dumbest, most vindictive, shallow narcissists that existed in the trashiest media when I was growing up are now either directly running the country or loud cogs in the right-wing media sphere.

Joe Rogan. Theo Von. Sean Duffy. Rachel Campos. Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Kennedy. Andrew Tate. Dr. Drew. Dr. Phil. Dr. Oz. Spencer Pratt. The Duck Dynasty weirdos. The Chrisleys. Donald Jessica Trump and his entire garbage family.

The only way I can describe their shift into being taken seriously and their rise to power is by mass psychosis on the part of the American people.

Trump was a punchline for the first 3/4 of my life. He was shorthand for an undeserving spoiled womanizing asshole. If you asked 10 year old me “name a rich man who is a bad person”, I would’ve immediately said Donald Trump.

As a kid, watching any of these junk food reality shows during my free time was intensely discouraged by my parents. Now they aggressively accuse me of being a godless communist for refusing to support these dorks and stare at me blankly when I bring up their trashy origins. The irony is maddening.

It almost feels like the 1% hired all these unscrupulous turds to push their wealth-hoarding agenda.

This is the bad place.

EDIT: I should’ve worded the title better. I didn’t mean we were the only generation to see it or be watching TV, I meant that we were the generation at the age that spent days on end bored in the suburbs all summer watching hundreds of hours of daytime talk shows and proto reality shows. We were the most captured audience.

I changed my party to non-affiliated for the GOP primary to try to help Cassidy win as the lesser of evils. Whole lot of good that did. Because of this it appears that I can only vote in the GOP primary on Saturday.*

I want Jamie Davis to win in the actual race, but I am a realist.

I fucking hate this MAGA algebra and I can’t decide. So please help me… (TLDR: see the title)

Letlow is a Trump sycophant dumb dumb, but might actually do less damage in the event that she is elected. But she is young (could run for multiple terms), but also has young kids she may actually want to raise after she serves a term. I would think she would be a shoe in between her and Fleming, but then I remember how misogynistic this state is.

Fleming is apparently even dumber and is chaos on wheels. Also he’s not a blind MAGA cultist. But might actually be worse for vulnerable communities in the event he actually gets elected. On the plus side, he is old. Also he might be the worst candidate aka a bit of just desserts for the MAGA loons that got us here.

Please help me with this exasperating algebra. Ugh.

*Only people who actually voted themselves in the last primary are allowed to shit on me for my failed attempt at being strategic. If you didn’t even bother to vote, you don’t get to call me a dumbass.

Disregarding where the tornado was in relation to north/south, but just looking at where it was in its track from west to east, the tornado was already east of me by the time my phone started screeching.

It was gone pecan by the time I grabbed the dog and my boo and made it to our safe spot.

That’s not super comforting.

Edit: I’m not saying this at all to diminish the very difficult and usually thankless and underfunded work of meteorologists. The alerts just seemed super late this time and I think we should ask these kind of questions in the interest of improving the system.

Especially since we’ve known this bad weather has been on its way and other things (like closing the Twin Span) never happened.

Date: By 2035. I think a lot of stuff will come out after he dies.

Evidence: If not evident by way of forcing much of the world to buy more Russian oil, than by the $300 billion he’s attempting to send Iran for “rebuilding purposes”.

And now apparently Trump is back-peddling and saying that Iran should be able to have nuclear power?!? His whole beef with Obama’s plan!?!

I mean, Trump has always been an objectively TERRIBLE businessman and negotiator, but this is just wild.

(*My shock at this has nothing to do with my feelings regarding the Iranian public’s energy needs. But I will say an emphatic: F*ck the Ayatollah, f*ck Trump, f*ck Netanyahu, f*ck Putin. Launch them all into the sun.)