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Vogon_Glory

(9,845 posts)
Thu May 22, 2025, 06:55 PM Thursday

The 2028 Fake Issue: You Saw It Here First!

I am coming to believe that the effects of Donal John’s presidency are going to prove so painful that not only the quibblers, the fence-sitters, and the low-information voters who either sat on the sidelines because Kamala Harris wasn’t good enough or thought that Donald John deserved another chance are going to be sorely tempted to vote Democratic.

I also believe that the Far Right and the press-titutes in the corporate news media are already working on a counter-narrative to inspire MAGAs and perennial gullamaroons to vote Republican. Their issue will be the libbies’ “Empathy Gap.”

Let’s get real. A lot of people: progressives, genuine centrists, and even a few Republicans of older schools of thought, are very angry at the credulous blockheads who turned out to vote for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential candidate. And as Donald John does one thing after the other to the US economy, any remaining sympathy for the MAGA true believers and singed opportunists will evaporate like a saucer of water on hot day in Death Valley.

And so, as the 2028 campaign season rolls around, right-wing influencers and corporate news media will begin babbling about the mean old liberals totally lacking in sympathy for the millions of patriotic Americans (their words, not mine) who turned out to vote for for the grand old man inaugurated in January, 2025 and the scattered boo-boos said old man left along the way and who are being absolutely mean and rude about it.

Expect much deploring and hand-wringing to follow.

And remember, I predicted it first!

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The 2028 Fake Issue: You Saw It Here First! (Original Post) Vogon_Glory Thursday OP
Certainly plausible! biophile Thursday #1
I keep (sadly) rolling over in my head that.. dlilafae Thursday #2
Maybe, maybe not Vogon_Glory Thursday #3

dlilafae

(168 posts)
2. I keep (sadly) rolling over in my head that..
Thu May 22, 2025, 08:17 PM
Thursday

...we may never again see a free and fair election. The thought of such, is extremely hard to stomach.

Vogon_Glory

(9,845 posts)
3. Maybe, maybe not
Thu May 22, 2025, 11:18 PM
Thursday

One of my candles of hope is that we’ve seen other countries in this hemisphere move from dictatorship back to democracy. Venezuela (pre-Chavez), Chile, Argentina, Brazil…

Despite the beliefs of childhood and assumptions baked into MAGA ideology, I’ve come to believe that there are fewer and fewer differences between the ways some Latin societies run their countries and the ways we run ours.

(If you want to call the MAGA/GOP Banana Republicans, go ahead)

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