Well, it would be rather humiliating for those with rather fragile egos and being pushed by Hollywood or the music industry or RW influencers that they are “famous” and then have shit for numbers.
I’m pretty sure it’s fairly easy to hire out botnets or things like Mechanical Turk to give you fake traffic/followers, etc…I would not be surprised at all to find that most celebrities have someone doing some kind of a SEO stuff for their “brand”.
I mean, she’s almost tailor-made to make them practically short out.
One, she’s obviously a smoke-show and we might as well acknowledge that fact. Add to that, she is obviously very smart and a great speaker, and not afraid to speak up. Being a woman and a POC compounds their feels. She’s also often aligned with the likes of Bernie on many issues.
Add all this up, and it’s no wonder most Republicans behave like confused middle-school boys and don’t know what to do with their conflicted feelings and end up saying/doing things that more or less boil down to the equivalent of pulling her hair and snapping her bra.
It usually comes out so incoherent and cringe - I seem to remember some winger(s) saying something about how she was a “hypocrite” for dating a white guy?
According to stupid right wing narratives and framing, being a centimillionaire or a billionaire is not elitist, but knowing stuff, having an education and qualifications and experience is “elitist”.
So, a scientist, still paying off student loans decades later (but when they talk about their subject matter, they make a winger feel talked down to) - elitist.
Scumbag parasitic idle rich jackass born with a silver spoon in their mouth, never worked a day in their lives, and accrued billions - NOT elitist.
Since the cons have so distorted the concept of elitist to mean only someone that’s educated, smart, etc., and has no money/power component to it, I’m kind of glad that people have started talking about the Epstein Class. Because when we talk about elitist jackasses, I have the feeling that we are talking about money/power and the base of the Republican Party think “poindexters that went to college”.
Agreed, and a whole lot of young idiots don’t seem to be falling into the fascist funnel.
I sure hope that Fourth Turning theory is wrong, but JFC, it sure looks like they may be onto something.
I’m absolutely terrified that Taco will completely crater this economy and that’s when things are bound to get very, very bad and very quickly.
LOL, “how”? “[B]ecome”?
Has The Atlantic met the Republican Party?
Add in no fault divorce and women owning property and being able to have a banking account, The Pill and access to abortion (what the cons call “on demand” which they think is a real slam but is really telling on themselves), is something that really drives a lot of conservatives crazy. Most of those things happened in the 70s.
Some of them definitely want to roll all of that back. They say so. They already did a body blow on abortion, that’s for sure.
Can? I kinda figured that’s what he’s here to do on behalf of Putin.
He’ll be on the scene as soon as he can get the right jacket.
I was told that Biden had the worstest economy in history and that Donvict was here to fix everything!
What were they supposed to have learned from everyone losing by installing Donvict?
Many of them still seem to be quite proud of their idiotic and childish foot-stamping, too.
Kinda like seeing ICE Barbie flying around and doing cosplay and weird videos on horses and later hearing about her 70 million dollar bang plane.
This kind of waste, fraud and abuse won’t make much of a dent in the budget and won’t really change the everyday experience for most Americans, but…still. It’s infuriating to watch. It’s almost like they are rubbing our noses in it.
Well, when people are having their health care ripped away, after Donvict had lots of other government employees lose their jobs for no reason and people are having an affordability crisis, as Donvict’s illegal tariffs cost them an additional $1000 last year, seeing this little troll flying off to Italy and doing this is a real optics problem.
Sure, does this in particular really change anyone’s life? No.
Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
Unfortunately, a nation of morons decided to use the Internet to “do their own research” in the stupidest way possible and then start electing people at least as stupid and as ignorant and as unqualified as they are. Because they’d rather have a beer with a loudmouth dumbass.
Having poindexters in office that might know a thing or two and have an education and experience and qualifications, or rely on such types before they go speaking out of turn is considered “elitist” by the same morons that think an alleged billionaire is NOT elitist. In the upside down universe of idiots, being one of the very few billionaires is not elitist, but having an education is. 🙄
When I read what that mother that lost a child to measles said, I wanted to punch a hole in my wall.
The assholes running it have very stupid ideas about vaccines. They are not exactly asleep, they are ideological hacks.
With that control, they can exert influence over what those doctors and hospital employees say publicly, especially when it comes to potentially controversial topics like vaccines.
Why the fuck is accepted science “controversial”?
I’m so sick of that word.
Egad, that is just so crazy.
Why are we cursed to be surrounded by so many people that want to bring us back to before the Enlightenment?
Doubling down on more idiocy.
Genius.
For the dumb dumbs that voted for him but now think he’s moving in the wrong direction, just what they fuck did they think he was going to do?
He ran on carrying out vendettas against his personal enemies and doing incredibly stupid shit like culture wars, tariffs, and mass deportation.