Because if they aren't just a buncha whiny-butt pussies, then they're weak-brained and easily fooled by cynical manipulators who need to inflate people's egos so they'll stay distracted from being fucked with their pants on.
What makes people predisposed to chase conspiracy fantasies?
We've seen all this shit before.
Salem Witches
Commies At The Pentagon
Poisoned Halloween Candy
Satanic Panic
Freed Slaves Are Coming For The White Women
and and and
The difference now of course, is that mass media isn't a casual gathering down at the town square or a coupla guys printing up pamphlets, or a newspaper or radio or 5 TV channels. The intertoobz gives these manipulative assholes a near-instant global reach, so the damage that a single bullshit story can do is amplified and accelerated so it starts to look like a fusion bomb has gone off in cyberspace.
If the nonsense stays with "I woke up in a bathtub filled with ice and then noticed I was missing a kidney", that's one thing. But when someone with actual real world political power picks up almost any random crap, runs with it, and embellishes it with "stolen election", then it escalates to a whole new level of dangerous shit.
"It's tough to make predictions - especially about the future." --Yogi Berra
There's an awful lot of what I think right now is not much more than loose talk (equivocate much, Mikey?)
There's all kinds of tough-guy posturing - which prob'ly has about a 15% chance of leading to anything but lots of drunk MAGA rubes sitting around grumbling and muttering and pissin'-n-moanin', which is what they do best after they've raged themselves silly with their highly practiced bluff & bluster.
Of course, this could be wishful - even magical - thinking on my part.
But if these barstool warriors couldn't muster themselves to do anything but shit in the rotunda at the Capitol - when they had at least one weapons stash in Virginia, and guys with boats to ferry them across the Potomac - why am supposed to buy all this bullshit now?
Boats? Really?
Trump and QAnon and Bannon and the pillow guy and a host of others have been making threats and predicting big things for years now, and nothing happens. Nothing ever happens.
That's not to say there won't be incidents. There will be incidents. Because these assholes are going to drag this thing out, hoping to get enough rubes amped up to spark the revolution. I'm not convinced that'll play out, but we're going to see plenty of examples of how Stochastic Terrorism works.
Expect better, and prepare for worse.
Jordan Klepper
JK: That's how the democratic process works - sometimes the person you want to win doesn't get enough votes, and you accept it and you move on.
Trump is actually still the president, but is somehow unable or unwilling to do things he says he's going to do, and he is absolutely not, in any way, responsible for anything bad that's happening, while taking full credit for all things good.
Come to think about it, that's pretty much the way things were when he was in office, so yeah - maybe these idiots are right(?) There's a scary thought.
"My dearest Karen...I have run afoul of the woke police, who, in this case, are the actual police..."
The Daily Show:
And I'll say it again.
If they think the key to winning elections is the heat they can generate by pimping white backlash to Critical Race Theory, then the GOP is confirming the tenets of CRT itself.
Republicans are acknowledging the premise that race - and thereby oppressively racist policy - is their central issue.
