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In the wake of the midterm elections, there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, both in wider conservative circles and the smaller fringe circles where I have my online existence. It certainly seems as though the Covidians won't be rebuked for their authoritarian abuses and endless gaslighting. I admit to being disappointed, but I'm not remotely surprised.
As a wizard who talks to gods and haltingly reads the launguage of the heavens, I had a pretty good idea that we weren't going to be looking at a grand victory. I admit to having a media bubble, but every day I step outside it and check in on the normies and see what they are thinking. I don't really enjoy it, but being in an echo chamber doesn't help if you want to make accurate predictions about political events.
The Republicans are still representing the uniparty. Trump and his movement have been so smeared that they are more or less poisonous to the electorate. My mom and her husband have lost a third of their retirement savings since Biden got into office and they still voted Democrat. My stepdad used to be a solid Republican and my mom supported Ted Cruz in 2016. They specifically cited Trump's pandemic appearances as the reason they'd never support him again. They thought he looked like an incompetent clown. Fair or not, the uniparty is going to drive him and his supporters out of politics.
Honestly, what's left of the Republican party sucks anyway, with a few bold exceptions, one of whom Trump, the Father of the Vaccine as he likes to brag, is trying to torpedo.
This wasn't our time. It may never be. I don't know if it's appropriate to say "we", I'm not the spokesperson for any movement, but I am on the side of freedom and truth, and in that sense, we are still on the fringes. The mainstream wants to forget the covid totalitarianism and let the gaslighting roll on forever. They may get what they want. But whatever the answer is, it's not the squishes and weak bitches of the Republicans. We need a fighter, not Trump but someone who can hit these assholes where it hurts. Someone who stood up to Fauci the dog torturing beaurocratic turd. Someone who has unequivocally said no to mandates and has appeal to the masses.
We need DeSantis. But even if we get him, we are still going to have to fight our way through this. It's up to us. Always has been. "Losing" didn't change a damn thing. We've been losing this whole time. All we can do is keep grinding this thing out.
As a wizard who talks to gods and haltingly reads the launguage of the heavens, I had a pretty good idea that we weren't going to be looking at a grand victory. I admit to having a media bubble, but every day I step outside it and check in on the normies and see what they are thinking. I don't really enjoy it, but being in an echo chamber doesn't help if you want to make accurate predictions about political events.
The Republicans are still representing the uniparty. Trump and his movement have been so smeared that they are more or less poisonous to the electorate. My mom and her husband have lost a third of their retirement savings since Biden got into office and they still voted Democrat. My stepdad used to be a solid Republican and my mom supported Ted Cruz in 2016. They specifically cited Trump's pandemic appearances as the reason they'd never support him again. They thought he looked like an incompetent clown. Fair or not, the uniparty is going to drive him and his supporters out of politics.
Honestly, what's left of the Republican party sucks anyway, with a few bold exceptions, one of whom Trump, the Father of the Vaccine as he likes to brag, is trying to torpedo.
This wasn't our time. It may never be. I don't know if it's appropriate to say "we", I'm not the spokesperson for any movement, but I am on the side of freedom and truth, and in that sense, we are still on the fringes. The mainstream wants to forget the covid totalitarianism and let the gaslighting roll on forever. They may get what they want. But whatever the answer is, it's not the squishes and weak bitches of the Republicans. We need a fighter, not Trump but someone who can hit these assholes where it hurts. Someone who stood up to Fauci the dog torturing beaurocratic turd. Someone who has unequivocally said no to mandates and has appeal to the masses.
We need DeSantis. But even if we get him, we are still going to have to fight our way through this. It's up to us. Always has been. "Losing" didn't change a damn thing. We've been losing this whole time. All we can do is keep grinding this thing out.