tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post7380725393707266645..comments2024-03-27T23:28:20.274-04:00Comments on Face to Face: "No More Mr. Vice Guy" (radlib to anti-woke conversion song, in honor of Shialabeefsteak & co.)agnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-74433835226221045642020-02-27T11:09:15.990-05:002020-02-27T11:09:15.990-05:00Looks like your point about the polls being wrong ...Looks like your point about the polls being wrong with the news cycle was right again. SC was always in the hole for Biden Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-77784181260342840152020-02-19T08:44:44.950-05:002020-02-19T08:44:44.950-05:00I've already cast my lot with el Bernarino for...I've already cast my lot with el Bernarino for this round, but afterwards it's over. He's not getting the nom, and if he does, a Know-Nothing campaign will wreck the general against him. It's 1856 all over again, as detailed here throughout 2018.<br /><br />But there's literally no one else -- meaning he's the guy to support now, and then say sayonara when the GOP wins in November. No way am I supporting the Squad and their radlib garbage ("the movement is Bigger Than Bernie," lol I heard that one after Nader 2000, and it also went nowhere).<br /><br />And on the excitement cycle side, we're already moving out of the leftoid bubble where everyone felt vulnerable and in need of some savior to protect against fascism. But that was just a politicization of their emotional mood swing. Once the mood swings in the other direction, boom, no more leftoid (or rightoid) bubble.<br /><br />I saw that too last time the vulnerable phase ended -- 2005 and after, when the entire Left checked out and went back to normal life. That happened before Obama took office. I know there were still generic libs whining about Bush and jerking themselves off to the Daily Show during his second term, but I mean the widespread Leftist movement of the early 2000s (anti-globalization, anti-Iraq War, Nader campaign). That sucker was long gone by then.<br /><br />The usual story is that Obama's admin killed it off, since the Left got complacent upon their party taking power. But it was more tied to the emotional mood swings, and was already invisible by 2005. IIRC, even during summer '04 there was hardly any protest against the RNC -- if it had been '01-'03, it would've been gigantic.<br /><br />There was a decent protest against the DNC last time -- not just marches etc outside, but even the delegates who were seated on the Convention floor were holding up anti-Clinton signs, boo-ing the libs, and so on. That was 2016, already into the vulnerable phase and the leftist bubble.<br /><br />What are the chances there will be a massive protest this summer in Milwaukee, when Bernie doesn't get the nom, including among delegates seated on the floor? This year's Women's March drew hardly anyone -- energy levels are back to normal, so people are getting back to normal life. It's not 2016-'17, when the refractory phase made people protest to be protected from victimization.<br /><br />This isn't my first leftoid rodeo, and I wonder how many of the Millennials remember any of this stuff. I think they're too young to remember the left bubble atmosphere during the early 2000s (you had to be on campus) -- they just remember the passive, consumerist, checked-out attitude of the second half of the 2000s.<br /><br />Still, I think I'm the only Gen X-er to point out these similarities / cycles, so maybe even living through the exact same thing before doesn't leave a trace in memory for most people. Knowledge of the dynamics does not change their trajectories.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-47401883665301854732020-02-19T00:10:29.922-05:002020-02-19T00:10:29.922-05:00bernard has gone full woke retard im out man bernard has gone full woke retard im out man Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com