How many more are going to come out of the clown car? This is quite a performance.

This is the best “metaphor” I could come up with as well. The voters are abuser enablers who trapped us in a house with our abuser. They don’t see his abuse because they tune it out and don’t pay attention. If you raise the abuse to them, their response is, “Stop being so dramatic, he’s good for you.”

But the thing is, the fact that he’s actually a real narcissistic sociopath who feeds on our attention is not just apt for the metaphor - there is actually no metaphor. He’s simply, actually in an abusive, non-consensual relationship with half the country. And his voters are simply, actually delusional enablers.

They’re voting for Trump because they’ve vaguely heard he’s a good businessman (From who? Who possibly could be the source of this reputation?). It’s just voting based on the general feeling of hearing the words “good businessman” and “better for the economy” alongside Trump.

The logic is more like, “I like leopards, I like to eat, and I like my face. I know who I’m voting for.”

That’s me, with a brief stopover on Fark before my brain was fully developed.

There are three practical reasons Trump does this:

1. Deflection: Trump doesn’t have an affirmative platform. As a populist strongman, Trump’s platform is situational and entirely based on what his supporters want to hear in any given moment. If health care is in the news, Trump will say his plan is coming in two weeks (it won’t ever come). If immigration is in the news, Trump will say he will build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it (he won’t). But what’s even easier? Focusing on the shortcomings of the opponent’s platform. Any time this works, Trump saves himself an opportunity to be put under the microscope.
2. Deflection: Manipulating the media works. Trump knows that the more ludicrous things he says about Kamala, even if the media then starts to talk about how he’s wrong or fact-check him, the focus is still on the thing he said rather than Kamala’s platform. It’s subtle, but it really does focus the media effectively on whatever he says, and use his frame of that issue as the media’s frame.
3. Filling the echo chambers and other spaces. We’re in our own echo chambers like never before. Trump says these things so that the people in the right-wing echo chambers have a plausible response to Kamala’s policies, or even just need filler for their broadcast/websites/Facebook groups. Ultimately there is only so much media people can consume every day. If Trump has filled all relevant supporter spaces with his own opinions & framing, there is no time or energy left to explore other opinions and framing.

Yeah, honestly…“altered” in a headline is itself biased, when “corrected” is entirely plausible. The transcriber had no idea if Biden meant to have an apostrophe there.

Also, maybe spend the final week of what could be our final democratic election covering something of importance, AP.

Classic “the beatings will continue until morale improves” corporate energy.

I appreciate your dedication to skelposting the heck out of this Halloween season.

Cannon: Bias? That’s absurd. That’s an absurd reason to get in the way of my Supreme Court appointment.

Yeah, I saw this when it happened and gosh, so surprising.

Hey, there’s a TikTok viral trend on this amazing new way to get money: steal the money. Banks hate this one trick! (It’s fraud. The trick is just plain criminal fraud.)

Things are getting heaty, eh?

Uh… 🙋

Spoiler alert: both of their passwords were “trump”.

Ah, I see. Yep, the Statute of Anne broke up the Shakespearean monopolies and after that brief high point, it was all downhill.

Are you referring to the DMCA? That was never to help the little guy.

Wild, thanks!

Where are you seeing that? Not seeing this in the Onion recent queue.

From the art, this looks like a verrrry early one. Must not have added it to the repertoire yet.

This is a better link.

They’re really good, consistently.

I’m not sure if there’s a better archive, but you can find a few more here:

https://theonion.com/the-handmaids-pigtail/