Prickly City by Scott Stantis for November 08, 2024

So the new Normal is MAGA “Make America Germany Again”

Not appetizing to the rational people!!

We’re going to be Great Again!!!

Just like in 2020. What a time that was, right?

And the new normal is still whatever Fox and the rest of the right wing media says it is.

There’s lots of analysis and pontificating going on about how dems blew it. The fact is it’s been a “throw the bums out” environment around the world. If dems had been the out party, they’d have been voted in.

“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 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…

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” ― Carl Sagan

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ’my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov

So it begins.

maga is about to find out how tariffs actually work first hand. Results have already started.

magat works for a small manufacturing company and in southwestern PA that means most employees are trump voters. When the president of the company sat them down today to tell them their annual Christmas bonus would not come this year because they now need to purchase at least a years worth of products prior to January 21st due to the proposed tariffs, they did not understand.

magat said that their president had to explain what a tariff is and how it will directly hurt their company. They all thought the foreign company paid the tariff. This is the level of ignorance, voting against their own interests in PA, where maga failed American women, children and themselves again.

Congratulations to President Trump on his landslide (too big to rig) victory over the socialists! Let’s rebuild the wall that Harris tore down. Let’s finish the Keystone Pipeline that Harris shut down. Let’s end Harris’s EV mandates. Drill, Baby, Drill! Let’s end Harris’s tax on Social Security. Let’s really investigate the 2020 election (does anyone believe Joe got 81 million votes?). Let’s make the tax cuts permanent. Let’s put "The Big Guy’ and his son in prison. Let’s make J.D. Vance President in 2028! Thank You!

Normal is a constantly moving target. It changes with the the wind.

Neo Nazis are the new normal.

Baltimore

Her body, his choice, when you’re a neo Nazi.

“No such thing as a normal life, there’s just life.”

Doc Holliday, Tombstone.

Well the republic may be toast. Democracy swayed by false narrative is ascendant. Next King . Then tyrant.

I may get banned for this, but look up

King Noah

in the Book of Mormon.

Cartoon from Mike Smith, Las Vegas Sun, 07-Nov-2024:

Movie marquee displays: “Coming Soon: Trump’s Second Term.”

Passersby comment: “Sequels are usually worse.”

Also, check out Darrin Bell on Substack.

Haunting.

They have no idea what they’ve done.

Second Inauguration of Donald Trump, January 20, 2025 – Patriots’ Day

MAGA

Abby Normal…..and then some.

Trump elected again—-the same old ABNORMAL