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“that no one is aware of” lol

THAT NO ONE IS AWARE- sorry, brb, becoming da joker

Alienating every hospital worker, federal employee, and military preparedness nerd in the country might possibly be enough to swing elections out of reach of one's party for a decade; before the tariffs, recalls, measles outbreak, and constant terrorism.

Beware of greedy leaders and soft-shoe shufflers.

Oh my. It's the world in which Nixon being unfairly forced out of office was supposedly the trauma. 😬

An apt description for Project 2025.

"No one could possibly notice that we are destroying the country!"

literally did the thing

There are government agents shooting people in the streets with absolute impunity. I’d say a regime of state terror is pretty damn traumatic.

if GWB could hit 90% approval after 9/11, maybe Trump can hit 90% disapproval

Current GOP mood is giving "Wile E. Coyote pulling out the 'UH OH!' sign as he starts to stretch"

Who was that guy? Oh yeah! Russell Vought. "We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains... We want to put them in trauma."

Generational national trauma?

Yet another answer for my perpetual pre-Trump question, "how did the German people not see Hitler coming?" Turns out that if the pundit class is too busy cashing in, they won't notice the impact of a ten-year-long slow-motion trainwreck.

An example of someone who can hold a number of small ideas in his head, but is incapable of realizing those ideas might be inconsistent with each other.

Generational national trauma, you say. Huh. Must be why I constantly have fantasies of champagne with my wife and Beethoven's Ninth on a constant fucking loop once that pedophile cacks on his last burnt, ketchup-doused steak.

please dear GOD let it be

They act like it wasn't a huge event to go from Obama to Trump. And that was just caused by the trauma of racists having a black President.

It reminds me of the Doonesbury strip pointing out that the people of Cambodia were pretty damn aware of the US’s “secret” campaign of bombing their country.

They literally came into office with the stated goal of traumatizing the civil service, and they certainly didn't stop with that!

This is always the first thing generational trauma-committers say right before getting caught

Yes, our current generational national trauma is, in fact, far worse than both Watergate and 9/11.

The Democratic Party had what looked like an unbreakable majority in the House until 1994. When they didn’t. People are angry and they want someone to fix “All of this”. I hope Dems have a plan to abate this craziness.

And unlike during Watergate, the GOP Congress did everything to facilitate the president’s corruption, reckless governance, and appropriation of their constitutional prerogatives. So, they really deserve to be drummed out of office.

Also starting a war of choice and then immediately losing it.

The 90s GOP was looking to impeach Bill Clinton over a Whitewater land deal that, in the worst case scenario, would have been roughly the 1,000,000th most corrupt thing this administration has done in the past 2 years.

Don’t worry, the Republicans comms people have an effective rebuttal to $6.31 diesel. bsky.app/profile/coll...

A National trauma like a secret police force killing people in the streets while fumbling for a final solution to the "immigration problem"?

Just working literally. www.npr.org/sections/hea... Half a million SAs in half a year. Followed by re-electing an apparent sex-crime syndicate. docs.google.com/document/u/1... Is the no-one in the room with us?

"Multigenerational national traumas" would be a better description of the past 10 years of US politics. Most R presidents benefit from the bounceback of D presidents but Trump's non-consecutive terms (plus crippling policies and Covid) negated that. He did worse than any president and he's reaping

But the media said the real generational national trauma was people being told they can't hang out with/worship racists, rapists and fascists [aka a great deal of their friends, employees and/or accomplices] anymore

Don’t forget the Supreme Court abandoning its core purpose by elevating an actual fucking king in time for our 250th celebration of independence from kings and doing for the dumbest, most viscous, most self-aggrandizing criminal in public life. A trifecta of moral, political, and social failure.

Not to mention covid, the police rioting in 2020, RFK Jr trying to make medicine illegal, the list goes on. Trump has been a major part of politics for 10 goddamn years

Because they did it

Also the million avoidable covid deaths, the gigantic sloppy pedophile coverup, the wildly uneven handling of Ukraine, the masked paramilitary with their own concentration camps It's actually really hard to name anything Republicans have done in the last decade that wasn't shitty or inept

I used to say "there's no make gas prices go up button" or "there's no make things more expensive button." Not only did this administration find those buttons, they smashed them as hard as they could while the country watched.

Don’t forget the kidnapping torture and murder of our immigrants

Don't forget the pandemic where over a MILLION people died, many more were disabled, and then were told to basically forget it over happened and were gaslit that it was no big deal

I've always said that the end of the Cold War was a win for capitalism and not for democracy. The US turned on itself and lost its collective mind.

I mean, to me it's Trump's goon squad kidnapping people and trafficking them to concentration camps

"No one saw this coming," said an unnamed Trump official. 😎

Nobody could have predicted, etc., etc., etc., to the Bluesky character limit.

Big tell is where the money is going; with other polling misses in favor of Rs they were not triaging as hard nor dumping money into red strongholds desperately, which suggests as much as they pray for a polling miss, everything they see on the ground this time suggests Götterdämmerung for the GOP

Has the GOP ever gone with the most rational explanation.

A GOP strategist? Me? Oh my, no! I'm just a simple drug dealer.

I engage with people who bc something hasn’t happened before, think it can’t and won’t happen now. Whistling past the graveyard. There’s always a first for anything in history.

Generational Trauma Party: what, us?

Leading up to this term they were very clear in their intention to make this traumatic to liberals, federal workers, immigrants, people living in cities, blue states, our trading partners, etc etc. They trauma'd so hard they trauma'd their own people.

We are just waiting for the day the earth swallows his rotting corpse.

"Put them in trauma"

When this is done there better be a Budget line item for therapy for all!

Ah but they should be.

"Whoa whoa whoa, you're telling me an uncontrolled pedophile cabal of thieves that are rounding up innocent people and raping them, starting wars, and bombing school kids in other countries is a big deal?" - the republican strategist

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Okay, so Gallup had him at 90. Could have been a FOX News poll that put him at 93, but I swear there was one.

And 2002 was one of the rare midterms in which the party w/ the presidency gained seats in congress.

Okay but only if I’d have to.

I feel pretty aware. 🤷‍♀️

I was born in the early 80s. I am quite aware that we are staring down the barrel of generational trauma because that's been the state of the world since I became an adult.

Trump is a generational trauma--self inflicted by Republicans on their party and voters on ourselves.

If you were unaware of how impenetrable the RW/MAGA bubble is, reread that last part over and over until words stop making sense. Just incredible.

Hitting that Copium like Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet

I would say launching a war to distract Americans from the President raping children and then that war driving up gas prices to unprecedented levels all while American Einsatzgruppen round up people and imprison/deport them to places unknown sounds like quite a Generational Trauma to me.

sir, you are that national trauma

No one?

I would love to explain some things to that "strategist". But they still wouldn't get it. They'd just think we must have all fallen for propaganda that says things are bad when they're fine. Things are not fine.

They are in a bubble and it’s finally catching up to them

I guess there are some people who weren’t adults until after Trump’s first term so to them this is all normal

“Generational national trauma” is the perfect way to describe Trump 2 actually.

"Generational trauma that no one is aware of" = rich guys and party leadership, i.e. the aristocracy, are so completely divorced from the public they don't even understand the fear and hate they are facing.

I hear that Watergate involved the President’s forces gunning down zero Americans in the street? Hard to see why it was even a news story

Yes, although we may be keenly aware of it.

He did use the former-KGB to do it in 2016 and none of the major papers did anything but publish the risotto recipes he stole

But seriously, if the polls are wrong. Then what? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u...

"That no one is aware of" Bruh.

denial is one helluva drug. helluva drug.

It's only generational The needle doesn't start to move for these guys until it's intergenerational trauma

We have an administration right now that, among other things, is explicitly pro-measles.

FML

Oh, I think a lot of us are quite aware of the generational national trauma we've been living through the last 11 years. But apparently the pollsters and mainstream media are just now starting to get some clues.

Absolute mind boggling mystery why people may think republicans suck shit and should be thrown in jail.

He must live near me. The country club maga are still on the GOP train.

We are well aware.

I am surrounded by them and they are more concerned about their stocks, Muslims and Mexicans taking over and Talarico being in a mental hospital.

Because if they didn’t they might not survive. That is if there was any justice.

Yes, to golf

they don’t have to leave their offices their political slogans expressly promised trauma. they know it. vought said his goal was to put federal workers “in trauma” they were like “yeahhh trauma!” reaping: wtf?? this sucks?? one can only hope ritual suicide comes back into fashion

and FOX

at this rate the only trump fans left will be non-american right-wingers

"no one"!!!

Note:  Said barrel is an oil barrel, not a gun barrel.

I’m convinced that there is also a large fraction of the population that believes in climate change and has bought into the lie that it is something we can’t address. I doubt it’s a conscious belief for most of them but walking around with that in your head, in any form, is gonna do a number on you.

Staring at the generational gun pointed at my head. Hmm, I think I’m about to experience generational trauma.

Holy shit, they’re so close to getting it

As I've said before, Right-Wingers (almost all of the GOP at this point) believe that they live in another reality, and that if they just keep repeating the same old same old, it will become reality everywhere else.

They are so close to getting that this is akin to the 1930 midterm...

Why yes, these are unprecedented times. YOUR party made sure of that. Bozos.

me: *explaining how covid was a generational trauma* strategist: all the toilet paper, you say? from every store? pish posh!