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Nice to see these idiots getting ratio'd even on twitter hell. Republicans can't even find anything to latch onto to make this stick other than "there's no way my candidate lost, bro" Laughably pathetic.

They are unable to accept the fact that a woman of color can win an election. Probably because they do their damnedest to prevent such a thing happening.

All these guys inside a group chat where they joke about nuking LA and San Francisco have the pulse on LA politics.

Times have never been crazier. That’s it, I’m getting the address of where my dog suddenly had to go when I was seven years old. Hope my parents remember it. … omg

Your ability to believe something doesn't change facts.

All conspiracy-addled vibes and no evidence.

I mean sure he fell for it, but ultimately i feel like this is less of a dumb guy and more of a case of it being easier to retreat into fantasy than examine his commitment to fascismo.

Rod is an Orban factotum looking for a new sugar daddy. He is also really dumb.

"Let's assume, for argument's sake, that this happened. Well, I'd assume it didn't."

Let's assume, for arguments sake, that [outcome I don't like happens]. Actually, fuck that. Since I don't like the outcome, I am going to say I have a hard time believing that can happen. Great logic!

bsky.app/profile/lynn... #FuckTrump #FuckTheGOP

Many, many, MANY people believing things that are untrue is a problem, but for a different reason than he thinks

Facts don't care about their feelings, I guess, I don't know, I suppose, imagine that. You know?

Is he saying that he's planning on arguing by lack of imagination *even more* often?

this is such cult speak

That's right she was able to rig the election system of a city of millions but only for second place and only a city of millions instead of a whole country.

Spencer Pratt is the new Viktor Orban.

How Rod Dreher’s Blog Got a Little “Too Weird” for The American Conservative | Vanity Fair share.google/8n25T0msijai... The "primitive root weiner" guy doesn't believe it. He believes in exorcism but not an election.

Rod Dreher is a religious zealot who believes all sorts of crazy shit. It's fact-based evidence he has a serious problem with, and this is yet another example of it.

I genuinely think a lot of them fail to understand the difference between LA county and the city of Los Angeles itself

it rules that this system only exists because a Republican demanded it be put on the ballot in 2009 to pass a budget, and Arnold signed it into law they got what they wanted as a party lol

Cult behaviour: facts don't matter, only the feelings of believers.

And probably both

It's unclear why they think that all of them having the same stupid thought somehow makes it true

They’re a person that pays to get their opinions prioritized on a Nazi promoting app. Call me old fashioned, but they should be of no importance.

Let’s assume, for argument’s sake, the Donald Trump really did, unlikely as it seems, stay awake at the Knicks game. The problem is that many, many, MANY of us simply cannot believe it. It seems for all the world like sleep. This matters, &is going to matter more.

"After all, my friend here doesn't like her. *I* don't like her. How could anybody else like her since I know better?"

Faith based reality.

"a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you". This is, of course, Douglas Adams' famous description of MAGA fascists.

It feels weird to me that it's illegal to kick Rod Dreher in the stomach.

No evidence, all vibes. But also, per Mike Johnson, the lack of evidence is proof that the conspiracy is vast.

i love it when someone does the meme

They really have nothing to offer rational people who want to see humanity move forward. All they have is short-term gain for a shrinking group of privileged people and propoganda to convince people being exploited by this ideology that it's somehow the fault of a group with fewer resources.

They are extraordinarily dumb. However dumb one might think they are, the truth is that they’re a lot dumber. It’s simply impossible for a substantive person to fathom their depths, because they have none - they aren’t even shallow.

This is true, but also, GW? Making fun of this was Colbert’s early bread and butter

Let's say for the sake of argument that somehow a republican lost an election in Los Angeles, as unlikely as that seems,

on the one hand, "we all made up convenient stories and decided to believe them" is stupid bad faith bullshit no one should have to indulge. on the other, we can't solve our long term problems without addressing our deeply poisoned wells

Feelings over facts- the maga way

"Everything i don't like is fraud 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭" this fucking guy

well, Rod, votes that had yet to be counted existed, not unlike an uncircumcized penis. while you might marvel in incredulity at the existence of such a thing enough to write about it in an internationally published magazine is noteworthy regarding analysis of you, it doesn't make either cease to be

Compare: Let's assume, for arguments sake, that Copernicus is right, unlikely as it seems, that the earth orbits the sun. The problem is that many, many, MANY of us simply cannot believe. It seems for all the world like fraud. This matters, & is going to matter more.

This line of thinking requires you to believe that in the radical left socialist hellscape that is LA, there aren't enough voters to advance a leftist candidate

Imagine being such a fuckin idiot you think a Republican had a chance to win a city wide election in Los Angeles

What if "Nithya Raman really did, unlikely as it seems..." Why would decent, sane people choose a reality TV "star" over an urban planner, activist, and politician with a track record for a tough administrative job?

Let's assume, for arguments' sake, that Steve Hilton really did surpass Tom Steyer...

"The government must respond and attend to my Vibes! (Which I cultivate in an echo chamber full of liars and dipshits!)"

Mostly, we just don't think about them; I mean, do they really exist...?

This feels like the every election in Washington State. We are all vote by mail and republicans lose every statewide election they run in because they run shitty candidates. The comments every time are “this must be fraud because I don’t know a single person who voted for X”

Do they...do they genuinly think the ONLY reason large cities are blue is because of illegal immigrants voting? Do they genuinly, seriously believe that THAT is the only reason why dense urban areas won't vote for them?

Keep winning this way, Dems. Sometimes when people hold an irrational belief, you have to keep rubbing their noses in it until they realize holding that irrational belief only traps them in place and that the only sensible way forward is to give it up.

this is brain dead solipsism "i can't understand/don't believe it, therefore it doesn't exist/cannot be true"

These guys spent all of 2025 laughing at LA wildfire victims how can they possibly be shocked that they’re locked out of the LA mayoral race

I didn’t know there was a B in dumb.

"we simply cannot believe it" skill issue lmao

Like I said, vibe elections "well I don't FEEL like she should've gotten that many votes, so she must not have" feel like they tried to do that with Mamdani too

HE DIDN’T EVEN HAVE ANY BOAT PARADES.

She really did got to second place

Who the fuck is Rod Dreher?

32% of America (and I don't have the cross-tabs but I would bet money on that being mostly Republicans) think it's true or probably true that ivermectin treats COVID-19. A not insignificant portion of those think it treats cancer & many more things too. A third of America! But it's still not true!

It's both. They want to undermine elections to give them excuses for when they lose, AND they're dumb.

I think they are that dumb. And here's how it works. Start with the assumption that the elections are fraudulent. RW propaganda gaslights it 24/7. Wow, look at that! MANY many many people, for some reason, believe the elections are fraudulent, *therefore* they must be fraudulent!

If they believe it that strongly then they might as well give up and not vote!

He's not wrong, it is THE problem that so many people believe absolute nonsense.

Multigenerational inbreeding can be dangerous to society at large.

So we should cancel election results because these idiots talked each other into believing there's no way a fellow idiot like Pratt didn't advance. These are the same morons who talked each other into a magical man in the sky (definitely a MAN) who doesn't want men to kiss each other.

I really think it's this. The outcome maybe the same - they'll just deny they ever lose ever again... but the input is that they're all cooking their brains on stupid-juice 24 hours a day.

Nana nana boo hoo... your creepy MAGA guy lost... get over it snowflake... 😏

Calling him an idiot is way too generous to Dreher here bsky.app/profile/mumb...

Rods not over the Orban loss. It was tough on him having to flee and all

how’s that line go that they like? oh yeah…fuck your feelings, rod.

absolutely both

Whats this fucking idiot doing now that he's not Orbans's paid monkey?

She did got to second place

Read They Knew by Sarah Kendzior. It's classic DARVO, they pre-accuse us of the thing they know they are going to do.

suddenly hearing a lot about the on the ground situation in LA from a bunch of people who have never stepped foot in the city of Los Angeles

Therefore, if my feeeelz tell me that my preferred candidate won, they won. Just certify their victory and move on.

"It's going to matter more" is 100% prepping to handwave any and all futures that don't mirror their precious feelings

I didn’t even get to vote for Raman because I’ve never lived in her district & I moved two blocks out of the city last year. I’ve still known her name for years You know who I didn’t know was running? Some guy named Hilton. Saw no ads. Almost like I wasn’t his target audience

blow that load, GOP we know how you think already

“For all the world…” These people live in an alternate reality.

it’s honestly way more unbelievable that Spencer Pratt was even able to get that close to second place in a city like Los Angeles

Lol

How is *Jonah Goldberg* able to understand what a lot of higher-info elite conservatives seemingly don't

Is that this guy? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Dre...

( Crashes the news business, wonders why they have no idea what is happening in the objective reality )

It's craaaaaaaaazy that people who belong to the party that says mail-in voting is fraud don't vote by mail. I cannot figure it out.

It’s not my problem that he’s a moron.

"Moron that lives in Hungary is out of touch with how things work in LA."

If the appearance of corruption is the actual problem, then the liars who claim me there's corruption are the source of that problem.

The republican party since Nixon has been the sum total of all MLM schemes. It requires an uncanny combination of monumental stupidity and a malicious desire to exploit people they think are even dumber than themselves.

MY FEELINGS MATTER This bullshit bad faith is so tiring

The Ben Shapiro cadence is throwing me

Exactly! The conspiracy theory only makes sense if you know literally nothing about LA politics or the dem party in general and you just assume Raman and Bass are good friends!

You are on to something here.

The “Fuck Your Feelings” crowd continues to believe ITS OWN feelings matter as much or more than static facts.

never underestimate the human capacity for stupidity

Are they rally willing to destroy democracy by undermining our electoral process because they’re too stupid to know how counting works? Or, are they just that craven and disingenuous to use the stupidity of their voters as a tool to destroy democracy to grab power for themselves? I vote the latter.

People who vote on election day are a random representative sample while somehow simultaneously people who don't vote on election day are not

They are laying the groundwork for them to cheat themselves. It’s been the playbook since 2020 at least. Get Democrats repeatedly on the record to say that the process is fair and accurate, and push them into a corner of being reluctant to challenge REAL fraud in Republican areas.

It’s insane to me that they think if the dems had a big fraud conspiracy they’d do that for the leftist candidate to make it to the run off and not just for Bass to win outright (and only for LA mayor, not governor). Bass would much rather run against Pratt than Raman and that has been clear.

"even if he did lose, he shouldn't have because we think he shouldn't have and that's just as bad" what

One of my favorite sayings is, 'belief is not required on your part.'

Vibes of truthieness

In Naipaul’s book “Among the Believers” he goes with some pilgrims to a shrine with a thousand year old never melted Ice Phallus—obviously divine because it’s never melted. When they get there it has, in fact, melted. But that’s OK because *that’s the new miracle!* that it no longer exists. Praise!

He’s right, though. It’s a problem that many many people are as deluded as he is.

Glad to see Dreary Rod is getting ratioed, even on Tw.

unreflected-upon racism will do that to you

Doesn't what I think say a lot about our society?

Many of us cannot believe Rod Dreher could not correlate your sister's lung cancer to your parents smoking, even though you are self-described "gifted." But it is true!

Many of us cannot believe you were straight and religiously conservative but had a gay roommate (how did you find this guy) in Miami in your early 20s. But we are supposed to believe for reasons?!?

Many of us cannot believe Rod Dreher day-dreamed on his blog of uncircumcised 8-year old penis. But it is true!