“The income inequality in this country and cost-of-living is outrageous,” he [Matthew Livelsberger, Vegas Cybertruck Exploder] added, clearly unaware of who supports policies designed to combat those things. “The number of homeless on our street is embarrassing and disgusting. Have some pride and take care of this.”
I’m pretty sure the solution to this plan, as per those he would like to rally around, would be something along the lines of throwing them in prisons or bringing back workhouses.
“Stop obsessing over diversity,” he wrote, getting back on message. “We are all diverse and DEI is a cancer. Thankfully we rejected the DEI candidate and will have a real President instead of Weekend at Bernie’s.”
Well gee. Maybe we wouldn’t need things like DEI if people like this guy didn’t believe, despite all the easily available evidence to the contrary, that a white guy must be more qualified than a woman of color.
This guy is wacky, but he’s exemplary of something I’ve been saying for a long time now — and no, not just that the people who pull this kind of shit usually turn out to really hate women. It’s that there are so many people out there who have the economic policies of Republicans and Democrats completely switched around in their heads. Or maybe not that, exactly. It’s almost more that these people have convinced themselves that Republicans stand for everything they want and like, even when they are out here actively proposing the complete opposite."
Several steps removed from the 24/7 news avalanche by design, having to ration my intake for mental health reasons like most everybody else I know, even I noted how all the talk about Livelsberger, another untreated PTSD veteran turned violent berserker, went silent as soon as his communications and so real motivations surfaced. I'm assuming his "Weekend at Bernie's" reference refers to Biden but the rest of the same sentence clearly refers to Harris. So, yeah, the cybertruck guy was mixed up. I saw an election campaign sign in my affluent neighborhood (I live on the poor side of town, down by the railroad tracks, by the way) that read: "RFK- Make America Healthy Again." There is a gobsmacking upside-downland quality to our current social hysteria that is unnerving, to say the least. You could say such violent wingnuts as Livelsberger have always been part of America. True. But has there ever been so many of them and whatever their problems have they ever been so pervasive? Pennacchia's take rings true with me with this slight tweak: they, angry white men bent on deaths of despair, in the main identify with Grump Republicans as their party of angry white men and then fit everything else (any actual grievances or proposed solutions) to fit that identification.
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