Just popping in to share a few observations from Bluelandia, where I work.
In my neck of the blue-state woods, I have noticed that the 2024 reaction to the election of everyone's favorite Orange Hitler is different from the 2016 reaction. Both times, people lost their ever-loving minds immediately after, and in 2016 it seemed to just keep going (and going and GOING), whereas this time, it seems to have settled down into glum dismay a great deal faster. There was an eruption of TDS hysteria in my emails and some personal interactions on November 6 and immediately after, but by the following week, all was suddenly eerily quiet (where by "all", I mean I wasn't getting any more ranty emails or watching any work associates setting their hair on fire around the water cooler, figuratively speaking). I'm not entirely sure what to make of it just yet....I don't know if this is the calm before some new storm, or a sign that maybe, just maybe, some introspection might be happening.
Or not. Because in other news, they are still getting cootie-boosted. I've heard from at least two colleagues directly (and other stories second-hand) about how they were scheduled to get their shots, followed by notification that they were sick for days afterwards, and that's why the whatever-they-owed-me was late. These people are literally going out every year to get injected with a "protection" product that make them too ill to function for days, in order to avoid...catching a virus that might make them ill with cold symptoms for a few days. Because "science".
And of course, they all believe RFK Jr. is a loon with brain worms, but aren't really talk about it much...I get the impression they haven't learned their approved thought-stopper talking points just yet.
- Mauve Erudite Stoat, reporting from behind enemy lines
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Date: 2024-11-19 05:39 pm (UTC)In my neck of the blue-state woods, I have noticed that the 2024 reaction to the election of everyone's favorite Orange Hitler is different from the 2016 reaction. Both times, people lost their ever-loving minds immediately after, and in 2016 it seemed to just keep going (and going and GOING), whereas this time, it seems to have settled down into glum dismay a great deal faster. There was an eruption of TDS hysteria in my emails and some personal interactions on November 6 and immediately after, but by the following week, all was suddenly eerily quiet (where by "all", I mean I wasn't getting any more ranty emails or watching any work associates setting their hair on fire around the water cooler, figuratively speaking). I'm not entirely sure what to make of it just yet....I don't know if this is the calm before some new storm, or a sign that maybe, just maybe, some introspection might be happening.
Or not. Because in other news, they are still getting cootie-boosted. I've heard from at least two colleagues directly (and other stories second-hand) about how they were scheduled to get their shots, followed by notification that they were sick for days afterwards, and that's why the whatever-they-owed-me was late. These people are literally going out every year to get injected with a "protection" product that make them too ill to function for days, in order to avoid...catching a virus that might make them ill with cold symptoms for a few days. Because "science".
And of course, they all believe RFK Jr. is a loon with brain worms, but aren't really talk about it much...I get the impression they haven't learned their approved thought-stopper talking points just yet.
- Mauve Erudite Stoat, reporting from behind enemy lines