I'm not reading many conservative blogs or webpages these days, because they're all so unhinged they make me wince with second-hand embarrassment, but here are a few talking points that are boiling up from the Right.
I've seen a couple of people on the Right predicting a "hard winter," and asserting that America is going to be starving by spring. I have no idea where this is coming from. I know that on at least one blog (a very odd one) it's been asserted that the "Marxist Left" is keeping people from making or distributing fertilizer, because progressives are evil and love death, apparently; so maybe it's part of that?
Over on Twitter, conservatives have moved on from how evil it was for Biden to work a deal that got Brittney Griner out of a Russian prison to claiming Griner is actually a man. (To be fair, it's mostly TERFs doing this, but however much TERFs claim they are feminists, they are actually gender essentialists, which is to say, conservatives.)
And this, which I first noticed coming from Rod Dreher and wossname, up in Idaho -- the idea that fascism is necessary to save America from the non-Christians. Apparently the Right only believes in originalism so long as they're winning elections and the culture wars. When they start losing -- because most Americans don't like bigotry, actually -- why, now it's time to ditch the Constitution and the law. America is going to be a Christian nation, or else.
They're also very upset by the Marriage Equality bill. This is a little odd, given how many of them assert earnestly that the GOP would never overthrow Obergefell, why, that's settled law! (Same thing they asserted earnestly about Roe V. Wade, if you recall.)
There was a story in the Guardian about the mountain lion who lives in a wilderness preserve above LA, and how the fact that the lion is now attacking small dogs and scaring residents. The wildlife experts explain that the lion is stressed by the smallness of his habitat and his growing age (he's very old for a mountain lion), that these attacks are the result of stress. Not sure why this made me think of Conservatives.
Holy shit. A Republican just started crying on the floor of Congress begging them to vote against protecting marriage equality. pic.twitter.com/8l2n2epuQP
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) December 8, 2022
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Argh, the right. I have to give you credit for looking at all. I find it so dispiriting that what I mainly know comes from the news.
Is it possible that the right believes that they live in Ukraine?
Well, they love to believe they're being oppressed, so I wouldn't be surprised. Most of them identify with Putin, though, from what I've seen.
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