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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.

What if reality was fake?????

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!

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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

And it is part of their silent movement to make mob rule the only rule of law. " We as a group, have decided that we don't want that.....so- "

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.

Does Dreher have a relationship to Los Angeles that I don't know about?

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.

They will never ever admit their ideas are crap which is why they continue to lose when more folks pay attention.

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

"...did got to second place" aside, he really is that stupid. I mean, he's saying it's impossible to believe that a Republican would come in 3rd to two Democrats in a city with only 18% registered Republicans? Impossible!

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.

Sometimes your magical thinking doesn't work. Deal with it

Ahhh, the old “Are they stupid or are they evil” question about Republicans has once again surfaced. And once again, the answer is: “Yes”

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.

"Our vibes and media bubbles make us believe we shouldn't ever lose and that's more important than the actual results" Fuck these weak ass losers.

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.

“Sure, fine. She beat Pratt. But to me it doesn’t *feel* like she should have. And Mommy’s Special Little Boy’s feelings must be validated.”

Faith based reality.

Voter fraud is a matter of faith, like transubstantiation.

Why is it so unbelievable that the GOP lost vote share in a city that spent most of 2025 directly targeted by the feds

I’ll play. “Let's assume, for argument's sake, that Donald Trump really did, unlikely as it seems, got to first place in the US presidential race. The problem is that many, many, MANY of us simply cannot believe it. It seems for all the world like fraud. This matters, & is going to matter more.”

Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Valraven's Corollary: "Malice and stupidity are not mutually exclusive, and, in fact, often coincide."

Really sick of this "I believe it, so it must be true" shit. You would think these assholes would have learned their lesson from watching people just like them die of COVID with the Ivermectin still fresh on their teeth. But that's the fundamental problem: These fuckers REFUSE to learn.

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'd prefer you think that than the alternative, which is of course they'll tell any vapid incongruous lie if they think it benefits their worldview

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.

Always how they reason ‘could we all be lying?’ ‘Can we all be stupid and deluded?’ And a lot of people who should know better somehow think they must have a point. Is it because they are men and they are white? Because nobody else seems to get this treatment.

Let's follow this logic. 1) A is is given to be true 2) Many many people don't believe A is true 3) This is a problem 4) Because people don't believe a true thing. Not because the true thing is false.

“I’m stupid and I’m going to make it everyone’s problem” is the main issue plauging us politics in the 2020s

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

I can't believe Spencer Pratt lost even though he was wearing 100 magic crystals.

As a long time anti-fan of Rod, I can say with confidence that he really IS that dumb. Dreher is walking proof that the term "midwit" actually does have some legitimate utility. No one embodies it better than him and his sanctimonious "homophobic man of letters" schtick.

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.

rod dreher looks like he's living in his cellar living off MRE rations

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...

we have to void any election where democrats win because I simply can't believe they would win. This is a problem

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

They simply can’t fathom how much the coolest cities in the country hate them.

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”

Again, I do not fucking understand why they are so shocked by this outcome. A republican mayor losing in a race in a strong blue city. Why is this such a fucking shock? Hell, a republican losing in ANY election in any large urban area should not be a shock considering basic fucking demographics

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

These are the same people insisting that Biden "stole" the 2020 election because he didn't have any rallies

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.

White supremacists have gotten away with bending the public discourse based on their fee-fees and whining to such an extent they are attempting to browbeat capitalist media to supplant election results with white guys saying the feel WRONGED!

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!