"Trump is aiming for a trifecta never achieved in American political history: He is attempting to convert his campaign’s top three winning issues into political liabilities of epic proportions.

wdlindsy@toad.social

"While the precise figures vary slightly depending on methodology and sample, the convergence itself is the signal: Trump remains underwater nationally, deeply unpopular among Democrats, losing independents by wide margins, and sustained politically almost entirely by a still-loyal Republican base, according to all three instruments."

#Trump #Epstein #immigration #economy #ApprovalRating
/5

wdlindsy@toad.social

"There is simply no upside to attacking Bad Bunny and Latino pride, which is what he did last night on Truth Social, and from which he will never back away. He has thrown away the support he gathered in 2024 from Latinos, I mean, he has just trashed it. And every Latino in this country knows this truth:"

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#BadBunny #Trump #immigrants #Latinos #racism #ApprovalRating
/6

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-suicidal-politics-of-trashing

wdlindsy@toad.social

"Trump would never attack Italian American or Irish American culture in the way he trashed Bad Bunny and Latin culture. ...

Coming at the end of the week that Trump posted the video showing Barack and Michelle Obama as apes – oh, my god, could he have made it any worse?"

#BadBunny #Trump #immigrants #Latinos #racism #ApprovalRating
/7

wdlindsy@toad.social

"Trump has lost the culture. And his greediest collaborators are awakening to the fact that they made a terrible bet."

~ Brian Beutler

#BadBunny #KidRock #Trump #Republicans #MAGA #CultureWars #immigrants #racism #diversity #JeffBezos #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #TimCook
/7

https://www.offmessage.net/p/trump-has-lost-the-culture

wdlindsy@toad.social

"I truly, truly believe that MAGA's biggest fear, whether with Black Lives Matter or with Bad Bunny Bowl, is young white men and women bouncing and dancing joyfully to Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga instead of dancing offbeat to child-attracted lyrics belching Kid Rock."

~ Joy-Ann Reid

#BadBunny #KidRock #Trump #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #CultureWars
/8

https://www.joyannreid.com/p/bad-bunny-and-humanity-win-ice-and

wdlindsy@toad.social

"Their nightmare is white Christian kids wanting to be part of the much more fun, much more interesting multicultural experience of America, future America, and maybe, maybe joining the anti-fascist resistance instead of ICE. And maybe, just maybe, beginning to vote for the same way that they dance."

#BadBunny #KidRock #Trump #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #CultureWars
/9

mister_shade02x2@mastodon.social

@wdlindsy On Bluesky, I read the following:

“Kid Rock makes music for people who have tattoos of their kids, but not custody.”

maryaustinbooks@mstdn.social

@wdlindsy
And that is why we bridge trolls are choosing exactly those issues for our banners. Also why people in Trump voting demographics approach us now not to attack us but to ask us what's going on.

Doesn't mean we don't still get middle finger but boy do we get a lot fewer.

wdlindsy@toad.social

@mister_shade02X2 Excellent!

wdlindsy@toad.social

"Bad Bunny’s halftime show put the MAGAt right on the aggressively wrong side of traditional marriage, love, and even the American flag, to say nothing of the Latino votes they need to stay in power. It made Trump and his mob cultural outsiders, desperately taking solace from a parade of has-been artists who couldn’t outperform Puppy Bowl. And he did it without once mentioning ICE."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#BadBunny #KidRock #Trump #Republicans #MAGA #CultureWars
/10

https://emptywheel.net/bill-kristols-scoundrel-punditry-and-the-fight-to-unmask-stephen-millers-killers/

mlbellar@universeodon.com

@wdlindsy

"There is nothing worse for the brittle heart of the racist than seeing minority JOY" - a kid in a cage

wdlindsy@toad.social

"Now we’re seeing that the nonwhite working class is deserting Trump. That whole set of myths around 2024 is in collapse, and the Super Bowl really underscores that perfectly."

~ Greg Sargent

#BadBunny #KidRock #Trump #Republicans #MAGA #CultureWars #ApprovalRating
/11

https://newrepublic.com/article/206386/trump-fury-nfl-show-spikes-amid-fresh-signs-base-imploding

alex_p_roe@mastodon.world

@wdlindsy Not a day goes by without Trump exploding about something! What a sad a man he is.

maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza

@wdlindsy Hasn't it always been thus? When the Original Dixieland Jazz Band played in New York in 1918, the media *freaked the fuck out*, calling it the Devil's music. Noted award-winning white supremacist Henry Ford funded a program to get schools to teach kids square dancing to discourage listening to black music (jazz & blues). Moral panics over white kids listening to music from other cultures has a long history.

darwinwoodka@mastodon.social

@wdlindsy

Republicans who still approve: ~80–85%

Republicans are very very bad people

eetschrijver@mastodon.social

@alex_p_roe
Anger, spite, hatred and stupidity.
@wdlindsy

wdlindsy@toad.social

Bad Bunny reminded us that joy is the best type of resistance, that love is more powerful than hate. ...

Joy on that stage was not escapism. It was defiance. It was a reminder that culture survives attempts to erase it. That love outlasts hate. That no amount of grievance politics can undo the reality of who we are together."

~ Dina Doll

#BadBunny #Trump #MAGA #immigrants #Latinos #racism #ApprovalRating #CultureWars
/12

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/joy-is-resistance-bad-bunnys-halftime

Abspeckgeflüster – Forum für Menschen mit Gewicht(ung)

"Trump is aiming for a trifecta never achieved in American political history: He is attempting to convert his campaign’s top three winning issues into political liabilities of epic proportions.