Lessons Learned...and the Breath We Didn't Realize We Were Holding.

The Lessons and Significance of the 2024 Election

Welcome back to Voodoo’s basement lair.

Beer’s in the cooler, the dartboard is ready per usual, and there’s ice in the chest freezer. Mixables are under the desk. Once you’ve poured yourself something, go ahead and grab something nice from the humidor, because we’re going out to the fire pit to make some use of this cold weather and the sense of togetherness that evolution has installed into us when we choose to gather around a fire under such circumstances. The election is over, we have a new POTUS, and it’s time to share what I’ve learned from it.

First, however, it’s time for a great many of us to let go of that breath we’ve been holding for the last four years when we genuinely weren’t sure if we still had a United States. I do not express this as hyperbole. I’m personally acquainted with a number of people who had all but given up on the idea that it was still possible to have a fair outcome of a national election ever again, and I assure you, to have them let go of that belief is a very good thing for us all. They were giving a very hard look at the next box on the shelf, and they were not kidding about it.

Now I know a couple of you out there are asking, “Voodoo. You’re a pretty damn opinionated guy. What took you so long?” Well, I’ll tell you. I was waiting to see if anyone else had learned anything. Surprisingly, some did. Unsurprisingly, and to my immense disappointment, others did not.

The 2024 election was a dumpster fire for the Left, especially for the dedicated political class and their most fervent donors. They confirmed, beyond any doubt, their absolute faith in their own righteousness and incapacity for, perhaps even disdain for, reading the room that is the American Electorate. It went so far overboard that since the previous election, many people who saw themselves as left, “progressive,” or some other label, found themselves unable to Kumbaya this time around with the crazy. Hell, NYT staff found the necessity to jump ship and found their own news organization. If you haven’t checked out “The Free Press,” go now, regardless of political alignment. Along the same line, Ana Kasperian, one of the founding lefties of “The Young Turks,” found herself politically homeless after (and this still floors me) merely mentioning having been groped by a homeless person while walking her dog.

What happened, is that “Woke” jumped the shark. There really is no better description. They finally went to the place(s) that the center (That’s where the VOTES ARE!) could not follow, and the legacy press, arguably the BIGGEST loser of this shitshow, went right there with them, right over the cliff as they cheered on Hamas, Karened an innocent squirrel and raccoon to death, screamed at children in strollers, and otherwise engaged in behavior that no reasonable human being could defend with a straight face.

Meanwhile, online content creators, podcasters, and so on grabbed the torch and ran with it, and started speaking the absolute truth, even when that truth was breaking their hearts. Possibly one of the best examples is someone who is overtly a socialist, and goes by the handle, “Shoe0nHead.” Her analysis is without mercy.

“The physical manifestation of the left has gone from the vision of the blue-collar union worker to a nagging, scolding fat woman with blue hair, barging into everyone’s spaces and culturally colonizing them.” - Shoe0nHead

“Men aren’t moving right because they’re choosing Fascism, they’re moving right because the left made them the villains in their Anime fan fiction. It’s not that they all like Trump, it’s that they all hate YOU!” - Shoe0nHead

I don’t often repeat myself, but it’s worth it this once for emphasis. I honestly believe that, in their hubris, the totalitarians made an immense error. They went so extreme that even many of their most vehement adherents could no longer suspend their disbelief. The corruption, the comically obvious gaslighting, the lust for power, and the insane ideology simply became too immense for even the most head-down normie to ignore.

Some groups fared better than others but the extreme wing of the trans movement really shit the bed. You can’t go miles out of your way to exemplify a stereotype and then expect to be taken seriously when you are stereotyped, and if they’d pimped that stereotype any harder it’s have two black eyes and a split lip. When established transwomen such as Brianna Wu are looking at your fuckery and saying “WTF are you doing?” you may be fucking it up hardcore.

Mind you, this is what they had to say BEFORE the election! Post election, the legacy press and the “leaders” over at the DNC responded by tripling down on the same stupid. AOC briefly had a moment of clarity and deleted her pronouns from her X feed. Then, there was the inauguration, and the left did what used to work for them. They dove on the first thing that looked potentially offensive, Musk sending his love to the crowd, raced to label it a “Nazi” salute, and went for the cancel. It did not go as planned.

There were only about five problems with this, beginning with the fact that it wasn’t the biggest problem. The bigger problem is that this play is played out. I’d like to lampoon it further, but I’d rather introduce you to your source for political laughter for the foreseeable future. Bridget Phetasy. You can thank me later. Take care not to drink anything while watching.

I truly believe that history will look upon the 2024 election as the moment when the American people narrowly avoided catastrophe, and saved their Republic. You see, here’s where we get to what the other side of the aisle learned. President Trump has spent the last eight years carefully studying how the left conducts their business, plays their games, and covers their tracks. He also learned what things are worth approaching diplomatically, and what things need to force a court case. The left is only in the last hours realized they’re NOT facing President Trump. They’re facing President Thrawn.

He’s been moving his pieces into place since before the election, and now he’s moving with blinding speed, smashing as much of their machinery and sources of power as possible, as rapidly as possible, leaving them with nothing to do but to take him to the very court where he wants the battle to be fought anyway.

The irony, enough to fatally poison a million hipsters, is that had they not stolen the 2020 election, and yes, they absolutely did take advantage of a once-in-a-generation opportunity to do so, he would have entered his second term with far less experience, less understanding, and certainly without full possession of all three branches of government. Now, any real hope they have of obstructing him lies with the very filibuster they vowed to eliminate. Aside from that, Trump has two years to run the table, and he’s going to milk that for everything he can.

In short, the Neo-Marxist order they tried so hard to establish is well and truly cooked, and they did it to themselves. They could not possibly have shit the bed any harder without medical intervention. Mind you, this was BEFORE they set fire to what remained of their “good name” on the way out with a slew of pardons that constitute nothing less than a scathing confession of guilt.

I watch the breathtaking progress of this new Administration with a sense of relief I have not experienced in nearly a decade. It came to me late last night as I was drifting off to sleep that it’s possible, genuinely possible that my child, just barely 8 years-old and oblivious of such things, may grow up having no memory of the totalitarian dumpster fire we experienced and only so narrowly defeated. It’s possible he may even come to regard me with disbelief when I tell him that it used to be commonplace to lose a job, to be banned from social media, and to even experience threats of murder merely for saying things that were obvious to any creature with a working set of eyeballs and/or a working brain.

Part of me wishes I could just leave that little chapter out entirely, but he needs to know. He needs to know how fragile his liberties are, how sincere and committed the people are who will continue to attempt to wrest them from his hands, or seek his life should he resist them, and why he must resist anyway, because there are piles of ashes in Poland with his last name and “Never Again” is now.

Finally, I must address the people who perhaps aren’t a fan of the new Administration. The DNC is a deranged, lying, abusive boyfriend, and you need to break up with him. He doesn’t love you. He loves power and sucking up to his donors, who are so out-of-touch, they could not possibly comprehend your grocery bill or the price of your gasoline, do not care, and will not care within your lifetime.

Even if it’s just for an election cycle or two, vote differently, even if it’s third-party. Do ANYTHING but reward the monster they are with your vote. If they still cannot learn, build something new, something with merit, and leave them to rot on the vine wondering what the Hell happened.

I know that many of you, especially those of you under 30 believe you’re witnessing a shift to the far-right, but ask around. This is where the whole country was when Clinton was starting his first term. We’re returning to the center, to normal. We’re returning to ourselves once more.

As always, keep your head on a swivel, your eyes and ears open, your powder dry, and be a little kinder than you have to be out there in Internet Land. Hopefully, your grandchildren will thank you for it

Cheers,

Voodoo