“ALL HAIL CHAIRMAN TRUMP! WITH HIS GLORIOUS 10% PURCHASE OF INTEL, THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF AMERICA ENTERS A BOLD NEW ERA” -- California governor Newsom riles Republicans with Trump-trolling posts

[u/marketrent]

https://www.barrons.com/news/meme-lord-newsom-riles-republicans-with-trump-trolling-posts-05b74794

[u/river_tree_nut]

Same here. I think everyone with a poli sci degree is pretty shocked by all this. I look forward to when politics is boring again...although I'm not sure it's going to happen in my lifetime.

[u/mmlovin → u/river_tree_nut]

My BA is in poli sci with a focus on legal studies. But I was in college during the 2012 election when Romney’s binders of women thing was a huge fuck up.

If I was in right now?? I’d change fucking majors. I wanted to go to law school..what for? The law means jack shit

[u/cookies_n_juice → u/river_tree_nut]

I have a PhD in political science and am decidedly not shocked. Literature on democracy and polarization is pretty clear lol. Only the political science people who studied only the US (Americanists) were shocked. 

[u/river_tree_nut → u/cookies_n_juice]

Yeah shocked was the wrong word. It’s hard to be shocked by something that was years in the making. Rattled would be my personal response.

[u/cookies_n_juice → u/cookies_n_juice]

Broad generalization there but that was my experience 

[u/framersmethod2028 → u/river_tree_nut]

if you want boring again, we need to make the election system boring again. right now its all emotion and entertainment. its a show.

[u/MaximumManagement → u/river_tree_nut]

Frustrated, but not shocked.

I think the only real shock was 2016 when a minority of the people managed to elect an obviously corrupt game show host over a competent secretary of state and former senator.

Everything else since then is just a steady stream of SMH material.

[u/river_tree_nut → u/MaximumManagement]

I’ll never forget election night 2016 and hearing Chuck Todd say “wait a minute, theres something happening in Michigan”