Maybe we’d see an uptick of those “she voted for Trump but now she’s having second thoughts” thinkpieces which would be an objectively worse development
Do you think if hard, irrefutable evidence came out that the assassination attempt last summer was staged that anything would change at all? I don’t think it would
I think one of the worst things about Trump 2 so far has been how pathetic and gross people and institutions have gotten. so many people embarrassing themselves trying to out-toady each other just to win some very brief positive attention from a guy who will use and forget them
Correct I prefer to find a cool stick and play with it and then go online and post tenderly about the four 60 year old men I follow around giving money to and never the two shall meet
I’m willing to concede that Venezuela and the US are not direct analogues but I were the pro-democracy leader in my country I would simply not ally myself with the guy who’s trying to do all those things in his country
Pretending that most billionaires don’t have “extreme views” is very funny, let’s see what their views would look like if they started having their fortunes seized to pay for Scandinavian style social utopias
“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”
White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.
