Americans are increasingly concerned about Donald Trump’s age and fitness as dictator

If you can show supporters of a populist that everyone else is jumping ship, they will too.

Previously, Manchin and Sinema opposed ending the filibuster. Manchin opposed codifying Roe v Wade.

Is Oregon going forward with an RCV referendum? Or are we talking about the STAR voting initiative voted on recently?

“Anybody but X!”

picks y

“Anybody but Y!”

WHO-OA BLACK BETTY!

Cool here’s the rest of it

“It really is, and it is real, but the fact is that if you take a look at what people have, they have the money to spend. It angers them and it angers me that you have to spend more. For example, the whole idea of this notion that you have… shrinkflation… It’s like 20% less for the same price, that is corporate greed. It is corporate greed and we’ve got to deal with it.”

They know it’s happening. They’re responsible for it. At this point I don’t see much of a difference if they intended this or not.

They’re not being conned, they’re in on the con. Notice how there is nothing consistently rational about the messaging. The issues they’re concerned about and what they say they want done about them all change daily. But they all point in one direction.

They’ve identified themselves as the in-group, they’ve identified the out-groups, and they want to stomp all over those out-groups and take everything they’ve got. Their money, their dignity, their lives. Whatever proves that they’re on top.

Remember the second part of that LBJ quote:

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

They know the consequences and they’re willing to risk it. Calling them idiots does not prepare us to deal with the situation in which we find ourselves now.

Just reminding people that hyper-normalization is a thing, and this is a textbook example of it.

Then Lindsay Graham puts out the sign that says

“No girlz allowed!”

They want it. These people are fed up with democracy.

Dirt.

Girlfriend at the time noticed this on my phone and had some choice questions for me.

Give me weights for the coefficients and I’ll construct a matrix