I’ve literally already seen Trump supporting family members post about how Trump has worked at McDonald’s and Harris was lying about it, so that’s why he should run the country.

I live in rural NC and still see a bunch of signs for him around. I still think he’s going to lose, but I know my county will probably still be like 75% Trump and Robinson voters.

People forget, but in the 70’s Nader was so feared by the DC elite that Nixon repeatedly complained about him on the Nixon tapes. Nader would have been a good president based on his record of advocating for citizens over corporations.

I hear what you’re saying but do you really think young people watched the debate? Debates are really just for sound bites for ads and Harris got what she needed there. Most young people just ingest the debates via shorts on YouTube, TikTok, etc and it’s easy to pull out the best stuff for those.

Trump’s biggest problem is he is essentially at his ceiling of voters, about 46%.

Federal service at this level does not make rich people richer. Working for their corporations does and that’s exactly what most people do when they finish school. Corporations even tend to layoff experienced workers and hire new graduates because they are cheaper. Federal service looks this benefits everyone that takes advantage of federal services the agencies provide.

Like I was trying to point out in my example, there is a vast amount of work that federal agencies need done that is not skilled labor. But there is value in exposing young people to a small section of how the federal government operates.

Duped but I’d say more than willingly duped since it’s not hard to pick up on the slant of the ‘news’ angle they are being pushed to put out. Someone is giving you $100k a month and they decided to not rock the boat.

Federal service is very broad though. Just consider ask the different Federal Agencies and the roles they fill.

For example, when I was in college I had a 6 month internship with the National Park Service doing trail maintenance for a national park. It serves me no purpose as a resume item but I look back on that time extremely fondly even though it was the hardest physical labor I’ve ever done. It was incredibly physical work with really 10+ miles of hiking every work day. The NPS across the US has an huge budgetary backlog of trail maintenance going back decades.

That all is just an example but I’m sure the NPS could make great use of thousands of young workers to improve our parks. Similarly, I’m sure across the board the Federal Agencies would have a vast multitude of roles for this Federal service, including working for the DoD but in non military roles. Most of the agencies would have vast amounts of work that isn’t covered by their budgets so it just doesn’t get done.

“I don’t come up with this stuff. I just forward it along. You wouldn’t arrest a guy who’s just delivering drugs from one guy to another.”

I’m waiting for one of them to pull out the Michael Scott defense!

Lol, a unity Republican ticket? What would that even look like? Two Dems would immediately lose the MAGA base and be dead on launch. Trump would also launch a third party campaign!

Clinton’s fatal flaw was picking about the worst campaign manager of all time, who did things like relying almost exclusively on software based calculations and stopped polling voters in early September.

I mean the Bible is full of killing and God telling people to kill. Pastors have been full of fire and brimstone for generations. Preaching against immigrants in the US basically since the country was founded, burning witches and calling for slaves to be lynched.

Having grown up a southern Baptist, I can assure you that religion in the South has always been full of this behavior.

If they wanted to do that I’m sure they could get the data from ISPs already.

Age verification bills are just virtue signaling for politicians.

That’s like Trump’s monkey paw wish. If he shut up, he wouldn’t have won to begin with. It’s his strongest and weakest trait politically.

Mooch has a podcast now so I guess it counts as journalism to just scrap the podcast for quotes and write articles? No wonder the media is so into hyping LLMs as a big threat.

As someone that was born and raised, and still lives in a super majority pro Trump part of the rural South, boy is this article true. I can’t begin to explain the rabid love so many have for Trump and the republican party.

I was eating with some family at a restaurant and got to listen to them railing about the public schools grooming kids and letting them read porn. Even pointing out that they literally know the local teachers and go to church with them. Asking who is supposed to be doing what they are claiming gets absolutely nowhere.

To be fair all guys like this remember is that we dropped nukes on Japan and the war ended. That’s the depth of the thought process. Maybe also that we didn’t drop nukes on Vietnam and we lost. That sounds about right for that guy’s age.

Nikki Haley and others like her keep insisting that the ‘real’ GOP isn’t based on Trump politics, when are they are going admit that it’s the REAL GOP committing a murder/suicide on America. And the Dems are just the meme of the dog in the room on fire.

Nah, Haley is in it for 2028 or the lotto chance that Trump drops dead. She’s still raising plenty of money. Trump is the nominee for sure but her staying in is at least driving him crazy and getting him to spend a lot of money he wouldn’t otherwise need to. Trump is outspending his fundraising so this just makes him weaker in the general.