It won’t bounce back, but if we get some left leaning people with balls, we can start seeing immediate improvement by just arresting everyone involved in the current administration, along with a few Supreme Court Justices, and a few billioniares who need to be made very poor.
Scrambling, and largely failing. The current chatbots are a long way from Markov chains, but that’s still the very basics of how they work.
The fascists aren’t souring on fascism, they’re souring on Trump. Like rats fleeing a sinking ship.
The thing is, fascists need a strongman to get excited for, so as they sour more, they will likely stay home from the polls.
And that means a potential blue wave. Especially with the latest polls.
The last time failed, and because nothing was done to prevent it, the next time will be extremely violent.
Peter Thiel, who is obsessed with the antichrist and completely convinced that it’s all real, and also somehow Greta Thunberg.
Yes, the mass surveillance is a major issue, but without competency behind it, it’s less dangerous. More destructive, but less dangerous if that makes sense, because it’s easier to break things than build things.
The thing about a gerrymander is that it can backfire, you’re diluting votes of both your opponents and your supporters. If you get the ratios wrong, or say, lose a lot of support from the less committed side of your base, then the gerrymandered district goes to the opposition.
They did. But open corruption is not appealing to any except the most devout Trump supporter.
The other factor is that they fired anyone competent.
A few at each polling station maybe, or a few dozen. And despite the numbers, Trump doesn’t have enough.
No, When Trump tries to retain power, it will result in a civil war. Not a “clean” North v South war, but a quagmire of sectarian violence.
20-30% of the voting population will never wake up, but signs are saying that the less committed are actually waking up.
Also, Trump’s die hard supporters have never turned out in droves when he isn’t directly on the ballot.
Trump is still trying to rig things, but you need a believable amount of votes in the first place to pull that off.
2024 was still close enough that rigging things looked somewhat believable.
2026 is looking like believable will not be an option.
Exactly like that, but he needs an order of magnitude more thugs to actually pull it off.
There’s only so much you can do to rig an election. You need it to be close enough that you can lie believably. The polls say that it will not be. At that point you need to basically launch a military occupation to keep power. Trump will certainly try it, but I’m not sure that he’s still popular enough to pull it off.
Recent polls have Democrats winning in a landslide in November.
And we’re still months away with Trump fucking up more every day.
And not just ruining America, but making the lives of his supporters harder and then saying he doesn’t care.
Trump forgot the first rule of dictators, never openly betray your base.
The less committed Trump supporters are actually abandoning him. And that’s wild. It gives me hope.
The true believers will never leave, but there aren’t enough of them to force everyone else to follow. They will try, but likely fail, much like Orban failed in Hungary.
Please oh Lord, extend thy noodly appendage and make him shit himself so hard that his small intestine prolapses.
I’m saying that there’s one reasonable republican, who occasionally breaks with the party due to actually having some principles. This one person gives the rest cover.
The rest have no principles beyond self enrichment. They believe in nothing except power. The one token reasonable one is just that. One.
Not is they have a token American “in charge”.
AIPAC was actually created after the last Israeli PAC was forced to register as a foreign agent.
Massie is less likely to do that than most. He’s the token reasonable Republican. You always have one who has either principles or limited empathy.
I would prefer actual empathy, but a principled man is someone you can usually work with.
A nursing home paid for by Medicare only.
I want him to live long enough to completely fuck Republicans in the midterms.