Because if 40% of people believed the Earth was flat you’d probably want to know that. It shows what a disturbingly large chunk of the US is just straight delusional and to a certain extent how we got into this situation in the first place. Decades after decades of propaganda and the constant stream of bullshit from places like Fox News and then Facebook has reduced a significant chunk of the US population into idiots that are literally incapable of just observing reality and coming to a reasonable conclusion.

Something can be a fact and a belief at the same time. E.G. some people believe the moon landing was faked or that the Earth is flat. It’s a fact that the cost of living was lower under Biden yet some people believe that it’s lower under Trump. Those people are just as crazy as the flat Earthers, and yet they still exist. The real concerning thing is how many of them there are though. The fact that it’s not something like 1% or fewer that believes Trump is better is really concerning but sadly not surprising. Your average Trump supporter is really dumb and ignorant.

His entire personality flipped after he got literal brain damage and he’s been voting solidly in the dumbest way possible ever since (so pretty much always whichever way the Republicans are voting). Unlike several others I don’t think this is a blackmail thing, I think he literally lost like half his IQ overnight.

They absolutely can, just not as much, and not in the ways they’re used to. They’ve invested heavily in oil based products up to and including fighting many many wars as well as shaping their entire international policy around it.

They could pivot to renewables, something several Democrats started the process of doing, but until the pivot completes their profits would take a nose dive (plus the massive losses from the heavy investment into oil refineries). Even then though the unfortunate crux of the matter is that rare earth metals are an increasingly vital component of all future technology and the biggest deposits of those are all very inconveniently placed from a US perspective (almost exclusively within the territory of countries the US has a somewhat poor relationship with).

It’s the perfect 3 word summary of the entire Trump presidency.

Near as I can tell from the sources I’ve seen for that he actually didn’t but some news sites misquoted him to make it seem like he did. The actual quote was that it would be “public to members [of the DNC]” not to the general public. This got shortened to “he said it would be public” in reporting leaving off the very important detail that that was meaning a very specific audience. Ultimately he never should have used the word public it’s way too easy to misconstrue. He would have been better off if he had said “it will be freely available to the DNC members”.

Huh, look at that, 4 out of 10 Americans are braindead, as that’s the only way you wouldn’t realize the gas prices are Trumps fault. Well, Trump and I guess Israel, but Trump could have tried not being a sock puppet to somebody for a change.

The US is done for, as nearly 50% of the population is apparently living in an entirely different reality from the rest of the world or else so literally out of touch with current events they don’t even understand a single thing that’s happening at a national level.

RFK was always a wildcard. He’s a weird mix of surprisingly reasonable ideas with complete and utter insanity and there’s no real rhyme or reason behind it. In a way it’s kind of refreshing dealing with plain old insanity compared to the usual MAGA crowd that very blatantly adjust their stances to match their prejudices and whatever is most profitable for them at the time.

It’s going to be interesting to see what happens when the grifter wing of MAGA runs face first into the nutter wing because I really have no clue which one comes out on top in that fight. My guess is that the grifters win since it will likely come down to whoever Trump decides to back and he’ll always go with a grifter over anyone else.

Not a legal argument but there is at least one state that already floated the idea of undermining the whole thing by refusing to publish their vote totals until all the electors are gathered to vote thereby preventing the popular vote from being determined ahead of time.

Not yet, but it’s getting closer to actually happening. It is at a minimum not a bad thing.

Not that it really matters much, nearly every one of them that has been released and/or pardoned has gone on to get arrested again shortly after. I’m sure they’ll all be back in jail real soon.

Man, someone called this play on the day they fired Bondi. It will be interesting to see if Congress lets them get away with it or if they charge her with contempt.

Of course, it lies confidently and tells them things they want to hear which are two of the most important things Republicans look for in their leaders.

I don’t understand what you’re so upset about here. I’m well aware of what the DHS and TSA are, I’m older than both and remember how flying used to be before the TSA came in and screwed it all up. What makes you think I don’t know what the TSA is?

I’m not quite sure what the attitude is for, I don’t disagree with anything you said. Whether it’s all of DHS or just TSA, either way there’s no point in it existing.

TSA is suffering because of their sister organization ICE. That said, TSA just needs to be abolished, things worked much better before they existed. Let the airports pay for their own x-ray operators and just skip the mandatory groping, metal detectors worked better anyway.

So overall a very good change it sounds like.

Because it proves they’re incompetent.

Aircraft in the presidential and VIP fleet will be repainted in red, white and blue, according to reports from several outlets, including CBS News and Fox News. The new design is also expected to include a gold stripe.

The photo in the story is the current design. It’s Trump so you know it will be some combination of tacky and ugly.

In a truly healthy open source project there are many maintainers from a diverse set of countries such that no one person can stop the project, at best they could stop one fork, but others would still exist. Unfortunately far far too many projects have a single maintainer. The open source world has a severe problem with an unacceptable bus factor on many foundational projects. It’s hard enough finding one person to maintain some of these things, finding more is a significant problem.