circuitfarmer

Too little, too late.

I’ll believe in an intelligent Republican when they stop voting against their own interests.

85% of all counties in America

Empty land doesn’t vote, you moron. You can be 2000 counties up and only win by a couple million votes, because rural counties are… rural.

How does he have the time for all this if CEOs are always as busy as he claims?

This approach was planned. When it was continuously pointed out, these are the same people that kept their MAGA hats on and stayed obsessed with “taking the country back”.

You can’t fix stupid, and now the world has to suffer for it.

Today’s word is: Kompromat

This is why you don’t radicalize people. The less Trumpy members of the GOP had ample opportunity to speak up and make a change.

In the short term, you get a dedicated, cult-like following. In the longer term, nothing functions – even the stuff you want to function. Deradicalization takes a lot of time and resources, if you can even get that far.

I sincerely wonder what happens when Trump no longer exists. He is no spring chicken. Are all of these shortsighted politicians just going to bow to Don Jr. when the time comes? Because that’s what they have set themselves up for by being either stupid or spineless.

The cool thing is, you can affect these people directly.

Don’t use Meta products.

Don’t use X.

Don’t buy a Tesla.

Don’t get Starlink.

SpaceX is a conundrum since they aren’t really selling things directly to consumers, but still, for the most part here, people can vote with their wallets and their time. (Sadly they won’t, but they can).

I get the sneaking suspicion that all the “but both parties are the same people” are going to end up kind of right – but maybe not in the way they thought.

From my vantage point, there is only rich vs poor. Any other ideological divide either a) has been worsened by rich vs poor, or b) was invented to keep attention away from rich vs poor, à la divide and conquer.