Donbald definitely needs a few distractions from many things going on at home -

1. Kidnapping people, including children, off the streets, and disappearing them, at his direction.
2. The economy hitting the shitter thanks to his fuckery and general dumbassery. The contrast between now and last year is quite something.
3. Of course the Epstein files that he’s definitely not in.
4. As for foreign affairs, there is that ceasefire that really isn’t and his “deal” with China that really was a gigantic fail.

Those people are probably so deluded and have heads so full of Faux mush that they think medbeds are a real thing.

You’d probably have to dig deeper on what people think about both of these things to actually learn more. Obviously capitalism completely unchained very few would support. Same goes for the most extreme possible take on socialism.

Yep. 100%. And it seems the algorithms push this kind of thinking everywhere. Used to be this lazy “both sides” take was just a thing you usually heard kind of on the margins, and mostly in-person, usually from someone that was either a Libertarian, a Communist, or just someone incredibly tuned out of everything, but wants to sound really profound. 🙄

Now it’s just all over the place. It’s a great way to atomize much of the left and demoralize just enough people so that they don’t turn out for Democrats.

And remember - no matter how much these types might actually believe their schtick (and aren’t just paid actors or bots) and stamp their feet, there are exactly TWO viable options at the ballot box when it comes down to the general.

Talking about woulda coulda shoulda and being a precious purity pony is just a circle jerk, and nothing else.

Wait, I was told everything, even including Faux News, was the "liberal media, though…

Taco seems like Peak SNAFU principle (From Robert Anton Wilson) in action.

https://hackersdictionary.com/html/entry/SNAFU-principle.html

Draining the swamp – Vowed to clean up Washington fast, but faced entrenched bureaucracy and ethics scandals.

Well, and some things are complete delusion on his part as well as conservatives. If anything, Taco created the swamp.

Reviving coal jobs – Claimed fast resurgence, but the industry continued to decline.

And some things, for instance, this and the wall and repealing ACA, and ruining/“overhauling” education, are just plain not worth doing.

I wonder how many will connect this with voting for the Confederate party.

Meaning, what? The GOP controls Congress, the courts and the WH.

In a sane world, Dems should be leading by high double-digits, but alas.

A very apt analogy and reminds me of the early days of the 'net. Among my peers, I was one of the first on the 'net, but I had been on BBSes quite a bit and had some minimal use of Qlink prior. And so you saw things that became memes in their own right in the early days, like MAKE.MONEY.FAST, and you wondered who fell for that stuff.

Then came Eternal September. And as the rest of the world started to get on the 'net, I’d have associates, friends, family fall for all kinds of stuff - forwarding me emails involving wildly stupid urban legends, or the “if you forward this, Bill Gates will give you $$$” stuff, etc.

It felt like I was always telling the same sort of person that you could easily think this through. It would bounce right off the skulls of some and they might drop the current thing, but fall for the next…usually the consequences were just wasting everyone else in their contact list’s time and clogging up email inboxes just a bit more.

These days, I have a feeling virtually all these people that I’d try to gently coach on some rather basic critical thinking all voted 3x for Taco.

Since when?

I still have such a hard time wrapping my brain around the fact that so many on the right will never watch MSNBC, or, if they do, likely would never admit it, because of fierce brand loyalty to another corporate right-leaning news network.

This brand loyalty is so ironclad that they cannot even understand or at least won’t admit that MSNBC is also right leaning. The Faux loyalists really do think it’s some kind of liberal outlet, LOL.

I’d say he’s sleeping on the couch, but I think he’d enjoy that. :)

Depends. How dark is their skin? Have they posted any “JD” “Vance” memes? How do they feel about the Blessed Martyr Charlie Kirk?

Imagine being so terrible of a person that you are still willing to be seen as the person preventing millions from eating.

The conservative mind surely is a very broken one.

What are we supposed to be doing?

I think if they really want to give all the hoi polloi the finger, they need to speed up the ballroom completion, then throw King Louis XVI themed parties about every week. All while yanking things like ACA and SNAP…

No wonder the Confederate base are so angry all the time - the amount of effort it must take to sustain the cognitive dissonance between watching the pedo-in-chief flip virtually all of America the bird, partying like Gatsby while people are getting ready to starve, and also believing at the same time that he’s for “The Forgotten Man”, must cause a lot of pain.