You should submit this as a post. Or I might just repost it. It's insightful!
I really dig the explanation of how the two parties have kind of worked for so long, in spite of everything, and now that balance is disrupted since the "cranks" moved to one party.
Except Russia is not the military power Nazi Germany was.
Lets say he takes over Ukraine. Horrific... but that's not some huge economic windfall. If Russia tries to invade a NATO country in the next few decades, even with America totally out of the pictue, they'd get theit butts handed to them.
Only way it works is if China backs the heck out of Russia. Which is theoretically plausible if America is "defeated" I guess.
Vance is an opportunist, and dangerously smart and eloquent. That's actually a huge positive over Trump, I really hate we have such an actual gullible idiot in office.
Problem is I don't really understand what is actual political beliefs are. It feels like he's just a sycophant in interviews, given his history.
He's hitched himself to the MAGA train, but if, say, he was president with basically no opposition and Trump dead, what would he do?
I'd posit the algorithm has turned it into a monster.
Attention should be dictated more by chronological order and what others retweet, not what some black box thinks will keep you glued to the screen, and it felt like more of the former in the old days. This is a subtle, but also very significant change.
To elaborate, COVID-19 was absolutely impossible to ignore. It made everyone feel miserable, and it got them to turn out to vote for Biden.
This year? No such disaster shoving its way into people's lives. Out of sight, out of mind.
I don't think Lemmy people grasp how insulated/isolated most 'swing' or 'sometimes' voters are. They know tiny nuggets of politics that are fed to them through social feeds or whatever, and COVID-19 was like a bulldozer mowing through their house. Ironically, it got people active.
I believe the calculus is "A even more extreme MAGA diehard will take my place."
Which is 100% true.
Still extremely self-serving, but kinda reasonable in a Machiavellian way.
What do these chodes expect to happen after 2028?
Uh, nothing bad? Just like after screw-ups doing COVID-19?
America collectively has the attention span of a flea, and an even shorter term memory. No one even cares about what happened in 2016-2020 anymore
Collins and Murkowski hate Trump, they're two of the last surviving Republicans that openly do so. I bet they won't:
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/27/senate-collins-murkowski-harris-trump
They're rightly scared of not being re-elected for daring to oppose him. Or worse.
Mark my words, you are going to see a LOT of railing against rebel Republicans from Trump. Or what few are left, anyway.
The "dirt" is not being re-elected because they dare question Trump.
Uh, COVID-19? When Trump was president?
The article itself muddies the waters even more:
Its is a parody post, but also real, but also The Onion. It's a shining, throughbread Onion article, but also not.
We need !sortoftheonion