Probably the shortest answer in this case is: “reality” television.

Pedonald was given that stupid game show to host. People think that reality television is real. People then think he’s a bigly important successful bidness man, and kuntry shud b rhun lik a bidness.

Taco’s approval rating is now 31%, so that is hopeful.

Conservatives ruin everything.

sTaTeS rIgHts *

*does not apply to Democrats or people trying to protect human rights within a state if it conflicts with right wing authoritarians’ vision for how everyone else should live.

Rollbacks? But why tho? I thought tariffs were going to make us the bigliest, strongliest country we’ve ever been? If things are going badly, and tariffs are so great and magical, why wouldn’t you double or triple down?

Then Pedonald would have even MOAR money to bribe rubes he inflicted harm on, so he can buy votes for Republicans? Am I doing 'conomy as well as the biggest, most importantest bidness man evar? I’m told bidnessmen do 'conomy better than everyone else, and the country should be run like a business, because reasons. Even though the country is supposed to be a representative democracy, which is entirely unlike the way a business is run.

First of all, this is about the only thing that has the base mad at Taco. Secondly, I don’t know if this guy is going to finish out his term. We also don’t know when (or if) they’ll be out of power - the cons have done a lot to rig elections, and quite a few of the American people are deeply stupid besides.

It’s doubtful he will ever face any consequences for anything he’s done in his shitty miserable life, but if we wait until he’s dead or in a memory ward, it’s guaranteed he won’t even be the least bit embarrassed.

That would be fantastic. Well, the very best thing would be sight restoration to full normalcy or even better than normal.

I’d like to see people start captioning this deep conversation by the way, LOL.

Interesting how Clinton was included in these, almost as if they wanted to blunt the impact for Taco.

Guess what? Don’t give a FUCK. Go after Clinton if it warrants it, I don’t have a dog in that hunt. But he’s not holding office right now. Pedonald IS. Make him the priority.

And so on for others named in these headlines and stories. I don’t give a fuck about Gates, either…not the priority here, but I also don’t give a fuck if he’s eventually investigated, too.

Remember, that’s even with all the death threats the Republicans are getting from their crazy base that is being goaded on by the Annoying Orange…

the Republican Party acts like an organized crime outfit - they threaten the non-compliant and their families if they don’t go along with the marching orders come from their leader.

[Schedule 1] is the same category as LSD, ecstasy and peyote.

That’s not only wildly stupid for cannabis, it’s very stupid for these three as well.

LSD and MDMA (ecstasy) were both used for therapeutic reasons prior to the hysterical drug warriors and their wild delusions swept in…thus demonstrating the truth behind Leary’s quote: “LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.” This applies to other things like peyote and MDMA, too…

This is not aimed at you and those you know personally. It’s about the broader picture and how I keep hearing copium from some on the left about how once older people die off, everything will be miraculous because the younger people have figured shit out in a way that no one older than them has.

It feels like I’ve heard this one before.

Hell, I can watch old media that has the boomers saying this. People my age (Gen X) said this same kind of stupid shit when I was a kid and an adolescent. I thought it was stupid then and I think it’s stupid now (I still hear Gen X grumbling about how boomers took all the air out of the culture. Yes, they did and still do. Yes, Gen X is the forgotten step child of generations. As my generation was fond of saying, cry me a river, build a bridge and get the fuck over it.). Boomers and the Silent Generation could all disappear tomorrow and we’d still have the same problems. This intergenerational bullshit has been more weaponized now than it has in the past - before it was just movies/TV telling an age bracket that tends towards deep narcissism that they are the special anointed ones, now instead of broadcast, that is narrowcasted with algorithms to match.

The fact is, the conservative project of dismantling public education and making it even worse and generally trying to make people even more idiotic (but compliant) has been decades in the making. So, it’s not quite clear to me what is going to cause a sudden illumination of millions of minds that are drowning in a sea of nonsense.

Like I said, I would love be wrong about not believing that any generation (Z, alpha, beta) have it all figured out. I’d love to live in a world where humans all got increasingly more intelligent and more capable of wrestling with big problems and having more empathy, human decency, etc. Maybe transhumanist breakthroughs will make something like that actually happen, I don’t know. Something like that might be the real game changer.

But while Republicans are actively breaking education and completely taking over all media platforms, I don’t see how some great awakening is going to happen. People don’t tend to suddenly gain critical thinking skills on their own.

LOL, his “image” is of a delusional and boring old Klansmen who has overstayed his welcome.

That’s great, but that’s anecdotal. Please show me how education has improved in the areas of critical thinking and media literacy in the aggregate. I’d love to be wrong about this.

True. The racism has been a key component in keeping the division going, but more recently, trans and inter-generational nonsense has been thrown in.

The trans aspect has given them a LOT of traction in the past ten years or so, since they lost on the gay marriage thing. It probably led to where we are right now, in fact. People like Megyn Kelly said it was their #1 concern. Imagine that - number one out of all the things to be concerned with. She might just be cosplaying for dollars like all these right wing bullshit artists, but still - I’m sure lots of the right are positively obsessed with the “issue” of trans.

We’ll see how the inter-generational warfare plays out for them. It seems to be going pretty well so far, since I see lots and lots of the so-called “left” falling for this shit, too. The inter-generational stuff might be more about trying to fracture the left than it is about distracting the right, but we’ll see how it plays out.

Racism is what motivates most of conservatism.

Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Well, in this case, “they” means white immigrants.

I still find it hilarious that something like avocado toast (and arugula, lol. And Dijon mustard) has ended up as a shorthand for snobbish effete youngsters who probably also drink their tea with a pinky in the air, but are unable to afford housing and healthcare and childcare, because they are just bad at managing their money and blew it all on these luxury items etc…

I mean, avocados spread on toast. Soooo elitist.

That was Roodles, but yeah.