Jman

Normally I’d forgive weak linear if Max made up for it, but it hasn’t. So this is going to be an uphill battle. We’ll need to see if they retain viewership as well as get those Max numbers up.

Be kind of funny if he gets his presidency and just keels over. Shades of William Henry Harrison, who ran a populist campaign to win the Presidency, then died a month into his term from pneumonia.

More proof that Trump’s MO probably dies with him, at least for a while.

I fully expect Musk and friends to attempt something crazy vs a green energy transition, like sulfur dioxide geo-engineering.

The Paris Accords is what worries me. We need a clean environment.

Yeah, you had me at the groceries, then lost me there. Also I stand by GOP policies not being popular given how many policies on the ballots were defeated and passed and their breakdown, but the GOP has way better messaging with an army of online apologists. The Democrats need to create something equivalent if they want to do better past the inevitable anger that will hit the GOP come midterms.

Honestly at this point we deserve a military ruling dictatorship. I’m also pretty sure the military seizing power from an uneducated citizenry and ineffective government is the backstory for Starship Troopers (the book).

I know some people online who swear by the adage “nothing ever happens.” I want them to be right. I really do.

It’s kind of true though. Trump had a brand through his media empire and shows. None of the other GOP do.

It didn’t work for the “Black Nazi” who got thrashed. Cult leader charisma can’t work for just anyone.

She would need to be focused hard on policies and the like, which is always the issue with branding. I know the GOP would go after her hard on appearances.

It’s been a busy week, but did we get any ratings data?

Their issue is one of branding, not policy. Moving right on issues just gets rid of the things people like in a vacuum.

My brief take at this point remains that Democratic policy is popular. Abortion, minimum wage, legal weed, all did pretty well. Taxpayer money for private schools did not. But the party itself needs to rebrand and rebuild.

Like I said before, anyone who expects a second Trump term to see Hollywood move closer to center is deluding themselves. More female led legacy movies, more Current Year cartoons, and more LGBTQ+ representation because Hollywood is going to see it as a moral necessity to provide a counterweight to Trump and later Vance.

Neither Biden nor Kamala have said anything. Not even a tweet. Not to mention how the turnout is somehow 20 million less than last time even with more registration. I’m kind of expecting the other shoe to drop very soon, and I don’t know what it will look like.

Also, and this is semi-related, don’t be surprised if Elon advocates for a mass launch of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere to lower the world’s temperature 5 degrees or so. Because he’s all about dramatic ways to fix problems instead of you know, public transportation.

Judging by how many states passed their abortion protections, people voted for Trump on the false belief that he would improve their economic situation. Lower grocery prices, lower housing prices, and getting Israel to agree to a withdrawal from Gaza. Midterms are going to be funny when none of that happens.

It's why I'm focusing on the obvious economic stuff and the Biden admin's poor optics because the voting for abortion protections and minimum wage increases does not scream "Misogynists yelling at the poor."

For a look at policy devoid of political party, as per the Times: Florida fuckery aside, you see a lot of policies here that aren't exactly what one would call conservative. Medical marijuana and abortion win. Minimum wage increases did decently well. Two solid red states rejected sending taxpayer money to private schools.

Well, yeah, a lot of these countries were suffering. Unfortunately, their populations are about to realize they've received a false bill of goods. Look at Argentina.

No, it didn't given how horrifically real estate prices slingshotted from their brief COVID discounts. I fully maintain people weren't voting about minorities or abortion (given that practically every pro-abortion measure save Florida's fucked up 60% law passed with voters, even in red states), but about the groceries. It's just that "A Chicken in Every Pot and a Car in Every Garage" isn't happening with Trump or Vance either.

As much of an issue as that might be for some people, it wouldn't work without an entire social media system specifically designed to whitewash (pardon the pun) Trump and put Kamala on the hook for everything from Gaza to to the fact that your average guy is stuck renting eternally. Or the endless YouTube videos bitching about how pop culture has gone too woke and liberal (Which, by the way idiots, if you don't think a second Trump presidency will drive Hollywood and animation even further left, I have some Trump NFT's to sell you). People are not wrong to be upset, but they are supremely dumb to think Donald J Trump, or let's be honest, JD Vance, will do anything to help with that, instead of just setting up their weird theocratic laws that they can.

Having slept a bit on it, provided that there isn’t poll fuckery, the easiest explanation is that the massive post-COVID inflation, particularly in housing, is the biggest thing that screwed over the Democrats. The second biggest thing is that conservatives are virtually uncontested in social media between the manosphere, GriftTube, etc. But when push comes to shove, your average person was voting against the fact that they can’t afford to buy a house their parents could easily, and that groceries cost more and more of their paycheck. The problem is that Trump is NOT the person to solve that, unless he’s somehow going to try to drive Blackrock out of business because their president called him a man baby. I still stand by Trump exiting stage left with a full pardon very early into his term. Like, six months. Meanwhile liberals need to build their own answer to the Rogans of the world.