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"Meddlesome" is certainly a light way of labeling torture training. What I find more troubling is that Trump has popular support. It's just not Trump. The rot
by srean 8mo ago
"Meddlesome" is certainly a light way of labeling torture training.
What I find more troubling is that Trump has popular support. It's just not Trump. The rot goes far deeper.
- jacquesm 8mo agoFair enough.
- TheOtherHobbes 8mo agoTrump doesn't have popular support. Many of his 2024 voters are furious with him. What Trump has is oligarch support - an unholy alliance of weird and cranky tech billionaires, old(ish) money, foreign money, media owners, and insane white supremacist patriarch-wannabes, some of whom operate through think tanks, some through megachurches. The media are doing an excellent job of normalising this, not least - but not only - sanewashing Trump's obvious mental and physical decay.
- srean 8mo agoI want to believe this desperately, but from what I see (well, on YouTube videos, surveys and polls) it makes it very hard for me to do so. I still see massive endorsement from the not so well to do in the hinterlands. I will however grant you that my sampling is no where close to uniform.
- jacquesm 8mo agoUnless all of the useful idiots in this thread are bots there is plenty of popular support. And it's not like they couldn't know better.
- nxor2 8mo agoDoes JB Pritzker, who many people want to run in 2028, have oligarch support?
- YCpedohaven 8mo ago[dead]
- nxor2 8mo agoIt's the two party system. If liberals are okay with 'pro lgbt muslims' and say things like 'gang violence isn't a problem' then people no longer vote for liberals.