I hope the midterms will change things. But I think the only real yield we’ll see out of the midterms is an increase in the visible and obvious collapse of democracy in this place, because the fascists don’t seem too concerned at all about, you know, actually doing things to get people to vote for them, which leads me to assume they have very concrete plans to get around that “problem”.
They don’t have concrete plans. This Iran War bullshit illustrates that.
They’re evil, but they’re also incompetent. The one thing Trump wants more than anything is to punish his enemies. He has had control of the DOJ for a year and a half, is already on his second AG, and hasn’t successfully jailed any of his political opponents. The best they’ve done is get some financial settlement out of John Bolton. There are hundreds of high profile Democrats, lawyers, media figures, etc. that Trump and his supporters want in prison or executed, but they can’t get it done.
It’s hard to steal elections. It takes competence and the ability to execute complex plans. They don’t have the requisite human capital. Trump has caused a catastrophic brain drain on the right.
Well… ineptitude does not preclude having a plan, or even getting parts of said plan implemented - albeit chaotically and ham-fistedly. To wit: https://project2025.observer/en
P2025 was publicly available on the open web without any auth or paywalls, by intention, since shortly after orangeboi lost in 2020.
actually doing things to get people to vote for them*, which leads me to assume they have very concrete plans to get around that “problem”.
Not at all, why do you think people voted for them the first time; anti-gay, racism, xenophobia, anti-trans, anti china, anti abortion etal … none of that had anything to do with helping people, it was to hurt other people.
As John Stuart Mills points out stupid people are inherinetly.conservative, not the only criteria to be conservative but if you’re stupid (using Cipolla’s definition, 3) they’re probably conservative and we’re back to 1
You’re doing 1 and 4 and they’re 3 and 5 and will keep doibg that… why ? because they’re stupid.
These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:
Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
The Two Week WarTM will still be going on during midterms and he’s gonna try and cancel them due to being at war, and he’ll point to Ukraine as proof its okay.
I hope the midterms will change things. But I think the only real yield we’ll see out of the midterms is an increase in the visible and obvious collapse of democracy in this place, because the fascists don’t seem too concerned at all about, you know, actually doing things to get people to vote for them, which leads me to assume they have very concrete plans to get around that “problem”.
They don’t have concrete plans. This Iran War bullshit illustrates that.
They’re evil, but they’re also incompetent. The one thing Trump wants more than anything is to punish his enemies. He has had control of the DOJ for a year and a half, is already on his second AG, and hasn’t successfully jailed any of his political opponents. The best they’ve done is get some financial settlement out of John Bolton. There are hundreds of high profile Democrats, lawyers, media figures, etc. that Trump and his supporters want in prison or executed, but they can’t get it done.
It’s hard to steal elections. It takes competence and the ability to execute complex plans. They don’t have the requisite human capital. Trump has caused a catastrophic brain drain on the right.
Well… ineptitude does not preclude having a plan, or even getting parts of said plan implemented - albeit chaotically and ham-fistedly. To wit: https://project2025.observer/en
P2025 was publicly available on the open web without any auth or paywalls, by intention, since shortly after orangeboi lost in 2020.
Not at all, why do you think people voted for them the first time; anti-gay, racism, xenophobia, anti-trans, anti china, anti abortion etal … none of that had anything to do with helping people, it was to hurt other people.
As John Stuart Mills points out stupid people are inherinetly.conservative, not the only criteria to be conservative but if you’re stupid (using Cipolla’s definition, 3) they’re probably conservative and we’re back to 1
You’re doing 1 and 4 and they’re 3 and 5 and will keep doibg that… why ? because they’re stupid.
These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:
Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
The Two Week WarTM will still be going on during midterms and he’s gonna try and cancel them due to being at war, and he’ll point to Ukraine as proof its okay.