Wow. This is not even in the right zip code.
A “Trump Voter” is not a Trump enthusiast. Many Trump voters despise Trump.
A Trump voter is someone who has said: “the expected value of a Trump Presidency minus the expected value of a Kamala presidency is positive.”
I am trying to figure this out myself. For example, suppose one thinks every terrible thing about Donald Trump, including that he is irresponsible enough to risk getting us into nuclear war. Only, she also thinks he is *less* likely to do so than Kamala Harris who covered up and continues to cover up a Commander in Chief with dementia during a half proxy war involving our main thermonuclear rival, and who herself seems installed by a primary-avoidance coup, as well as clueless and air headed.
Why does that voter need not to be demeaned? Maybe that person is actually seeing something Harris voters have totally missed.
Maybe that voter had a child whose school encouraged cutting off that kids breasts or genitals during teen years which are temporarily awkward for almost everyone. Maybe that person had a violent recidivist criminal or illegal alien rape or kill their niece while a prosecutor or border patrol did little to aggressively protect the innocent because of a progressive agenda.
Save your pity for the poor Trump voter. He or she isn’t necessarily below your or my level of understanding.
I don’t think I can vote Trump. But I don’t think I can vote for Kamala Harris either.
The Democratic Party, is out of its mind. We aren’t the party of the educated because we are plausibly the smarter party anymore. The educated professionals inside institutional employers simply became an interest group to be slopped at the trough. Just like hedge fund managers and unions.
We aren’t Anti-war. We aren’t Pro-democracy. We aren’t for a level playing field. We aren’t pro-family. We aren��t for Free Speech and against mind control.
We aren’t simply the good guys these days. I’m sorry to be the one to break it to you.
@librarina2009@NBCNews Yes!! Let’s call these people out! Gold Star Families… blah blah blah. Who cares what they wanted!
Keep going with this… this is definitely the way.
So what happens when politically motivated prosecutions become normalized?
There will be retaliatory prosecutions by Republicans...this then probably escalates on both sides. This weakens democracy as the courts then begin to subvert the will of the people in terms of electing politicians
You'll have even more partisan polarization...and the problem with polarization is that when you adopt that mind set you are not going to be able to recognize any of the bad stuff that your side does. For example, there is political support for this indictment on the left even though it's a terrible idea...we'll live in an "ends justify the means" world
The non-partisans in the middle will become disaffected and cynical about the political process and will move away towards active participation in Democracy
Political leaders will look to consolidate as much personal power as possible in the hopes of avoiding political prosecution when their term ends...or maybe even not ending. This will mean things like trying to effectuate political control over the judiciary or controlling elections
I could go on and on about the unintended consequences, but there is a reason why politically motivated prosecutions tend to be the norm in banana republics
This is where a politicized judiciary eventually takes us
@KylePorterCBS 2014 US Open. Late Sunday. Standing on 17 tee about 5 feet from Kevin Na as he mentally grinds his way through multiple pre shot hitches and waggles. Finally pulls the trigger. Drunk guy next to me boisterously declares “great shot KEVIN.. WORTH THE WAIT”
“Anybody got an idea for our next commercial?”
“How about some dirty bastard driving a Jeep around like a maniac with a grizzly bear riding shotgun?”
“Now you’ve got my goddamn attention.”
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Germany’s Green Economy Minister defends the closure of nuclear plants claiming “they caused this crisis," an outrageous lie. Had Germany spent $580B on nuclear instead of renewables, it could have been entirely free from dependence on natural gas, including from Russia.
Excited for my new podcast with @joerogan to drop -this is the fourth time I've had the privilege of being on, and I feel we've really established a foundation for today's conversation - that it builds on the previous years!