There is a cohort of Silicon Valley techbros whose immediate reaction to the Jensen Huang news was to brush it aside as "just" an affair but no way there were any actual secrets leaked. So, let's return to the NY Times story that broke this open to understand the scandal:
@balajis Balaji and I have been friends for 20 years and we will always be on the same side against communists and lefty journalists (but I repeat myself).
Obama just said what everyone’s thinking but too many are afraid to admit: If he had done even a fraction of what Trump’s doing—blacklisting press, punishing dissent, targeting student protestors—the outrage would’ve been deafening.
But now? Silence. Because when the Constitution gets torched by someone in your tribe, suddenly principles are optional.
This isn’t about policy anymore—it’s about power unchecked and hypocrisy on full display.
For the cult, Trump isn’t just a politician; he’s a grievance avatar, a symbol of their resentment. No scandal, failure, or hypocrisy will change that.
It’s not about facts or policy failures—it’s about identity.
The only thing that could break the spell? A total electoral collapse so undeniable that Republicans finally see him as a liability, not an asset.
Until then, they’ll keep making excuses.
@JuliaBenham@axios What's to stop him from doing a better deal with NATO or NATO countries? Trump is incompetent and compromised. He's tanking the best deal in defense--crippling Putin on the cheap with no US boots on the ground.
In case it matters to anyone, I'm pretty much no longer posting here. I'm on Bluesky: @roberthof.bsky.social as well as Threads at @robhof, but now that Zuck has gone full MAGA, I'm looking at skipping that too.
Amen. Shocking how few pundits realize that when you drop the candidate people voted for in the primary, they feel less inclined to vote again. Dem elites freaked and ruined the country for years to come. Idiots.
The month long Democratic freakout drove down his poll numbers. Had we simply just not freaked out, voters wouldn’t have freaked out. Plus the base didn’t want him to drop out