Nice thought, but it won't matter. Trump will just have Ronnie Jackson say he's never seen a man as healthy as Trump in all his years, and that Trump will likely live to be 250 years old, and even then he'll only die because he'll realize he's solved all of the world's problems and there's nothing left to live for.
(There are too many "ands" in that sentence, but I can't be bothered to fix it)
I only partially agree. Yes, with the recent debates featuring Trump frothing at the mouth and saying completely insane and hateful stuff, if a debate doesn't have that it's worth connecting on. But people do care about content.
With this debate as an example, lots of people commented on the "sanewashing" that Vance was doing - trying to give plausible explanations for things Trump has said or done - but it's just not as outrageous as what we're used to. And the Republican base was largely happy with that he said, even when it was demonstratively false.
I think people care, but it's twigs being added to a pile of logs.
Seems hard to believe that this debate moved the needle much on either side. They both performed well, there were no big gotcha moments, and each said the stuff that their base would want them to say. Neither seemed unhinged, both were well spoken.
Vance said some stuff that was total crap, but that's not a problem for anyone considering voting for Trump. I just don't see that there's any way anyone's mind was changed.
You know, it was very different than I expected. There were quite a number of times when one of them said "Well I agree with most of that he just said." Vance is pretty smooth, too. Much of what he said was total crap, but it wasn't the Trump-style hateful vomit. It was the most cordial debate I've seen in a while, though there were some strong disagreements.
See, this is an example of why he likes Putin. If you publish negative stories about Putin, regardless of truth, you're going to fall out a window. Trump wants that.
I wish more thought had gone into the legend and the categories were either mutually exclusive or they used multiple dots. For instance, the very first item on the list -an Obama birtherism - is a blue dot for a public statement, but it also should have been a black dot for racism.
He's so disingenuous. He says "I'm just a dumb guy asking questions," but his show is clearly slanted and he gives sure time to people who wouldn't and shouldn't reach that kind of audience without him.
I'm not understanding. I'm saying there are people who think things are better now, and I think that's crazy - the only ones who legitimately had it better before are insurance companies, who could just cancel you if you were costing them money.
It's so crazy that anyone aside from the people who own insurance companies thinks things were better before the ACA. I had a friend who got bone cancer and had a leg amputated at 17. For that type of cancer, it's nine years before they consider you in full remission, so he was essentially uninsurable for nine years because of the pre-existing condition.
There were people who had insurance that covered almost nothing because that's all they could afford - the ACA got rid of plans that didn't actually provide a benefit.
Our healthcare system is really, really terrible, but it's so much better than before the ACA.
Exactly. He lies so much to inflate his "greatness" that it's just a habit at this point. It's never mattered to his base whether the things he said are true or not, never any consequences to him lying, so he just does it at every opportunity. If he was telling you that he took a dump, he'd add something like "...and all the people in the bathroom were very impressed - they'd never seen such a great dump before. They were cheering."
I always hear about people lamenting that they lost their boomer parents to Fox News or Facebook or whatever, but I'm a boomer parent who lost a son to Rogan. He's always quoting absolute nonsense he heard on that show about Kamala or liberals. It's so sad - he's a pretty smart guy.
Same with me. Well, that in combination with the way they treated the app developers. I honestly didn't have an issue with Reddit trying to make money, or trying to prevent all the LLMs from skimming their content for free, but there was no reason to cut the app developers off at the knees.
I had already changed my relationship/view of Reddit years prior when the internet connection to Russia was severed for a day or so and so many subs (especially political ones) became fundamentally different. Hard to ignore that. But i just couldn't continue to give free content to such an awful company.
I didn't know it happened either, but I check the news a couple times a day to see if anything happened.
It seems like you're being disingenuous. You said you need Twitter to find out about things like the assassination attempt, so obviously you check Twitter, but the concept of checking the news is apparently strange to you.
Nice thought, but it won't matter. Trump will just have Ronnie Jackson say he's never seen a man as healthy as Trump in all his years, and that Trump will likely live to be 250 years old, and even then he'll only die because he'll realize he's solved all of the world's problems and there's nothing left to live for.
(There are too many "ands" in that sentence, but I can't be bothered to fix it)