Trump has no shame - it's the root of his actions. It's impossible to imagine any person acting as he does (seriously proposing to take over Gaza as a permanent solution to war, bullying Zelensky and demanding minerals from a nation under siege), and not being embarrassed.
It's hard for me to wrap my head around is how many guys my age (over 60) who grew up with Russia as this mysterious fearsome enemy - are just following Trump and going like "yeah yeah Russia not that bad."
How did this sideshow hawker idiot gain their trust so completely?
Do I believe this? I do not. I believe the people who didn't like him before are turning up to these events. Why would happy Republicans come? They're washing in lib tears, enjoying seeing what they always wanted realized.
That shit is what they're posting on Facebook. That's what they're thinking.
We are discussing the post, which is about Democrat support or not of a government shutdown. You don't have to participate in that discussion, but THAT'S THE DISCUSSION.
But you can't fool yourself into thinking that Trump, Musk, et. al., won't push that messaging from the bully pulpit, and the press won't AT LEAST half-cooperate.
It doesn't matter at all what SHOULD BE, or what IS NOT. The message is all that matters.
This is a lose/lose for Democrats. If they cooperate, it's awful messaging to their base. If they create a shutdown, now all the pain being felt is THEIR FAULT. Not to mention, it just plays into the "We didn't need these Federal workers" talking point.
They should have acted earlier. No planning, just reacting. Terrible, no skills politics.
I happily had one note for 8 years. One note 2017. Used it offline. All my notes.
Windows 10 put Microsoft 365 on my computer. Tried to sync a bunch of stuff too OneDrive. I said no. Still it made my desktop on one drive. It kept trying to sync documents. A constant nuisance.
This year I tried to save my taxes to my One Note files. I was told they were erased. I couldn't imagine what was going on. They were on my computer, local and private. But no I would have to log into OneDrive and rebuild them if I wanted to use my files. I could see them. But I couldn't open them, I couldn't save new things, I couldn't do anything, unless I logged into OneDrive.
I uninstalled Windows and installed Linux Mint 22.1. I ain't going back no more.
Trump has no shame - it's the root of his actions. It's impossible to imagine any person acting as he does (seriously proposing to take over Gaza as a permanent solution to war, bullying Zelensky and demanding minerals from a nation under siege), and not being embarrassed.
Nothing reasonable will stop him.