The audience is large because there’s no nuance anymore, there’s not gray, there’s just this team versus that team as a basis for self-identity. It’s incredibly repulsive. COVID was a decent start, but we really need a significantly more effective plague.

Fair enough, but even if DeSantis got the nod and they refused to abandon Trump, they would STILL vote R once they got to the polls.

The problem is that for the GQP voter the final candidate doesn’t matter. They might fight in the primaries, but the entire party will fanatically get behind and go vote for whoever the final candidate is. Any bickering leading up to the primary election will be immediately forgotten and they will all 100% fall in…

Sure, but the people who will vote for that are conditioned and brainwashed to believe that drivel and are most likely too stupid to be able to think their way out of that conditioning despite decades of that same local and state Republican leadership being the direct cause of their current issues.

There’s also the other option of just... not engaging in social media at all.

Regardless of their politics, anyone espousing beliefs in a mythical authority figure should not be paid attention to.

This is where we’re at as a country now.... cool cool cool cool cool

The problem there is that in order to acquire that much wealth you essentially must be a sociopath. No solidly grounded or reasonable person would ever be aggressive enough, callous enough or greedy enough to make it to that point.

Less than a week. Less than one fucking week...

People in America: Complain about globe-wide inflation and fuel prices.... buy 10' fake werewolf to put in their front yard for one night.

Someone remind me why we still have cheerleaders for anything at all? Can we really not move past this? Wait, stupid question, my bad. I forgot to look outside my window at the other half of humanity before I asked that.

They wouldn’t do it if people didn’t pay for it. The fact that not only is it not being removed from games but getting even more expensive and aggressive should tell you something about most of the consumer base.

And that’s the real danger in this country. If Republicans were smart enough to just chill on the immigration and overt racism for just one election cycle across the board, it’s likely they’d sweep to voting for the very reasons you gave.

It will... It absolutely will get worse.

I mean, Facebook....

Yeah, he is absolutely one of those people that has absolutely zero belief structure or system of morals or life guidelines beyond “whatever helps me directly is the only thing that matters.”

And it also shows just how little the American public understands about the role and authority of the president, and the timeframes in which decisions made actually occur.

And there you’ve hit at one of the major divides between the two halves of America, in that a significantly large portion of one group is completely incapable of having that very thought, much less expanding on it and doing something productive with it.

They should send someone to go check on those officers’ kids, because this won’t be the first one they’ve treated like shit. Racism aside, 20 bucks says these assholes treat their own kids like dirt and property.

Well they look exactly like I assumed they would.