magicalkittycat
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magicalkittycat
9hr ago
Okay here's a question to ponder then, why should the Democrats actually get rid of Trump? He's clearly become electoral poison and his descent into dementia seems to be slowly picking up if the constant MoCA references he keeps making are signals of testing he's had recently so if anything the toxin he has over the Republicans is probably gonna get worse right? And Biden could be kept behind the scenes easily, because he was always that type of background player guy even in the early years when the decline didn't hit yet. Trump going silent as his aides hide him will be noticed, if they can even get him to cooperate with it.
magicalkittycat
9hr ago
I can't even see what Trump's point was in doing this
The answer of it's just basic corruption seems pretty convincing when a fair bit of other seemingly random Trump actions end up having that same reasoning.
magicalkittycat
1d ago
The ad has two simple parts
"Harris is for they/them" = Harris is concerned about someone else's issues, particularly a pet cultural issue of trans folk who no one cares about.
"Trump is for you" = Trump cares about the topics you care about.
Now we can go and check polling to see what voters actually care about cause they'll tell us! And affordability/prices/economy has continued to be the no 1 issue over and over and over again, and transgender people (for or against) continue to be one of the least cared about topics.
The ad would not work if it was "Harris for they/them, Trump against they/them", because voters don't give a shit either way! They see it all as unimportant.
magicalkittycat
1d ago
The big lesson here IMO should be properly understanding the mandate. It won't be learned, but it should. The American people primarily care about bread and butter topics as always, and your win on those as the "best of two evil" does not mean free reign to throw away economic concerns and start doing whatever you want. Like it or not most Americans still think of the parties as giant douche vs turd sandwich, and if you're turd sandwich, you do not pile on extra shit after a win.
But that's exactly what happened. Consider the infamous "Harris is for they/them, Trump is for you" ad. The underlying message painted Harris as an idealogue concerned about irrelevant topics like trans people, and Trump as caring about the real topics. But what did Republicans take away from this? The exact opposite of what they should have learned, they hyper focused on culture war shit. They spent their ad focus and money saying tranny 50 times in a mirror hoping to summon the voters again, and it failed.
And likewise with overreach. Voters are very clear that they don't like trans people participating in their preferred sports, but in general they actually trust Democrats more on the overall topic!. Most voters don't want big daddy government coming in and repressing people's access to hormone treatments or discriminating in employment or anything like that.
Focusing the political discussion on trans people both makes the GOP look out of touch and cruel.
This has happened with Trump on basically every topic. The average voter does not consider the US in an existential crisis that needs 100 million deportations. They want a secure border where criminals can't get in, but they don't want a border so shut down and so hard to get visas with that their favorite voice actors are barred from entering. Yes a single concert by itself isn't a big deal, but it's not just a single concert. It is just one example of the many ways that overreach and a misunderstanding of the border mandate happened. Yet putting extremists in charge who want to limit foreigners of all kinds and of all types into the country inevitably leads to these fuckups.
And then if it wasn't for all this shit, there's also Trump specific problems too. Even if you're a hardcore conservative who thinks two years of idealogical overreach is worth the political sacrifice, Trump is barely even doing that well! He's focusing on his ballroom, the reflecting pool, threatening to invade Canada and Greenland over and over! He's probably spent more time on the white house's furnishings than he did trying to pass real legislation with the trifecta. Certainly even a hardcore idealogue is well aware of how no voter gives a shit about that and watching the president ignore the Real Issues in favor of such nonsense is a bad look right?
The good news for Republicans is that the Dems won this election so hard that they might get cocky overreach on their new mandate and fuck things up. The bad news is that Trump is still president and will not only be causing new issues (if 2025 Trump is threatening to invade Canada, maybe 2028 Trump is threatening to bomb France. Who knows at this point?) but just by having the seat and being the guy in charge will be eating the blame for general problems.
The big lesson here IMO should be properly understanding the mandate. It won't be learned, but it should. The American people primarily care about bread and butter topics as always, and your win on those as the "best of two evil" does not mean free reign to throw away economic concerns and start doing whatever you want. Like it or not most Americans still think of the parties as giant douche vs turd sandwich, and if you're turd sandwich, you do not pile on extra shit after a win.
But that's exactly what happened. Consider the infamous "Harris is for they/them, Trump is for you" ad. The underlying message painted Harris as an idealogue concerned about irrelevant topics like trans people, and Trump as caring about the real topics. But what did Republicans take away from this? The exact opposite of what they should have learned, they hyper focused on culture war shit. They spent their ad focus and money saying tranny 50 times in a mirror hoping to summon the voters again, and it failed.
And likewise with overreach. Voters are very clear that they don't like trans people participating in their preferred sports, but in general they actually trust Democrats more on the overall topic!. Most voters don't want big daddy government coming in and repressing people's access to hormone treatments or discriminating in employment or anything like that.
Focusing the political discussion on trans people both makes the GOP look out of touch and cruel.
This has happened with Trump on basically every topic. The average voter does not consider the US in an existential crisis that needs 100 million deportations. They want a secure border where criminals can't get in, but they don't want a border so shut down and so hard to get visas with that their favorite voice actors are barred from entering. Yes a single concert by itself isn't a big deal, but it's not just a single concert. It is just one example of the many ways that overreach and a misunderstanding of the border mandate happened. Yet putting extremists in charge who want to limit foreigners of all kinds and of all types into the country inevitably leads to these fuckups.
And then if it wasn't for all this shit, there's also Trump specific problems too. Even if you're a hardcore conservative who thinks two years of idealogical overreach is worth the political sacrifice, Trump is barely even doing that well! He's focusing on his ballroom, the reflecting pool, threatening to invade Canada and Greenland over and over! He's probably spent more time on the white house's furnishings than he did trying to pass real legislation with the trifecta. Certainly even a hardcore idealogue is well aware of how no voter gives a shit about that and watching the president ignore the Real Issues in favor of such nonsense is a bad look right?
If they had sent out monthly checks to all citizens for the past 2 years, and labeled them something like "rewards check for less illegals"
The effects of course are driving up the debt even further and massively accelerating the already quite high inflation. At some point we gotta start asking "with what money?" again when people propose insane spending ideas because we aren't even affording things now.
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
If the Senate doesn't approve of Trump's picks and therefore none of them happen, that's not a constitutional crisis. It's literally what the constitution says, the president (unless authorized by a passed law) must have their picks approved.
This is explicitly how the balance of powers is laid out, there is no confusion here. "But I don't like it" is not a crisis. If Trump has an issue with this, Trump should have been a better president so American citizens would vote in senators who agree with him on his nominees.
Trans people participating in preferred sports is not the only issue at play in the trans discussion, and voters having a nuanced opinion on the different facets of it doesn't make them inconsistent or nonsensical.
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