I call it anti-charisma. He's so uncharismatic that it loops back around.
Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread
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Here's hoping, but let's not forget that Trump is only a figurehead. He's openly admitted that he doesn't know what's going on in his own administration. The Heritage Foundation exists independently of him, and they're the ones that have actually been doing the work in the background.
The purpose of the cult was to vote his puppetmasters into power; now that they're there and can corrupt future elections, the cult itself is less important. Some of them (both inside and outside Washington) will absolutely turn on each other, but they're not going to suddenly switch sides and become Democrats, nor will the establishment Dems suddenly grow a spine.
True, but the heritage foundation doesn't have (enough.) power without trump. They might be independent, but it is a symbiotic relationship. And they don't have to become democrats for progress and sanity to win: they just have to fight each other enough to cancel out.
Love to know what that is but I don't have a Bluesky account.
Also why is it locking certain posts behind signups now? Did it really only take them this long to turn evil and require signups to access the site at all, or is this selective for reasons I can't even fathom and probably neither can the people who made that decision?
According to the message, the poster is the one who set that, not the service.
I don't understand why that's a feature the site offers, nor why anyone takes them up on it. You're not making it any more private, since just anybody can sign up. All you're doing is gatekeeping your audience based on their affinity for the platform you use.
I don't really think so. I mean, sure, "MAGA" wasn't yet a way to refer to it, but "jingoistic testosterone fest" and MAGA are practically synonomous otherwise.
Trump to sign executive order rebranding Defense Department as the Department of War
The directive won't rename the Defense Department, which would require congressional approval, but it will make the Department of War its secondary title.
www.nbcnews.com
I hope all of the people who voted for him because he promised to be the "anti-war president" feel like the simps that they are.
Wouldn't count on it.
A man can dream.
Considering how little defense we do compared to how many wars of choice we do, he's really not wrong on this one.
I remember back in 2016 thinking the whole discourse about Trump being the ‘peaceful’ candidate of the two was utter bollocks. Because I recalled how exactly the same narrative was built around Bush during the 2000 election, and we all know how that ended up…
Some people never learn.
So who's he actually planning to go to war with? I haven't heard any bluster about Greenland in a while, and his relationship with Ukraine is more nuanced than I was expecting so I don't see him joining that war on Russia's side either, at least not any time soon.
It's not so much about going to war. I think it's twofold. 1: Trump has been told that incumbents get a boost when we are at war and I really do think he has this idea he's getting another term. And 2: Hesgeth really wants to be the Sec. of War, not Defense. That's a title that garners a reaction not even a little blue pill can replicate.