Well said, all of this, even if it was a joke. Way too many reactionary centrists in my life try to pull the "but what about the dyes in food, tho?" and a few have noted the penny thing was something worthwhile, even though he screwed the pooch on rolling that out, if you can even call it a rollout.
Because they literally have nothing else, I guess? Even the reactionary centrists seem to realize that kidnapping people and giving them the extreme rendition treatment is a bad look.
On the dye thing - first of all, it was easy and free for me to avoid dyes if I so wished. Secondly, I have not seen anything actually happen on that front. And seriously, even if that was something I was wishing on a star to have happen, the tradeoff is....what? Threatening every single one of our allies, attacking Venezuela, Iran and attacking our own cities? Ripping way healthcare from millions? Firing untold numbers of government workers? Even more handouts to the already ridiculously rich?
Yep, even the most basic of things that should be a slam dunk are things he completely bungles.
He should have easily been able to unify the nation in dealing with a pandemic. But, nope. He so totally fucked that up. And same with the penny thing - we have plenty of examples, like Canada, where we could have learned about the rollout.
Instead, it's announced via his LieSocial site or whatever the fuck. With no phase out and no plan and no direction given.
He's just a complete asshole and has no idea what he is doing. He just wants his name and his dumb mug on things and that's about it. Oh and shiny medals being given to him.
Posobiec, though he declined to talk, has been a little more precise. In the 2024 book, Unhumans, he and his co-author, Joshua Lisec, wrote that renewing McCarthyism would mean employing the “humiliation tactic” of “naming and shaming” leftists, and a return to the blacklists of the Red Scare.
I've not finished the book yet, but it is wild.
They see Communists everywhere. And the Communists (because cultural Marxism is a real thing, and progressives == leftists == Democrats == socialists == liberals == Communists. They are ALL EXACTLY THE SAME. Don't question it, LOL. Everything to the left of Rush Limbaugh is just famously unified, you guys, everyone knows this.) are coming for your STUFF!
It's what they do.
^ By the way, I heard Noem say what sounded an awful like this refrain when she was whining about one of the people questioning her about things like her bang plane. I'm thinking she has read the book.
Indeed. If things get bad enough where they experience a twinge of embarrassment for their stupid choices, they'll slink away and pretend they were always teabaggers voting for a non-existent party called "The Tea Party" and never even heard of the Republicans or this PEDOnald guy....
The playbook they did when GWB cratered the economy, bungled Katrina and Iraq was clearly a quagmire to even the stupidest of Americans at that point.
They'll lie in wait until another Republican that "says what they think" comes along and do it all over again.
Some of them will blame it on Biden and/or "trans for everybody" and keep right on prostrating themselves before the PEDOnald altars they probably have in their houses.
I'm seeing these asshats still doing it as recently as just a few days ago.
These jagoffs were handed an economy that was called the envy of the world and kept acting like things were absolutely dire and total misery.
They are saying some truly Orwellian level bullshit, and the sad thing is that a whole lot of RW idiots and a lot of reactionary centrists go right along with this.
Remember GWB's reaction to someone having THREE jobs?
You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that.
I'm imagining an administration with even less empathy reacting to people's experiences under an economy imploded by PEDOnald combined with AI delusions run amok.
Donigula will declare war on the sea.