There is a real lack of critical thinking, too. I legit know a few Republican women that honestly think that not eating meat will make a man effeminate, and that men that eat meat are more manly.

Obviously due to stupid marketing, but even in their cinematic universe where this is “true” it makes no sense and has no consistency. I’ve asked them if they think that women that eat meat are going to spontaneously sprout a penis.

TBF, fElon didn’t take control of xitter until late 2022. But even before fElon, xitter was not fantastic.

Called it. These pussies would either have jackbooted thugs evicting anyone getting uppity, have some “vetting” process involving loyalty tests for entry, or they’d just nope out entirely, is what I figured.

I’m sure the dead-eyed Paul Ryan types would love that situation. He dreamt of killing such programs since he was quite young.

And I bet quite a few cons, even if harmed by this, will be happy to open wide and let the likes of fElon and Bronzo take a big dump in their mouth, as long as they thought a liberal would have to smell it. So if they have to work until they die, but they “owned the libs”, I bet some of them will still revel in it…

I’m not sure the qons plan on elections.

When fElon keeps talking about the need to “move fast” and Bannon talks about muzzle velocity, it’s not because the things they are doing are wanted by a majority of the country, or even most of the magamorons that voted for this shit. They feel the need to speed-run through this as fast as possible before anyone can stop them or do anything later (by voting) to reverse this shit show.

Some of them are stupid enough to want it.

They need more studies.

I swear I might actually punch someone if I hear them talking about kids dying “with” measles vs. “from”.

What’s amusing is that they should be called anti-Constitutional sheriffs, since they don’t actually support the Constitution.

If they actually were a bulwark against fed and state that were going fascist, that’d be one thing. But they are the vanguards of fascism and anti-Americanism.

That’s just it - these types have always loathed actual freedom. At least freedom for anyone other than themselves.

Easy Rider could be rather uneven in places, but this scene just NAILS IT:

“You represent freedom.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gu2ouJNmXc

I still am not getting how age and tech are related? They may track together in general, but I also happen to think some of today’s younger generations are even LESS technically proficient in certain ways (again, younger people may be familiar with certain brands and interfaces on pads and phones, but this is less about really being tech-literate but more brand-literate).

I also don’t see how government and tech are related, either. What do they have to do with one another? This is like asking a rep to be experts on solar or EV. You don’t rely on their personal experience with those things, either, they have staff for that kind of thing. They can explain the outline to them like they are a four-year old (or a manager) just like any other matter requiring a deep dive, and there are many. I highly doubt someone in their 30s as a politico understands nuclear power any better than some geriatric one, nor would I expect them to? Same for matters of solar, or computer networks, or modernized electrical grids, etc…does someone younger just pick this sort of expertise up by osmosis while an 80-something does not? I’d be interested in the mechanism…

If you don’t want Medicaid cuts, you should not vote for any Republican, ever.

Eh, I dunno. I think the complaints about age and term limits should be cast aside. It’s red herring when it comes to the real problems we have. There is nothing inherently magical about age.

Right now, I’m watching the likes of Big Balls being given the keys to the kingdom, and even though they are 19, I see zero evidence they could give a rat’s ass about how anything works, even if they might have been considered good at one small aspect of tech. Even if they were a child prodigy at one sliver of time’s tech, it doesn’t mean they know shit about government, or even other aspects of tech if for instance that tech involves something like Cobol.

I also don’t think being good with computers or tech has much to do with being good at governance, and that’s coming from a life-long techie. I mean I would just love and delight in a world in which tech skills magically extrapolated to being good at everything else, but I just don’t think it works like that.

So even assuming a role like Big Balls and doge were something American voters actually wanted and was legal, I could care less if someone knows tech or not, if their motivations are warped and they have acquired zero wisdom and their platform doesn’t align with actual progress for the American people - they could be demons there just to dismantle government and too young to know the difference.

Meh, it’s not the age thing for me. And I don’t care if someone works until they choose to retire, as long as the people want them. I think ageism and the appeal to some magical term limits thing is rather useless.

I hate just how disconnected her comment was about the insider trading. It’s infuriating. Republicans do it, too, but she somehow became the face of this.

I don’t know that her or others like her are doing anything to bring up the next set of leaders, though. I also don’t really see her fighting for progress. The age thing, the number of terms - entirely secondary and honestly, it’s just red herring in my view. All one has to do is look at Bernie.

I fully expect most of these jackasses to go into hiding.

Here is my bOtHsIdEs Pikachu face. :|

I’m sure Kamala was going to be exactly the same. /s