I think when you’ve got two guys whose egos have their own gravity, one of them will find a reason to expel the other. Musk may not even last a Scaramucci in the new administration.
If Senor Droolcup even manages to remember to implement sweeping tariffs and thus create a spike in inflation, your average MAGAbot will not hesitate to find a way to blame Democrats for the shitstorm his vote created. Hard times are coming, and I think the harder the better. The pattern is clear, Republicans make a mess, Democrats clean it up, voters turn on Democrats.
I saw this on a quick search for “do sociopaths get along with each other?”
" While not guaranteed, sociopaths may sometimes get along with each other, as they can understand and potentially even appreciate each other’s manipulative tactics and lack of empathy, but their relationships are often still unstable and based on self-serving motives, with the potential for conflict arising when their interests clash."
Exactly. A dozen eggs cost around three dollars in 2024. Two years from now, the Republicans are running for re-election and the price of a dozen eggs is around four dollars.
What do the Republicans do? They say that the price of eggs was five dollars in 2024 and they’ve successfully brought it down to only four dollars. And don’t believe any liberal lies that eggs cost three dollars in 2024. That’s just a conspiracy against the Republicans.
It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal. The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vapourise anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes. Syme, too-in some more complex way, involving doublethink, Syme swallowed it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?
You have it wrong. Trump will argue that under the Democrats a dozen would have been $5 and the MAGAs will respond that you just can’t argue with logic like that.
Yes, that was on the 14th; a single search of “stimmy” yielded pages full of videos of people excited about their coming checks. I’m guessing that searches of variants on that spelling or of “stimulus check” would have produced even more. (I wouldn’t recommend a search of just “stimulus,” though.)
As has been said: who knows how many bestirred themselves to get out and vote for Felon, that would not have done so in the absence of this (planted?) rumor?
I’m also wondering if the new Administration will bother to put out further propaganda of the 'we can’t send them because NANCY PELOSI stopped it’ variety…
I still don’t get how stupid people can be thinking their tips won’t be taxed. (We’ve been through this in other threads, like added gratuity.) They interviewed some fuckwads on CNN at the UFC fight, claiming that was their reason for voting for him. Two twenty-somethings that are bar back, servers and bussers.(They claim their main news is from Joe Rogan.)
So how will they blame Dems for this when it DOESN’T happen?
About the same way they had Joe Biden as both too senile to do his job and simultaneously as the criminal mastermind who ruled the world and frustrated every single Republican initiative of the last 4 years.
The Ds are simultaneously a minority in Congress, a minority among the 50 state governors, and 50 state legislatures. But nevertheless, they can stop any RW initiative with their awesome powers of obstruction. The same ones they’ll use to create massive inflation during 2024-2028. That only further RW government can hope to stop or better yet reverse.