It will be some kind of deep irony if the leopard that finally bites hard enough to alienate Trump’s supporters is the conspiracy theories around the Real ID requirement.
Real ID is in a strange place in the MAGA mind. Most think it is a scary deep state tracking thing, and they hate it. To others it is some magical talisman that prevents the wrong people from voting. This article is just about Alex Jones making excuses for why Trump isn’t delaying the requirement of Real IDs for boarding a commercial flight, by emphasizing it’s magic immigrant fighting abilities.
The real meaning of “seriously not literally” is simply “turns out it’s really hard to try to defend trump’s lies and bigoted invective, so I’m just going to handwave it all”.
Trump lies about the past and present, and then in terms of the future, says terrible things he wants to do if allowed to get away with it. That’s the reality, so we should take him [whichever adverbs correctly represent that].
I think in many cases it was a matter of “It would be unpleasant for me if he meant what he said, so I’ll make up something else and pretend that’s what he meant instead.”
Considering that they’ve been delaying implementation for 20 years across four presidencies, I’m actually kinda surprised they’re finally sticking to their guns on finally enforcing it this time.
Actually, I calculated that 2% was what was needed to win the past election, add then the higher percentage of democracts that were diacouraged to vote then too and we are more likely to win next time.
One has to also realize that it is very likely that there will be a significant number of Republicans that will not vote because, while they claim to be in favor of Trump, they will be discouraged at the sight of a president that acts like a king, with a useless Republican congress. Not a huge number, but just what is needed.
Nuclear reactors are a heat source for steam engines. The development of USS Gerald R. Ford in general, and EMALS in particular, was plagued by poor decision making and trying to develop radically new technology that was nowhere near ready for operational use.
Him pointing out the obvious shortcomings of that particular shipbuilding effort doesn’t even register as problematic to me.
Oh, I’m sure there’s all sorts of problems. But this is Trump, the guy who thinks magnets don’t work when they get wet.
This may be a case of the broken watch finding an acorn every once in a while. Did Trump look at an detailed engineering assessment for the deployment of this technology, or did he think something more along the lines of “I don’t understand EMALS. Magnets don’t work when wet. Aircraft carrier floats on wet. Bad.”?
Anyway, I was making a comment/joke about 19th century technology and Trump taking the US back to it. Think of all the coal-fired factories we could bring back to make iPhones.
Yeah - the positive spin to put on this is he actually might get a useful education while at college. I suspect you might be able to help in that. Good luck.
I know someone who rejects reality. (OK, she believes Earth is spheroid. But other than that, there’s not a conspiracy theory she doesn’t like. And yes, she’s a Trump cultist.)
I’m now curious just what shape @Johnny_L.A’s acquaintance believes the Earth to be. And not just the name, but the general parameters. Big difference between the oblateness of Earth and that of a football. Or of a sea urchin shell.
On further review, I suspect Johnny was saying that while his acquaintance believes the Earth to be the conventional shape it really is, she believes every other wacky thing you care to name.
Which poetic turn of phrase evidently misled @JKellyMap. Which led to you and I building off that misunderstanding.
All in good fun. Cheers!
@Johanna: That’s a good one. Haven’t thought about that in years. Thank you!
Fight Fiercely, Harvard. Show them our prowess; do!
