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#6 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2026-10-22 12:34 PM
Conservatives want *Russia* to win a war against a western-leaning country. Russia!
Not "conservatives" - MAGA cult, which are different species. "Conservatives" today, like George Will, who write op-eds for WaPo, WSJ and individual or syndicated blogs, are "never-Trump" Republicans who keep GOP affiliation to vote in primaries, and many who became "independent" for now.
MAGA is getting ever thinner as cultists are starting to feel and see the effects of his idiotic policies, character, corruption and treachery, on display every single day that is becoming difficult to ignore, even what they originally thought was for "the greater good." MAGA cultists are the ones who are still willing to call themselves "Republicans" when reached by the pollsters - that's how he can get support of 90+% of 'Republicans' by some pollsters - typical polls (adjusted for 'party balance') measure the segment's intensity of opinion, not the overall quantity of support.
How the heck did this happen? They now prefer authoritarian dictatorships over democracy.
Look who they worship - Trump is MAGA, as he himself said. So whatever/whomever they think Trump "likes" or kowtows to - that day - they like. And if he doesn't "like" that/them another day - they don't like and they "never" liked that/them. It's the nature of the cult.
So they think that Trump "likes" Putin and wants to "re-integrate" Russia back into the G8/G20 world of political and economic markets as a member in good standing (that was Putin's idea) and he couldn't care less if Ukraine disappeared from the map (that's also Putin's idea).
#10 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-10-23 07:07 AM
I strongly suspect one of the darkest secrets of this idiotic Trump administration is that he makes very few decisions...
Exactly the opposite, he actually does make most of the decisions, and the people he hired in his second go-round are not nearly as competent, accomplished in their fields and independent as his first admin - these are losers and bootlickers, mostly from the media world or nepo babies, who wouldn't be anywhere near their positions in any other administration, and they are there to do whatever he wants (which is "fight, fight, fight" or suggesting "deals" he can make).
Unfortunately (for all of us), Trump has proven to have an inimitable talent of not just coming up with idiotic ideas/decisions, but also unique ability of executing them in the most idiotic way possible.
...he is as Reagan was during Reagan's second term, being paid to give speeches and let the "grownups" run things from the darkness.
Not even close, Reagan didn't make any paid speeches during his presidency (his $1M speech in Japan was almost a year after he was out of the office), and he was in charge and making his own decisions until Bush's 1988 campaign was in full speed, e.g., he several times dismissed concerns of his writers and changed a good portion of the 1987 speech at the Brandenburg Gate, including adding famous "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
helpdementia.com - Reagan's Alzheimer's Timeline
|------- ... Reagan showed no signs of dementia while serving as president (he left office in 1989 and wasn't diagnosed until five years later. -------|
The problem with Trump is not that he is losing memory, it's his low character and diminished mental capacity ("personality disorder") throughout his entire personal, business and political lives.
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The approach of Gen Z seems to be ...
Of course, that then might raise a larger question...
Why might Gen Z be so pessimistic about heir future?