He makes his choices based on his desire to be the smartest person in the room.
One of the complaints he had from his first term was that he was prevented from doing things because he was surrounded by “people who think they’re smarter than me”…
It also has a ton of wonderful people.
They need to do a lot better job of making themselves heard.
These are Paxton’s friends, the company he chooses to keep
The people he’s willing to travel halfway around the world juat to hang out with.
It doesn’t actually make sense for Russia to be running their Digital Propaganda agents from Russian IP addresses
I would expect they are passing that traffic through a shitton of pwned computers around the world.
there was massive amounts of election tampering for that one.
And yet, people still expect the midterms to fix all their problems…
If a country is executing its own citizens, that country is already a barbaric nation.
History will ask "How could they have not seen this coming?
I’ve been asking that since the 2024 election.
Personally I drink more for the taste
Same, except I’ve switched entirely craft beer from local microbreweries.
As though US politics wasn’t a clown-car full of bigots, sex-pests, and greedy fuckwits under Bush or Reagan or Nixon.
At least they had the decency to pretend to be better people.
These days that clown car also has flashing lights and loud noises.
Most of the traffic…
Meanwhile they’ve already reached their intended audience.
What’s the endgame?
Power for its own sake, adding to his personal wealth, staying out of jail, hearing crowds chant his name and stroking his ego.
it’d be great if they didn’t just let Americans buy everything
Jump in a time machine and tell that to the politicians from your grandparents generation.
Because they won a war over 80 years ago.
Because they showed up late to a war and contributed to winning that war, while claiming to be the only winners…
Pariah nation.
E-anything don’t belong on sidewalks.
Electric wheelchairs do, but other than that, I agree.
He really does despise his followers.
And they’re too stupid to realize what’s happening around them (or to them).
I concede that US history is horribly marred and shameful, and it behooves us to honor that by not forgetting that past.
Too bad the American history that is actually taught in schools is entirely sanitized and propagandised to remove anything that would make the country look anything less than heroic and angelic.
There’s a lot of historical examples of that “real” heritage being much worse than the noble ideals the country claims to stand for.
Those acquisitions happened as the new entrants were going through (or rapidly approaching) bankruptcy.
The big3 bought them at fire sale prices.
They severely underestimated how much capitol spending they needed to do in order to adequately serve this massive sprawling country.