It was the fact that Bud Light openly advertised using a trans person. It was an image that could be flaunted and would rally even moderate republicans.

An executive respectfully writing a response detailing why they would not want their brand associated with a platform that had extreme right wing views is much harder to rally around…

Fundamentally it’s because there is no convenient image to rally behind… they would have to read and think to be outraged.

After that vote I will enjoy seeing the shareholders should get exactly what they voted for.

Conservative supporters may live in this fantasy. But Trump, Elon Musk, Koch, MTG, Peter Theil and other MAGA or Conservative leaders do not.

Power is what they are after. Selling a fantasy is just part of the process. Either they want to create Libertarian wet dreams where they can do whatever they want without risk of government interference. Or they want a dictatorial hellscape where taking opponents on one way helicopter rides over the ocean is within their power.

They will sell their supporters out and/or put them against each other when the time comes to consolidate their power. As for anyone who opposes them, they will have a “final solution”.

Sounds like the majority of people have spoken and don’t want her to represent their values in the main election in November.

I see no problem here.

I made the comment because Gingrich took confrontational politics and brought it to the National level. The era of Fox News and the 24hr news cycle was starting and he was the architect of the sensational hyper partisan angry Republicanism that we see today on right wing media. I don’t think Gingrich actually believed what he is pushing. He pushed it because it got the results he wanted.

Fast forward 30 years and now we have social media and the internet all vying for attention. Only the most extreme views that are controversial enough get noticed and commented on.

Some of the people I know who were Republicans have moderate enough views that they don’t feel the party is in step with them anymore. But I know Republicans who are true MAGA supporters and just parrot the grievances of their party. They all seem to emulate that anger

Shhhh let him cook.

Their terms are acceptable as long as they sign waivers that they will not seek medical help for those illnesses.

I would respectfully disagree with that assessment.

Even if 2024 is a huge enough electoral wipe out that Trump and his MAGA base are embarrassed to follow through on the violence they’ve been promising for years. Yes, Republicans might slink away and hide.

But they will rebrand and be back within a few months. We’ve seen this before at the start of the Obama Presidency’, when the fall out from the G.W. Presidency showed that Republicans had shit the bed sooo hard, even hard core Republicans that I knew denied they ever supported W. (Even though a few had fucking pictures of the asshat on their office walls for years.)

But the useful idiots that make up the core of the Republican base were back in a few months as “Tea Party” Republicans. Fully funded and promoted Koch and other billionaires. All those hard core W. supporters suddenly got angry and jumped on that band wagon.

Make no mistake they will be back, even in the best case scenario. (Which I very much doubt will happen.)

“Of all the Republican weirdness in recent years, I truly don’t understand why they seem to have made a conscious decision to become the biggest-asshole-in-the-room party.”

Recent? They’ve been doing this shtick since at least Newt Gingrich in the 90s.

I was gifted gold once. The subreddit was mostly Austin Powers Goldmember memes at the time.

No the NSA, CIA, FBI and all the other alphabet agencies would never allow it.

Exactly what we are currently doing. Provide an incentive for free and fair elections. If the election is proven to be stolen then I’d assemble a coalition of local forces to oppose Maduro. Hopefully backed up by other regional players.

Otherwise you’ll see more aggression from dictators like him. Venezuela getting aggressive with more than one regional neighbor like Guyana could be the outcome if Maduro isn’t checked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana–Venezuela_crisis_(2023-present)

Nah homie, there is just no other country in the world that can project power at the distance and scale that the US can. Not our fault y’all are weak AF.

Not at all what I said.

But the fact that you automatically implied that is what it means, is the reason the USAs word carries some weight internationally.

We speak softly and carry a big stick.

The Japanese are pretty good at horseback archery. It would be close.

Nah, the US should take point on this. If your goal is to get nothing at all done, then fine let AP and international organizations handle it.

If you want accountability and consequences then the US will need to get involved.

In my experience Boomers, Gen X and older Millennials generally want to socialize at work. They grew up in a office environment where you were constantly around your coworkers and social media was in its infancy.

Younger Millennials and GenZ mostly want to make a paycheck and go home. They generally don’t want to socialize with people outside of their circle. I sometimes think genZ is way happier at home 24/7 and don’t want human interaction. Could also be they just don’t have the money for it.

Right, cute smile and those hips are for breeding.

Not at all what I meant. I’m not sorry and I would spank my kids again if they tried to do something life threatening (fortunately they are old enough that I don’t have to do that).

People shouldn’t jump to conclusions or judge other parents for their parenting styles as long as it isn’t out and out abuse.

There are plenty of other policy and moral decisions that J.D. Vance to bag on than the way he disciplined his kid. If there was a history of abuse then that would be a different thing altogether.