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When conspiracism is the automatic default response, stupidity will reign supreme! We are going to see such stupidity endemic throughout this administration. And so much can be laid at the feet of our online habits and online communities of people afflicted with various degrees of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Sometimes described as “people who are too stupid to realize just how stupid they actually are”. Well, that’s a pretty mean way of describing the condition. We can all exhibit it at times. But it’s endemic now in MAGA supporters.

Stupidity! Front and center! It is, and will ever more be visible in MAGA’s response to medicine, science, history(authoritarians ALWAYS rewrite history to suit their needs), etc., etc., etc. This is what Trump wants. Unreality. Anybody think that things always turn out well when we hitch our fate to ignorance, stupidity, Dunning-Kruger infected leaders?
 
Sardines said:
Too many enemies within. Don't worry, he'll get around to eliminating them.
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It blows my mind they way you guys swallow fake information. Rubashov didn't include any backing data to show Trump's approval rating was tanking, because it isn't.

From this morning:
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It is the same over at FiveThirtyEight.

I genuinely cannot tell if you don't know the reality of now, or do know but are so shell-shocked that you have made a conscious choice to live the lie.
 
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"We've done a terrible job of explaining what this legislation is. This gold card — it's maybe the greatest scam for laundering money that's ever been in human history," he said. "Selling the highest office in a democracy, which is citizenship as the justice said, for this price."

The Gold Card is proposed to launch within two weeks without congressional approval
 

"Businesses breathed a sigh of relief after President Trump gave Mexico and Canada a 30-day reprieve from his threatened 25 percent tariffs," the WSJ editorial board explains. "But on Monday, he said he is 'going forward' with the tariffs next week. If the goal is to harm U.S. auto workers and Republican prospects in Michigan, then by all means, go ahead, Mr. President."

The WSJ editorial board cites recent analysis by the Anderson Economic Group, which detailed the problems Trump's tariffs will cause.

"Start with auto prices," the WSJ conservatives warn. "The study estimates that a 25 percent tariff on the U.S. neighbors would increase the cost of a full-size SUV assembled in North America by $9000 and a pickup truck by $8000. The cost of an electric-vehicle cross-over would increase by $12,200. Canada is the biggest supplier to the U.S. of nickel, a key critical mineral in lithium-ion batteries. Such higher prices owe partly to the compounding effects of tariffs on auto parts that sometimes cross the border multiple times."

"Domestic demand for some vehicle models — especially sedans — isn't sufficient to justify the cost of building new U.S. factories," the board notes. "Auto makers will have to absorb the tariff, increase prices on cars, or stop selling some models because they are too expensive. U.S. auto workers will pay, too, if auto sales drop as a result of higher prices. Note that new U.S. vehicle sales last year were about 1.2 million lower than in 2019, largely because inflation and higher interest rates have made cars less affordable. One result is that U.S. plants produced 340,000 fewer cars last year than in 2019…. The president may think tariffs will yield a new economic golden age, but workers, businesses and financial markets may not enjoy the long march to this promised land."
 

In a memo on Sunday evening, the FBI Agents Association told its 14,000 members that new director Kash Patel had assured them that he would follow tradition and name a career special agent with operational expertise as his deputy director.

An hour after the memo was sent, Dan Bongino, a right-wing podcaster who has never been an FBI agent and who has called the agency “irredeemably corrupt,” was named to serve as Patel’s deputy director. That position oversees day-to-day operations and carries enormous power to supervise investigations across the nation.

The unprecedented appointment of two loyalists to President Donald Trump has rattled the FBI community and lawyers who worry that their lack of experience and overt statements supporting retribution for the president’s critics could presage a misuse of the nation’s most prominent investigative agency, according to 14 former FBI employees and prosecutors interviewed by Reuters.

“FBI agents’ oaths to support and defend the Constitution will be tested as never before,” said David Laufman, who worked with FBI agents on sensitive investigations for decades, including as chief of counterintelligence for the Justice Department.

Laufman said the appointments of Patel and Bongino “raise alarming questions about whether the FBI will wholly adhere to the rule of law, or instead will become a political investigative tool of the White House.”

Several recently retired career senior FBI officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they fear retribution, said Bongino’s appointment is especially troublesome.

“The deputy director wields incredible power to open investigations and that’s why this position shouldn’t be held - hasn’t really ever been held - by a political appointee,” a former senior FBI executive said.

Over the FBI’s 117-year history, the deputy director has traditionally been a career role filled by an agent who has risen through the ranks. The No. 2 spot manages daily operations for an agency with more than 37,000 employees, including a dozen senior officials in Washington and leaders at 55 field offices.

Like Patel, Bongino has long raised unfounded conspiracy theories and accused the FBI of being politicized. He has criticized the bureau for investigating the January 6, 2021 rioters and for searching Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022, a court-approved action in which highly classified documents were seized in an unsecured area, including a bathroom.

After the search, Bongino said on his podcast: “Folks, the FBI is lost. It's broken, irredeemably corrupt at this point.” A short while later, he said on Fox News that “every person involved in this has to be fired immediately” and “there is no fixing this, only rebuilding it."

Already in the last few weeks, some evidence has emerged to suggest the Justice Department is pursuing politically-motivated case decisions. Eight prosecutors resigned in Washington and New York, after Bove pressured them to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

In Washington, the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s criminal chief resigned, after she said that she and the FBI were wrongly pressured to order a bank to freeze the assets from a grant awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency during the Biden administration, despite what she said was a lack of evidence any crime was committed.

James Davidson, a former agent who heads the nonpartisan FBI Integrity Project, a nonprofit that advocates for safeguards against the bureau misusing its power, said Bongino’s appointment was especially worrisome because it comes on the heels of Trump replacing the nation's top military officials with loyalists.

"Trump has now positioned himself so that he will control both the military and the FBI," he said. "One can only speculate what that might mean four years from now."
 
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LOL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...1&cvid=e46021ec57d043239cb3bc3763c9ccde&ei=38

President Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic telling a Fox News reporter to give him a favorable review of the first presidential Cabinet meeting of his second term.

Trump’s banter with Lawrence Jones of Fox & Friends comes amid a much-debated White House press crackdown and was caught on an Associated Press microphone as the media filed out of the meeting.

(also the video in the included tweet is pretty funny: President Musk holds first cabinet meeting while First Lady Trump dozes off:
View: https://x.com/Matthewtravis08/status/1895121109034639551
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Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt thanked members the press for attending the hour-long meeting, with Trump piping up and saying: “Thank you very much, Pulitzer Prize!”

He noticed Jones leaving and added: “Lawrence! Look at Lawrence! This guy’s making a fortune! He never had it so good!”

He then urged Jones, perhaps jokingly, to give him a good review. “Lawrence, say we did a great job, please. OK? Say it was unbelievable!”

The comment was picked up by a longer live stream hosted by the Associated Press but did not make the White House feed.

The meeting itself was dominated by “special government employee” Elon Musk.

Trump’s hot mic remark comes after one of the AP’s reporters was barred from an event in the Oval Office earlier this month after the outlet refused to use Trump’s preferred name “Gulf of America” for the Gulf of Mexico. On Monday, a federal judge declined to halt Trump’s ban.

Meanwhile, Leavitt said during a press briefing on Tuesday that the White House press team would now dictate who makes up the floating press “pool” of reporters who cover the president, and not the White House Correspondents’ Association.
 
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fishonjazz said:
LOL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...1&cvid=e46021ec57d043239cb3bc3763c9ccde&ei=38

President Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic telling a Fox News reporter to give him a favorable review of the first presidential Cabinet meeting of his second term.

Trump’s banter with Lawrence Jones of Fox & Friends comes amid a much-debated White House press crackdown and was caught on an Associated Press microphone as the media filed out of the meeting.

(also the video in the included tweet is pretty funny: President Musk holds first cabinet meeting while First Lady Trump dozes off:
View: https://x.com/Matthewtravis08/status/1895121109034639551
)

Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt thanked members the press for attending the hour-long meeting, with Trump piping up and saying: “Thank you very much, Pulitzer Prize!”

He noticed Jones leaving and added: “Lawrence! Look at Lawrence! This guy’s making a fortune! He never had it so good!”

He then urged Jones, perhaps jokingly, to give him a good review. “Lawrence, say we did a great job, please. OK? Say it was unbelievable!”

The comment was picked up by a longer live stream hosted by the Associated Press but did not make the White House feed.

The meeting itself was dominated by “special government employee” Elon Musk.

Trump’s hot mic remark comes after one of the AP’s reporters was barred from an event in the Oval Office earlier this month after the outlet refused to use Trump’s preferred name “Gulf of America” for the Gulf of Mexico. On Monday, a federal judge declined to halt Trump’s ban.

Meanwhile, Leavitt said during a press briefing on Tuesday that the White House press team would now dictate who makes up the floating press “pool” of reporters who cover the president, and not the White House Correspondents’ Association.
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Trump wasn't dozing off he was sniffing to see if he needed a diaper change.
 
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I made out of interest a poll in some Finnish forum I know have many rightwingers as well. I asked how worried they are about the American democracy right now. One third were not worried at all. In comments section it was mostly about woke this woke that, freedom of speech this, freedom of speech that. Unsurprisingly, when I linked some stuff about Trump administration filling important places with less competent loyalists, or about their pressurization over court/judges, they were labeled either as lies or just nothing to worry about.

Trump, Musk and maga cult really is affecting even people here next to Russia. They don't seem to even be worry about that. How close Trump and Putin are. Im kinda shocked how many blind people there have become in our tiny Finland through this algorithm powered culture wars. It's mind boggling. (Finnish government has far right party as well who mostly are magatards - of course the "moderate" right wing was needed to allow them be part of the governmet)
 
Red said:
When conspiracism is the automatic default response, stupidity will reign supreme! We are going to see such stupidity endemic throughout this administration. And so much can be laid at the feet of our online habits and online communities of people afflicted with various degrees of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Sometimes described as “people who are too stupid to realize just how stupid they actually are”. Well, that’s a pretty mean way of describing the condition. We can all exhibit it at times. But it’s endemic now in MAGA supporters.

Stupidity! Front and center! It is, and will ever more be visible in MAGA’s response to medicine, science, history(authoritarians ALWAYS rewrite history to suit their needs), etc., etc., etc. This is what Trump wants. Unreality. Anybody think that things always turn out well when we hitch our fate to ignorance, stupidity, Dunning-Kruger infected leaders?
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But at least the people I hate are taking it up the arse more, right?

It’s not so much that MAGA is stupid as they find meaning and community through grievance and victimization. Their lives might not be improved through Trumpism but they sure as hell get off by seeing other people hurt by it.
 
Step-Back Lauri said:
I made out of interest a poll in some Finnish forum I know have many rightwingers as well. I asked how worried they are about the American democracy right now. One third were not worried at all. In comments section it was mostly about woke this woke that, freedom of speech this, freedom of speech that. Unsurprisingly, when I linked some stuff about Trump administration filling important places with less competent loyalists, or about their pressurization over court/judges, they were labeled either as lies or just nothing to worry about.

Trump, Musk and maga cult really is affecting even people here next to Russia. They don't seem to even be worry about that. How close Trump and Putin are. Im kinda shocked how many blind people there have become in our tiny Finland through this algorithm powered culture wars. It's mind boggling. (Finnish government has far right party as well who mostly are magatards - of course the "moderate" right wing was needed to allow them be part of the governmet)
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This wild for Finland! Knowing your history with Russian invasion it surprises me that many support him. If you’re not familiar look it up. They used winter tactics on skiis! So cool.

This generation of voters haven’t lived through right-wing incompetence, fear, and violence. They will now. Last time they oversaw 9/11, we watched it unite us all, and then Bush and the GOP ruined all of it. They lied to all of us about WMD, and sent a generation to war in 2 countries, and crashed the economy on the way out. Sound familiar?


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