Agent Orange in '24

USA divided into Red-Blue nations based on geographic areas of strength 

and ability to control transportation links.

Every time I get a message from the dems humping for money, I get even angrier as it's all about the money in enabling pols to do the only thing that matters, getting reelected. The incompetency and corruption plus the politicization of virtually everything is a total turn off. Lastly, allowing politicians to limit access to books or violate civil rights including the right to abortion totally boggles the mind, especially when said prohibitions nearly always refer to Jesus in explaining to us rubes why this is the proper way to live one's life. With this in mind, yours truly agrees with Andrew Tanner in terms of Trump not only getting the GOP nomination but also having a real shot, god forbid, to becoming POTUS yet again as the dems just don't get it in any way, shape or fashion. 

Question, since Kennedy, when has any president really asked the cosmic question, WHO ARE WE? or laying out the real issues in non BS terms as to why this nation is going crazy as today, it's all about politics, not competency and ethics in terms of discussing how this once great nation can become viable once again if one has the guts to kill off the two party mantra of us against them. We have been betrayed by our so-called leaders, bought and paid for by the MIC, big corporations and the ultra rich while people, without hope, thanks to Ronnie gutting the manufacturing prowess of the country by making modern China, are really pissed and rightfully so as they have been sold out by the powers at be without question. The notion of Joe running yet again scares the crap out of me and the lack of a true political operative having real power to shake up the status quo regarding the dems points to Agent Orange possibly becoming president for a second time in 2024. Tanner's piece is spot on and the dems should read it closely as Trump has malignant charisma to the max, something Biden and DeSantis will never have, and ... he has millions who will vote for him until the end of time. WTFU dems as the map above shows just how divided America has truly become.

Look, I know that pretty much everyone is exhausted by politics.

I feel you. I really do.

I have spent way too much of my time over the past seven years struggling to develop a working theory of Trumpism.

I want him to go away so I can forget about politics and move on to more important work, like making video games that better classic titles like Fallout: New Vegas and The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim.

They adamantly ignore the deadly fact that just about 44,000 voters spread across Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin gave Biden his electoral college win in 2020. The percentage margins were 0.24%, 0.31%, and 0.63% respectively, and the swing for each from 2016 was 5.37%, 3.81%, and 1.40% in favor of the Democratic challenger.

Democrats new semi-religious fealty to their team has blinded most of them to empirical facts — or, at the least, discouraged too many from telling the truth about the terrible cliff America is casually dancing right next to.

In moments of crisis, people tend to gather in groups based on shared truths. And the USA has been in a deepening crisis since the turn of the millennium, one driven by ancient natural forces of decay.

A simple diagram of how communication works at a fundamental level. Welcome to the OOD loop! 

(I drop the A because action is implied) 

Here's the OODA loop for real. :)

American political debates are now almost entirely rooted in moral speech. This is a sign that American society is deeply divided into separate truth spheres, with your beliefs as interpreted by others automatically placing you on a team.

A fancy way of saying that people tend to form cliques that look down on outsiders. What goes on during lunch hours in high school is also, ironically, reflected in how voters naturally divide into tribes.

Last but not least, the next paragraph explains why John Roberts is the worst chief justice in history.

Citizens United and the associated flood of money into politics is the main cause. It turned American democracy into an explicit pay-for-service game where the extremely limited amount of work Congress gets done in a given legislative session means everyone has an incentive to delay any work that might direct lawmakers’ attention away from their special interest.

Getting reelected.