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It’s not clear to me how much of that erosion has been from true believers vs lesser-evil voters or, in the pundit space, grifters. We have evidence for example that Tucker never believed Trump won the 2020 election (though that evidence comes from an unreliable source- Tucker himself).

The percentage of people who believe he won the 2020 election is very similar to the percentage rate that view him favorably on the economy and the Iran war. That’s probably more or less the same group of people.

When the White House approached Texas about doing this Nate Silver wrote a piece that the Democrats are in a position to probably win the battle if they try. They had trifectas in fewer states but those states had higher populations hence more reps.

That’s just another way of saying ‘how gullible is his base’ and we don’t yet know the answer. We just know that no one has found the bottom yet.

Look at the south. Just shameful.

Trumps approval rating on the Economy has dropped 9 points since the beginning of the war.

Geraldo Rivera was Kurt Vonnegut’s son-in-law for a time in the 70s.

We should swap news feeds for a day. I’m seeing lots of hand-wringing from the usual suspects who don’t mention why this was done in CA and VA and had nothing to say when Texas did this but are now suddenly worried about democracy.

There already was one! It went bankrupt in the early 90s.

@Horace said:

It'll escalate on both sides till the courts do something about it. Which I hope they do. It's not as if the Dems checkmated the GOP with that strategy in CA and VA.

It was the White House’s strategy in Texas and a few other states. It just backfired on them since the Dems can obviously do it too.

What I don’t understand is how no one in the White House (and let’s not forget this was a White House initiative) figured this would just be something they could do with Texas, NC, and a handful of gop-controlled states and that the Dems wouldn’t retaliate.

Around he fucked in Texas.

Find out he did in CA and VA.

Somehow this week was my first ever trip to Palm beach.

It sort of reminds one of the Hamptons. Some similar trappings, much of the beach is private, large hedges and even rows of trees used as fences around grand homes.

Lots of the same boutiques in both places, and the signs under their names even said “Hamptons - Palm Beach”

Prices similar too. At least restaurants, stores etc.

But at the same time the vibe is different. Hamptons is more understated, Palm Beach a bit more in-your-face. The crowd seems older too.

It’s a lot easier to imagine Trump fitting in here than in the Hamptons. AI tells me he never did own a Hamptons house. Though Don jr did.