You ever train a chicken? Or a cat? Or a dog? Or a human?
Praise and reward for all steps, no matter how small in the right direction . And this is a big step, in that if it were done in 2020, georgia wouldn't have been stolen.
We can't let perfection be the enemy of the good. Those rat ducks didn't take over our colleges, media, tech, and entrenched bureaucracies over night. We're not gonna take it back overnight either.
Some people here have yet to understand that humans aren't as simple as "these are the good guys" and "these are the bad guys". People are complicated, and have many motivations, good and bad.
A lot of the people folks shout "betrayer" at, may actually believe they are doing favors for Trump, and our side. (Yes, this likely even includes Pence...) Are they? Not really. But you have to understand there has been a general fear among the "right" for decades that anything we do to the left can and will be done to us in return. I guess the idea is once we do something, it's officially "on the table". It's precedent. And like some kind of pagan superstition, they expect anything they do to come back multiplied.
Of course, like with any superstition, we know this is bunk. The left does things with or without our approval and it's high past time for the GOP to start showing backbone. I'd love to say anything the left does is fair game, but I'm not really into lying, cheating, and stealing. But I'm perfectly okay with holding our legislators' feet to the fire as often as possible. It's having an effect. And praise when they start shifting in the right direction is just as useful.
Does this mean I trust people like Kemp? No. After that exploding car, I suspect he's compromised in some way. But it does mean that he may still do something useful. I'd have been more inclined to be worried about him before the bill was signed.
Consider getting rid of Dominion to be a logical next step.
I feel the whole "Pence" thing was scripted drama from Trump. Pence & Russ Vought (fmr Trump OMB director and became famous because of the CRT memoranda) are planning on starting their own thinktank in DC.
These days, a lot of public policy is outsourced to private corporations like thinktanks to do analysis and research into various policies. Nominees are often fielded from these sorts of private agencies. Most Republican policy and nominees comes from the neocon swamp creature thinktanks like Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation, or a couple others. These are filled with the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfield types. That's why most of Trump's cabinet/judicial nominees turned out to be cucks and a lot of the early (first year) policy and personnel like for instance Syria and John Bolton tended to resemble the Bush admin rather than the Trump admin. Trump finally figured shit out and made some hard decisions that really imo turned his presidency around starting after the 2018 Midterms.
Anyways, if you want to beat the swamp, you have to burrow in or become a competitor. Both Pence & Vought are working for think tanks now and/or starting their own and are heavily involved at this end. Thing is, Trump had to act as if him and Pence aren't on good terms anymore so that Pence could start burrowing into DC K Street and transforming it. My bet is Trump & Pence are still on friendly terms. Pence is in it for the long haul, but not from a high profile position. He's helping to turn the neocon public policy machine into MAGA.
You ever train a chicken? Or a cat? Or a dog? Or a human?
Praise and reward for all steps, no matter how small in the right direction . And this is a big step, in that if it were done in 2020, georgia wouldn't have been stolen.
We can't let perfection be the enemy of the good. Those rat ducks didn't take over our colleges, media, tech, and entrenched bureaucracies over night. We're not gonna take it back overnight either.
This.
Some people here have yet to understand that humans aren't as simple as "these are the good guys" and "these are the bad guys". People are complicated, and have many motivations, good and bad.
A lot of the people folks shout "betrayer" at, may actually believe they are doing favors for Trump, and our side. (Yes, this likely even includes Pence...) Are they? Not really. But you have to understand there has been a general fear among the "right" for decades that anything we do to the left can and will be done to us in return. I guess the idea is once we do something, it's officially "on the table". It's precedent. And like some kind of pagan superstition, they expect anything they do to come back multiplied.
Of course, like with any superstition, we know this is bunk. The left does things with or without our approval and it's high past time for the GOP to start showing backbone. I'd love to say anything the left does is fair game, but I'm not really into lying, cheating, and stealing. But I'm perfectly okay with holding our legislators' feet to the fire as often as possible. It's having an effect. And praise when they start shifting in the right direction is just as useful.
Does this mean I trust people like Kemp? No. After that exploding car, I suspect he's compromised in some way. But it does mean that he may still do something useful. I'd have been more inclined to be worried about him before the bill was signed.
Consider getting rid of Dominion to be a logical next step.
I feel the whole "Pence" thing was scripted drama from Trump. Pence & Russ Vought (fmr Trump OMB director and became famous because of the CRT memoranda) are planning on starting their own thinktank in DC.
These days, a lot of public policy is outsourced to private corporations like thinktanks to do analysis and research into various policies. Nominees are often fielded from these sorts of private agencies. Most Republican policy and nominees comes from the neocon swamp creature thinktanks like Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation, or a couple others. These are filled with the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfield types. That's why most of Trump's cabinet/judicial nominees turned out to be cucks and a lot of the early (first year) policy and personnel like for instance Syria and John Bolton tended to resemble the Bush admin rather than the Trump admin. Trump finally figured shit out and made some hard decisions that really imo turned his presidency around starting after the 2018 Midterms.
Anyways, if you want to beat the swamp, you have to burrow in or become a competitor. Both Pence & Vought are working for think tanks now and/or starting their own and are heavily involved at this end. Thing is, Trump had to act as if him and Pence aren't on good terms anymore so that Pence could start burrowing into DC K Street and transforming it. My bet is Trump & Pence are still on friendly terms. Pence is in it for the long haul, but not from a high profile position. He's helping to turn the neocon public policy machine into MAGA.
This is going in my cringe collection.