21% of American adults are functionally illiterate. I wonder if that 42% has all of the 21%?

Yep. Expect a whole lot of Sudden Independents. Or people claiming they belong to a non-existent party like the teabaggers, oops, I mean the “Tea Party”.

Both of which will likely wait on the sidelines for a bit, too embarrassed to admit they are conservatives, and not principled enough to be liberal, but will likely continue to secretly vote Republican, if they vote at all. They just might not broadcast it so much.

The biggest indicator that a conservative is operating in this mode - when they talk about “both sides” and wave in the direction of something David Brooks recently said or wrote…

Still as slow-witted as ever. They are probably getting what they deserve.

In the town of Waxahachie, Texas, south of Dallas, 28-year-old three-time Trump voter Ryan James Hughes, a children’s pastor, doesn’t see an improvement in his family’s financial situation. He said the medical bills haven’t declined.

But, he said, “I’m not looking to the government to secure my financial future.”

I’m sure he said the same thing when he and others were claiming 2024’s economy was the “worst ever” (LOL).

Oh, and of course…out comes the “both sides” bullshit when Republicans are unable to overlook how awful Republicans are:

Phyllis Gilpin, a 62-year-old Republican from Booneville, Missouri, praised Trump’s ability to “really listen to people.” But she doesn’t love his personality.

“He is very arrogant,” she said, expressing frustration about his name-calling. But she said the divisive politics go both ways: “I really, honestly, just wish that we could all just not be Democrat or Republican — just come together.”

Yes, the “divisive politics go both ways”. People protesting fascism are just as bad as those that cheer on and carry out the fascism…both sides. It’s far better to find a neutral position between those that want to murder and deport everyone that’s not a conservative cishet xtian…and those that don’t want that.

I cannot imagine being such a dimwit as to be one of the people just now waking up to this.

I mean…did these people really not see his first term? Did they really think that the only reason he failed in his first term was because of Covid?

LOL, “immigration enforcement”. Talk about sane-washing.

Saying this is about immigration enforcement is just a pretext for an OCCUPATION by rogue conservative thugs.

These are lifetime positions, are they not?

I’m a vegetarian that’s not quite vegan, but I eat eggs very sparingly.

And that was the case when I was an omnivore as well.

Why wouldn’t they be?

That’s the one.

Lots of people were saying Project 2025 was a “conspiracy theory” and would not even look at the PDF.

Donvict, who was lying his fat ass off, said he didn’t even know what it was.

And people thought Donvict was just going to give them cheap eggs.

Republican is “maga” and “maga” is Republican. No difference.

committed conservative christian

Yeah, this is not the endorsement that conservative xtians think it is. A lot of people hear that and immediately put them in the suspicious column.

Isn’t breaking windows the rather normal MO of ICE-IS at this point?

Bet this bloated frog is just butthurt that data is leaking on the people in the ICEstapo.

This is who and what the conservatives and the Republicans are.

Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Way too many thinkpieces that seem to have as a built-in assumption that Donvict just came along and somehow ruined the Republican Party. That’s bullshit - people like David Brooks spent lots of money and ink and flowery language on papering over the fact that the Republican Party is full of Republicans for decades and pretended that Rush was just some fringe phenomenon.

It’s just the mask is coming off. Having Obama in office followed by a piece of shit racist like Donvict following him has simply pried these people loose of their usual self-editing. Now they don’t feel they have to edit themselves at all.

Another historical turning point was desegregation and white flight to xtian private schools (segregation academies). There was a decision there that boiled the blood of the racists and they took up a home in the Republican Party and married far-right white supremacist shit with xtianity under their “big tent”. I think they still don’t quite have their way on this, but we’ll see how long that lasts under this administration. It has galvanized Republicans for years, though. They are infuriated that their kids have to sit in schools with Black kids and are dying to reverse that.

JFC, how pathetic this guy is.

That’s not how medals work, asshole.

Who would have thought a guy practically in the Silent Generation would have pined for a participation trophy? Such a loser.

I wish you all the best. Take care.

It is probably most accurate to call them terrorists, but insurrectionists is a compromise I guess.

Calling them “rioters” implies it was just random, instead of the culmination of months of planning by terrorist groups goaded on by Taco.

Yeah, but KKKaroline Leavitt just said that Donvict “defeated Biden’s inflation crisis” (holy shit you have to be stupid to believe such utter nonsense), so I’m sure his polls should skyrocket, right?

The 40% that approve of his overall job performance…what to even do with these types? The is always going to be a certain kind of dipshit, even “moderates” that have been trained to believe that “'publicans gud aht conomee”, so the fact that 37% approve of his economy is unsurprising. And of course the hardcore racists are jerking off over ICE violence.

Stop calling them “rioters”.