Some will. Some won’t. The reality is that this is fracturing his base. That doesn’t mean his support is collapsing, but it is eroding. When you’re seeing people like Marjorie Taylor Greene openly turn against him, you know it’s serious.

But for the most part the ones who turn away from him won’t be loud about it. You won’t see them publicly recant, you won’t see them admit they were wrong. They’ll just get real quiet. And some of them might still vote Republican, but they won’t be as obsessive about it. They won’t be driving down to the capitol to risk getting arrested for him when he calls for it.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that none of this matters. It does. It just doesn’t look as exciting as we’d like it to.

That used to be true. Then the early 2000s happened and Congress effectively signed away that authority.

This isn’t just an event in Saudi Arabia, it’s an event run by the Saudi government, with the specific purpose of making them seem more normal and likeable, and less like the horrific autocratic tyrants that they are.

So no, your comparison between this and comedians working in the US does not apply. A more apt comparison would be between working this event and working Trump’s inauguration, something that a huge number of artists declined for exactly the same reasons that these comedians all should have declined to work this event.

I mean, why wouldn’t he? The last time he sued them, he ended up $16 million richer. The thing about stupid people is they generally learn by behavioural conditioning more than anything else. Rat push button, rat get reward, so rat push button again.

ABC thought they were buying safety for a mere $16 million, which was pocket change to them. In reality, all they did was tell Trump where the treats can be found. Now he’s gonna be like a dog that found a cookie in the couch cushions one time, and so now goes rooting around in there every time he can because there might be another one.

So… The thing that they were already doing?

OK.

As I pointed out in another comment, no guessing is required. It’s genetics. We know it’s genetics. That’s been pretty self-evident from the data for decades. It’s just anti-vaxxers who refuse to accept that answer and prefer some made up woo by a quack doctor who tortured children.

Sorry, my bad, two quack doctors. The other sells his blood as an autism “cure”.

More to the point, we already know the cause of autism; genetics. This isn’t new, it’s not some shocking discovery, it’s been known about for ages. Most of the research at this point is focused on the interconnections between autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dysphraxia, which all show a high propensity for genetic clustering; basically if one person in a family has one of them, the odds of the others being present in the same or other members shoots up massively. That’s really interesting and suggests they might all just be different manifestations of the same underlying genetic condition.

The whole notion that autism has a “cause” is just anti-vaxxer nonsense concocted by a fraud doctor (that’s not an accusation, it’s a fact; he was stripped of his medical license after it was shown that his “research” was a sham, and that he literally tortured innocent children to concoct his fake results) feeding on the insecurities of parents who want someone to blame for their child being different rather than just accepting that sometimes that’s just how people do be.

Yeah, Krugman isn’t exactly a progressive radical, but of all the well known mainstream economists he is by far the most sane.

Rack another one up in the Right Wing Christian Child Molesters column.

Weird, the Queer Trans Child Molesters column is a lot smaller. I wonder why that could be?

It’s very strange to see people repeatedly make this assertion that, having yelled “Fire” one single time with no response, the moral and practical choice is now to sit down and quietly burn to death with everyone else.

This is, in fact, exactly the reaction fascists want. One of the most effective strategies of fascism is exhaustion. They want people to give up and choose silence over repeating the assertion that “This is wrong” for the hundredth time, and thus “Wrong” becomes “the new normal.” We must never let them redefine what is acceptable. The first time or the thousandth time, we need people to continue to shout that this not acceptable.

Yeah, what happened here is those senators did the math that the house were too lazy to do and realized that, proportionally, this would hit red states harder.

God it fucking burns him so bad that Obama got one and he didn’t.

Obama didn’t even deserve a peace prize, the guy did more drone strikes than Bush, but just for the fact that it upsets Trump so much I say they should give him another one.

Will everyone here please read the article and learn that they’re using a completely different definition of “populism” to the one you’re imagining, before you start commenting?

Still one of the greatest burns I have ever seen in my life.

Trump is dead serious about the tariffs. He’s been dead serious about tariffs for pretty much his entire adult life. This obsession goes back decades. Yes, people are opportunisticly using the chaos to profit, but the chaos is not the plan, just a side effect of Trump’s total inability to plan.

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I actually think that in Israel’s case, threats are the only option left. The world has been trying far too much subtle diplomacy with them.

This is what Biden could have done. Threaten to cut off all aid until the genocide stops. The option was always there.

It’s very much a stopped clock scenario of course. Trump is being the same bull headed idiot he always is, this just happens to be the one time that’s appropriate.

And it won’t matter because he’ll fold like a cheap suit. He’s all bark, no bite.

And the sad irony is that if he actually asked the Dems to help him get this through Congress, they’d probably agree. But he’s such an unbelievably terrible deal maker that he can’t actually do that.

What made those jobs great for the middle class wasn’t the fact that they were blue collar manufacturing jobs, it was the fact that they were unionized.

Unions and high top tax brackets built the American middle middle class between the fourties and the eighties. Yes, offshoring allows companies to seek lower wages elsewhere, but the solution to that is not sweatshops at home. You need to start by building up strong labour rights and investing in education and infrastructure, which drive investment in job growth. Stop trying to regain all the jobs you lost and work and improving the jobs you have.

Yes, leftists have been warning about globalisation for decades, and they’re right, but lets not pretend that what Trump is doing is even in the same continent as a solution.

“Corrupt reasons” is actually giving him too much credit. He’s tearing up everything Biden did because Biden did it. He did the same thing with as much of Obama’s legislative agenda as he could.

It’s pure pettiness. He can’t allow his predecessors to have a legacy. His ego cannot afford it.