The comforting thing is:

quozzel · 2025-05-03T14:09:24.573Z

I will post without comment. https://news.sky.com/story/trump-posts-ai-image-of-himself-as-pope-on-truth-social-13360403

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Re: I still can't believe America voted for this.

May 3, 2025, 10:57 AM

We're like that idiot woman that went back to her abusive husband. The first time is on him. The second time, it's all on her.

Mind, the Dems decided to run a guy who had literally tipped over into late-stage dementia with a staff trying to hide it by walking him around and posing him like a cardboard cutout, and then replaced him in the 11th hour with a woman with no plan, no substance, and no charisma mostly because she was next in line and the time for primaries had come and gone. So...thanks, Joe! Not only did you fail to contain Donald Trump legally despite having four years to do it, you also went and blew the next election for us too and put him right back in power! Awesome job!

You would think the Dems would have learned their lesson with Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Nope. Hold our beer, they said, we'll show you what some real political self-immolation looks like. We're going to blow a whole presidential election by not insisting upon actual leadership despite the fact that the shambolic octogenerian in question was dragging a 40% popularity rating. Math has never been the Dems' strong suit.

So I guess when your choices are Bad and Worse, Worse sometimes gets the nod.

You'd think people would have figured out by now our abomination of a two-party system is 95% of the whole problem. But again...also nope. (Deep breath. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change....)

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Well, Senators used to be appointed by their states' legislatures, not elected. Getting back to that would be a good first step. They used to be the adults in the room and a firewall against stupid. Now we have Tommy Tuberville and Chuck Schumer.

But I'd still argue that given the level of capture moneyed interests can achieve when there's just two parties, having two parties giving us hacks (and worse, populists) is not a good thing. I've thought for awhile that we'd see one of the parties sort of disintegrate like the Whigs did but I haven't seen any sign of it yet and I've been watching hopefully for awhile now.

I almost wonder if the next evolution we see is actually no party. The biggest thing a political party gives you is organizational and financial backing, but in our influencer-driven society it's now entirely possible to self-platform and reach far more people than a conventional party politician does if you play the social media game well enough. And it's not like either of the parties are setting a high bar. All it takes is one win and somebody who proves it can be done, and the rush is on.

Of course, that would also mean instead of politicians, we would then be electing influencers. So...Senator Andrew Tate? And you think we're bad off now....

Hoo, boy

I still can't believe America voted for this.

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Heck, I voted for Trump in 2016 over Hillary.

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The entire efficacy of lobbying, shadow money, bribes

Wait, what?????

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By the time the primary hit SC, we only had three candidates on the ballot

Unfortunately for him you have to be Christian

Usually Popes know how to hold a Bible

Servus servorum Dei?

Almost makes me wonder if his staffers are playing games

Amazing what AI can do.***

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God help him***

lol. Retweeted (or whatever) by the official White House account.

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