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Michael's avatar

I may be paranoid but why do I get this unsettling feeling that we've all been played? What happened to our skepticism? This "bromance breakup,"' is performative theater. It's just too neat and obvious. We are getting our kicks watching it play out, but think about it for a second between mouthfuls of popcorn. These aren't two 14 year olds. They are both formidable individuals and not necessarily slaves to their egos. This is Kabuki theatre running to script. The finale may surprise us. Don't say you weren't warned.

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J E Ross's avatar

100%. Each has too much at stake for this to be down-to-the-roots real. And it is an engrossing (also just gross) show for us to watch while fascist Christian nationalist Vought coordinates w/ Palantir to use our data in establishing a holistic surveillance state, replacing the ad hoc one we’ve had since Bush 43. Also while masked Proud Boys and J-6 violent offenders are being subsidized by our tax $$ to terrorize, kidnap, and extract for offshore torture undocumented populations, many of whom have become part of our communities and contributed to our formerly stable and growing economy. Plus the captured Roberts court has been stamping its SCOTUS seal of approval to lend a bunch of illegal shit whatever legitimacy they can still fake. So yeah—there are true things about the bitch-off between the 2, but there is too much active disassembly of our republic happening simultaneously for this to be genuine.

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Michael's avatar

And I agree with you 100%.

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michael reid hunter's avatar

Two prom queens arguing over a corsage. Someone should remind them that they REPRESENT the American people...they are hired by the public, and their world is not about them, but the country. Someone should present a picture album for the Cheeto showing him that he is a hire of the populace.

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Linda Morway's avatar

And yet Theil and Bessent are openly gay.

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Potter's avatar
15hEdited

Nice discussion with Nir and Sudbay. Aaron is a gift.

The truth definitely has a liberal bias apparently according to MAGAs, don't you buy it.

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