This is classic Murc's Law stuff.

Yeah, well, "swing voters" tend to be fucking idiots.

Sigh. Why does everything have to have some Big Dark Conspiracy behind it?

Nearly everyone that barely graduated high school or just outright dropped out, seems to think that they have the "real story" behind something like Covid. Because they "did their own research".

These people usually don't even realize (Dunning-Kruger) that they simply don't have the skills to do that. That's why they did so poorly at school and why they didn't go on to - or finish - a higher degree, at least not in something more difficult to attain. They may not even have basic reading comprehension, probably have poor numeracy skills, and are not even aware of logical fallacies. The likelihood of them being auto-didactic is not very high.

It's exhausting.

And morons and bad faith actors like Gabbard feed into it, FFS.

It’s almost like he’s a baby of a bully. Who talks tough but then cries as soon as it doesn’t go his way…

That is pretty much every bully. None of them are actually tough; they only target those they think won't fight back.

"antifa"

Yep. The far right cannot wait to see actual death squads taking orders from Donvict.

Sure, but you can tell how asymmetrical things are when the cons think it's fine to attack the Capitol building and threaten to hang a VP - and in the process carry out damage against property, too.

But then the far right goes into hysterics over their (false) claims that BLM "burned cities to the ground" in 2020. Same goes for property damage here.

They don't seem to really care about black people dying; but if any property damage happens in the vicinity of a protest - commence the clutching of pearls...

Yeah, good thing that Jared released that bitch that tried to steal an election. Same thing for the orange asshole releasing all the terrorists that attacked the Capitol.

One got 100 years?

WTAF? So, these guys get harsh sentences, but the terrorists that assaulted the Capitol are treated as "patriots" by the asshats sitting in the WH right now?

This country is so fucked.

Yes, this. The Republicans created Faux News and hate radio and the various websites spinning the same hate, and then along came Donvict, about 20 years later after the start of Faux News, and he is the almost literal manifestation of all that work.

He sounds exactly like Faux News. He rules like the average Faux News viewer would want a President to rule. Hell, he has put people from Faux News on his cabinet.

But when Republicans and conservatives (current, as well as former) want to pretend as if Donvict came along and ruined everything and changed the party and they had no idea how any of this happened, and Donvict is No True Conservative?

BULL FUCKING SHIT.

Faux News == Republican Party == conservative == Trump.

So much this. Her and Tucker are still wildly dangerous in their beliefs. Just because they cannot get along with Donvict and the way the conservatives have tied themselves so closely to the terrorism of Israel's doesn't mean they are not very, very bad for this country.

Maybe her and Tucker can form a new party and split the conservative vote and send all of them into the wilderness for decades.

They are all so fucking crazy. It's not at all surprising they have a difference of opinion over doctrinal issues. First of all, most of the shit the cons say they care about, they do not really care about: small government, freedom, liberty, the Constitution, non-interventionism, free markets, etc...what really motivates much of the conservative "movement" is about racism.

So when someone like Donvict steps out of line on something like tariffs and attacking Iran, it's not surprising some peel off, while others stay, because as long as the important kernel of conservatism is there - which is the racism (xtian nationalism) - many will stay. But Tucker and MTG also have the important kernel of xtian nationalism, too....so what is a conservative to do, LOL?

Given their RWA (right wing authoritarian) character flaws, most RWAs will tend to line up behind someone deemed to be a "strong leader", so that's the dangerous thing.

But if there are two prominent right wing conservative parties (The Republican Party, and The Teabagger 2.0 Party under Tucker and Marge) with two cult of personalities leading them, hopefully they'd split all the RWAs for a while.