Politics Thread

Happy 1-year anniversary

I have to disagree.  Out of sight, out of mind.  As much as he railed against the media, their non-stop coverage of his absurd nonsense gained him the Republican nomination.  He's the living embodiment of the saying that there's no such thing as bad publicity.  Never forget that trump gained more Republican votes in the past election than any other Republican candidate in US history.  His idiocy didn't deter Republicans.  All it did was motivate Democrats and independents into voting.

I'd be with you if I thought he really would be out of sight and out of mind, and I do wish I could agree with you.  I think it might be too early to tell at this point, he's only been out of office for 6 weeks but we'll see what kind of driving force he'll be in 2022 and 2024.  Twitter or no Twitter he'll be getting a ton of press if he decides he's going to make his presence known and he probably will. 

I don't mean to imply that trump will literally be out of sight moving forward.  His ego won't allow him to stay out of the spotlight for too long.  The difference in 2022 will be that he will merely be backing certain candidates, rather than being one himself.  That gives the mainstream media an excuse not to grant him the wall to wall coverage he used to get.  He won't mind, because the lunatic fringe media will put everything he says on a loop, 24/7.  As for 2024, we'll see.  I still believe that trump truly doesn't want to be President anymore, but what he wants and what his ego demands are not the same thing.  It's possible his ego will allow Don Jr. to run instead, or even his precious Ivanka, so that he doesn't have to deal with the headache.  Either of them running would still place him firmly in the spotlight, after all.  Regardless, idiocy will come out of his mouth every time he opens it.  

Hope so.

That was something I bit my tongue about with my 91 year old, conservative grandmother the other day. She went on a rant about Biden and Democrats in general ending with "People always want somethin' for nothing, when they should be workin' for it!"

Yet earlier in the day she was asking me when I knew when our stimulus money was coming.

www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/22/zoom-paid-0-federal-income-taxes-4000-profit-increase-during-pandemic-report

Zoom Paid $0 in Federal Income Taxes on 4,000% Profit Increase During Pandemic: Report -"If you paid $14.99 a month for a Zoom Pro membership, you paid more to Zoom than it paid in federal income taxes even as it made $660 million in profits last year."