No shit. This was obvious from day one. This was never AGI, and was never going to be AGI.

Institutional investors saw an opportunity to make a shit ton of money and pumped it up as if it was world changing. They’ll dump it like they always do, it will crash, and they’ll make billions in the process with absolutely no negative repercussions.

You assume people WANT to talk or even think about politics at all. Most people DON’T GIVE A SHIT. They actively try to AVOID politics. They don’t think it affects their daily lives. And to be honest, they’re right. 90% of government changes have no direct affect on their lives, nearly all effects are indirect. Unless the government is directly giving individual tax breaks, or stimulus payments, the effect of policy is hidden behind companies making changes in response.

They think various parts of the government have either a lot more, or a lot less power than they actually do. Many for whatever reason seem to think the President has ANY control on gas prices at all because that bullshit is repeated every time gas prices go up, a commodity with a price based almost exclusively on worldwide trading price. Very few Americans are able to see more than a year or so into the future because they’re too hyper-focused on getting through each week or month. It’s why Republican tax cuts work so well, they give a small tax cut to individuals that will expire in 3-4 years when might not be in power, and if they are, they just pass another. Meanwhile permanent cuts to those most able to afford it, are hidden behind that, and inflate the tax cut number so it looks like the tiny cut the average person sees is actually a lot larger.

And all of this is reinforced by a propaganda network through a nearly unregulated media landscape. The regulation is on old broadcast channels, regulated under the FCC, as little as that regulation is now. And even then, most of those shows now are opinion shows, not actual “news” segments, so the regulation is even lower. Cable channels, don’t have those regulations, and never have. Fox News for instance, not a broadcast network, it is a separate channel from Fox. Even then, Fox News only has “news” segments for an hour or two each day. Everything else is opinion shows, on a “news” channel. So it makes it seem like everything on the channel is news, which should theoretically not be an inherent lie. And every time they’re called out, they point to the actual hour or two of actual news as a cover. They try to hide any required apologies or corrections they couldn’t snake their way out of into a tiny sliver of time within in that hour with fewer viewers instead of the same show it happened.

There are the people you’re talking about, but they’re still a minority. Voter turnout in the US was only about 63.5% of the eligible population in 2024. Of that, Trump got about 50.2% of the votes. So that’s 31.8% of voting eligible Americans voting for Trump. That is a minority no matter how you cut it, regardless of reasons or individual issues. American politics is regularly decided by less than 1/3rd of the population because of how our election system operates.

It’s not about smart versus dumb, it’s even simpler than that. The majority of Americans don’t have the time to stay up to date on events and politics. They’re too busy working dead end jobs with stagnant wages living paycheck to paycheck worrying about everything else.

Then, the little bit of politics they see here and there comprises one party saying “things are bad, we’ll fix it” (never explaining what that means and never intending to follow through) while the other party saying “it’s not that bad actually” (which is technically true, in context).

So if you’re living paycheck to paycheck, maybe working multiple jobs to get by, with no visible career opportunities and maybe getting an annual raise just below inflation, being told “it’s not that bad” is a slap in the face, even if it really isn’t in comparison to where it could be.

Look at the actual number of votes, Trump didn’t actually get any more popular, 14 Million Dem voters just didn’t vote this time. All the Dem talked about was how bad Trump would be, and that it wasn’t that bad. They didn’t say they would try to make it better.

I’ve used FreeTaxUSA for years without any issue and free federally. Something like $16 to e-file with my state.

They just have a screen at the end prompting for more deluxe options if you want. You can also download the completed files and submit them yourself if you want.

And then you’re stuck constantly reminding every family member which app to use on which device when they come to you because they’re getting ads or something isn’t working right.

For a single power use that’s fine, for a family with kids, it’s nearly impossible without going crazy and killing them.

K…I’m sure nobody cares.

Well you’re objectively wrong, since clearly the one guy complaining cared enough to actually complain about it.

Just needs a Pyramid Head cosplayer in the distance.

He was never actually charged for the insurrection though, was he?

That’s not a requirement according to the amendment. This is also why they’ve spent so much effort on downplaying it, trying to call it anything other than what it was. The Congressional inquiry determined that it was in fact an insurrection and it has been defined as such officially. As written, the inability to hold office should be self-enforcing, the Supreme Court went out of their way to interpret it in a way that it most definitely does not say.

Step 1. Replace the top Dem leadership that has shown time and time again now that they have no idea what they’re doing anymore.

Because they have no actual proof of it, and direct evidence against it. They talk about phones communicating with each other to restart… yet a phone inside a faraday box restarted.

It protects you from being compelled to provide biometrics to unlock the device. Since the courts have made a distinction between providing a password and biometrics to unlock devices for whatever asinine reason.

Oh 100%. But if there’s anything this election proved, it’s that the average American is fucking stupid, gullible as shit, and unable to determine propaganda from reality.

For many, actively supporting Israeli genocide is something they simply can’t support.

If there’s anything that this election has proven, it’s that there are A LOT of one issue voters in this country, across the board. They’ll ignore everything else for the one issue they care about above all else. And when you only have two viable parties, that forced a black and white decision.

The fundamental solution is eradicating First Past the Post and getting ranked choice voting so we have a multitude of parties that are all more nuanced instead.

But that won’t happen unless we abandon both of the major parties we have now, and they can’t let that happen because that means they lose power.

The simple fact is a LOT of Americans don’t have the time to do real research. They are entirely reliant on media to break down the complex issues into small chunks. And we know that no longer exists.

Do we expect someone that has to work 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet now and an hour or two helping their children with homework, to also spend hours researching current events and political stances beyond what they can get in 30 or 60 minutes from the TV before they have to go to bed and do it all over tomorrow?

The DOJ will work for him starting January 20th. Even if they continued he would just have them drop it all that day.

They have been setting the pieces to this eventuality for 60+ years.

Trump just stumbled onto the very carefully set board, and started messing with it, and exposing the plans in the process. Being the narcissist he is, he is incapable of not using anything he wants, so it forced the Republican establishment’s hand. They had to bring him into since the Presidency is necessary to further the plan, and in turn he also became dangerous since he’s 100% the type of person to use that information to extort the outcome that helps him. I don’t think they really understood how bad an idea that was at the times and now they’re stuck.

Better to do the work they can to help until they’re forced out.

Perhaps that’s where we get the Mandela Effect.

They have. Because their sole purpose was to prevent anything the Dems wanted. It’s easy to do when your only goal is to obstruct.

Don’t underestimate the pissed off poor. The Dems kept telling them that things weren’t so bad while the Reps said they’d change things.

The changes will of course be worse, but if things are clearly shit, and someone keeps telling you that it’s not that bad, you start to despise those people even if they’re the better choice.