I don't think he's a puppet. I think there are things he cares about and things he doesn't care about. If he doesn't care about something then he's happy to use it to get something he wants. I think he cares deeply about adoration, sex, and money. Everything else is just a means to get more.
Calling them a moron might feel good but it doesn't really get us any closer to keeping Trump out of the white house. He won once and I think it's definitely possible he could win again.
That would be great for salaried employees but hourly people would either lose an hour or just have to work an hour of mandatory overtime without time and a half pay.
That's called semantic shift and linguistically speaking it happens all the time. The word silly used to mean blessed, fortunate, and holy but it now means foolish and laughable. As that shift was going on there were people like you screaming about how the word was being used wrong. Now though if you were to use silly to mean holy you might offend someone. In my opinion there are more important things to put your energy into. You do you though.
Perhaps there's an indirect influence but you can't argue gerrymandering has the same effect on statewide elections that it has on district races, right?
I swipe on my phone to type and these mistakes are common. I didn't see that it put the wrong word. You can settle down, it isn't the end of the world.
I would argue that's the definition of an indirect influence.