Haha yeah bro! The disenfranchisement of millions of fellow Americans, utter disregard for the Constitution and rule of law, and the dismantlement of our federal government. What a hilarious prospect that is. /s
I’m torn because on one hand I want the RNC to spend itself into oblivion trying to keep him propped up, because that means less funding they have for literally anything else. On the other hand, the infighting could be equally debilitating to them, and it could be damaging to Tritler if he’s very publicly unable to pay his bills.
I mean perhaps I’m just too cynical, but I expect a lot of these pundits don’t get high off their own supply if you catch my drift. In Peterson’s case, his Wikipedia page has a couple things that smell like grift to me:
he used to be a Democrat, claimed that religion made him Republican - looks like pandering
he started a business at one point (janitorial services; that’s an essential service, so an entrepreneur can do well in that space)
he founded a non-profit with a religious slant that has other conservative pundits on the board - this reeks of a conspiracy to sap money from ignorant people, a.k.a., grift
meetings with Toyota executives for some undisclosed reason; I feel like it’s pretty hard to rub shoulders with the big dogs like that if you’re an idiot and didn’t have rich parents, and it doesn’t seem like Peterson came from substantial means
multiple publications - the titles read like self-help and “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” drivel with an added dash of racism
All of that to me reads as a cunning individual that’s using gullible and ignorant people to line his own pockets.
Edit 2: I took one for the team and checked bluesky catturd2’s profile on Twitter and it looks pretty anti-MAGA; there’s a couple tweets that address: cops hiding their badge numbers (bluesky catturd2 is against this), Twitter being a conservative cesspool, and generally talking shit about the trump family. I wonder if bluesky catturd2 intentionally co-opted the name to troll Twitter catturd2.
There’s probably a couple of nuts in the senate that would go for this, but no way in hell that a majority of republicans want anything to do with this, not to mention the democrat majority and POTUS veto power.
The ironic part is that he’s probably actually intelligent and just a malefactor. You need to be at least more intelligent than the people you’re grifting to successfully grift them.
I’m really hoping if he tries, it’ll set off all kinds of red flags with the court-appointed independent reviewer that’s watching his finances like a hawk. Maybe foolishly optimistic of me, but I really hope it works out that way.
Also side note my dude, are you browsing politics news from your porn lemmy account? I mean, respect, but that’s hilarious.
idk dude, I’d personally be more surprised if that was their platform because while it would still be a horrific violation of human rights, it would be too consistent with itself. I’d probably accuse them of using ChatGPT to write it or something.
Fucking finally. The New Republic isn’t a huge player, but it’s nice to see a mainstream-ish media outlet calling him out without using flowery language or an op-ed to dance around it.
Well that’s a big old yikes from me dawg. I took a quick peek at those subs and I can’t say it was worth the time I spent dancing around reddit’s VPN blocker. I bet the AI company is gonna get some great data from those comments.
It could be bad lighting but to me his skin looks really washed out, his eyes look sunken in, and his hair looks really brittle. Compared to today, even as an older man he just looks a lot healthier to me 🤷🏻♂️
Remember come election season that these people are wasting the government’s time with this frivolous appeal, trying to make a statement, over a sum of money that amounts to less than 0.3% of their nominal annual salary.
Joined by conspiracy theorist David Icke, who believes that the world’s top leaders are actually lizards, Jones and his guest both questioned whether they were actually talking to Musk based on the individual’s eerily similar speech.
There’s.. there’s a lot to unpack here. I’m truly saddened that this version of me ended up in the bizarre timeline; I wonder how my other selves are doing.
Osvaldo12 is the 🐐