@TiberiusBravo87

As I told one of my tradcon friends recently: "We're not the same. You voted for Trump because he's a republican. I voted for him because he isn't."

One of the telltale signs of a uniparty adherent is that his political ideas are COMPRESSIBLE. In the software sense. They can be compressed into one bit, zero or one.

In other words, if you can tell me "red", or "blue", and that allows me to predict most to all of someone's political ideas, they are likely to be uniparty members/voters.

There are problems, however, with using Trump's endorsement as a litmus test for uniparty-free ideas.

First off, it's another compression function.

Secondly, Trump has a particularly poor track record for appointing subordinates who turn out to be uniparty stooges. He did an okay job of A/B testing with false information to see who was leaking what, but not such a good job of not hiring them in the first place.

Do trust Trump? Well... I trust Trump to be Trump. He's a classic case of narcissistic personality disorder, which makes him act like an ass, but also makes him refuse to be anyone else's pawn, regardless of the incentives.

The unfortunate thing about narcissists, however, is that they are weak on reciprocity, which makes them very bad at inspiring loyalty in anyone they cannot awe into hero-worship. Which Trump has successfully done with republican voters, but not republican politicians. Not that he necessarily could have, given their ties to the uniparty, but his personality disorder certainly didn't help, either.

Which means they wanted to get rid of him, but couldn't say so out loud, because the republican voters immediately lynched any anti-Trump republican. So they waited, made the right noises, and sat on their hands while the democrats rigged the 2020 election.

Wide-scale, coordinated election-rigging, BTW, is probably not as prevalent as most people think. That's because it doesn't need to be. Any candidate that the uniparty doesn't own will be eliminated in the primaries or before, not in the general election. The last time (before 2016) that a candidate who opposed the uniparty made it into the general presidential election was in 1992.

Anyway, yes, republican voters are better at opposing the uniparty than democrats, by several orders of magnitude, but still calling themselves republicans, and still voting for republicans, kinda indicates they haven't taken the whole red pill.

Fighting for control of the republican party is not a winning move. Yeah, sure Trump caught them with their pants down in 2016, but they were ready for him in 2020, and they will be in 2024.

@TiberiusBravo87

You took his smokescreen

You're a bit confused about my commenting style. I don't rely to people because I agree or disagree with what they have to say, I reply because they said something that made me think of something I wanted to say.

But right now the narrative has a hold on him, Elon is hated as blindly as Trump was and is their new "two minutes of hate" persona

Of course he is. What Musk and Trump have in common is pretty much nothing except one thing. They are pursuing their own agendas instead of being aligned to the uniparty.

That's why treehuggers are being told to hate the guy who made electric cars a viable thing, and why the republican party insiders allowed their incumbent administration to be taken out in a fraudulent election, Julius Caesar style.