volkris @volkris@social.cleverlibre.org

When I hear #Trump supporters describing him as not part of the establishment I roll my eyes thinking about the guy who headed **the entire executive branch of the US government for four years.**

But mainly I think of the press that utterly failed to frame their reporting accurately to lay that on the table, instead obsessing over him personally instead of him as chief magistrate.

And that's why we can't have nice thi... government.

#USPolitics #journalism

From listening to mainstream #conservative commentators I get the impression that core #Republican voters are very insular, an enormous echo chamber that doesn't recognize the positions of even Republican leaning independents in the country.

This is interesting because it's one thing for a small group or faction of a movement to be an echo chamber, but this seems to be basically an entire major political party buying into confirmation bias.

The midterm elections and then yesterday's VA election highlighted this, as Republicans were excitedly predicting a sweep, that they told themselves was coming, that didn't come.

The implications for the presidential primary process are significant, as the primary process exists to overcome the wasted ballots of the voting system, but that doesn't work if a party is so disconnected from the larger voting population.

#USPolitics #election #politicialscience #voting

Struggling with malfunctioning autocorrect on my new pixel phone, I'm just saying, I'm not going to trust AI to drive cars until it can at least master the Oxford comma.

Whose with me?

#AI

#RT because I feel like I honestly learned something that other people might not realize.

I thought shitposter.club was an instance actively devoted to shit posting, but apparently not?

I'm genuinely relaying this post because I judged posts from that domain as unserious and so spreading the word that apparently they can be serious.

With the furor over the election of #Johnson to Speaker of the House spreading through the feeds here, NOW can we finally hold #Democrats responsible for the votes they actively chose to place that set this up and enabled the #GOP nutjobs?

Maybe people were holding out over a misguided fantasy that Dems and Reps would form a sort of coalition government, but now that they've elected someone so many here don't like, is finally OK to point out that their strategy was a bad one?

#USPolitics #House #Speaker

People delighting in #Jordan not getting enough votes to be elected Speaker and the business of the #House resumed really capture the idea of cutting off the nose to spite the face.

Well, or maybe they just like to see the world burn.

Ah well, so long as they don't go on to complain about the legislative business that's not getting done.

#USPolitics #Congress

Sounds like much more interesting #moderation options on #nostr than #Fediverse