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   volkris@qoto.org's status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 09:59:35 JST volkris

   I often stay up to date with #conservative media in #USPolitics just to keep apprised of what the #GOP is talking about, or to put it in a different way, so you don’t have to, but lately it’s getting just two much even for me.

   It’s one thing to disagree with facts that #Republicans are working with, but lately they are getting more and more unhinged in their actual arguments, contradicting themselves but seeming oblivious of it.

   For example, this week I heard the line that progressive attacks against #Trump are good for him because they will make him seem moderate to voters. If the ideologues are attacking him, then he must be moderate, right? But then the next moment that same presenter started talking about progressive attacks against #Biden without applying the exact same reasoning to that case.

   In the past few weeks mainstream conservative talking points have just gotten ridiculous in their blind support for Trump. They’ve stopped talking about policy, or their claims about accomplishments, or anything like that. Now it’s just getting into chanting that really didn’t exist before.

   On one hand, it’s sad to watch, it’s pathetic, and on the other hand it’s boring.

   So I figure they are setting themselves up for a repeat of the red wave that never showed up during the last election. They are not setting themselves up to win.

   Sigh. I wish they would at least make it interesting to watch.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 09:59:30 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @volkris I totally agree, though of course id say the dems are following suit, so hardly unique to republicans.. but yea.

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     volkris@qoto.org's status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 14:55:59 JST volkris

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     • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     @freemo a while back, maybe last year? I heard somebody propose that these days Republicans tend to err in magnitude while Democrats err in direction or sign.

     Since then it’s been very interesting to think about current events through that lens.

     For example, off the top of my head, you could consider federal government deficit spending where Republicans have been talking as if it’s the end of the world while Democrats have been talking as if it’s actually a good thing.

     So I don’t think Democrats are following suit, but they are committing their own errors in ways that are orthogonal to the errors of Republicans.

     To put it simplistically, it’s almost like Democrats are doing a good job of a bad task while Republicans are doing a bad job of a good task.

     I don’t know which is worse, but I personally find the Republican side to be more frustrating.