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With as much as it's happening and as little that comes of it, you ever think all these "in-fights" are just a big distraction or straight-up entertainment that the Republicans put on? Scripted, fake, like Professional Wrestling. The equivalent of turning on cartoons while the parents are "busy".
This has crossed my mind as well.
For the moment, I feel like this is real infighting. There must be push/pulls among MAGA. H-1B, for example, is one area where I could see real infighting. You have the rich MAGA (which ultimately runs the whole thing), but you've also got the poor MAGA which has been bred on a fuckton of anti-immigrant sentiment.
What might be interesting is (assuming it is indeed real infighting) if the focus on rich vs poor is brought more into the forefront due to this. That certainly isn't something the MAGA leadership wants.
But holding one's breath for more/better info is smart, for now.
Which is why in the end, regardless of the motivations behind these stories, we must continue to use these opportunities to point out the underlying class war that unites us. No matter the superficial drama that creates the attention, keep redirecting the focus back to that fact. Major media outlets will do what they can to avoid conveying this message, so it's on us to make it a normal conversation that can't be ignored.
You can bet the corporate funded focus groups are burning the midnight oil plotting out how to spin the "poorly educated" MAGA folks perceptions around.
They're far too dumb to orchestrate this kind of theatre. What we are witnessing here is their... shall we say, natural talent.
No. They have no whatsoever effect. Most Trump voters have no idea this is going on as they've already tuned out. Casuals don't follow politics.
This is exactly what is going on. If you read a headline that's an opinion, or has may, could, slammed or hit in the title, ignore it. It's a distraction. Trump finding the shittiest most obnoxious sounding people to lead his cabinet is also part of that strategy. He usually fires them anyway. What his former POS staff has done or said are also distractions.
I was told an old saying when I was very young that I didn't truly understand until trump came along. I was sad because someone was saying bad things.:
Of course it is. Trump is a big WWE fan. So much that he put lady McWWE in for a new position.
Might be a distraction.
Might not be.
Either way, as long as they're infighting, they're not actually governing. even if it is just "infighting" and not actual infighting.
So let them fight.
The theatrics might be a bit too big of a conspiracy. I think its real. Two party system means big tent politics, most of which will be at odds.
I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head, but there's a special term for conspiratorial thinking based on the belief that leaders really can't be this incompetent and that the thought of a shadowy organization pulling the strings actually makes some people feel better.
Because reality is way fucking scarier.
These are the people running our country and they're almost exclusively all idiots.
Nah. Authoritarians always pull this shit until the cream rises to the top. Fortunately, Trump is the top. Imagine having to kow-tow to that moron and get anything done!
It's real. Just because tech bros and magats align sometimes there is still a discrepancy between the two. At the end of the day, the Maga tech bros are just higher up the ladder from the general Maga folks. In other words: there's always bigger fish.