Then when I tell people on here that both parties are only acting in their best interest and should be disbanded, I get labeled some sort of “shadow nazi” or something equally idiotic because I’m not in lock-step with some leftist tankie.
Y’all, political parties exist for themselves alone. They are not your friends or allies. They are vampires which have infiltrated every facet of our lives.
100% agree that he’s a very bad leader. That wasn’t his role, his role was arrogant, risk-taking playboy. Keep in mind that the TOS years were the late 60s. TOS ran at the same time as the Smothers Brothers, Green Acres, and Bewitched. Arrogant, risk-taking playboy is a prime white male media main character trope that spans generations and decades. No one likes an asshole - unless it’s YOUR asshole, then it can get shit all over and you expect someone else to clean it up. Kirk broke rules, did whatever, fought everyone and banged everyone else, and always came away a winner. THAT was his role.
Even for the TOS movies, they tone him down into a “leader” a bit and it’s really just being the guy everyone has to listen to. It’s an ensemble of subordinates who largely do whatever, he barks demands, and because it’s a movie/show, they’re always working towards the same goal and get the job done.
My Trump-voting prepper parents in a nutshell. They wanted an excuse to eat 5 gallons of powdered eggs? Well guess what, now’s your chance.
Me: “I’m 4X years old, I have my whole life ahead of me.”
News: “Another 40-something person with enough money to definitely have done something about their health issues dies of something terrible that their body did to them.”
Y’all can’t see this for what it is, a “this is what you paid for” moment tailored to Evangelicals. Kegsbreath is stumping for more quid pro quo because he thinks he’ll end up besting Rubio for the nomination in '28 if he pulls shit like this. In a true fascist state, wielding power is evidence of power itself, and he thinks he’s in a position where people listen to him when not forced to take orders. He’s high on himself.
Does TV Pete have the charisma to spin a “Guys, we didn’t quite get down the checklist for Armageddon yet, we’re just SO close, though, so vote for em and we’ll force Jesus to do our bidding and bring about the Rapture!” moment? Not without help, but he can get help from the Evangelicals with the right Mike Pence type.
It was used almost exclusively for slop and slop-based ads or videos that shouldn’t be slop. I was on there yesterday and some account had 2 videos of a woman in front of a plain wall talking for 15 seconds about tax implications for investments. A real human could have filed it with an iphone in 3 minutes.
But now that’s Google and Grok’s problems, I guess.