How would @murderbotbot.bsky.social respond?

Dictators never need more than 1/3 of the population's support to stay in power.

Reporting back. Trump is as predictable as ever.
I'm here to disagree that this will precipitate a downward spiral. There isn't anyone among the respondents to favorability polls who would have supported him yesterday, but don't support him today.

To the extent you can call anything anything, you're free to do whatever. But you're proving my point. The left lacks measure in its rhetoric. That reality will always limit the effectiveness of our movements with normies.

False advertising. Stretching the truth. Fine. But they're not breaking any rules, which is the threshold for grift.
I am also lying, I am not a green pile of poop. If I sell a T-shirt of that, you'll call me a grifter?

This idea is the problem with the left. If you call everything a grift, then nothing is a grift. No sense of measure.
Same thing happened to 'fascist' and 'believe women.'

A grift, this is not.

Gaming

It's grifters all the way down.

Can you imagine some dude showing up at school with a hat like that? He’d be headfirst in the nearest garbage can for eternity.

Because minerals aren't the end game for them.
When Russia annexes Ukraine, their buddies get all the resources anyway.
"Ambush" is the best description of this fiasco.

Interesting theory.
I can't wrap my head around the belief that on one hand Trump/JD's statements were strategically planned, but the ambush optics were not. It's an obvious logical inconsistency that defeats your theory.