Exactly. Don't reward this kind of behavior.

Unfortunately, we Americans have proven that most of us would sell our very souls for the smallest convenience...and corporations know it.

Big badda boom

The altercation came moments after Trump criticized major media outlets for what he said was unfavorable coverage and dismissed CNN as fawning for its interview Thursday with his Democratic rival Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz.

It appears the man was going after members of the press, not Trump.

Except that he's apparently been registered as a Republican since 2021...and he didn't enter the event.

Inform Starfleet...we have engaged the Berg.

That is a pretty big help financially... indirectly anyway.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

There are definitely plenty of well educated, intelligent fascists as well. It's pretty dangerous to start thinking that what separates two ideological groups is intelligence.

I was expecting to see a trail of ghosts left behind as the earth moves away.

More scam apps on Canonical's Snap Store who?

He doesn't care about that. He wants the speakership so he can exert additional pressure toward making certain problems go away for Trump and himself.

My parents are the same way...all in for Trump. But I know my parents and know they have good hearts. They've just been saturated in the right-wing media ecosystem that's been peddling pro-Trump propaganda for years...to the point where they live in a completely different reality. And they've invested so much into it emotionally, they just can't see it any other way.

Without the far right media and the complicit right-wing politicians enabling him, Trump is nothing. They're the ones I blame for the damage done to the country, to my relationship with my parents, to my parents' worldview and their mental health.

I'm not saying the average Trump follower is blameless, but most of them were completely unprepared and ill-equiped to handle the level of propaganda thrown at them from every angle (right-wing news, social media, & way too many enablers in the GOP).

I've had to try to talk my parents down from so many conspiracy theories. All of a sudden, the ones who taught me as a child to not believe everything I saw on the internet were latching on to anything that supported what they'd been told to believe. But I have to remember that they didn't grow up with the internet, with having to evaluate credibility of sources, and filter out misinformation the same way I did. They lacked the experience and the tools to do that properly.

All that to say, it's a weird mix of things going on. It's complex. And again, while I don't consider the average Trump supporter to be blameless (certainly not the ones acting in violence or criminally), we need to remember that they are still human. So many of them are good people who've just been fooled into believing things that are not true. We should be angrier at the ones who fooled them than at the ones who were fooled.