Vance will immediately catch all the blame for Trump’s actions. I do not envy his upcoming role.
The cultists are aware on some level that this is all madness, but they’ve committed, can’t change their support.
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
None of them rallied for Vance, and they’ll eat him alive the second he’s sworn in. With Trump dead, “These OTHER people fooled me!”
It ALL changes when Trump dies, overnight. No cult survives the death of the leader. Vance steps in, he’s immediately to blame for everything Trump did. Many of these fanatics are looking for an offramp from the madness, but they can’t turn on Trump. (They don’t know this, but they need a way to say they weren’t wrong.)
Or, look at it from another angle, you think MAGA gives two shits about Hegseth, Miller, Bondi, Vought, Kennedy, Noem, et. al.? LOL, man-on-the-street doesn’t have a clue who those people are, but they’ll turn into targets without Trump’s cover.
OR, think on this. Would Germany have continued down the Nazi path if Hitler had died early in the game? Hell, even if he died late in the game, think the people would have rallied behind Goebbels or Dönitz?
Anyone who’s been around someone with a serious case of NPD, or a toddler, knows exactly how to play Trump. EU leaders tried some of those games, but now that his dementia is off the cliff, he’s no longer predictable, time to cut the cord and get it over with.
Easy to say, I know. I’m not responsible for my country’s economy and citizen welfare.
What do you get when your search “terminal”? My home rig defaults to PowerShell, but I likely changed something years ago.
I’m a Windows sysadmin, this is the exact explanation. The only other thing, and this is going way out on a limb, is that terminal was installed through the Windows Store and something related is busted. I’ve never even heard of a company utilizing the Store for installations.
Could not have written my exact take as closely as yours.
Only thing I’d add is using it to screw around with personal photos. ChatGPT is cleaning up some 80s pics of my wife that were atrocious. I have rudimentary PhotoShop skills, but we’d never have these clean pics without AI. OTOH, I’d gladly drop that ability to reclaim all the negatives.
Very few laymen have noticed or give a shit about RAM prices. My young friend across the street and I are likely the only people on the block who know what RAM does, let alone are able to build a PC.
Business purchasing is where we might see some backlash soon. I’ve bought all the IT goods, hardware and software, for my last two companies, and I’d be screaming.
Boss: What the hell? Weren’t we getting these laptops for $1,200 last year?!
Skill in Excel is wholly different than skills in other Office products. But if Excel is on your resume, your better expand and show what real use you’ve made of it. Otherwise it comes off just as you said.
I do. Got a free license from my last job and Excel blows the doors off Calc, or anything else. For business, Excel is moat of the reason they’re so tied into Office.
The US Supreme Court often goes against Trump. Not putting any hope in them stopping him, but at least they apply some breaks. Also consider, they owe Trump nothing. He put three of them in there, 1/3rd of the seats, but they defy Trump with impunity, holding their seats for life.
If we could eliminate Alito and Thomas, even replacing them with un-bribed conservatives, it would be a whole new ballgame. Rulings would still suck, but not like this.
tl:dr; SCOTUS is conservative, not partisan.
Wife and I got COVID last fall, despite being vaxxed. But god knows how bad it could have been without. I have mild emphysema, that shit can kill me.
And no, neither one of us kept up with the vax schedule. That’s on us.
Same with evolution. “The eyeball is too complex to evolve as a whole unit!” Well, that’s absolutely correct. First, start with a patch of light sensitive cells, iterate.
Fevers always work out great for me. I’ll be all shivery and crash under a pile of blankets. Wake up a few hours later, soaking wet, I mean really, truly gross, and it’s over, all better.
None of these ideas originated in Trump’s brain. His fascist handlers are moving him like a chess piece and merely using his mouth. Trump’s anything but blameless, but his mind is gone a good percentage of the time.
What are the population densities and technology levels among these magical indigenous peoples? This is the Magical Negro trope all over again.
Russian commanders ignored launch orders in the Cold War and I believe they would do so again.
I could see Putin falling back on nukes, I cannot see Russian commanders pushing the button. Same for Trump and the American general staff.
Americans spent about 1,000,000 rounds for every kill in Iraq. More like 1,000,000,000,000 rounds. :)
The US would see that coming before their ships even left port, triggering an instant invasion.
Among other reasons you’ve been given: