u/beagles4ever

DJTJ has an open path to the nomination. 100% correct.

The only reason DJTJ won't be the nominee is because he's convinced to stay out. Also 100% correct.

ALL the incentives line up with DJTJ being highly motivated to run. 100% Correct - they have learned that power is a way to making the money machine go brrrrr.

If DJTJ runs he will be WARMLY endorsed by all the "respectful" conservative outlets (The Nation, The WSJ, etc.). 100% correct.

Challenges from normie Rs (Marco, Nikki) or Meaner-and-Crazier-Than-Thou Rs (MTG, Tucker) would die on the vine with single digit support at best. Who wants to be the next Desantis? A: No one.

Even if DJTJ loses in the election he will be the presumptive nominee for 2032. 100% correct.

The R party will remain a fully owned subsidiary of the Trump family for the foreseeable future - when we will now have an entire generation of voting age or approaching voting who have known NOTHING but Trump being effectively, the Republican Party.

This is the darkness that engulfs me, that provides a vision for the future that is both horrifically grotesque and extremely demoralizing, and chills the cockles of my heart.

I personally thank him for being the bucket of cold water we all need.

JVL is always right.

Which sucks because that’s on the total costs, not just the COGS, but also the not insubstantial shipping costs.

Anyway, thanks America for making my life needlessly more expensive.

Several of you suggested that I go back to the beginning and listen chronologically - I have taken you up on that!

I guess i shouldn't be shocked at all that this began right in the middle of the pandemic. . .such a fertile time for gurus.

And it's so weird reliving all these things that happened along the way - the new characters popping up on YouTube or watching formally normal-ish people get audience captured as they get crazier and crazier.

I'm now up to the middle of 2021 (as it turns out, they did not start with short episodes. . .but dove right into long form).

As a GenXer, I'm a bit older than a lot of folks, so I was slow to catch up to how these new channels of communicating were changing how people got their information and how segmented the world was becoming as everyone started applying their own filter bubbles.

Anyway - I love them both, even Chris's mangling of names in a North Ireland accent, and it keeps me sane to know there are still some people who can still see the bullshit for what it is.

Thanks for the advice to go back and listen through - so much content for me to enjoy! Not much else to say except, you must grovel at the feet of your muscle master. . .and bye bye.