I wonder if MTG is the Republican Party experiencing the 4chan effect: if you build your community around pretending to be batshit insane, you’ll eventually attract genuinely batshit insane people who aren’t in on the joke. It could be that she doesn’t realize most of the elected GOP is just pretending to go along with the right-wing outrage du jour to support their cult, and she’s genuinely confused about why they’re no longer interested in the epstein affair.

That, or she just sees the writing on the wall and is trying to distance herself from it. Either way, fuck her and the shitbags she made a bed with.

That’s the neat part, it is the default. the only way to opt out is to praise the leader loudly and often, and never in any way be critical of or inconvenient to the regime.

I don’t know what the odds are on the US or a part of the US reaching the technical definition of famine, I’m just saying I wouldn’t put it in the “definitely not happening” category. And it wouldn’t be because there’s not enough food available, more like the government is actively aggravating domestic food production and international trade and they’re bumbling morons, which is a combination that could easily get us into shortages where a large chunk of the population is starving. And depending on which Americans it affects (or affects the most), the government may not care. Not saying it’s definitely going to happen, but I think it’s naive to say it definitely won’t just based on America’s buying power.

FWIW I agree that the current situation, whatever it’s impact on America’s food security, will impact other parts of the world more severely. I’m sure America’s shit will still roll downhill.

Started happening. There’s still plenty of consolidation left to go. Hence the current pressure.

It’s been happening steadily for a while, Trump just opened up a lot of avenues to accelerate it. There are still a lot of small and medium family farms that own their land and equipment.

IDK, there are already a lot of people hanging on by a thread in the US. A collapse in domestic production that leads to higher prices will push more people under the “secure” line. I think it’ll also cause food shortages worldwide but I think you’re overestimating how many Americans will be insulated.

Happens here too. And who scoops up the land when it gets liquidated? JD goddamn Vance and his vultures.

All part of the plan :(

I don’t think being cossetted in a media bubble is the same as having no ability to self-reflect. It’s just that so many people have so little occasion IRL to challenge the beliefs they’ve been fed from birth. Some people can be deprogrammed.

I hope :(

Unfun fact: Rabbits actually can scream, I have had the misfortune of hearing it. It’s not a sound you forget.