Yea I wasn't looking for a political debate, just stating a cold hard fact, when you win certain states by the skin of your teeth you may lose those states next time if you anger your base. Some may say things like it won't impact votes, but have you ever made it hard on a loved one to smoke or vape? people do NOT take kindly to it. Somehow I doubt people who vape will just let his ban slide and vote for him. If we are on the lawn saying no flavor no vote I think he will walk it back rather fast to a campaign to prevent underage sales. I am solidly in his base, but I will be at home on voting day if I'm vaping tobacco flavor....as will many others.
I was too. It’s what I see in him. I’m trying to give my best advice. It’s a view, that is all. One probably not worth much but it’s all I got. I want the protests to have an effect. I’d go if I could. Just to add another body to the mass if nothing else. I can’t though. I don’t have that kind of mobility. Not right now anyway. Perhaps not anymore. I also don’t have any useful skills. Useful skills is what a movement needs. I went to an activism summit recently and one message stuck with me. The statement was that activism is not unlike RPGs. People see the social justice warriors but there are other classes. Social justice wizards, social justice clerics, even the occasional social justice rogue. I’m just a social justice peasant. If that. Maybe this is my attempt to be a social justice mushroom.
I’m not saying it couldn’t be done I guess. I don’t know how to do it or if it could be done though. There may be better targets in Washington.
Perhaps you are correct and there is enough power there that he can see if he even sees it, and he will decide to try and harness it for his purpose.
Blue media says he’s discomfited by the impeachment stuff. Red media says he isn’t. I don’t know what is true. I’m just a mushroom.
If he is it’s not impossible he could see this as a lever that might be worth putting a finger on. Or someone else’s finger if possible.
Me I think he may very well be elected again no matter what anyone does. The poll systems that have good accuracy reputations are all based on how the country is doing rather than how people feel about the president or what kind of person he is, and those are the goals he seems to try to meet. Do I think he is a good person? No. I actually think he’s a reasonable avatar of the beast in revelations. Not the first the world has seen and I hope not the last, ironically. He’s less comfortably in the lead than he was, but barring a really gigantic screw up there’s a pretty reasonable chance he’ll get elected again.
I guess I’m just saying that to get assistance from a man such as him one has to have the thing he thinks he needs more than the many other things people are offering him. I personally think it’s a classic devil’s bargain. People like that always take much more than they give. He doesn’t value words very much though. He seems happy to spread those around. Words seem cheaper than actions to him. He might be willing to spout some words. They’ll be expensive though. He does occasionally have to perform enough actions to give his words some value above zero. He seems to choose the cheap stuff not the hard stuff. Definitely not the stuff that might be difficult. Like that “drain the swamp” thing. That one was exceptionally laughable coming from him. He practically IS the swamp, and his power comes from the party that created it. What I see is if he does choose action he uses other people’s resources to do them, and he’s not afraid to use them up. That’s the really hard one with BT. They have resources. That could be useful. Maybe they will be afraid to commit them to someone they know will happily use them entire for his own gain and then simply discard them. This view of who he is is pretty popular knowledge outside of the red media areas. Which is most of the world. There’s a reason he gets laughed at internationally. There’s another one. It seems he doesn’t like to be laughed at.
it’s all I got. A blue mushroom view. May it be useful somehow.
