Someone created a group (a nonprofit, a political action committee, or something similar) with basically no public presence except for a bland website and a few tweets. It has launched millions in pro-ICE ads, and, at least so far, no one behind the venture has been willing to talk about it.
Ideally, in a democracy, we’d know who is spending millions trying to change public opinion on the secret police. But, in the American system, that’s just not how it works.
What’s fascinating about this franchise is that I always thought it was just a vanity project! It happened to be profitable when it came out because it was kid-friendly.
James Cameron is the king of “why did so many people care about that at the time?”
The public’s obsession with Titanic in 1997 seems eyeroll-inducing now. I remember going to used media stores and copies of Titanic on VHS were everywhere.
They’re so bereft of ideas again, they’re remaking the awful Uwe Boll movies based on video games.
This was literally the guy who started his entire political career in earnest by calling in to Fox News and talking about how Obama wasn’t “American” because he’s black. Trump found his political fame because he advocated the “birther” conspiracy.
It’s honestly crazy that anyone could be surprised. He’s been up front about his racism for fifteen years now.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-100-billion-megadeal-between-openai-and-nvidia-is-on-ice-aa3025e3
This is the original source the podcast cites if anyone wants the information faster.
The thing in the numbers that we’ve been experiencing is the shift among some of the folks who voted for him — his voting coalition — not necessarily the governing support he has, but his voting coalition," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion.
That coalition included younger people, Latinos and independents, all of whom Trump is struggling with in this survey.
The non-Republican dumbshits that voted for Trump are already regretting it? You don’t say.
I genuinely didn’t get it, but the Disqus link helped.
Knut Døsen Lunde (the Disqus commenter) said:
Pack up all your cares and woes
Here I go singing low,
bye bye blackbird.
(Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon)
Bye Bye Blackbird is considered a popular “standard,” which makes a lot of sense for a The Far Side.