MFP
Published December 11, 2018
Who won?
In the short term, Trump won because audiences– consciously or otherwise– were forced to choose sides.
That’s a popularity contest that Trump wins every single time (it’s not right or wrong– that’s just how our brains evolved over hundreds of thousands of years).
But don’t take my word for it…
| Favorability Ratings | ||
|---|---|---|
| Trump | Pelosi | Schumer |
| -12 | -23 | -13 |
What’s going to happen?
Trump is demanding $5 billion for border wall funding. The Democrats are offering $1.3 billion for border security.
Eventually, they will come to the following compromise:
- $2.5-3.75 billion for border security (most of it going into the pockets of crony capitalist contractors).
- Republicans get their lobbyists $$$ for obsolete, overpriced military junk that the Pentagon doesn’t want or need.
- Democrats get their lobbyists $$$ for green solar scams that goes to investors flying around on private jets.
In exchange, lobbyists will kick back money into politicians’ reerection campaigns– and the cycle continues unabated in perpetuity.
That’s fucking depressing
What you saw today is precisely why:
- George Washington warned against political parties.
- The Founding Fathers feared democracy.
- The Founding Fathers created the Erectoral College for the expressed purpose of overturning erections, when necessary.
Nothing any of us do now can stop the clusterfuck that is coming.
For the record, MFP currently has an 89.1% accuracy rate.
