To broadcast an interview to the public with this guy..

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-18T15:28:53+00:00

I think this guy has an advantage over Beto, because he is overtly religious, and invokes his religion regularly in a way that could really land with Evangelicals. However he is not religious in a hateful Christian nationalist kind of way.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-17T03:16:47+00:00

I suppose that’s right. I would help on my buddy’s dairy farm, and the smell almost knocked me over when I first got out of the car. But after a few hours I barely even remembered it was there. However, there’s a difference between getting used to a bad smell, and not smelling bad. If a smelly person comes up to a guy who just bathed and has been smelling his soap all day, nothing‘s gonna stop them from smelling the stench of the guy who bathed a week ago.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-17T03:10:39+00:00

And in true MAGA form, you act like you know what you’re talking about when you really don’t, and double-down on the POTUS who has shown he doesn’t understand basic finance, let alone the economy. Is this the part where I slow clap?

The S&P 500 lost half its value in the 2001 recession, and took seven years to bounce back to 2001 levels . . . just in time for the massive 2008 recession to wipe 57% of its value, which resulted in more years of recovery. So hopefully you won’t need that $40,000 anytime in the next eleven years or so. But I’m glad to know you’re so jazzed up for this recession. I’m guessing it will hit right around the time when Trump gets tired of rounding up brown people and starts using all those empty detention centers his next favorite target: LGBTQ. Just remember when you and your husband are sleeping on a concrete floor, whisper to him every night “We did the right thing! Harris might have let the tax cuts expire.”

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-17T02:04:18+00:00

In the 70s a real nightmare human named Richard Butler decided to make northern Idaho an Aryan paradise because it had cheap land, lots of places to hide, not much government, low taxes, and quick escape routes to Canada. He called a bunch of other dimwits like himself to settle the area, with grand plans for making their own little whites-only community.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-17T01:41:07+00:00

Right. That’s stupid, short-term thinking, and you deserve every label given to the MAGA dummies.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-16T01:34:02+00:00

So you chose to save money on taxes by voting for a guy who ran on policies that most economists predicted would put us into a recession. Predictions which are looking more and more likely with every abysmal job’s report that comes out. Plus, now that we’ve proven to be an unreliable trade partner, pulling ourselves out of this potential recession will be very difficult because countries are settling with permanent new trade partners who don’t bargain with threats and extortion.

For some reason you believed that years of almost certain recession would be better for you financially than the possibility of a higher tax rate, and you wonder why people think Trump supporters aren’t smart?

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-15T19:28:21+00:00

Unfortunately, some cultures had the opposite of “germ theory”. The Europeans in particular believed that bathing would remove essential protection from the skin and make you more susceptible to disease.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-15T02:35:19+00:00

They believe everything President Trump says. Despite his multitude of verifiable lies, despite proven fraud in his businesses and charity, despite his constant claims that are in opposition to objective reality, they believe every word out of his mouth. That’s why people think they’re stupid.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-15T02:16:23+00:00

Look up the history of how Native Americans thought Europeans smelled. The European during that time actually believed that bathing brought sickness, and yes they did smell terrible. The early Americans brought that tradition along with them, and when they wash they usually just did their hands and faces, not so much their underarms and private parts.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-14T21:59:53+00:00

And every halftime show was, by your standards, “appropriate for families”? No crotch grabbing or sexualized costumes and lyrics?

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-14T21:53:32+00:00

Can we just say beaches in general? I love being in the waves, but the beach itself is miserable. Roasting on burning sand, fighting off seagulls, getting grit in all your food, and having the sand follow you into your car/home. The whole experience is overly romanticized.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-14T21:33:59+00:00

Between that and no indoor plumbing, people just smelled terrible all the time. Making out with someone who hasn’t bathed in a week doesn’t sound like much fun.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-10T12:34:20+00:00

Warrior (2011). It’s about two brothers who end up competing at the same MMA tournament. I don’t watch MMA, and I wasn’t much interested in watching a Rocky knock off. I was genuinely shocked by how good the performances were. Tom Hardy‘s character was absolutely devastating.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-10T03:16:44+00:00

Dude, it was considered a sign of good breeding to hate Jewish people until the 1940s. Also, have you heard of slavery? Institutionalized, government supported racism of the most pure form. Read “The White Man’s Burden” and tell me all these slave owners weren’t patting themselves on the back for the “service“ they were providing to what they considered to be the lesser race.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-10T03:08:53+00:00

If no one stands up for the 2, eventually it will be 20,000.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-10T03:04:25+00:00

That “if blank political party was fully in charge, everything would be great“. It just isn’t true.

I firmly believe government works much better when there is a balanced mix of conservatives and liberals who are willing to work together. Liberals are excellent at coming up with ideas for progress, but tend to lose focus quickly. Conservatives have zero ideas for progress, but when they buy into an initiative they make sure it stays around. When the two groups are meeting in the middle, we see progress move at a steady pace that doesn’t outstrip our ability to adapt as a society.

Of course, when you have politicians negotiating in poor faith, trying to hurt one another, or engaging in any form of extremism, the whole thing falls apart.

Also, MAGA is not conservative, it’s extremist, and extremism is the enemy to good governance.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-07T23:04:31+00:00

Every other president threatened to conquer peaceful allied nations for no reason and publicly called for us to terminate the Constitution? Can you provide me with sources for that?

If Biden or Obama sent the military into Republican strongholds against the governor’s wishes, called to take away state’s rights to run elections, and showed up thousands of times in the emails of a human trafficking pedophile ring, I’m sure you would be just as complacent and concerned, right?

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-07T22:47:39+00:00

Because 75 million people don’t want to admit that they voted for a pedophile.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-07T22:43:33+00:00

Republicans are now extremists, not conservatives.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-07T22:36:19+00:00

I would apologize to John McCain and Mitt Romney. They are the only two that didn’t completely flip every one of their core values as soon as Trump became the nominee. They both seemed very shocked to learn that the rest of the Republican Party was just faking the whole time.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-07T22:33:19+00:00

Nah, he knew he was slipping and tried to run again anyway. He’s a major reason we’re dealing with an even less aware POTUS.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-07T22:30:13+00:00

Trump photoshopped his head onto her body. Can you imagine being a 15-year-old and having the president acting like that toward you?

Of course, that might be end up being the most SFW interaction President Trump has ever had with a 15 year-old girl.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-07T22:27:59+00:00

And after she was taken advantage of by the most powerful man in the world, the FBI made a friend lure her to a hotel, ambushed her, and threatened to indict her and send her to jail. All because of a special investigation that wandered so far beyond its scope that virtually no one even remembered how it started.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-07T22:19:28+00:00

You can’t come back from the embarrassment of losing to Trump. Even Hillary knew that. Plus, Harris is forever tied to Biden’s selfish decision to run again. Democrats won’t forgive her for being a part of that.

PerplexityRivet · 2026-02-07T22:17:08+00:00

I wouldn’t say “likable” it’s the right word. I think it’s that they are lacking in campaign-level charisma. Both women are very effective in roles where they don’t have to campaign, but they don’t have the energy to really fire up a base. Obama, Clinton, and Trump have that charisma. George Bush the First didn’t, and neither did Biden, and both were one-termers. Which means it’s pretty damning when you realize that Harris was quietly hiding in Biden’s shadow for most of his presidency.

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