Oh I think plenty of smart people “like” Trump. They know that they can manipulate him with ease. One thing he has always been good at is conning the ones who want to believe him. I don’t know if they are actually dumb or just want to believe their worldview no matter how much fact disputes it. Trump is a new breed of politician that will not only stretch the truth but will flat out lie that the sky is yellow, the sun purple and any facts, like your own sight, to the contrary, are fake. It’s easy to dismiss everyone who follows him as ignorant however I know many people who previously seemed sane and rational that somehow have taken leave of their senses to follow him.

My EV, not a Tesla, is 8 years old and still going strong. Best commuter car I have ever owned over 40 years of driving.

Couldn’t have said that. It doesn’t seem like a lie.

It’s a motorized vehicle so the operator needs to be licenced. And not impaired. The danger it poses is that it is unexpected for regular vehicles and someone could have an accident and hurt an innocent person while trying to protect the asshole driving the toy. It wasn’t a cute stunt. It was a prohibited driver trying to get around his prohibition while yet again, drunk.

They have to believe it is a choice. If not, they are equally at risk of losing everything and becoming homeless and that terrifies most people. Picard’s “you can do everything right and still fail” is not something most people want to know. No one wants to be impoverished, homeless, sick, mentally unwell. Instead they find it comforting to believe that this is happening to others simply because that person made the wrong choice. The same happens for success. The one who make it would have everyone believe that if they made the exact same choices, they too would be rich and that opportunity, chance, luck have nothing to do with it.

$10M and up would probably qualify. Below that, people would still need to work to maintain what they have with some measure of comfort and dealing with risk, inflation. Above that, they should be able to be self sustaining without working for a paycheque.

I don’t think it will get better. Trump is doing shit that will be nearly impossible to reverse even if he and the GOP give up power sometime in the future. Trump will eventually bring jobs back to the US - by making the country into 3rd world status with incomes to rival the current poorest countries of the world and no government oversight or regulation. Who in their right mind would want to travel to that?

Married 34 years. Can’t say I’ve ever been forced to watch videos on my husband’s phone. Although if he’s splitting a gut, I usually ask if I can watch it. Married doesn’t mean attached at the hip or phone.