Hi, Y'all!!

For some reason, I'm getting lots of clips in my Fb feed of people talking with southern drawls!  One of them is by a woman called Shae Haesics—I'm not sure whether the name is a joke or for real—and another was by a tiny little girl saying something about "Vaycayshn Bahbul Skewl".  They're both too cute for words, so I haven't made a fuss about them, but I have to wonder: what makes the algorithm think that I'm a good prospect for a long-term commercial relationship?  I mean, I don't buy anything!

Anyhoo, the MAGA movement (I mean the  former MAGA movement; it's difficult to know what each splinter of it thinks these days) was based on opposition to various things, most importantly, Federal Bureaucracy.

When MAGA got rich backers, though, they had to fine-tune their agenda so that it appealed to those business interests.  So, of course MAGA is opposed to environmental legislation; they support gasoline-powered machinery.  They probably get a lot of financial support from the petroleum industry. 

But they need votes, and they need moral support.  Fox News has supported them for years; and the MAGA philosophy generally attracts

• Bikers, motorcycle gangs, people who own enormous muscle cars.  Those sorts of people see anyone driving hybrid cars, cyclists, and Nerds, generally, as their natural enemies. 
• Guys, thugs, and abusers of women.  This is not because trump goes out of his way to be mean to women, (though we know that in his old teen pageant days, he used to ogle young women, and was in the fringes—or even in the thick—of the teen grooming business); but nowadays he probably doesn't have a lot of testosterone to waste.  So these kinds of guys are recruited into ICE, and directed towards bullying immigrants. 
• Anyone who finds it difficult to follow long, complicated arguments.  The arguments for Global Warming, and the argument for the Greenhouse Effect are of this kind; they're multiple effects chained one after the other.  Of course, the most convenient thing for MAGA types is to go on the warpath against Nerds, generally.  My computer friends tell me that Nerds are different from Geeks.  Geeks are specialists in any field that requires study.  So Musk, who made his money by wrangling geeks, was punching a little over his head by getting into the game of US electoral politics, and actually getting his hands dirty with destroying the government databases for the social service administrations.  It didn't go according to plan, as far as I can see, so he did a quick fade as soon as he could, leaving the president and his geniuses—like Hegseth—to pick up the pieces. 

Trump really dislikes trans people, which is not a surprise, because I'm a little suspicious of them, too.  But for the rest of the LGBTQ rainbow, it's a little baffling to us post-boomer generations as to why these people are so up in arms against them.

But now Gavin Newsom has gleefully flung the gauntlet at the prez, and has resorted to tweeting the same sort of unhinged tweets that used to be Trump's exclusive province!  I would have thought trump is delighted to read them, and he probably is, but for the sake of the Bros, he's gotta pretend he hates them.