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Trump’s ‘Bah! Humbug!’ address suggests he is feeling the chill of opinion polls
(www.theguardian.com)
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Still stupid enough to have gotten on to the ship in the first place
Pretty sure she perspnally benefitted from being on the ship and hasn't had any negative repercussions.
She's made a little money but not enough to live the kind of lifestyle she wants if she ever really pisses off her rich friends and gets cut off, anytime she goes out in a crowd she has to deal with the fact that probably 30-40% of it hates her guts, and in 80-100 years she's going to be dead and everything she's done will have crumbled away to nothing because she's way too stupid to build anything that would last.
Oh, and while she was making an ass of herself in public her husband dumped her. Don't care how much money you have and how many sex workers you hire after that, that's gonna sting.
Is it stupid? Jumping on board got her a political career, she made some serious cash, she jumped off at the earliest opportunity to still come out smelling of roses for certain people and won herself some points from her more credulous detractors. She's many things, few if any of them good, but one thing she isn't is stupid
She's done very well for herself. National name, life time pension, and plenty of other benefits we can only guess at.
Don't mistake morality for intelligence.
I found out that her pension is only $8k a year and she can't start collecting it for another decade. When she resigned, everyone was talking about how it was planned since she'd now receive a pension, but the payment amount is peanuts.
On the QAA podcast, they outlined that they think she quit because Trump was going to fund her primary challenger in 2026, Republicans are going to lose big in 2026, and if she won her seat, that'd put her in a position where she has to defend Trump as the minority party just after he paid millions of dollars trying to have her defeated.