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Subject: Re: "Starter Villain" by John Scalzi
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On 5/9/2025 9:16 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Thu, 8 May 2025 18:22:03 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
> <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/8/25 16:43, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> On 5/7/2025 12:29 PM, BCFD 36 wrote:
> 
> <snippo>
> 
>>> The young people (under 30) in the USA have been so screwed over that
>>> they are turning very conservative.  The young pushed Trump over the top
>>> in the 2024 election.  One hopes that they will do so again in 2026 and
>>> 2028.
>>>      https://www.newsweek.com/republican-support-poll-young-gen-z-2060258
>>
>> `	You and the young folk who went conservative have flipped ouit.
>> They have a good reason being alive in a world destroying itself for the
>> convenience of automobiles and air travel.
>>
>> 	But the Orange man-shaped creature in the Oval Office will do
>> very little good for them and I believe I have read that they are
>> beginning to figure that out since that one announced his Tariff plans.
> 
> That's the problem at the moment: things are in such flux that it is
> hard to keep straight what the /current/ polls are saying or what the
> /current/ situation with the Courts might be.
>   
> So it's hard to tell who is figuring out what.

Which is part of the plan.

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