On every season of #Survivor, on one or more occasions, one of the contestants finds themselves on the wrong side of a vote. They succeed in staying in the game, by using what has become central GOP strategy:

They spread lies and rumors to set two of the more powerful players against each other. The more powerful players repeatedly fall for this gossip ruse, and turn on each other.

How is it that humans have been living in civilization for more than 10,000 years and this #divide and #conquer shit still works?

We've got several situations that fall into this category going on right now. But there's one in particular that needs to be called out:

In #Texas, long years of #privatization and neglect of the power #grid have once again resulted in winter power failures and senseless suffering. Yet Governor #Abbott (who inexplicably just got reelected) instead of fixing the problem is bussing helpless refugees across the country in freezing temperatures to try to embarrass vice president #Kamala Harris, while at the same time his attorney general #Paxton is trying to scapegoat and harass #trans people.

When do the people of Texas quit playing "shitty Survivor" and hold these bastards accountable for actually governing their state?