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Have You Heard The Good News?
Donald Trump took a few minutes away from hawking his latest book ("SAVE AMERICA"), promoting Jimmy Patronis's nascent congressional bid ("RUN, JIMMY, RUN") and railing against "Fani Willis and her lover," to sketch the contours of his day-one US trade policy in a couple of disjointed social media posts.
Without mincing words, this is far, far too stupid for me to take seriously, and it's unfortunate that every single one of us -- including world leaders with better things to do -- will be comp
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At a certain point, it just all seems ridiculous. All these biopics, and journalists dedicating their entire lives to psychoanalyzing this guy and all these books, and efforts to discern who influenced him and “shaped his thinking” and on and on. I mean, yeah, he’s mastered populist demagoguery and he’s adept at riling people up, and yes, he’s “a product” of this and that (which doesn’t make him unique, by the way, we’re all a product of our experiences and the people we’ve been around), but the underlying reality here is that this man’s an imbecile in a sort of textbook way. His sons are too. It’s plain as day.
Imbecile seems like the best single word to describe him.
When I was working on my second book my publisher told me that writing for “college level” readers was taboo. I had to dumb down my stuff to the eighth grade level. They had a word parsing software program that could catch me when I got ahead of myself. Remember when JFK was the POTUS and we would be regularly reminded of his morning ritual of reading ten top newspapers and scanning a dozen more. Trump gets his Weekly Reader on Monday and tries to get it done by Friday. JFK was sixty years ago. The trend in literacy, IQ and good sense in the US has declined steadily since then. The sad thing is, possible prospects among the Dems for the next go round are just not thick on the ground. Liberals seem to want to run the country as an ideal state. People who live here just want uncomplicated, normal and pleasant.
The silver lining is 4 years of these articles. This is more exciting than 4 years of parsing Fed language and Magnificent 7 earnings in the same way that a massive car wreck is more interesting than the same old traffic, right?
I also saw that the founder of Tron (some blockchain dude?) “invested” $30M in the Trump family crypto firm where the Trump family gets 75% straight off the top with no liability. Can we just get rid of any and all bribery laws at this point and just acknowledge reality here? Looks like one of Trump’s confidants was also pressing people for payment in exchange for recommending them to Trump’s cabinet.
Trump is draining the swamp and refilling it with sewage, chemical runoff, nuclear waste, and every other political toxin and pollutant known to mankind. At least a swamp can sustain life. We’ll see what happens now that Trump is turning DC into a superfund site.
Trump’s response when learning of Epshteyn trying to sell influence: “I suppose every president has people around them who try to make money off them on the outside. It’s a shame, but it happens. But no one working for me in any capacity should be looking to make money.”
Yeah, you have to give the boss his cut on any grifts.
This loser is what America deserves. Welcome to hell, you voted for it. Hey, at least you don’t have to wring your hands over trans rights or old man Biden being too old. I mean, those were the key issues this election weren’t they?
that was freaking funny dude
“tHese Crimes stoop” good stuff
And you know, they’ll be a dozen or so people who cancel their subscription today because I wrote this, and they’ll go pout like children for a few months, and like they don’t know it’s all true, and then when the next 10% stock correction comes along, they’ll sneak back in, like “Maybe he won’t notice.” But I will. Notice. And I’ll laugh. Just like I did in 2020, during the pandemic, when hundreds of people who canceled during my 2019 Trump coverage came running back because they needed to make sense of sh-t all of a sudden. It’s the same song and dance. I’ve seen it over and over and over again for nearly a decade now.
This comment says a lot about people. They clearly trust you, but they can’t handle it when you hurt their feelings. And their feelings are hurt because a spoiled brat is their idol, a guy who would never spend the time that you do to explain himself, is more important to them than your analysis is. That is until they feel lost again, and come crawling back like the Prodigal Son.
Hilarious/great post and comments. 🙂
Looking forward to your take on our country as it moves even closer to achieving “Idiocracy” (I just rewatched that movie) over the next 4 years.