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We’re All Deranged Here
You know, it's funny: The era of hyper-partisanship in America's actually turning me apolitical.
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It is difficult to acknowledge when a grifting moron who is a bull in a china shop and a world class a-hole is occasionally directionally right on policy.
That so many are just rolling with it…is not a reflection on said moron…
Satan had a great touch for reading the état de la politique. Right until he grabbed us all by the pussy.
Sounds so much more intelligent in French – doesn’t it?
I believe we have two CPI reports, and one additional jobs report, before the Fed meets again in September. I know it sounds virtually impossible now, but if we get some hot inflation data–perhaps as tariffs finally start to show-up in the hard data–and jobs manage to revise higher, we could still see bets on rate cuts reverse between now and then. August has been known to surprise from time to time.
It perhaps raises the question if Trump might have his new lackey (I mean appointee) at the BLS intentionally skew jobs numbers negatively in order to help secure a rate cut.
It was lost on Trump that the last jobs report being bad actually helped his cause. His ego demands that he be seen as a job creator, and no one has worse TDS than Trump himself.
Peach of an article.
We would probably all benefit from a little more of this kind of introspection. I noticed recently that I don’t challenge my kids often enough when they label Trump as ‘bad’, mainly because I’m secretly pleased that they’re aligning to my political tribe. What I’m trying to remind myself is that dealing in absolutes is a big part of the reason why we’re in this mess.
By definition he is ‘bad’ though, morally corrupt as they say. That has nothing to do with politics, he was this way before he even entered politics. The fact that politics has accepted someone like him is the reason we are forced to question why we view a truly bad person as bad politically. Take politics away from Trump and he’s just plain bad without any need for partisan concern.
I for one am finding that having Trump as my President is making me more politically engaged.
I don’t see objecting to Trump’s complete control of the former Republican Party as being partisan …. infuriating maybe.
Great article. Thank you.
I must have been out of the room when “Trump Derangement Syndrome” became a phrase. I thought it referred to the maga lickspittle yes men amen corner supporters of Trump, who might just be deranged. Now I see those people call everybody else that !
I’m with you H, at this point I identify as independent (officially) but have lately voted Democrat because, Trump (more specifically MAGA). I don’t believe Democrats are actually going to solve any problems but they at least aren’t shredding the Constitution. But after a couple of decades of GOP Constitution shredding I’m just not sure any of this is worth my time and attention anymore. And honestly, none of this really impacts me owing to my extreme privilege of being a white male in America (something that my acknowledgement of no longer holds value for).
I guess at this point, why fight the current when you can just float on by to better things?
Yeah probably wouldn’t occur to Zervos as he’s doing a circus act with former big tent acrobat Kelly Anne Conway. He probably gives her hair tips as well.
This hasn’t been mentioned in these pages yet but this AM Yahoo published a note that Trump has fired the director of the Library of Congress. The reason was apparently that the LOC has a website that shows a copy of the US (not his) Constitution. Apparently, Trump doesn’t approve of several paragraphs. He doesn’t like that Habeas Corpus stuff; erased it from the copy on the web. He also dislikes the part that says no to the conferring of titles. Specifically, he hates the part that says he can’t be King so, he took that part out too. Several pieces he took an oath to protect and defend are no longer found in the version of our Constitution on the LOC website. I’m pretty sure he thinks that means those bad parts are now actually gone. (Hint: others have found out about this. What will happen next is a mystery.) By the way, for those familiar with the classics the story persists that the learned sage Diogenes could not find an honest man in Athens so he got a lantern and searched for this lost soul every night. He never found what he sought. I wonder if this steadfast gentleman is available to continue his search around here.