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Weekly: Is Trump The Dog Who Caught The Car?
A year on from Donald Trump's reelection, the president who promised a "new golden age" for American
Seems like Mamdani has also caught a (much smaller) car as well.
p.s. Both are wearing the same thing–which is to say, their Birthday Suits.
So true and so sad. More and more Americans are seeing the “Emperor has NO CLOTHES!!!” (to write it as trump would). Americans seem to be awakening, let’s hope it continues and HE changes HIS ways…………………………………… For the good of all.
This 79 won’t be changing.
He’s not capable is any really change.
He will degrade in certain ways , as dementia takes over.
The malignant part of him, is set in stone.
I seem to remember that Boss Reagan became a frequent napper in his second term cabinet meetings. Nancy apparently attended as caregiver. Absent 9/11 Bush didn’t really know what to do after he was elected. Co-President Dick was helpful and dragged us into the Middle East for quite a spell. Again, the GOP shows it doesn’t really know how to support our country’s citizens. Overseas stakeholders are great because we feel more comfortable with outsiders than with our own citizens. They don’t vote.
Well put. Really captured the exhausted malaise everyone is feeling
“What now?” His normal lose-lose approach!
Maybe Trump is just tired from too much winning. It seems like the administration’s domestic agenda now is to prevent government action or progress of any kind. I understood the GOP’s obstructionist strategy when Biden was in the White House, but someone should point out the Republican’s won the election, essentially control all three branches of government, and have some genuine responsibility to the American people. Are there any plans to actually create jobs, address inflation, or make housing more affordable?
At his core, Trump is a lazy human being, physically and intellectually. Being a true autocrat is hard work, so as long as people sate his ego, that’s enough for him.
It’s the people that enables to work for him in the background that concern me.
If there was ever a time for innovation in DC, that time is now. We need a young, vibrant team of leaders, independent in action and repulsed by tribalism, that will swing for the fences ……..public schools that seamlessly meld into vocational training, public financing of elections, mandatory community service, and healthcare for all. We can’t settle for less.
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“innovation in DC” sounds like an amusing oxymoron. Don’t we already have young vibrant leaders in Democratic party… complete with photogenic charisma and inspiring rhetoric, especially AOC and the new mayor-elect of NYC. At the risk of sounding cynical, whatever they are selling sounds like the conformist emotional agitation, de rigeur in the day-care safe spaces of prolonged adolescence for the entitled, …. we politely refer to as colleges. The young leaders’ charismatic, compelling, and morally superior rhetoric demands equality and fairness. Yet, behind the inevitable fade of emotional excitement, these young and vibrant leaders appear to be peddling the tired simplistic socialist “solutions” from the dumpster of the 19th and 20th centuries, devoid of any actual understanding of economics and history. Being an incorrigible optimist, I naively wait for the innovation.
Alas, Ms. Smith, when has this country not needed innovation in DC? When has it not needed a young, vibrant team of leaders, independent in action and repulsed by tribalism? There was that Declaration of Independence thing back in 1776 and that whiz-bang constitution that was officially put in place in 1789. And sure, there was Lincoln, getting us to the end of the Civil War in 1865 and Roosevelt getting us (sort of) though the Great Depression. But their efforts were reactive, not proactive.
I feel, like many others, that I’ve been part of a group that, for the last 25 years, has been trying to talk the country in off a ledge. But one year ago, America put a .380 Sig-Sauer to its collective temple and gleefully pulled the trigger. Short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump is president. Short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump is what America wants. And Donald Trump and his legion of soulless, grifting empty suits is what America now has, and may now have for good.
If there’s still a country left by 2028, you can rest assured that JD Vance will want to be its president. Vance was mentored by evil tech bro Peter Thiel (the man who destroyed Gawker) and is fronting a group of tech billionaires who think democracy is for wimps and losers and that the US should be run like a Silicon Valley startup, where armies of hollow-eyed 20-somethings work 75 to 90 hour weeks making sure a bunch of VC investors get a killer return when the company goes public. And the Republican Party is working hard to make sure that, whatever the actual vote count may be, Vance or someone like him will be sitting in the Oval Office come January 2029.
And it’s looking more and more like it’ll take some sort of hideous cataclysm — a financial catastrophe, a pandemic even more deadly than the last one, a world war — to show the country its folly in electing a punchline for a leader.
Nice knowing you, America. It was great while it lasted.
“It’s all about the economy, stupid”.
Fixing th
Fixing the economy is hard work.