Trump is nothing more or less than the mouthpiece for the id of tens of millions of voters, a true demagogue. We've seen this before, it's been as constant as the tides. There was the Silent Majority, the Moral Majority and now MAGA.
Something peculiar happened after Reagan, the Laws of Newton were suspended, the tide never receded. Each successive political cycle has given us ambitious candidates who looked at Reagan and said we want that, his popularity, his sentimental view of America and his embrace of wealth as a metric of superiority.
Now, here we stand on our islands, separate from one another as the tide continues to rise, some of us literally desperate to survive, others thinking the crocodiles will not come for them. Whether the planets resume their stately courses and the tide recedes is an open question.
On point article. I must quibble though with the statement that, “Hegseth understood the assignment.” I don’t think Hegseth understands anything. He’s just a knee jerk who thinks sneak attacks and carpet bombing is strategy.
“Big money will be made”—that’s it in a capsule, no? “Genocide, oh what a mighty bluff,” thinketh he. Just a big board game of Battleships in jolly Delusion Land.
This shit is completely untenable. Putin and Xi are unfettered by constraints or limits, but trump is unfettered by *reality*
The world can't function if it has to worry about the owner of the world's largest nuclear arsenal deciding to wipe out life on some part of the globe on a goddamn whim.
Whatever the US was supposed to be, it's an abject failure as a country. The constitution failed to do what it was ostensibly meant to do.
Watching Trump doing his psychotic performance transitioning from threatening to vaporize the Iranian civilization to proposing a business deal with them in the Strait of Hormuz reminds me of an old pre World War II film The Great Dictator. For those film enthusiasts who have not seen the film Charley Chaplin, the great silent film comic (in a talking movie), satirizes Adolph Hitler (Adenoid Hinckel) and plays the role of Hinckel. There is a famous scene where Chaplin performs a ballet with a balloon globe of the earth. You can watch this scene on YouTube; do a search for Charley Chaplin ballet with a globe of the earth.
Imagine Trump losing 100 pounds. Is Trump Hinckel?
Never lose sight of the fact that the Republican controlled Senate allowed Trump to appoint unqualified people. Blaming Trump alone misses the point, and Democrats would be wise to remember that in their campaigns for the House and Senate.
“Big money will be made”? As you mentioned later in this piece, he’s already profited from his presidency as have his billionaire bros and family. The expense comes from taxes and higher prices for oil which he seems intent on controlling. This guy is a mess, completely and utterly. Until he’s nipped in the bud by a change in Congress he’ll continue to leave these no-so-little turds for all of us to step on.
Trump is nothing more or less than the mouthpiece for the id of tens of millions of voters, a true demagogue. We've seen this before, it's been as constant as the tides. There was the Silent Majority, the Moral Majority and now MAGA.
Something peculiar happened after Reagan, the Laws of Newton were suspended, the tide never receded. Each successive political cycle has given us ambitious candidates who looked at Reagan and said we want that, his popularity, his sentimental view of America and his embrace of wealth as a metric of superiority.
Now, here we stand on our islands, separate from one another as the tide continues to rise, some of us literally desperate to survive, others thinking the crocodiles will not come for them. Whether the planets resume their stately courses and the tide recedes is an open question.
And our strongman is incompetent to the point to where we need the US to be placed under conservatorship.
And the Tea Party!
On point article. I must quibble though with the statement that, “Hegseth understood the assignment.” I don’t think Hegseth understands anything. He’s just a knee jerk who thinks sneak attacks and carpet bombing is strategy.
“Big money will be made”—that’s it in a capsule, no? “Genocide, oh what a mighty bluff,” thinketh he. Just a big board game of Battleships in jolly Delusion Land.
I think Xi may experience more constraints than our madman. At least he seems marginally competent, tho evil.
This shit is completely untenable. Putin and Xi are unfettered by constraints or limits, but trump is unfettered by *reality*
The world can't function if it has to worry about the owner of the world's largest nuclear arsenal deciding to wipe out life on some part of the globe on a goddamn whim.
Whatever the US was supposed to be, it's an abject failure as a country. The constitution failed to do what it was ostensibly meant to do.
The entire thing needs to be dismantled.
Watching Trump doing his psychotic performance transitioning from threatening to vaporize the Iranian civilization to proposing a business deal with them in the Strait of Hormuz reminds me of an old pre World War II film The Great Dictator. For those film enthusiasts who have not seen the film Charley Chaplin, the great silent film comic (in a talking movie), satirizes Adolph Hitler (Adenoid Hinckel) and plays the role of Hinckel. There is a famous scene where Chaplin performs a ballet with a balloon globe of the earth. You can watch this scene on YouTube; do a search for Charley Chaplin ballet with a globe of the earth.
Imagine Trump losing 100 pounds. Is Trump Hinckel?
The absolute saddest end to our "exceptional" existence 😢
This is NOT the end!
There was a certain inevitability to it, I’m afraid.
Never lose sight of the fact that the Republican controlled Senate allowed Trump to appoint unqualified people. Blaming Trump alone misses the point, and Democrats would be wise to remember that in their campaigns for the House and Senate.
“Big money will be made”? As you mentioned later in this piece, he’s already profited from his presidency as have his billionaire bros and family. The expense comes from taxes and higher prices for oil which he seems intent on controlling. This guy is a mess, completely and utterly. Until he’s nipped in the bud by a change in Congress he’ll continue to leave these no-so-little turds for all of us to step on.
America 2026. Time has run out.