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.
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?
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.
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.
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 😢