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Centrist Sisyphus
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Logician in a pandemic of illogic. Could be a Republican but refuse to follow them into Qrazy Traitorville. Enjoying the trip through nature on the way to eternity.
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Trump will be a potemkin president. His intellect, attention span and energy are wholly inadequate to the job, and the administration’s decisions will mostly be made around him by zealots…which is exactly what groups like Project 2025 and Peter Thiel were counting on.
These billionaires could donate in a structured way, in a defined schedule and via a service to collect their internal revenue. Maybe???
Topic for future books will be, “Trump: Psychopath Or Sociopath, Or Distinction Without A Difference?”
Or end up being Ralph Sampson x 1.1. Extremely tall and thin isn’t the recipe for durability, but we’ll see.
But it couldn’t just be haphazard, to make it fair we could…I dunno…establish a “Rate” at which each paid into the fund, and…I dunno…maybe the gov’t could establish a schedule and setup a service to collect the internal revenue.
The condition extends to ICE as well. Those guys are making the most money they’ve ever made and living the (toxic) masculine dream of action and heroism. It’s immensely more fulfilling than slinging fries at McD’s.
Whataboutism has been standard MAGA practice for so long that it’s reflexive, and ignorant of the flimsy-to-false-to-hilariously-stupid strawmen they create.
Sloppy. Keri Russell would’ve only needed 3-5 minutes with it.
Thanks, your article has gotten a lot of attention.
Those “relationships” all involve putting money (in various forms) into the Trump family’s pockets. The level of corruption is staggering, almost unimaginable, and with no consequences to date.
IMO the Supreme Court shoots down the reinterpretation of 22A. I also can’t ignore Bannon saying Trump will be president in ‘28. Of course he will. Is Bannon just winking and stirring the pot…flooding the zone?
So Trump can follow a lengthy, laborious process of gaining regional allies to surgically change leadership in Ven. Or, he can produce “Shock and Awe” video that shows MAGA world how strong he is and that he’s brought warfighters back.

There’s little question which he’ll choose.
Trump’s base are the victims of Bannon/Putin tactics: too much information, too much confusion, too little discernment. They’ve given up, it’s easier just to trust their guy.
Joe Biden had the worst presidency in the year before his term, of anyone in history…I’ve learned.
Couldn’t help imagining this admin being involved. But when SecDef walked off the roof…I must admit to mixed feelings!
“When you ain’t got nothin’, you got nothin’ to lose”
It’s hyperbole and bias (recency and political). Just a year ago Fox ‘News’ was calling inflation that had dropped below 3% “SPIRALING!!!”
The contrasting reactions to fake Jade Helm vs. the real one may be the clearest sign of MAGA’s decline into conspiracy and propaganda…though there are many.
Two signs of our national decline:

1) Sports leagues shifting from resisting gambling as a danger, to encouraging (and profiting from) betting.

2) Bezos dismantling the formerly venerable WaPo.
The mean time necessary to dismantle a MAGA argument is 16 seconds…it’s pathetic how rickety and disingenuous they are.
Our current state is to me less concerning than the rate of decline, with 3+ years left to survive Trump and retain some semblance of democracy. Surviving what folllows him is another challenge.
At some point, framing and exaggeration become flat-out lying.

Trump passed that point a while ago, fabricating justifications for his invasion of Dem cities.
We’re in a battle between readily observable reality and MAGA’s apocalyptic lies, that drive Trump’s brazenly illegal acts. It’s important, and WaPo and other major media aren’t helping.
When will obvious reality finally pierce the bubble of MAGA’s fake apocalyptic world? It’s important.