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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Chaos

 Where to begin? The random laying off of the people who keep the Phoenix Federal Courthouse operating? Trump's entirely-not-surprising-at-all-not-really walking back of his tariffs? The blowing up of every strategic alliance? 

Trump was, indeed, "constrained" during his first term. There was a quote by someone who noted something along the lines that so many of Trump's aides - people like Kelly, Mattis, Tillerson - talked about him like was a toddler who had missed his nap. I'm also reminded again of the Fran Lebowitz quote, "You don't know anyone stupider than Donald Trump. You just don't." 

Now, Trump has the perfect, undying fealty of the GOP, who are terrified of him tweeting some shit about them, the resulting primary challenge and they are reduced to be Scott Kinzinger or Liz Cheney, which is...bad, I guess?

Businesses hate chaos. Businesses want stability. Trump is incapable of providing that, because stability requires both planning and hard work. Trump is capable of neither. He is, it appears, capable of outsourcing stripping the government for parts by allowing the unelected South African billionaire to just go nuts in direct violation of the law.

So, we may be headed for the Trumpcession, but, hey!  Maybe not!  No one knows anything anymore! Still, do we think they are really going to be able to pass a budget?

Fraud, however, does not work. Lying only works for a short span of time.

Every day there are signs we are getting closer to the "Find Out" phase of voting for this malevolent, felonious cretin. 

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