Friday, September 23, 2022

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"Strategy"? What "strategy"? Trump has never won a case in court or brought any of his “enemies” to court since he took office. His strategy against the DOJ hasn’t crumbled, it was smashed to bits, and now the Special Master is pounding the bits into dust.

At least since Election Day in 2020, Trump’s reach has far exceeded his grasp. He is consistently given far more credit than he deserves. As that finally comes to an end, will everyone be surprised?  Or will they just finally notice the emperor is nekkid as a jay bird and poor as a church mouse?

"Our"? Two jokes come to mind, one badly dated and maybe offensive (if so, apologies; I am a creature of my childhood). First one: " 'We?' You gotta mouse in your pocket?" Second: Lone Ranger sees a horde of Indians (sorry!) descending upon him. "Looks like we're in trouble, Tonto." "What you mean 'we,' white man?"

Who is the "our" in that sentence?  Does the press bear no responsibility for trumpeting every move Trump makes? Every fart he issues gets coverage, every belch is examined for meaning.  Sure, people watch/listen/buy the magazine/newspaper, but is the press only a passive agent here, an unpaid press agent for Trump, a national megaphone for his ego?  "Our decision to turn away"?  Hey, media!  You go first!

Trump is and always has been a fictional creation.  Which suddenly makes that Twitter discussion about "fictional characters" make a bit more sense; only in the sense that we truly can't distinguish fact from fiction, and when we're caught in that finger trap, we blame someone else for our failure.

I've reduced my interest in Trump to his legal problems, because those are objective and I can follow the narratives (mostly).  Trump's posts on Truth Social, which someone on the intertoobs will always "helpfully" post for me?  I try to avoid them.  I know what Trump is; I don't need further examples.  He's not really decompensating, or falling apart, or becoming more dangerous (that's the most laughable one!).  He is as he's always been.  We are the ones who insist on reading something, anything!, into what he says/does next.  Remember when he flew to New York?  And we never found out why!  And now nobody cares!

Yeah.  Treat everything he does that way.  See how long his "importance" lasts, then.  I honestly think all the people "warning" us about how "dangerous" Trump is are doing it so they'll be important.  Which is even sadder than being Trump.  And Donald Trump is really, really sad.
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