So, That Happened

 The MAGA posture on what happened yesterday is that Trump “won.”

Well, Trump shot his mouth off on social media, which caused Colombia to respond in kind, which sent tout La intertoobs into a tizzy about the morning beverage and flowers for Algernon , er, VD, and then…

…it was over?

What’s going to be ignored is that this never should have happened. Colombia apparently never objected to the repatriation of its citizens. That would be why the President of Colombia sent his jet to bring them home. But Trump had to play Macho Man and send them back via military transport, which no country south of the Rio Grande cared for (Mexico refused to let military planes land, but Trump didn’t threaten them with immediate tariffs. 🤨 ). In fact, this whole thing played out on social media, where the wholly ignorant (I’m looking at me) go to pontificate.

What do you know about Colombian politics? I know nothing at all about. Odds are Trump doesn’t, either; nor does he have any advisors who do. Hell, Trump just congratulated himself because the Chiefs beat the Bills in a playoff game. He’s a certified narcissist moron who really does think he knows all he needs to know. And there’s evidence he doesn’t know anything about China’s efforts to influence the world that isn’t Europe or Russia or North America.

A look the world, IOW. [Looking back, I have no idea what I was trying to say. I have decided autocorrect has a sense of humor. A very strange sense of humor.]

Now China didn’t suddenly win all of Colombia’s coffee contracts, or its rose market, or even its oil contracts (Colombia is the fourth largest supplier of oil to the United States). But maybe China, looks more appealing this morning. Maybe Colombian politics stayed their president’s hand. Maybe he got what he wanted, and is playing this as putting the U.S. in its place. Maybe they now want better relations with China.

Who on social media really knows?

You can be like Trump, and thump your virtual chest. Or you can be like Trump and think your side (not his) lost the Image war. 

Or you can be rational, and decide none of this should have happened this way. And stop jumping every time Trump tweets. Especially to conclusions.

I’m talking to myself now.