Like a declassé WWF performer yelling obscenities while waving a metal folding chair over his head & threatening to come into the ring and beat the s**t out of people with it…
But Reagan played the part on behalf of the very cynical experts who started all this worship of private power, hatred of the very idea of government, dog-whistled prejudice. And, with the media ecology we now have, I really wonder how any courageous rightists could hope to pull off the regency idea. Fox and OAN and (anti-)social media would hyper-shred them at their first baby step toward the Oval Office.
There will be no regent. Trump will not allow it. It’s clear to anyone who matters to him that Trump is the smartest guy in every room he’s in, and the only person who matters to him is Donald Trump. Republican members are either too afraid of his base or see him as the horse that will carry them to total control of the government. For Bill Kristol’s idea of a handful of Republican’s in each house to go independent and caucus with Democrats to work, Trump’s polling numbers would have to crater. Even then, that only takes away Republican congressional power. He’s already marginalizing them.
“I’m going to be heavily involved on the transition. I want to make sure now that we know who the real players are, the people who will actually deliver on the president’s message, the people who don’t think that they know better than the duly elected president of the United States,” Trump Jr. said during his Thursday morning appearance on “Fox & Friends.”
If this was Trump 1.0 I could see this as a comment he'd already forgotten, BUT Trump knows what happened last time when he lost control of the political process - he got impeached, and almost went to prison.
THAT is Trump's great fear.
As John Dean put it, "I think that there’s no doubt about the seriousness of the problem we’ve got. We have a cancer within—close to the presidency, that’s growing. It’s growing daily. It’s compounding. It grows geometrically now, because it compounds itself."
Pausing tariffs is genius as the media attention span is only 24 hours. In three months we will be absorbed by some trans athlete or mass shooting. No one will remember anything about tariffs.
Joey Politano explored the tariffs promised in the next couple of months. This provides future plot tension. Will he or won't he? Both. He has to do it sometimes, or else no one tunes in.
This isn't the WWE; it is a man in a crowded room shouting and waving a loaded gun around. He fires a few shots. What's a foreign investor to do? I'll tell you what he does. He gets TF out of the room.
The Chinese understand Trump. If you've read a Journey to the West (Monkey: Folk Novel of China), it opens with monkey bowing to the four corners of the compass and then trashing heaven. He eats the peaches of immortality, clobbers everyone in the imperial court and declares himself Great Sage of Heaven. Then, the Buddha steps in and reminds him of his place. Those mountains in the distance are the fingers of my hand. I'll recommend the Wade-Giles translation as it is the one I read. I'm sure every Chinese trade negotiator is at least vaguely familiar with the story.
But Reagan played the part on behalf of the very cynical experts who started all this worship of private power, hatred of the very idea of government, dog-whistled prejudice. And, with the media ecology we now have, I really wonder how any courageous rightists could hope to pull off the regency idea. Fox and OAN and (anti-)social media would hyper-shred them at their first baby step toward the Oval Office.
There will be no regent. Trump will not allow it. It’s clear to anyone who matters to him that Trump is the smartest guy in every room he’s in, and the only person who matters to him is Donald Trump. Republican members are either too afraid of his base or see him as the horse that will carry them to total control of the government. For Bill Kristol’s idea of a handful of Republican’s in each house to go independent and caucus with Democrats to work, Trump’s polling numbers would have to crater. Even then, that only takes away Republican congressional power. He’s already marginalizing them.
Here's why things will get worse.
After Trump was elected Don Jr. was quoted:
“I’m going to be heavily involved on the transition. I want to make sure now that we know who the real players are, the people who will actually deliver on the president’s message, the people who don’t think that they know better than the duly elected president of the United States,” Trump Jr. said during his Thursday morning appearance on “Fox & Friends.”
https://fox59.com/news/national-world/trump-jr-i-want-people-who-dont-think-they-know-better-than-father-in-cabinet/
If this was Trump 1.0 I could see this as a comment he'd already forgotten, BUT Trump knows what happened last time when he lost control of the political process - he got impeached, and almost went to prison.
THAT is Trump's great fear.
As John Dean put it, "I think that there’s no doubt about the seriousness of the problem we’ve got. We have a cancer within—close to the presidency, that’s growing. It’s growing daily. It’s compounding. It grows geometrically now, because it compounds itself."
Trump won't resign.
Ergo, things will get worse.
We don't have Roos but we do have ostrichs. The addition of their feathers would be perfect.
The US needs a kangaroo industry. Their meat is delicious.
But we could have roos if Trump's thing works. Import a few and start them up. What a wonderful world.
Pausing tariffs is genius as the media attention span is only 24 hours. In three months we will be absorbed by some trans athlete or mass shooting. No one will remember anything about tariffs.
That's a hoppin' hat.
Joey Politano explored the tariffs promised in the next couple of months. This provides future plot tension. Will he or won't he? Both. He has to do it sometimes, or else no one tunes in.
This isn't the WWE; it is a man in a crowded room shouting and waving a loaded gun around. He fires a few shots. What's a foreign investor to do? I'll tell you what he does. He gets TF out of the room.
The Chinese understand Trump. If you've read a Journey to the West (Monkey: Folk Novel of China), it opens with monkey bowing to the four corners of the compass and then trashing heaven. He eats the peaches of immortality, clobbers everyone in the imperial court and declares himself Great Sage of Heaven. Then, the Buddha steps in and reminds him of his place. Those mountains in the distance are the fingers of my hand. I'll recommend the Wade-Giles translation as it is the one I read. I'm sure every Chinese trade negotiator is at least vaguely familiar with the story.
Your image in the video is perfect!!!!
Keep It!!!