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trust the plan
Is he possibly in some kind of cognitive decline, unable to make reasonable decisions, but since his base worships him no one can take the reins from him?
I mean that's what everyone was saying about Biden, except for the worshiping part.
And I think Biden was in decline. Not to excuse anything he did, just as he freezes and jumbled his word. Not shame for being in decline, but maybe don't be the president at that point.
His goal is bringing back manufacturing. He genuinely is pursuing that goal.
The problem is, they don't know how to do it. They have no plan. And every possible option that exists is either against their ideology or comes with so much pain they're unwilling to bear it. This is created by the conditions, the Chinese have the winning hand in every conceivable way.
The border shit is going pretty smoothly for them though.
This is what happens when you allow your ideologically driven state to drive all critical thinking out of universities.
They literally don’t have any more ideas because neoliberalism didn’t tolerate other ideas.
He's pretty good at manipulating the market for insider trading.
The purpose of a thing is what it does. Man's grifted his whole life. Grift doesn't stop after becoming president
Trump’s worldview is that everything is deals, and deals are zero sum game. There are no win-wins, only losers and winners. Anything he is doing in the moment is whatever he thinks positions himself best to be the winner in the deal. So I suspect he’s being erratic as a game of chicken, get the other countries to accept his terms as to get stability back.
I think he really is just trying to line the pocket of his and his kind. Probably combined with cognitive decline meaning he's having a harder time hiding it.
I'm in the hes trying to rug pool the American economy boat lol.
He's just super fucking cynical, grew up rich in the greediest generation. He's just doing a financial fraud publicly because he knows he'll get away with it. He's not ideological about the right wing stuff (social at least of course he's a capitalist), he just wants to make money
Now is that also scary? yeah he's a fucking psychopath. No scruples no convictions, will kill for money if that's the easier path forward for scamming
He's a white supremacist and spends money furthering white supremacy, so there's that
He is in effect but it's not quite the same as a John Birch society guy or their ilk. He's a white supremacist in the way robber barons were.
It's splitting hairs, I know, but there is a difference
At least it's an ethos
All I know is every day it continues, I lose belief in "the deep state". Turns out you really can just openly grift your way into being president and do whatever you want as long as you get a couple of friends into the jobs that would look into your crimes. Hell, you don't even have to do that! Dems won't do anything about anything. I don't even think we're close to the angry mob/pitchfork moment either. There are still treats.
Not trying to be a doomer, just trying to point out that there doesn't really seem to be a shady cabal of lizard people running the world after all.
I think a large part of the deep state genuinely buys into Trump's bullshit.
The "deep state" that actually exists, and the original usage of the term, is the various agencies made up of hired functionaries that persist between administrations. They aren't some sort of cabal calling the shots, but possess institutional inertia which keeps things going in a certain direction. Trump blowing up the NOAA is an example of dismantling the deep state, for instance, though I don't know if it's being presented as such. Other than HAARP conspiracy weirdos I don't think anyone's too concerned about the people who track hurricanes being evil.