“He’s SO stupid…He’s nuts…” Etc.
I think most of the press is misreading the behavior of Bunker Boy (Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal included…) I have seen it as this simple: He’s mean-spirited; he’s sadistic. He enjoys watching people economically suffer, and he likes that as confirmation that he has power over their lives. Of course, he’d like it if everybody said we were sick and tired of all the winning -but being so incompetent, he can’t deliver on that. So he runs the country as just another one of many failed ventures, and he gets the next best thing for him: he gets his ya yas off on watching many people suffer, and the confirmation he has such power -even if it is an abuse of that power. It’s like a kid kicking an anthill.
I think many are confused by his irrational behavior, but once you consider that, it all starts to make sense.
As to what is the non-stop lying thing about: he is addressing two audiences when he is doing that. He addresses alt-righters and Repubs with a wink: “Yeah, we both know that claim is utter BS -but it will troll the Libs! Won’t that be some fun?!” At the same time, for the gullible who believed it, his take is: “Well, you were stupid enough to believe my claim, so that’s all on you!” (sort of like when he ripped off workers and investors in Atlantic City…)
Also, the nonstop lying is cribbed from Soviet political culture: “we lie…the other side lies…everything is just lies; there are no objective truths that we strive for…” That is the philosophy of Putin and the FSB all the way, who is an unabashed Stalinist.
The economic chaos will not stop until either:
take the unilateral power to dictate tariffs away from him. Without having done that, he will keep returning to the scene of the economic crime whenever he feels he is not getting the attention he is due in the world press.
Always remember: the corporate owners of the Dem Party delivered us into the hands of this freak by offering nothing new to improve the lot of working voters. If he won, they looked on it as: “worst case, we keep our corporate tax rates that he enacted -no need to offer anything to working voters…”
I sure didn’t vote for him, and expected we were going to get an Open Convention after Biden stepped down.
Besides taking away the power to dictate tariffs, if we don’t have a military junta or illegal State-level vote suppression first, Congress also needs to limit pardons-per-term to 1,000, ASAP. That has NOW become a perpetual source pf lawlessness (as opposed to a previously occasional one, provided you go back far enough…)
