"When I watch this group move in unison toward this kind of partisan fuckery I think I am staring into the face of pure evil."
That would be because you are. Also the face of pure stupidity. People conditioned by TV to believe that Donald Trump is a "dealmaker." He is. A bad one. Anyone else would have been in prison by now. His father may not have loved him, but he certainly made a paternal commitment to bail Trump out of every stupid "deal" he made, even bankrolling another casino as the flames closed over the wreckage of the first. Trump adulation is the triumph of belief over truth, and it always ends badly. Scott Adams, creator óf Dilbert, believed that in Trump he had seen an influence skills wizard, followed that belief to the point where he didn't have a career anymore. Even the money from Dilbert couldn't keep newspapers on side, and he ended up as a Trump evangelist, pissing off most of his loyal readers on a variety of platforms. An irony, as Trump lacked a single percent of the talent that Adams had at his best.
I have a theory: for people like myself Trump is the antithesis of what we expect humans to be, but for others it's like discovering cocaine that you can mainline into your brain, then start gibbering about three-dimensional chess. He fills something lacking in these people, like the last piece of a psychological jigsaw puzzle. We will never understand it, because all we see is a fat guy with a preposterous haircut bullshitting. But if you look at all the enterprises people have stumped up cash to support him in (often to their own detriment) there is definitely some appeal there. God knows what it is, and the sooner it's gone the better. But remember this: like Jim Jones' followers these people are marked for life, and will always respond to the same stimulus. Whatever the fuck it is.
When people on the left write about this situation it’s clear what they’re actually writing about is the fantasy they cooked up in their head. In that fantasy, everything concluded the day this started and all that happened fit neatly in their narrative. The reality is that this is a dynamic situation and we’ll have to wait and see what the ultimate outcome will be. But even if it ends at this moment, it is a reasonable opinion that the economic impact was well worth it to deal a severe blow to this regime. Even the people who wrote the JCPOA said it wouldn’t prevent a nuclear iran and its primary function was to be a foundation for building trust and encourage moderation. That was disproven shortly after it was signed and Iran used all the benefits from that deal to supercharge their ballistic missile program, terror networks, and all aspects of nuclear program short of enrichment. No agreement matters to a fanatical death cult, which is why you describing success measured in number of pages of an agreement is laughable.
“The constituency that bought master dealmaker in 2016 has built its political identity around the proposition that they bought correctly. To accept that they bought wrongly would require them to revise their political identity. The revision is too costly. So the evidence is reframed instead. Already legendary is what the apparatus tells the constituency, and the constituency repeats it because repeating it is what membership in the constituency now requires.”
So timely, so spot on, and absolutely speaks to the utter frustration and anger so many people feel. And the conclusion is where we stand at this moment, without answers to why, why is this all so ignorant and without decency, what is the purpose and how can the believers still make excuses. Again this is a very timely piece that honestly was meant to land in my hands this morning for it says exactly what I feel.
Thank you. I can’t metabolize any of it either.
"When I watch this group move in unison toward this kind of partisan fuckery I think I am staring into the face of pure evil."
That would be because you are. Also the face of pure stupidity. People conditioned by TV to believe that Donald Trump is a "dealmaker." He is. A bad one. Anyone else would have been in prison by now. His father may not have loved him, but he certainly made a paternal commitment to bail Trump out of every stupid "deal" he made, even bankrolling another casino as the flames closed over the wreckage of the first. Trump adulation is the triumph of belief over truth, and it always ends badly. Scott Adams, creator óf Dilbert, believed that in Trump he had seen an influence skills wizard, followed that belief to the point where he didn't have a career anymore. Even the money from Dilbert couldn't keep newspapers on side, and he ended up as a Trump evangelist, pissing off most of his loyal readers on a variety of platforms. An irony, as Trump lacked a single percent of the talent that Adams had at his best.
I have a theory: for people like myself Trump is the antithesis of what we expect humans to be, but for others it's like discovering cocaine that you can mainline into your brain, then start gibbering about three-dimensional chess. He fills something lacking in these people, like the last piece of a psychological jigsaw puzzle. We will never understand it, because all we see is a fat guy with a preposterous haircut bullshitting. But if you look at all the enterprises people have stumped up cash to support him in (often to their own detriment) there is definitely some appeal there. God knows what it is, and the sooner it's gone the better. But remember this: like Jim Jones' followers these people are marked for life, and will always respond to the same stimulus. Whatever the fuck it is.
Excellent.
When people on the left write about this situation it’s clear what they’re actually writing about is the fantasy they cooked up in their head. In that fantasy, everything concluded the day this started and all that happened fit neatly in their narrative. The reality is that this is a dynamic situation and we’ll have to wait and see what the ultimate outcome will be. But even if it ends at this moment, it is a reasonable opinion that the economic impact was well worth it to deal a severe blow to this regime. Even the people who wrote the JCPOA said it wouldn’t prevent a nuclear iran and its primary function was to be a foundation for building trust and encourage moderation. That was disproven shortly after it was signed and Iran used all the benefits from that deal to supercharge their ballistic missile program, terror networks, and all aspects of nuclear program short of enrichment. No agreement matters to a fanatical death cult, which is why you describing success measured in number of pages of an agreement is laughable.
Pure evil, absolutely. Comic book evil. That we are living this, is surreal.
“The constituency that bought master dealmaker in 2016 has built its political identity around the proposition that they bought correctly. To accept that they bought wrongly would require them to revise their political identity. The revision is too costly. So the evidence is reframed instead. Already legendary is what the apparatus tells the constituency, and the constituency repeats it because repeating it is what membership in the constituency now requires.”
So timely, so spot on, and absolutely speaks to the utter frustration and anger so many people feel. And the conclusion is where we stand at this moment, without answers to why, why is this all so ignorant and without decency, what is the purpose and how can the believers still make excuses. Again this is a very timely piece that honestly was meant to land in my hands this morning for it says exactly what I feel.