I think it’s hobbled out of the womb when roughly 46% of the voters can decide for the remaining 54% who is going to be President.
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One cannot say they’re dictator on day one and then claim to be the opposite of a dictator.
But then this is trump and making sense is not his strong suit.
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Who is the first guy?
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This has always been the Republican Party’s dream. A progressive income tax replaced by a regressive sales tax. They’ll probably even make sure luxury cars, yachts, private jets, Caviar and Wagyu steaks are taxed the least. They’ve moved on from a flat income tax to no income tax.
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That It is only the opinion of your tribe that matters
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Trump may as well have skipped the podcast format and rambled on for 3 hours behind a podium. I think were he able to lock a fawning crowd in an auditorium he’d stand for 8 or 10 hours and stream bullshit. Loves to hear his own voice so much. And thinks, genuinely, he’s the smartest person in ANY room.
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I just cancelled my subscription to The Washington Post when I learned that Bezos ruled out an endorsement for Harris. It’s my hometown newspaper and Ben Bradlee was a hero in my book. I’ve been reading it every day since 2nd Grade.
I know the news business is constantly changing and print media is greatly diminished, but in an era of local print news deserts that are only served by conglomerate tv station owners like Sinclair, I could always turn to The Post for at least a baseline of competent reporting.
Today I’m lost. But I’ll find my way without Bezos, that’s for sure, and maybe it’s for the best, but I’m heartbroken today.
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And have the government cover the cost of commissions paid on stock and investment transactions.
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Littlefinger, Petyr Baelish from Game of Thrones
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Be fair, Bezos told the editorial staff they were free to make whatever decision he told them to make.
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Given that I’m knocking 80 now, I grew up in an era that might be said to be the twentieth century’s “golden age of dictators”. Yes, I just missed Hitler and Mussolini, but there were still a lot of very famous and fancy-dressed (except for Mao) dictators when I was a lad.
The press, in that era, as these fellows grow old and decrepit, often used the cliché, “ailing strongman” to describe them. And it occurred to me that if Trump is elected, he’ll be an “ailing strongman” right off the bat, without any of that preceding stuff.
It’s indeed a funny old world.
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A few years ago I came across a compilation of fields in which trump thinks he knows more than anyone in human history (his words). He added that he knew Sen. Cory Booker better than Booker knows himself. If I had access to my old broken laptop I would post the list of 19 fields trump claimed credit in
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It’ll get real interesting when Trump, SCOTUS, a GOP majority Congress and various state legislatures cobble together some Rube Goldberg travesty that allows him a 3rd term.
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Musk is no where as cool as Little Finger was as a bad guy.
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“When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you!” H/T Sam Goldwyn.
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Good to know we are a similar age.
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Airplanes: “Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly. Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT. I see it all the time in many products. Always seeking to go one unnecessary step further, when often old and simpler is far better.” — March 12, 2019, Twitter
Forest management: “There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!” — November 10, 2018, Twitter
Water management: “California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilized. It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. Must also tree clear to stop fire from spreading!” — August 6, 2018, Twitter
Basic human technologies: “The Democrats are trying to belittle the concept of a Wall, calling it old fashioned. The fact is there is nothing else’s that will work, and that has been true for thousands of years. It’s like the wheel, there is nothing better. I know tech better than anyone, & technology.” — December 21, 2018, Twitter
Advanced human technologies: “Having a drone fly overhead—and I think nobody knows much more about technology, this type of technology certainly, than I do.” — January 3, 2019, White House briefing
Safety: “I know more about drones than anybody. I know about every form of safety that you can have.” **—January 2, 2019, Cabinet meeting
Steam-powered catapults: “You know the catapult is quite important. So, I said what is this? ‘Sir, this is our digital catapult system.’ He said, ‘Well, we’re going to this because we wanted to keep up with modern [technology].’ I said, ‘You don’t use steam anymore for catapult?’ ‘No sir.’ I said, ‘Ah, how is it working?’ ‘Sir, not good. Not good. Doesn’t have the power. You know the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going, and steam’s going all over the place. There’s planes thrown in the air.’ It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said—and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said, ‘What system are you going to be?’ ‘Sir, we’re staying with digital.’ I said, ‘No you’re not. You going to goddamned steam. The digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money, and it’s no good.’” —May 8, 2017, interview with Time magazine
The 14th Amendment: “So-called Birthright Citizenship, which costs our Country billions of dollars and is very unfair to our citizens, will be ended one way or the other. It is not covered by the 14th Amendment because of the words ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof.’ Many legal scholars agree.” — October 31, 2018, Twitter
Newspaper sourcing: “When you see ‘anonymous source,’ stop reading the story, it is fiction!” — August 29, 2018, Twitter
Horse-racing regulation: “The Kentucky Derby decision was not a good one. It was a rough & tumble race on a wet and sloppy track, actually, a beautiful thing to watch. Only in these days of political correctness could such an overturn occur. The best horse did NOT win the Kentucky Derby - not even close!” — May 5, 2019, Twitter
The small-truck business: “The reason that the small truck business in the U.S. is such a go to favorite is that, for many years, Tariffs of 25% have been put on small trucks coming into our country. It is called the ‘chicken tax.’ If we did that with cars coming in, many more cars would be built here.” — November 28, 2018, Twitter
USPS: “Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer? Should be charging MUCH MORE!” — December 29, 2017, Twitter
Japanese auto-import regulations: “It’s called the bowling ball test. Do you know what that is? That’s where they take a bowling ball from 20 feet up in the air, and they drop it on the hood of the car. And if the hood dents, then the car doesn’t qualify. Well, guess what, the roof dented a little bit, and they said, nope, this car doesn’t qualify.” — March 14, 2018, fundraiser in Missouri
The economy: “I think I know about it better than [the Federal Reserve].” — October 11, 2018, to reporters
The solar system: “For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!” — June 7, 2019, Twitter
Windmills: “Hillary wanted to put up wind … And they say the noise [of windmills] causes cancer.” — April 2, 2019, fundraiser in Washington
… and again: “If a windmill is within two miles of your house, your house is practically worthless. They make noise. They’re intermittent. They kill your birds. They break down all the time. You have to replace them every 10 years because they wear out. And they cost a fortune. And they need subsidy. Other than that, they’re quite good.” — August 1, 2019, rally in Cincinnati, Ohio
Article II: “Take a look at one other thing. It’s a thing called Article II. Nobody ever mentions Article II. It gives me all of these rights at a level that nobody has ever seen before. We don’t even talk about Article II.” — July 12, 2019, interview with reporters
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/03/donald-trump-expert-227997/
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While he and Joe Rogan sat and chatted about Trump becoming a whale psychiatrist, Kamala Harris is speaking to 20+ thousand Texans about the consequences of Roe being overturned. video at link
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