Post inauguration Trump:

[watt price tully]

[Tannin]

[think positive]

[David]

[pietillidie]

[pietillidie]

I would say Tannin will be able to find a list showing that Trump's environmental wreckage is worse. But again, it's the wrong question. Both have the very same fossil fuel and corrupt money backers. Bush and friends are just trying to save face by rehabilitating their public standing via the embarrassment of Trump (another Trump handout ti the elite, along with his dream tax cuts). But the point that matters is that the very same Civil War culture warriors fanatically supported both. Same shit, different colour.

The most dangerous thing yet to register is that Trump has conned the economically and historically illiterate into thinking suppressing the global economy isn't war because he doesn't like war. No, he would impoverish and kill people in a heartbeat to get what he wants — malignant narcissists act as psychopaths when needed, and in this case he needs to impoverish the world to artificially pay for his mismanagement. Do you think the rest of the world are going to sit idly by as Trump treats them like Iran, driving them into poverty? Of course it means war. Mega catastrophic war encompassing your economy. For now, it just means suffering in suppressed economies, including already poor suppressed economies. Mao, anyone?

I love the way Trump's weirdo away fans take a few percent off their GDP like it's a gift from Jesus himself; as if blessed to be part of the divine plan of global suppression to pay for elite tax cuts and gross mismanagement. In actual fact, it's a declaration of war because the psychopath is taxing the world like vassal states to fund his mismanagement. War. Nothing but war. Good old-fashioned war. Don't say you weren't warned.

[Sicks Bux]

[David]

[pietillidie]

^Criticise all you like, but don't forget actual leaders with actual responsibility by necessity have to prioritise and solve things in order. Without stability and general sanity, you have no ability to get anything done, so obviously you have to right the ship first - especially in the midst of global economic and international relations crisis, and domestic chaos. It's not management rocket science. You do understand the extent of the crisis, don't you? It's not an internet forum crisis; it's an actual crisis with more economies in recession than the Great Depression.

As a case in point, when's the last time you heard about the threat of global warming? Billions of dead Australian animals, incessant Californian fires, increased intense weather events, droughts causing people migrations, mass extinction of species accelerating out of hand, disease spread more likely, and not a peep. Why? Because there is even much greater and more pressing chaos to deal with right now caused by this scumbag and his enablers. It's going to take years to clear away his rubble to even get to climate change and the rubble it's causing at the same time. And you worry about internet trivia such as whether or not a journalist exaggerated the words of a contemptuous malignant narcissist who physically mocked a disabled journalist on global media the minute he stepped into the role.

Honestly, the facile reading is thinking you're looking at something different at any resolution worth bothering with. Reams of garbage written to save face by people trying to pretend that they're not the same whackos who use racism, nationalism, thuggery and batshit fundamentalism as the last lot. Trump has simply startled the old elite who worry about their reputations by exposing them for who they are because as a malignant narcissist he's entirely shameless and can't be bothered putting an acceptable veneer on standard GOP policy. He's no different in any substantive way except having no sense of shame; he's merely exposing what has always been there and arming the militia. Again, very same people, very same party, very same policies, very same harnessing of a dangerous and violent mob psychiatry.

Let's explore this for a moment. Just what is the difference between Trump and the GOP?

Tax policy? Nope. Social services policy? Nope. National debt? Nope. Global contempt? Nope? Environmental wreckage and protection wind back? Nope. Warmongering? Nope. Surrounded by grifters and criminals? Nope. Depriving people of decent healthcare? Nope. Supporting fundamentalist regimes with weapons to kill neighbours? Nope. Supporting the military-industrial complex by wrecking treaties and doling out weapons? Nope. Insufficient regulations controlling banks? Nope. Wrecking global arrangements they can't control? Nope. Nepotists extending their family reach? Nope. Triggering financial crises through mismanagement? Nope. Corrupt unqualified loyalists in serious government positions? Nope. Whipping up hysteria against a new world enemy? Nope. Lying incessantly? Nope. Fuelling shock jock hysteria to keep people embroiled in rage? Nope. Handing out corrupt contracts? Nope. Wasting money on vanity projects while people live in squalor? Nope. Pretending to be free market but protecting the economy when it suits? Nope. Promising to improve their own voters' lives only to wreck them further? Nope. Under-staffing departments for ideological reasons? Nope. Mental gun-wielding and gun-waving fanaticism? Nope. Anti-scientific idiocy? Nope. Batshit mental policies to deny young women control of their lives? Nope. Glorying in market highs over the real state of people's lives and wellbeing? Nope. Driving students into deeper debt to punish them for trying to rise above their station? Nope. Fossil fuels handouts? Nope. Gross and contemptuous mismanagement of crisis causing people to die? Nope. Contempt for indigenous, black and minority people? Nope. Treating impoverished Central Americans as sub-humans? Nope.

As explained, there are two differences, and both are cosmetic, which makes perfect sense when dealing with a cheap showman who has mastered the art of the con:

One, Trump and thugs are using economic warfare rather than bombing or invading countries. Do you think the poor those developing nations who have lost three percent off their GDP before Trump's Covid-19 disaster were laughing? Do you think they're laughing now at the extra few percent taken off their GDP due to the halfwit mismanaging the superpower's response to the pandemic?

Let's be very clear, Trump would hand off killing people to pyschopath Pompeo in a second - except that Bush was such a disaster he ruined the PR of invading other countries for a while, and Trump has to pretend he is different (don't tell me you think a world-record liar and conman, and malignant narcissist who will stop at nothing when necessary, actually gives a toss whether people live or are lynched in Central Park for a crime they didn't commit?).

Instead, Trump has been forced to trigger a world trade war, i.e., a world war on time delay, punishing the global poor and yourself through global economic suppression. It's a bonus for him that this move also bamboozles people who have heard of WW2 but nothing that preceded it, so they won't realise they're creating fascism and collapsing world economies at the very same time.

Trump always goes for the weakest with a vicious and deranged callousness - you ought to know that about his psychiatry by now. All that global economic suffering at his hand just to give fist-waving wreckers a ruse so they can pretend he's actually doing something fundamentally different from those before him because he hasn't invaded a country yet. How dumb can people be? Do they think malignant narcissists aren't cunning manipulators who will seize any opportunity to misdirect them?

No, as I say, he's just doing to the world what he's doing to Iran because Bush and the very people who now support Trump ruined blowing shit up directly for a bit.

Two, given Trump has no face to protect, he's open about being a vile, corrupt, malignant piece of dog faeces. This has emboldened the deranged Taliban and Khmer Rouge Hats he represents, making them even more dangerous to fellow citizens. It's as if you feel sorry for him for being Bush and Cheney without mates, because that's all he is. Poor little Donald is not not really a textbook malignant narcissist; just misunderstood.

So no, the only facile analysis getting around are the desperate con pieces being penned to distract people from recognising it's the same old party with the same old fist-waving fanatics in tow, led by another elite GOP piece of shite with precisely the same policies backed by precisely the same money. As I say, same dog faeces, different colour.

Oh, but the hats! They wear red hats!

[David]

[Sicks Bux]

If only the Democrats went with Sanders. They'd have a candidate who could attack Trump on medicare for all, which 87% of Democrats support. and the outsourcing of jobs. Biden is in no position to do that , so they have to engage in the culture war BS which I feel plays into the hands of the GOP.

[stui magpie]

[pietillidie]

[Sicks Bux]

[stui magpie]

I'm just going to put this here with no comment.