Before he ever ran for president, Trump was exactly like this in the golf industry. Reality was always on a planet far, far away when he would talk to the golf press about his latest resort or golf course. They were always 100% filled, and always the best regardless of any facts a reporter would present to him. I thought this was all just sales puffery that would go away when dealing with the real, serious world of politics. It is not. It is a character flaw, one that threatens to upend 250 years of stable constitutional government that is the wonder of human history. Even if Trump is unable to implement much of his life-destroying agenda no good of any kind will come from giving this man any more power.
Another astute commentary, Rob! The long list of dangers that Trump represents is stupefying. As an economist, I can say that his economic policies, in particular his tariff plan, but also his desire to end the historical independence of the Fed, will be disastrous.
But as a lover of my American liberty, which depends on our constititional institutions, I am horrified at what this Putin, Kim Jong Un, Erdogan, Orban, and Jinping admirer (“lover” in the case of Kim with their “love letters” to each other) represents. Trump is the man who fomented a mob to overturn our election and delighted in the storming of the Capitol and the physical threats to his own Vice President and members of Congress.
The comparison with that infamous German leader (“Fuhrer” to use the German word for leader) is not unjustified. That ruler’s first attempt to physically takeover the government - the Beer Hall Putsch - was laughed off as unserious. Well, no one was laughing a decade or so later when he did take full power. The storming of the Capitol was America’s Beer Hall Putsch. It is to our peril to laugh it off.
On a different note, I hadn’t paid attention to this recent threat from anti-vaxxer and crackpot Kennedy taking over the healthcare agencies. One name came to my mind when I read this: Lysenko.
We are living in dangerous times. I can only hope that he loses on Tuesday. And if he wins, I hope that his worst tendencies and whims are curtailed by our constitutional political institutions that we do have. We did survive FDR who was probably the most authoritarian of our last presidents (or Wilson).
I used to love you, but it is all over now….I kid, I KID Robert, not that you care for anything I wrote on your timeline.
I cannot speak for the muddled mind of the man stuck in the middle that still does not know what he wants on a menu with a choice between rancid beef and rotten chicken…but, to wit, the despicable coward, “black face of white supremacy” hit it right down the middle when he asserted “I like where the ball lands” when he defended the “white noise” of despicable him Heat Miser Trump. On the eve of the nightmare on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave finally being over…until the sequel of The Atrocity of January 6th is released onto the means streets near you…to wit, and what the incredible coward Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki should have delivered, like and Old Testament warrior, LET U.S. PRAY TO END TRUMPISM, for nothing else matters #REMEMBERASHLIBABBIT The young looney tune lost her life by a whisker for a BIG FING LIE uttered over and over and and over again by a shameless, mendacious, narcissistic, megalomaniac conman, sociopath, crony capitalist pig, casino card shark magnate, FTX, I mean NFT huckster, Heat Miser in the flesh, G.O.P.crasher, anti-Truth Neo National Socialist, formerly the world’s biggest Twitter troll and America’s Biggest Sore Loser Donald J Trump. That is all. Gotta run on. Ashli Babbitt still cannot be reached for comment. Thanks for taking my rant (unlike your touchy compatriot Berny [free odious speech for me, not for thee] Belvedere)…if everything you and the nerds over at The UnPopulist say is right about our budding wannabe Dick tator …then I was banned on your Bullwark spin off by Berny for writing the quiet part out loud “Forgive me Jesus, God help U.S., Calgon take him away”….didn’t I say I gotta run on. Peace through superior mental firepower
Regarding peace in the world: neither Obama nor Trump nor our allies in Europe got Putin to remove his occupation troops from Crimea or Eastern Ukraine. The great lesson of the 1930s was that to ignore the aggression of dictatorships (in Asia and Europe) only encourages more deadly conflict later on.
Roe: one of the merits of that ruling was that for 49 years women could seek medical care in the first trimester in all fifty states. Surely no American should die because she cannot get needed medical attention.
Border czar: the Lankford bill in the Senate would have addressed the abuse of the refugee "loophole." Harris supports that bill. Trump got his spineless followers in Congress to scuttle it. Biden threw Harris under the bus by giving her an assignment he knew she was powerless to do much about. It fell to Biden and he failed.
Before he ever ran for president, Trump was exactly like this in the golf industry. Reality was always on a planet far, far away when he would talk to the golf press about his latest resort or golf course. They were always 100% filled, and always the best regardless of any facts a reporter would present to him. I thought this was all just sales puffery that would go away when dealing with the real, serious world of politics. It is not. It is a character flaw, one that threatens to upend 250 years of stable constitutional government that is the wonder of human history. Even if Trump is unable to implement much of his life-destroying agenda no good of any kind will come from giving this man any more power.
Another astute commentary, Rob! The long list of dangers that Trump represents is stupefying. As an economist, I can say that his economic policies, in particular his tariff plan, but also his desire to end the historical independence of the Fed, will be disastrous.
But as a lover of my American liberty, which depends on our constititional institutions, I am horrified at what this Putin, Kim Jong Un, Erdogan, Orban, and Jinping admirer (“lover” in the case of Kim with their “love letters” to each other) represents. Trump is the man who fomented a mob to overturn our election and delighted in the storming of the Capitol and the physical threats to his own Vice President and members of Congress.
The comparison with that infamous German leader (“Fuhrer” to use the German word for leader) is not unjustified. That ruler’s first attempt to physically takeover the government - the Beer Hall Putsch - was laughed off as unserious. Well, no one was laughing a decade or so later when he did take full power. The storming of the Capitol was America’s Beer Hall Putsch. It is to our peril to laugh it off.
On a different note, I hadn’t paid attention to this recent threat from anti-vaxxer and crackpot Kennedy taking over the healthcare agencies. One name came to my mind when I read this: Lysenko.
We are living in dangerous times. I can only hope that he loses on Tuesday. And if he wins, I hope that his worst tendencies and whims are curtailed by our constitutional political institutions that we do have. We did survive FDR who was probably the most authoritarian of our last presidents (or Wilson).
I used to love you, but it is all over now….I kid, I KID Robert, not that you care for anything I wrote on your timeline.
I cannot speak for the muddled mind of the man stuck in the middle that still does not know what he wants on a menu with a choice between rancid beef and rotten chicken…but, to wit, the despicable coward, “black face of white supremacy” hit it right down the middle when he asserted “I like where the ball lands” when he defended the “white noise” of despicable him Heat Miser Trump. On the eve of the nightmare on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave finally being over…until the sequel of The Atrocity of January 6th is released onto the means streets near you…to wit, and what the incredible coward Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki should have delivered, like and Old Testament warrior, LET U.S. PRAY TO END TRUMPISM, for nothing else matters #REMEMBERASHLIBABBIT The young looney tune lost her life by a whisker for a BIG FING LIE uttered over and over and and over again by a shameless, mendacious, narcissistic, megalomaniac conman, sociopath, crony capitalist pig, casino card shark magnate, FTX, I mean NFT huckster, Heat Miser in the flesh, G.O.P.crasher, anti-Truth Neo National Socialist, formerly the world’s biggest Twitter troll and America’s Biggest Sore Loser Donald J Trump. That is all. Gotta run on. Ashli Babbitt still cannot be reached for comment. Thanks for taking my rant (unlike your touchy compatriot Berny [free odious speech for me, not for thee] Belvedere)…if everything you and the nerds over at The UnPopulist say is right about our budding wannabe Dick tator …then I was banned on your Bullwark spin off by Berny for writing the quiet part out loud “Forgive me Jesus, God help U.S., Calgon take him away”….didn’t I say I gotta run on. Peace through superior mental firepower
I sure will be glad when you quit writing about whether PoS A or PoS B is the better choice and get back to writing on substantive, important topic's.
Regarding peace in the world: neither Obama nor Trump nor our allies in Europe got Putin to remove his occupation troops from Crimea or Eastern Ukraine. The great lesson of the 1930s was that to ignore the aggression of dictatorships (in Asia and Europe) only encourages more deadly conflict later on.
Roe: one of the merits of that ruling was that for 49 years women could seek medical care in the first trimester in all fifty states. Surely no American should die because she cannot get needed medical attention.
Border czar: the Lankford bill in the Senate would have addressed the abuse of the refugee "loophole." Harris supports that bill. Trump got his spineless followers in Congress to scuttle it. Biden threw Harris under the bus by giving her an assignment he knew she was powerless to do much about. It fell to Biden and he failed.