Dog Mom doesn’t care what I think or how I feel but for almost a decade now we have been laughing at Trump’s antics. The guy is entertaining to his fans and his detractors. We watched his news conference today after the helicopter/plane crash and he asked for “a moment of silence for the victims” and then said “thank you” when the moment passed, as if it had been for him. He went on to blame the crash on DEI. With a new outrage everyday it is a perverse to keep laughing but a coping mechanism nonetheless.
Greed was good in the eighties but it was just getting started. Trump has so much money he is untouchable. He will trip up though and Thomas Friedman may have pinpointed Trump’s achilles heel. The beautiful coal and drill baby drill talk is head in the sand even if you don’t give one hoot about the environment but as a business model it is embarrassing. China is going eat our lunch.
Two thirds of Americans want to see major change in our political system. How about we roll back the Citizens United decision so the CEO’s can’t buy the office and then change the way Congress is elected to “proportional representation” like they have Europe. The US is only one four democracies in the world (US, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leon) to have this no compromise, winner take all system. That leaves a lot of good ideas on the sidelines.
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I wish I could laugh more. I think I will just turn away. A German friend of mine wrote to me and I quote: “Europe is worried about Trump. But Europe itself better be more unified….. Trump is a simple Minded man.” That’s all I have on this at the moment.
I’m with Louise.