All That Glitters Still Might Not Be Gold
Losing opportunities is a specialty of Donald Trump. In fact, it’s classified as the specialty. Using the proper article is crucial to determining what suspiciously amazing claims might possibly not be connected to the truth. Hey: that sounds political.
Noticing who’s the biggest phony of them all should be the primary factor in deciding who’ll save is from doom by not being Joe Biden. Most humans fulfill that requirement. They can be spotted by how they haven’t ruined the economy and can count grandchildren. Finding one who can take his job is the tricky part. Anyone opposed to worthless money may want to think very carefully about who will be able to rescue us from doubling down on nothing. For starters, let’s pass on anyone who’s already shown he somehow can’t beat the incumbent.
Finding more options than the last two should be as easy as profiting off operating roulette wheels. As a reminder, Trump couldn’t manage that. Serving as an emblematic political screwup should be as easy as making prices skyrocket. But we’ve seen the sort of people who win elections.
Professional tantrums from an amateur politician led to pretending inflation has always been part of our lives. This world began in 2021. A stubborn refusal to think past the next five minutes is typical of both parties depending on the partier. The astounding foresight which defined the most amazing business career ever showed how people never change. Point out again how his casinos failed like his mail-order steak business for as long as he refuses to go away.
The lack of political purpose conforms with the inability to win. The latter supposedly defies Trump’s central purpose, which just takes pretending a tantrum equals victory. The only person who somehow couldn’t accumulate as many electoral votes as Biden would again lose in an arithmetic contest to a mathematical imbecile. That’s good news if you love money, as it takes a pile of it to buy shoelaces.
Terms will be adding up. We’d see eight years gone after eight previous sucky ones. Sooner or later, these eras might start to feel like they’re accumulating. Voters will get things right one of these decades.
Like Barack Obama’s legacy being Trump, Trump’s is Biden. It’s nice to know one’s impact continues after moving to pompous retired irrelevancy. Some rather unpleasant policies remain even after the shameful tenure concludes. The inability to remove pernicious policies imposed by the previous goon is one of innumerable problems of electing limp oafs in response.
We can’t skip ahead to 2028 by asking to be placed in a coma. Medical science isn’t that cool yet. Try to make the future better by not screwing up the present. Maybe a scare would help. Ponder what mortifying Democratic option would prevail because voters felt so sick of Trump that the disagreeable option seems less horrific. Predicting what’s next is easy when so much past behavior is on record. Try to act surprised when it happens.
We already did this. Don’t you remember when the flinching began? Endurance doesn’t need to be tested at these absurd levels. There’s no need to repeat the definition of insanity. Check today’s screenshots of rants from some non-Twitter social media ripoff posted on Twitter for pattern examples.
Nostalgia for something that never even happened will undoubtedly make today awesome. Harkening back to some glorious era that totally sucked means wallowing in a distorted view of when things sucked for different reasons. Bask in memories of how cool it felt to chant along with “Yes we can” while disregarding the ensuing American irrelevancy that sure felt planned.
Trump still wants to be the ideal liberal for alleged conservatives. Only he can fix our fractured lives using federal power. The closest to an upside is noticing he was already awful at it. Ignoring the unimpressive results by believing blatantly false narratives spewed by the scuzziest class of humans isn’t just for Democrats anymore.
There’s no new information necessary. Anyone with a majority of senses available is genuinely aware of what a thorough phony our most obnoxious fellow citizen was during the 1980s. Yet those who notice things still must point out that this is the most hollow example of humanity we’ve ever had. You don’t have to thank him for setting the baseline.
The refusal to bow out gracefully in a demonstration of thoroughness means having to explain once again that Trump remains a prototypical politician. The ruefully ironic observation reflects a lifetime spent attempting to fool instead of satisfy. Surely, everyone’s figured out who he is by now. Please?
Thinking he’s the only option when he shouldn’t even be one of many doesn’t just show the distrust in open markets inherent to a man who thinks he rules them. An ex-president who treats Monopoly as a guiding principle has to beat everyone else then lie when he loses to Hunter Biden’s dad. An obsession with domination and loyalty embodies fake alpha behavior where the only thing genuine is a lack of principles. He’s certainly not going to be the first person to play his own board game.
There will be a glorious moment in human history when we can stop discussing the most lamentably prominent figure in American elections. Noticing he’s still maintaining an unofficial policy not helping anyone is perversely how he’s maintained attention over careers of varying failure. It’s not precisely one of Trump’s central personality aspect to go away. But ignoring a raver can be one exhibited by everyone else.
Don’t underestimate humanity’s ability to exacerbate catastrophes. The only way to screw up the Biden era even more mortifyingly would be to follow it up with the most hollow reboot imaginable.
Let’s try someone who doesn’t project the idea that spending freely impresses everyone else just for novelty. And we could nominate someone who doesn’t inspire minions to throw a pushy tantrum by proxy. A president we’re not thinking about constantly would be the greatest indication of success. We’re not supposed to be thinking of politics much at all, much less this much. The alleged outsider sure wants to elbow back in. Do as the professional kvetcher never does and treat his claim as genuine.