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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe part that shreds the imagination - NONE of the chaos
The orange ogre carries out is necessary. Not in his first disastrous term, not in this one. Not the wars. He just breaks shit because he wants to - that includes the DOGE bullshit.
There really are no words. A fiction writer could not come up with the shit he pulls or says.
usonian
(24,994 posts)Every act in his second term is another attempt to create chaos to hide the emerging facts.

He would destroy the world to cover up his and Epstein's hideous crimes.
And is well on his way to doing so.

We'll Meet Again!
Anyone who supports him is pushing the world closer to annihilation.
It's THAT F***ING SERIOUS.
31st Street Bridge
(189 posts)Don't be surprised.
lastlib
(28,145 posts)...his lord and master.
highplainsdem
(61,804 posts)his regime are doing as anything but satire - but satire turns into horror mixed with all the real harm Trump and those around him are doing.
So much that's laughable, and so much that's tragic.
The same is true of most of our media, these days.
And the same is true of the tech lords, and especially the AI bros.
Assuming these psychotic clowns don't destroy society and the planet before they're removed from power, the historians writing about this era - the Era of Insanity, the Era of Stupidity - are going to have so much to try to explain.
The WTF era of Trump, Fox News, and the stupidest and most harmful tech ever, generative AI.
And if we can't stop them, we're likely to end up with a society where no one can read books, and most people are kept distracted playing like children generating AI slop while the AI companies tell them how creative they are.
BattleRow
(2,377 posts)"Truth is indeed stranger than fiction."
popsdenver
(2,209 posts)who did indeed try to warn us with his works of fiction, a long time ago: Orwell, with his ANIMAL FARM and 1984......
Trump's first occupation of the White House, looked as if he was using Animal Farm as his guide lines, and during his second occupation of the White House, he is using 1984, with all the tech and eavesdropping on everyone.......
GiqueCee
(4,088 posts)... is a convenient by-product of his desperate desire to keep from being defenestrated by Putin. Everyone dismisses Putin's involvement in every aspect of Trump's malicious depredations at their peril.
usonian
(24,994 posts)I recently thought that that earlier post gave too much "credit" to Putin, but it looks like he is truly in charge.
Though, I hold out the option that whatever "doomsday" video is out there is being traded like a stock among tyrants and billionaires, no Musk, Netanyahu, Putin, Bonesaw or the like in particular.
Will Iran pony up to take possession of it? What's this I hear about lessening sanctions?
FakeNoose
(41,385 posts)If he were that smart, how did he get stuck in Ukraine? How did he not see that there would be oil sanctions and frozen funds in western (US and European) banks? He's floundering trying to get out of this mess.
If Pootie were a smarter man, he'd have a "real" President in his pocket, not a goofball like Chump.
ffr
(23,388 posts)To egg prices that weren't falling fast enough after Russia destabilized the world by attacking one on Earth's bread baskets. Thus, the media helped make egg prices the #1 concern. Sweeping away democracy to get a promise of cheaper egg prices was so worth it.
just wait until you gas up your car......or even worse those of you that have Diesel Pickups........
If you thought the price of Diesel was ludicrous during Cheney/Rumsfeld's IRAQ war, just wait till you see what you pay at the pump for diesel now.......
And now, Trump/Republicans are draining our national reserves to lessen their dramatic price increases at the pump......
Biden had been refilling them, when oil prices had dropped.......Now they will have to be refilled at a much higher price after Trump/Republicans drain them down..........The oil companies are ecstatic..........
BattleRow
(2,377 posts)ChicagoTeamster
(881 posts)The paradox is, according to Epstein, so does BiBi. Israel needs a strong US economy and US military. Russia needs the opposite.
Are they both manipulating him? When will one get pissed enough about the other's influence to finally expose whatever they have if we don't already know about it? And when will Prince Andrew spill some beans?
Captain Zero
(8,879 posts)Epstein Files over Trump.
popsdenver
(2,209 posts)Have done, and are doing, he may well cause the demise of the State of Israel.....It would be a shame, considering what the the people of Israel have done to get their own independent sovereign country......
And all Trump and Republicans have done, is to aid Netanyahu this past year, and enable his psychotic behavior....
leftstreet
(40,389 posts)live love laugh
(16,357 posts)quakerboy
(14,848 posts)It often works in Chinas favor.
It usually increases the power of the wealthy.
It usually helps netenyahu
It always attempts self agrandizement or self enrichment.
And it ALWAYS helps Putin in some way.
relayerbob
(7,417 posts)He's getting PAID to break shit
QED
(3,346 posts)bullying suppliers, stiffing contractors, etc.
He's never had to answer to anyone or negotiate consensus from a board of directors. This is how he's treating our allies. He's operated his entire life this way and doesn't understand diplomacy.
BattleRow
(2,377 posts)Well,hes about to get a crash course in translating what a lack of diplomacy means..FAFO.