For me there is a certain level of morbid fascination when it comes to wondering about the thought processes going on in Trump’s head. The best and simplest analogy would be its the same as if I was passing by a bloody multiple car accident on the Interstate. I know I should concentrate on my driving, so not to endanger anyone else, but with car wreckage scattered everywhere and emergency workers scrambling to save the victims it's often impossible to not glance over.
Trump’s mere existence is a testament to the inherent failures of the human species. The common assumption by many of the philosophers I’ve read is that no person is totally good or evil. And that the way individuals react to events and circumstances depends on many factors. Long obvious story short, the assumption is that every individual could be a hero or a villain given how they react to factors beyond their control.
But Trump seems to be the exception, he truly thinks he’s above us all. While Trump wants to be loved and admired, he also wants total loyalty and control of everything he can access. Deny him the loyalty he automatically expects and Trump will do everything he can to destroy that person.
Since Trump returned to the White House there has been a steady slide to authoritarianism. Which I find funny in a skewed way since from the time he was declared the winner in November I became convinced this country has been dropped into a badly written but nightmarish political dystopian thriller. In other words I except him to go full Putin with this country developing a problem with healthy people suddenly falling out of perfectly good windows.
Case in point, Trump’s unexpected desire to annex Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal. While throwing these tantrums he has alienated every ally the United States has ever had. By his actions Trump has achieved the near impossible by uniting Canadians and thoroughly pissing them off.
But its his desire to run for a third presidential term and defy the Twenty-Second Amendment is for me just added icing to the shit cake a plurality of Americans have forced the rest of us to eat.
“A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump said in a Sunday morning phone call with NBC News.
While the Twenty-Second seem to clear to me, speculation has one of the ways to achieve his desire would be to run J.D. Vance for president and then have the couch fucker pick Trump as his Vice President. Which begs the question that if J.D. did become POTUS what mechanism would the GOP use to make sure he resigned and let Trump back into the Oval Office.
During this NBC News phone call Trump remarked that “a lot of people would like me to” referencing supposed poll numbers indicating voters want him to run for a third term.
Apparently Trump’s sleazy henchman, Steve Bannon, has said that he and others are trying to figure out other ways to achieve a third term. Honestly it doesn’t matter, January 6th is proof enough that the legality of this third term project isn’t a problem for them.
I truly wish I could wake up tomorrow morning and suddenly discover this timeline was a Lovecraftian bad dream. But I’ll admit, it will be fascinating to watch Trump and his syncopates further wreck the United States of America. And yes, like a bad car accident, I have no doubt that at some point there will be blood in the streets.
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At least when we drive by a car wreck we can take solace we aren't in it. We're all in it, like it or not, with this asshat in charge.
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