If I ever get remarried, I’ll try to find a way to work that into my vows.
Psychopaths and fools.
And sign it “Dung Beetle”. Ha ha ha! I like it.
Yes! This is the most glaring thing for me, too.
Indeed. From the excerpts from the focus groups in the article posted last week, there were several who made comments along the lines of, “I figured that he would learn from his mistakes, and do better this time.” They really did buy into the “genius” myth.
If only we’d known, in early 2016 we could have pooled our money into giving every soon-to-be-Trump voter a copy of Spy Magazine from circa 1987. A summary and samples here (from 2015!):
I love the anagram for ‘DONALD TRUMP’ in that Spy Magazine clip you posted:
DUMP OLD RANT
So prescient.
Let’s just use one umbrella term that covers it all:
STUPIDITY
By switching a couple vowels, it also anagrams to
DAMP OLD RUNT
Paraphrasing …
trump is a stupid person’s idea of a smart person, a poor person’s idea of a rich person, and a weak person’s idea of a strong person.
But the folks who really eat up the trump mystique do seem to fall for those mistakes. Even if some of them are moderately wealthy.
Just barely related to the above …
Today at breakfast out I saw a 40-ish woman wearing a black baseball cap that said “Make America Great Again” across the front, and had “45/47” and an American flag on each side.
That was the first MAGA symbology I’d seen on a person in months. This was in an area of the Miami metroblob that had retained its earlier rural roots: big old ranch houses on large lots with horse barns in the back, country dancin’ joints, folks with cowboy hats in blue jeans and boots as daily wear, etc.
If after the events of the last month-ish she’s proudly wearing her faith in trump on her head in public, she’s beyond reach. Sadly, she’s not alone. far from it.
black?
Are they trying to escape the red hat stigma? “You can’t spell hatred without “red hat”.”
I googled ‘black maga cap’ and it took me right to the Trump store. Just as @LSLGuy described, there it was, complete with ‘45/47’. For a mere 55 bucks, one can be yours.
Plus delivery, of course.
What a steal!
So he’s their Tyler Durden?
I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck. I am smart, capable and, most importantly, I’m free in all the ways that you are not.
Pretty much. To show the Finger to convention and to everyone else who’s powerful and get away with it is their personal dream. Cheering for trump amounts to cheering for their personal fantasy to become truish. Somehow.
Except for the part about destroying the country and economy in which they live and upon which they depend. They don’t quite get that part. Yet.
Lotta slow children playing in our country these days. Shame they’re old enough to vote. And did.
I think at least some of the wealthy ones see through him but also see him as someone who will further their interests.
Well this is the kind of people who’ll pay 55 dollars for a hat… brains are not their strong suit.
I didn’t attempt to find the exact cap, but you can buy black MAGA caps on aliexpress for about $5 delivered.
I remember seeing one as far back as '24 when I worked at a voting center. A twenty-something woman who might have simply been wearing the color that matched her outfit (omg, do you think she has one in every color?), or she thought it would be less noticeable - although why wear it then?- but either way, our supervisor told her to take it off or leave (in a nicer way). She left.
Agreed.
Plenty of the country club set simply figure they’ll be able to profit from whatever chaos the monkey creates. And to the degree he ushers in an era of ineffectual federal regulation, they’ll be better able to cheat in their biz and on their taxes and will thereby prosper.
Farther up, in the yachts and private jets set, the working assumption seems to be that they’ll benefit more directly as the whole “greed is good” kleptocracy infects their country.