my question for matty and other "don't get distracted" Dems is: when has Donald Trump ever shown the foresight, the strategic thinking, the ability to contemplate second- and third-order effects to do anything remotely resembling what matty is suggesting? - ThreadSky

djinnandtonic.bsky.social • 32 days ago

my question for matty and other "don't get distracted" Dems is:

when has Donald Trump ever shown the foresight, the strategic thinking, the ability to contemplate second- and third-order effects to do anything remotely resembling what matty is suggesting?

Reposted from Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱

Comments

djinnandtonic.bsky.social•32 days ago

donald trump is a completely flat character. stop ascribing rich qualities to him.

hurricanexyz.bsky.social•32 days ago

Correct

hurricanexyz.bsky.social•32 days ago

This is why you cannot make good art in which he figures as dramatis personae

atomicgiant.bsky.social•32 days ago

It feels like, for a decade+, we've been confronted with someone so blank, so empty, so venal, so basic, so mean, so stupid that a natural reaction is "Well, he can't *possibly* be so (adjective), so he must be running a long con," when, no, he's that blank, empty, venal, basic, mean, and stupid.

atomicgiant.bsky.social•32 days ago

He's so uninscrutable, but the trappings of his success make people assume the existence of means to explain the ends - "a 34x-convicted felon rapist slob could never win the highest office in the land, and since he *has*, we therefore must assume he's not those things" - and it's like BITCH, WHAT?

fjerome.bsky.social•32 days ago

Who Matt?

westviewwandam.bsky.social•32 days ago

Insofar as Donald Trump possesses anything akin to an inner life, it is limited to fantasizing about buxom young women who bear a striking resemblance to his oldest daughter and a golf handicap of 7. And maybe his dad telling him he loves him.

ivanmaas.bsky.social•32 days ago

Remember when the bruff who is "harsh on China" went out of transpositic partnership and started a trade war with China and Europe at the same time?

tediousgraffiti.bsky.social•32 days ago

I can walk and chew gum at the same time too

rimidar.bsky.social•32 days ago

Also, both things are bad! It would also be bad if Trump /were/ using the South Africa thing as some brilliant feint!

desiderratum.bsky.social•32 days ago

Matt is on record as thinking Trump is actually pretty canny, which... LOL, but also I think it's immensely risible of him to suggest that Trump echoing both the repeated statements of his admin & its own policy is a distraction

ghostofglass.bsky.social•32 days ago

Great Simpleton theory of history

coasterspaul.bsky.social•32 days ago

if you gave him the IQ Boys' favorite "how would you feel if you hadn't had breakfast today" you would get a long-winded diatribe starting off with "the FAKE NEWS MEDIA wants you to believe I didn't have breakfast" and ending who knows where

timplex.bsky.social•32 days ago

He seems pretty savvy when it comes to manipulating the media and public opinion.

magiprocessioner.bsky.social•32 days ago

Matty g: “no one who experiences success in life could be stupid”

drinky-crow.bsky.social•32 days ago

Politics is a type of intellectual competition, and repeatedly eating shit at the hands of an obvious moron is too embarrassing to admit so he has to be sort of genius.

daphnelawless.com•32 days ago

Surely the answer is not that Trump has any foresight or strategic thinking, but his handlers eg. Stephen Miller do

govpolish.bsky.social•32 days ago

This mindless political strategizing is part and parcel of what normalized Trump. Instead of shrieking in horror like normal people, the press nods sagely at the insanity and says “ah, I see you’ve played Knifey-Spooney before.”

bubbling-creek.bsky.social•32 days ago

eh he kind of has a point, it doesn't have to be intentional to work

mobutt.bsky.social•32 days ago

donald trump hasn't shown this foresight and it's tough to argue that he's even all there cognitively. but I think Steve Bannon more or less talked about this sort of strategy verbatim ('flooding the zone')

evandean.bsky.social•31 days ago

The other thing I hate about the “distraction” point is that it’s totally non-falsifiable. An administration full of idiots will result in lots of Things Happening. How would you have any idea what the real scandals are vs the fake ones? How can you assume they all agree?

kingsgrave.bsky.social•32 days ago

I hate evil bald matt, why cant good bald matt be popular instead

shuffleosint.bsky.social•31 days ago

Trump is dumb af, but the key difference between then and now is the people behind him are either a) also dumb af or b) that vurulently evil that they do have a long con plan and it's worse than you can imagine.

But Trump is just a vehicle for group b

invisiblelad7.bsky.social•32 days ago

it's also that he has so many corrupt footsoldiers that they can accomplish a lot more horrible things at once. It's not that he's a genius, its that he's corrupt to such a huge degree that the end result is exponential crime.

josephpbacter.bsky.social•32 days ago

“It’s a distraction” is just a feeble attempt to balm the wound of knowing that Americans got conned by the dumbest mother fucker on the planet.

Comments

Posting Rules

Reply