god i'm tired of "the *real* reason trump does [x]" articles, we've been through this for an entire presidential term already, he does this shit because he's stupid, i don't need the very clever boy brigade to voxsplain it to me
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It's the "Iraq is an oil war" song and dance all over again. People latch onto it because it seems more plausible than the harsh reality that the folks with their hands on the wheel are guided more by vibes and reflex than anything more substantial.
Yeah, I think the guy who publicly bragged about the crimes he did, against his lawyers' obvious advice and when it looked like he really could go to prison, isn't exactly a brainthinker
One of the problems of the turnover from liars to true believers is that it was quick enough most publications still want to find a liar where only a believer can fit, because everyone's too lazy to develop a model where politicians can transcend lying and wear their beliefs on their sleeve
Libs inventing an ideology for Trump because the raw, flagrant stupidity of the real world is too shattering to confront is fast becoming one of my top pet peeves.
Honestly, the lib posters are nowhere near the worst ones on this. The entire financial sector and nearly all of corporate America fund the Republican coalition and appear to have genuinely thought this was all 12D chess.
Well yeah, it's self styled clever people in general and the ones on the center & right are even more stubborn because they'd have to admit they were the marks all along.
I would argue that the primary mode of intra-coalitional Republican politics since Trump won the 2016 primary has been inventing ideologies and ascribing them to Trump in hopes he can be used as a bludgeon to advance your ideological preferences
I got tired of them when the Hannibal Lecter stuff. So many articles trying to find what he could be talking about and like idk assuming he doesn't actually know what asylum is and conflates it with mental asylums seems like a much simpler explanation
"Voxsplain" is really good. I know exactly who/what you mean, and I'm super tired of it/them too. Thing is, some of them used to be pretty good before they got Beltway Brainrot.
it's mind-blowing to see how very long people can run with "crazy like a fox" or "they only look stupid" narratives about certain people despite exhibit after exhibit of evidence that, in fact, they're stupid, there was no hidden wisdom behind it, they did the stupid thing because they were stupid
I think the Sen. Murphy throughline of "he wants to pressure private companies to fall in line and beg him for relief" isn't totally incongruent with how he's treated universities, law firms,e tc
but also like, dude just really fucking likes tariffs because he's a moron
The fact that he is stupid and the administrative capacity of the modern state is being chaotically dismantled does not negate the dangers of us falling ass backwards if you will (in other words without a coherent plan) into corrupt personalistic patrimonial rule. More premodern than modern rule.
Assuming that the bureaucratized fascism of Hitler’s Germany or even Orban’s Hungary cannot be replicated under the current breakdown of the federal government is missing the ways in a Putin style form of autocracy can emerge especially given the compliance in advance we are seeing.
I think the more realistic line is that there are people around him who are always engaged with how they can use and shape his cerebral flailings and weird obsessions to their team's advantage. but they're not truly running the show
It's funny to consider that the likes of Russ Vought would successfully mastermind an evil theocracy, except they keep getting foiled by Trump and Musk's lack of self control and inability to stop stepping on rakes.
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numbers are big because he likes big numbers
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Including variations like “don’t re-elect Orange Man, he is Bad” or “That bad thing? Orange Man did it because he is Bad”.
If only the rest of America had that moral clarity…
We know that shit is never happening.
but also like, dude just really fucking likes tariffs because he's a moron
He really is that stupid.