Pleading Ignorance

Y'see, the Constitution has a mechanism to remove problematic Presidents, called ‘impeachment’.

Trump's solution is just to pretend that the Constitution doesn't exist.

Problem solved.

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Anyone recall Trump playing dress-up the other day, via AI, as the new Pope? It was as desperate a plea for attention as I could imagine but it was really nothing but a stupid stunt to get more of the clicks he craves. He's sort of a social media vampire in that way as he must be fed every day by the approval of his ghoulish followers or he disintegrates into a dusty pile of orange bronzer.

As you might imagine, the elders of the Catholic Church were rather miffed about Trump lampooning their recently deceased leader but they had to let it slide because they're somewhat disinclined to nail anyone to crosses for heresy these days because, you know, it's been done to death.

On the honestly humorous side, Keith Olbermann suggested that if Trump wanted to really rankle the traditionalists, just for the LOLs, he ought to portray himself as the Prophet Mohammed next time.

Yeah, that would be LOADS of fun... for us. (Evil grin)

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Elon Musk is reportedly packing up and leaving the White House, presumably to return to his previous job... rigging elections.

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Consumer spending amounts to about 68% of this nation's GDP.

If tariffs reduce imports, shelves go empty. And if shelves are empty, workers lose their jobs. And if workers have no income then they have no money to buy the nothing off those empty shelves. Businesses fail, more workers lose their jobs, less money is spent, less money is invested. Rinse and repeat.

When asked about if there might be a recession Trump replied "Anything can happen."

Welcome to Trump's Golden Age.

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Before the election Trump said he'd be a dictator "For just one day".

It's pretty clear he hasn't found the right day yet. So far it's basically been a hundred days of plain old raw-sewage-powered, batshit-crazy, hold-my-beer, psycho-sadism for psycho-sadism's sake all wrapped up in a tidy package made of existential dread and 800-horsepower doom-scrolling.

I'm almost looking forward to the "dictator" part as that would be the closest we'll see him approach normal human behavior for the next four years.

I said "almost".

- Lefty