Laugh Trap

"I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody." - The Oaf of Office, May 13, 2026

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Had I ever heard of the Thucydides Trap before Xi pulled it out of his Little Red Book and made a monkey out of Trump over yonder in Robotland?

Maybe.

I mean, I'm old enough now to have read a metric shitload of various literatures and somewhere along the lines it may have appeared before these bleary eyes, along with the cotton gin and the automatic bread slicer.

But was it anywhere near the little box in my head in which I store the kind of stuff I need every day? Like my password to Myspace or the phone number of Pizza Hut.

Nope.

Betcha Mr. Obama knew about it, though. But if Barack was currently occupying the Oval Office Xi would have never even brought it up in conversation, because it would not have been relevant, because Mr. Obama isn't a fucking moron.

Which is exactly what Xi was saying to Trump that day. Yes, Xi could have simplified it for the big dolt by just telling him to his demented face that he had become drunk on power. But Trump would have wobbled angrily to his feet, banged the table with his puffy little hands and yelled "But I don't drink!"

Prove me wrong.

- Lefty