I Broke the Dam
April 10, 2025·7 comments·In Brief
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Comments
Bill Ackman looking more obsequious than Catturd was not an outcome I would have expected in the year of our Lord 2025, but here we are.
When he is speaking ex cathedra (which is conveniently at all times) Trump cannot be in error. It’s all part of the plan, and no you don’t get to know what the plan is ahead of time. Don’t be silly.
Way back in 2016 when he was merely the improbable nominee I made the observation that Trump’s supporters on Twitter would often climb out on some shaky limb and inevitably within a day he’d be standing at the base of the tree with a chainsaw. It happened so often that at one point I honestly entertained the possibility that it was all an Andy Kaufman inspired performance, politics as comedy, where both the medium and the art form were elevated to their highest level. I was saddened and disappointed when I realized it was all just accidentally funny.
But it IS funny. I’ll take what I can get.
South Park as prophecy. Yeah, I’m seeing it now.
12-15 years ago when our boys were teenagers they watched it regularly, recommending to my wife and I some of the nastier episodes so they could watch our reactions. We punted rather swiftly. Now is a different story entirely thanks to you, and if I’ve a mind to hit the stair-stepper with a couple hard ciders then South Park all the way! Lots of (predominantly) really good stuff, true LOLs.
In your piece you wrote:
“ You’re free to believe that we shouldn’t give people credit for putting out their own fires, but I’m not sure what purpose that kind of moralizing serves”, in reference to DJT.
Putting out one’s own fires does require acknowledgment, but for me this depends upon the context of how many fires someone tends to keep starting, and whether said fire is fully quenched or still left smoldering.
Setting and stoking so many fires is clearly the design. It is so chaotic that it can’t help but normalize even the most brazen norm breaking. The sheer volume gives cover to the grifts that get lost in the noise. The backpedals can be overlooked by the hive mind, ever confident the losses are minor setbacks in the larger battle plan.
Zeroedge urging bullishness is also quite something to behold!
Yeah that should be getting a lot more play here. Even fundamental beliefs about the Fed, intervention, and Wall Street shenanigans fade away in the widening gyre.
If I understand the Trump brain algorithm correctly, it serves three purposes: I am powerful enough to stoke the fire in my house, brave enough to take the responsibility, and judicious enough to backtrack and put water if the damage is significant. The rest is as you have said, the biggest comedy show in town (with the plot line copied from the South Park)
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