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relogic

(241 posts)
Thu May 14, 2026, 11:01 AM 23 hrs ago

The Instability Is Baked In

There’s been overwhelming reports since trump II of his qualified, certifiable, erratic, mental and physical decline. Going back to the first term reading voluminous childish tweets Americans for the first time saw a vain, petulant, petty, lowbrow reflection of what would have embarrassed former Presidents holding that respected office.

Ten years later the lies, profuse ignorance, grandiose economic claims, threats of ill thought out wars, conspiracy peddling, etc. make the first innocuous tweets of 2016 seem trite. I picture a sinister, petulant child that was given the keys to the toy chest and insists on breaking as many as he can to achieve newer, brighter colored ones from his benefactors. Now he needs a bigger box to put them in. Some fool has also given him a sharpie and he’s scrawling his name on every wall in his padded room.

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The Instability Is Baked In (Original Post) relogic 23 hrs ago OP
The oligarchic class just loves them some donOLD j. trDUMP. . magicarpet 22 hrs ago #1
When he walked into the White House on Jan.20th, 2017 they should have taken his phone away FakeNoose 22 hrs ago #2
It was said relogic 22 hrs ago #3

magicarpet

(19,394 posts)
1. The oligarchic class just loves them some donOLD j. trDUMP. .
Thu May 14, 2026, 11:36 AM
22 hrs ago

His loose cannon approach of goverance,.. rolling around on deck with a lit fuse - is just the sort of frenzy and endless distractions they require.

The hope and ambition of the rich class is to set up the constant state of "Disaster Capitalism" where they can engineer contrived ups and downs of the American and world markets and economies. Then profit handsomely when the markets go up like a helium balloon and when the markets go crashing down all by plan and design. Making obscene profits no matter which way the markets expand or devastatingly contract at their behest and pre-conceived notions.

Profiting off of mayhem and chaos at every bend and turn is the most useful tool/weapon in the arsenal of the Fascist DISASTER Capitalist.

FakeNoose

(42,351 posts)
2. When he walked into the White House on Jan.20th, 2017 they should have taken his phone away
Thu May 14, 2026, 11:44 AM
22 hrs ago

Chump should have been prevented form tweeting immediately, and his social media accounts should have been locked on Day One. The fact that it wasn't done has led to all kinds of abuse ever since.

relogic

(241 posts)
3. It was said
Thu May 14, 2026, 11:53 AM
22 hrs ago

back then that the primary, traditional format of Presidents using all the former press methods of disseminating information to the world was rejected in favor of the immediate keyboard meanderings of a demented, mentally diminished narcissist at 2 AM. We have suffered under that burden of overexposure ever since.

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