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@XenaLee My rehabilitation is moving along just fine. I also refrained from posting this.
September 2nd, 2020
The Titanic ElectionThis election is no longer about who is competent to run government. It's not about who offers better policy. It's not about who can grasp the levers of government better, or garner more empathy, or be the more adult person in the room. That's not even a battle. And that's the point that brought me to my cataclysmic decision. I'm heading for the lifeboats.by Steve BermanBy White Star Line - This is an Image of the RMS Titanic taken in 1912, I used an online colorizer to make it colorized, CC BY-SA 4.0.“Well, you force me into a cataclysmic decision.†— The Wizard of Oz.
Four years ago, I was a Never-Trumper among Never-Trumpers. I worked the sums of the ledger of Donald J. Trump; it was drenched in red ink, failed businesses, failed marriages, and failed character. At the center of it all was a man who wore the hate spat at him like a king’s ermine stoat.
In business and politics, there seemed to be only one guiding principle for Trump’s version of “the way I’d do it,†and that is how much attention it will get for the man who craves attention and adoration in a way that makes the words “crack addiction†seem inappropriately weak to describe it.
A three-year-old desperately trying to get mommy and daddy to notice him will resort to smearing the walls with excrement when simply tugging at legs fails. Then they have to pay attention. In the same way, Trump, in life, was compelled to get the world’s attention: by buying an airline and financially burying it; by bankrupting a casino; by lending his name to all kinds of scams, Ponzi schemes, and ersatz products of every kind; by constantly weaving his way into the media while simultaneously trolling them.
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https://theresurgent.com/2020/09/02/the-titanic-election/