President-Elect Trump: the introduction to round two

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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers​

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
Rebecca Shaw

don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at a waterpark. The “ending in shit” kind. The issues are complicated, the reasons diverse, but there are a few culprits who have been making themselves extremely visible.

Alongside those holding political office, tech gragillionnaires (I had to invent a new number) like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg obviously wield huge global influence with their computers and numbers and whatnot. There has been a lot written about them and there will be more, as they continue to shape the world and win favour with Donald Trump. Big, scary, probably ruinous things lie ahead. But I’m here to discuss the smaller part. The insult to injury, the sprinkling of salt in the wound.

Whether I am engaging with the news, or with Musk tweeting constantly like a man with no job or friends, or with Zuckerberg sending out weird videos and appearing on Rogan, I am in pain. Not just because ....

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"More Americans voted for someone other than Trump." #122

Trump is not merely a liar, but a compulsive, Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen scale liar.
Thus even with a plurality win, how many voters cast their ballots based on lies?

As #122 demonstrates, declaring it a "landslide" does not render it so.


“I don't take vacation.” “4/22/16” campaign rally Harrington, Delaware, & “5/5/16” campaign rally Charleston, WV

“I'm gunna be in the White House a lot. I'm not leavin'.” GOP pres. candidate Trump “2/11/16”

“I'm gunna be workin' for you. I'm not gunna have time to go play golf.” GOP pres. candidate Trump “8/2/16”

"The GOP today is less a political party and more an inchoate mass of cultural grievances, conspiracy theories and lowest common denominator political slogans.
Trump, for all his toxicity, is a symptom of the GOP’s decades-long descent into madness. Legislating is not seen as a tool for bettering the plight of the American people but rather an opportunity to troll Democrats and play to the perceived slights of the party’s rank-and-file supporters." The Guardian Sun 8 Oct 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ying-price-of-faustian-pact-with-donald-trump