Trump’s whims aren’t going very well now. He’s shocked that Zelenskyy doesn’t like the US paying for Russia’s brutal invasion of his country? He’s shocked that Iran didn’t roll over after our multiple attacks? He’s shocked that most of his tariffs were blatantly unconstitutional and were overturned by every court, up to the Supreme Court? The man surrounded himself with people who never say “no” to him. Or “that’s a bad idea because…”.

Sassafras says we should quit teaching Arabic numerals. I think we should go back to the Roman system.

Gosh. Who could have seen this coming?

Stay with me here. Trump’s MO is, to put it delicately, coercing people to get what he wants. I’m sure that a lot of people like him for this trait. Sometimes it seems like an expedient way to get things done. I think he extorts people to do what he wants. It usually works. He would send his fixer, Cohen, to make some scary threats and people would sign NDAs. When Cohen was about to testify against him, Trump threatened to reveal compromising material on Cohen’s father. These are the people I think that Trump is(was) blackmailing: Lindsey’s Graham Tulsi Gabbard Rand Paul Lindsey was told to fall in line and make nice with Israel. Tulsi was given one job - attack Obama That last guy might seem unexpected. Rand was merciless with Trump at the beginning of his first term. Nearly everyone even in his own party hated him for his hardline libertarianism. Suddenly, late into COVID, he had one mission - to discredit Fauci. He simply seems unhinged now. I know this is a conspiracy theory, but it also covers the facts.

New York Times, Frank Bruni “Trump comes by his awfulness honestly, organically; he really can’t be anything other than his congenitally wretched self. Vance is all oxymoronically cloddish guile.”

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There is vastly more antisemitism on X than on all college campuses combined.