John Deering, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Tomasky: He's in way over his head.
Years ago, I remember Fareed Zakaria saying Trump is a "bullshtter". That has stuck with me for a decade. Of course, you all know that. Nevertheless, many of us have tried to decipher his bullsht, thinking he was a mastermind of deception. He isn't. I suppose that among his flying monkeys there are some with malevolent insight into how to pull off some special deception. But what I keep seeing is the crude development of cockeyed ideas about . . . well . . . just about everything.
The short of it is that we have watched the "Conservative Movement" go well beyond their Burkean and spiritual foundations and venture into untested, wild theories about the way the world works. And it has been this way because of the doh-re-mi factor. That's all that Trump and his crime family are about, it's what his oligarch donors are all about, it's all that Fox is about, it's all that Jim and Tammy Faye were about, it's all that Limbaugh and today's fascist-pedding podcasters are about, it's all that the whole Trumpn*zi leadership is about.
There is no plan. It's all on the fly. Once Trump was handed the keys after being convicted, indicted, and trying to overthrow our government with straitjacket "Q" insanity., sht, it was NO FCKNG HOLDS BARRED!!!!
The real N*zis are there, of course, like that Project 2025 lunatic. The fundamentalist zealots are telling troops they are "on a mission from God" and reshaping public education in accordance with a Kluxer vision of something very close to what the Adolf N*zis called Volksgemeinschaft. But the driving force behind all this is the doh-re-mi.
Just a note: This is the crux of James Talarico's campaign theme which warns us against left-right obsession and attempts to redirect us to the fundamental cause of American social divisions, the top versus down economic slaughter.
This is too long, so I will reiterate that Zakaria, Tomasky, and Talarico are right. Bullsht, incompetence, and rule by oligarchs have put us here. Or is it our fault for thinking there really has been a coordinated plot by masterminds who distracted us with "culture wars". Perhaps, but I think, at least at the federal level, it has all been a "smash-and-grab" operation since we elected a felon. What else could it have been? He is an incompetent highly experienced in bullshttg and always . . . ALWAYS . . . looking for a Ka-CHING opportunity. Always.
[Steven Jennings]
