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The Show Must Go On -- Even If It Burns the Constitution to Ashes -- Thom Hartmann
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-show-must-go-on-even-if-it-burns-6f4Trump’s not interested in governing. He’s rewriting the rules, tearing down institutions, and replacing democracy with spectacle and submission...
Everything Donald Trump is doing and will do makes perfect and sudden sense if you understand one simple fact: For him, it’s all a show.
He views the White House as a sound stage, like the set made to look like a boardroom where he performed for NBC on The Apprentice. He sees the people around him as a supporting cast, who can each be easily and quickly replaced (and often are) if they fail to play their roles the way he thinks will work best for the program.
Partly, this is because this is all he knows how to do. He was a terribly incompetent businessman, pissing away his father’s entire fortune on a series of businesses that he ran into the ground, one after the other:
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It could also, though, easily lead to World War III, and China has a larger army, larger navy, and a nuclear stockpile that could wipe out America a dozen times over. Plus, they’ve developed a tight alliance with Russia; this would be a reprise of the Allies-Axis conflict that was World War II, except this time Russia won’t be on our side and Europe may well try to sit the conflict out.
It’s tempting to want to just sit back and watch the daily drama of the Trump Show, not thinking it will affect us or our families. That, however, would be a huge mistake because no matter how entertaining or shocking it may be, it will eventually come for each and every one of us.
He views the White House as a sound stage, like the set made to look like a boardroom where he performed for NBC on The Apprentice. He sees the people around him as a supporting cast, who can each be easily and quickly replaced (and often are) if they fail to play their roles the way he thinks will work best for the program.
Partly, this is because this is all he knows how to do. He was a terribly incompetent businessman, pissing away his father’s entire fortune on a series of businesses that he ran into the ground, one after the other:
Trump Steaks, Trump Water, Trump Board Game, Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Castle, Trump Vodka, Trump Mortgage, Trump Magazine, Trump Ties, Trump Cologne, Trump Vitamins, Trump Ice, Trump Suits, Trump Homes, Trump Financial, Trump Institute, Trump New Media, Trump Shuttle Airline, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump University, New Jersey Generals, Tour de Trump, Trump Magazine, etc. Every single one failed, some spectacularly.
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It could also, though, easily lead to World War III, and China has a larger army, larger navy, and a nuclear stockpile that could wipe out America a dozen times over. Plus, they’ve developed a tight alliance with Russia; this would be a reprise of the Allies-Axis conflict that was World War II, except this time Russia won’t be on our side and Europe may well try to sit the conflict out.
It’s tempting to want to just sit back and watch the daily drama of the Trump Show, not thinking it will affect us or our families. That, however, would be a huge mistake because no matter how entertaining or shocking it may be, it will eventually come for each and every one of us.