What Does Team Trump Plan to Do About All the Money It Owes?
It’s very difficult to feel sympathy for those who get stung by Donald Trump and his well recognized habit of stiffing vendors.
Imagine that you’re the mayor of Minneapolis, MN and the Trump team wants you to open up a facility at which the former president can rally his base.
My response would be, “Of course. You owe us $530K plus interest, and, for obvious reasons, we’ll want a 100% deposit for the next event.
“You might want to consider, however, that Trump is reviled here. The reason he lost Minnesota by a whopping 7.1% in 2020 is that this isn’t Alabama or Oklahoma; it’s a state of well educated fair-minded people. Why don’t you just send us the $530K and forget about going forward? I’ll waive the interest, and you can take your business somewhere a bit more receptive to Trump’s message of hatred and ignorance.”
The author of the meme here has nailed something very important.
Perhaps the single strangest aspect to American political life today is that an entire party, one that not too long ago defined itself in terms of a strong military, now pays no attention to the observations of our top generals and admirals.
“Object permanence” is a term developmental psychology used to mean the point at which infants, usually at the age of perhaps six months, come to understand that the things around them like bottles, toys, and people don’t disappear simply because they go out of range of sight, only to somehow reconstitute themselves later, when they return to the baby’s field of vision.
Remarkably, there are people who believe that it’s wrong for our most visible artists and athletes to share their progressive political viewpoints. I use the word “remarkably” because generally, the folks most critical of, for instance, Taylor Swift, are staunch supporters of Americans’ rights to free speech.
Those of us who were paying attention to the 2016 Republican debates that winnowed the field of GOP hopefuls will remember John Kasich, then governor of Ohio. He’s not unlike Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney in that he really doesn’t have a progressive bone in his body, but fairness demands that liberals regard him as essentially a sane and decent human being.
This lady brings up a good point here, but the answer to the question she poses is obvious: everyone is so wrapped up around the concept that Donald Trump may be re-elected that we have no mental bandwidth for anything else, and that vice presidents are generally inconsequential to the country’s well-being.
A reader asks: My wife just said about some left over green veggies “ Don’t worry about those, I will salad them.” Grounds for divorce?
I was on a Zoom call the other day on which someone was trying to explain the hostility between two sects somewhere in Central or Eastern Europe. (Was it Hungary? I can’t recall.) The caller explained, “These people just don’t along with each other.”
With each passing day it appears that Trump is losing a few more voters. Take the story of the Haitians in Ohio as an example.
