Fantasy v. Fact is a dispute you’re going to see in the next four years like you have never seen it before. Or, maybe we should amend that to the next two years. With the razor-thin margins that both the House and Senate are held by, coupled with the massive discontent that half of the country already feels, look for fake news on steroids. The two clips you’re about to see here are of Pete Buttigieg, a brilliant man and probably one of the best intellects to hold public life. He has a gift for learning foreign languages (for real, not like Melania) and he has an encyclopaedic memory. So he’s Team Fact. Team Fantasy is Eric Burlison. Perhaps you will remember this exchange.
Sorry I can’t look at this guy without thinking of this pic.twitter.com/SQTESOPniL https://t.co/N4SEDrArED
— chyea ok (@chyeaok) November 26, 2024
So which is it now?
- Trump will, in fact, impose tariffs on our good neighbors to the north and south and the Chinese, thereby provoking reciprocal tariffs and who knows what other sanctions and unpleasantness?
- Or, Trump never intended that but was talking about it, because it sounded so good, because of his Bizarro World definition of tariffs, which the rubes bought?
- Or, this is like the Department of Education issue, where two things are true simultaneously, ergo: Linda McMahon will head the DOE and there is no DOE. Trump is dissolving it and sending all educational matters to the states, where he says they belong.
This is the chaos we have and he hasn’t even stepped foot back inside the White House. What this signifies is what we have been saying here since this awful new world of a second Trump term has been foisted upon half the country who voted to keep him out: and that is that reality is a tenuous thing.
Trump is a showman. That’s what you’re going to get, is a show. As to what’s real, what he intends to do, what he goes through with doing, watch closely. Because a vast amount of what he says is going to go the way of the mythical Mexican wall that never got built and most definitely Mexico never paid for.
We are living in fantasy land. But we can’t give up. We need to persevere. The facts are that the House and Senate are held by the GOP by razor-thin margins and Trump won the popular vote by less than 2% — if that, once the final tallying comes in.
We are not the crazy ones and we are 49.8% of America. If we were 10%, I might say, “friends, our goose is cooked.” No. Not when we’re solidly half of this country and the other half voted for this travesty. It is nowhere near time to give up.
“Trump is a showman. That’s what you’re going to get, is a show.”
Worse, a special sort of show that twists reality for entertainment, called a circus.
Circus of Horrors
Thank you. Great writing. He won by one of the slimmest popular votes in history and votes are still being tallied. Every time mandate is thrown out there it must be corrected by all journalists, no matter whom. We have to have a place where truth and reality exist. His threats of tariffs are not having the effect he thought. Mexico and Canada will not bend the knee like all the GQP has. Whether they retaliate with their own tariffs is to be seen. There are two million illegal Americans in Mexico, probably running the drugs and guns across the border and the President of Mexico is threatening to send them back if he dumps all our deportees in Mexico. I’m sure they are not all of our “best people”. And she wants the gun traffic from Texas to stop. She will do what she needs to do to hold firm against the tyrant. We all must do what we can. The US retailers have already raised prices in anticipation of tariffs and we all know they will never come down because we will pay the prices or do without, and we probably will not do without. We are in for tough times. Not good, not good atall
😳🥺 Yes, Ursula, we need more brilliant thinkers like Burlison!! He understands geopolitics better than anyone! Trump’s tariff threats will bend other countries to the will of the United States until they become our allies!! ✊️ Great plan!! Betcha Burlison has that old motivational poster on his office wall:
“The beatings will continue until morale improves!” 🤪🤪
He may not impose 25% on everyone, he’ll just use them to shake down any of them that won’t give him what he wants…like the mafia don he aspires to be.
The difference is that the Mafia is competent at what they do. Brutal, violent, but competent. Trump.is brutal (he knows his policies will destroy average people, force them them into bankruptcy and homelessness, but he doesn’t care as long as he gets tax cuts for the billionaires), violent ( 1/6; he entices others into.doing his dirty work) but not competent ( has no.clue how tariffs work, doesn’t grasp the first amendment protects freedom of speech all.religions,,and assembly)?.
i think it’s incorrect to call him a showman because a showman entertains, draws the crowd, so does a street con artist. I would argue Trimp is the latter. he treats this like a game show, ratings = stockmaket