What's going on has so many tentacles it's hard to know where to start, where to go, and where to end so far as commenting goes. Let me just whip out some stuff.
Narcissists don't get better as they age. They get worse. In the case of Trump we're looking at a guy who doesn't know how the world works, how people work, how life works, basically how ANYTHING works. We're seeing those features at play right now, it gets exponentially worse by the actual minute and goes on throughout the night until we wake up again and see what horrific thing he's done while we were sleeping.
When he won the election I vowed that I wouldn't follow him like I did the first time around. I didn't want to invest my time giving the man so much as the time of day. But in spite of the fact that I've been ill for such a long time (now recovering) and while I've tried not to get too dialed (stress avoidance--my health more important) in to what Trump is doing, it's become IMPOSSIBLE to look away and still think of myself as a responsible person.
If it weren't so wide scale destructive, I'd be laughing myself silly at the shitshow happening before my very eyes.
The pissing contest about tariffs. He told some reporter on AF1 that we're going to have so much money coming IN on account of tariffs that we won't know how to spend it all. WHAT? Money coming IN? WE are going to pay for the tariffs. Does Trump think I'm stupid? Does he even know how tariffs work? No, because he doesn't know anything about anything.
He wants to bring manufacturing back to the US. Too many abandoned factories or some time warped crap like that. Does he know anything about the US tech industry? No, because he doesn't know anything about anything. And apparently neither do his supporters.
Do his supporters realize he's bullshitting every time he opens his mouth? They okay with that?
He's jerking around the stock market. He's taking a significant amount of money straight out of my very ass at this point.
He wants to pull troops out of Ramstein. Does he even know what the mission of Ramstein is? Does he know what HQ USAFE is there for? Nope. Doesn't know, doesn't care to know. Grandstanding is more important.
The crap with Russia and Ukraine. He kisses Putin's ass because he hasn't got the spine or the wherewithal to stand up to Putin. He couldn't negotiate his way out of a paper bag. So he aligns himself with Putin because he's scared shitless of Putin and figures he can gaslight a relationship with him. So sure. Flip the reality script, screw with Ukraine/Zelensky, make Putin your "friend", alienate our allies (moron), and pull troops out of Ramstein.
Putin must be smiling ear to ear in his waking hours. Even in his sleep.
Forgot where I was going next...regrouping.
Oh yeah, fraud, waste and abuse. President Musk, is out there cutting out gov't fraud, waste, and abouse. Another guy who has no blessed clue how anything works. So his idea of cutting out fraud, waste, and abuse is to fire people. In other words, the PEOPLE are the fraud, waste, and abuse. Why? Because he doesn't know that examination takes time. He doesn't even know there's a NEED to investigate before one takes aim at fraud, waste, and abuse in gov't. I worked for the fed gov. The fraud, waste, and abuse was always in the contracting and requisition processes end of things. Maybe things have changed. I'd say it probably hasn't changed and that's what needs investigation, and that could be done if only they didn't fire the freaking IG's.
This is what happens when idiot billionaires are put in charge. They know nothing about these processes. They have "people" who do it for them. They both went to Wharton and neither of them knows how to run anything. Were they smoking dope before class or something. Did their daddies buy their degrees for them?
The VA, Social Security, DoE, what else. Oh yeah, planning to put random gov't buildings on the market to be sold. And on and on and on.
It's ignorant. It's sloppy. It's lazy. It's freaking manic. And all this crap is coming out of ONE guy and his side kick.
They aren't
directing anything. They're 2 naïve little boys (with executive dysfunction) waving their wands around making crap go away and calling it progress.
The thing is, is that I still can't put my finger on why I'm not worried out of my mind. Maybe I expected him to
flood the zone with crap. Why be surprised or shocked when he does it? The only surprising part is how fast and how far he's doing it. Has he even been in office for two months yet?
Hold on. Looking something up.
He's signed 89 executive order's in the time he's been in office so far. Another example of his fantasy wand waving.
Okay I'm done for now. Maybe. I guess the only thing that surprises me in all of this is how willing I think his supporters seem to be to relinquish their responsibilities as citizens of this country to a man who isn't "all there". Is it trust? Is it pride? I don't know. I can't see any rational person looking at all of this and thinking it's okay when clearly it is not.