The Lunatic Left Wingnuts continue to lament for Trump V1.0. At least then, they say, there were some rational and sane adults in the room to keep Mad Dictator Don from blowing up the world. Trump V2.0 has none of those class. Or, so they lament.
But... is that true?
One can argue, as I am about to, that the guardrails will soon come into view. It's all a matter of self preservation.
It's by no means a coincidence that Mad Dictator Don is, at one and the same time, fixated on gold in Fort Knox and his personal crypto coin ($TRUMP). Here's the gag: as the Unitary Executive of the USofA, he can order Treasury to convert all the Fort Knox bullion into $TRUMP cypto. He can do it. The Gang of Six said he can. Who amongst his bitches is willing to see the USofA destroyed by such a whim? Who will be saved?
Essays on topics economics: monopolists, oligopolists, and oligarchs aren't better decision-makers for the society just because they's rich and they ain't the damn gummint.
Gutting the Civil Service will put Trump where Garfield ended up
Hey Vlad. You take Europe, I'll take the Americas. Deal?
"I run the country and the world" - ah, not Canada
The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-- Lord Acton/1887
We have a golden share, which I control, or the president controls. Now I'm a little concerned whoever the president might be, but that gives you total control.
-- Mad Dictator Don/2025 [the march of dictatorship shambles on]
I think we are on the verge of losing vaccines for this country, from this country. And the reason is that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will hold up a paper, in the next four or five months, that says it's aluminum in vaccines that are causing a whole swath of problems, including autism. I think he is about to destroy vaccines in this country. I do.
-- Dr. Paul Offit/2025 [may the MAGA and MAHA be with you]
There's not a single example of things working out for the appeaser.
-- Nicolle Wallace/2024 [like this? the next extortion is on the way]
[Even U.S. producers] will also increase their prices and, in a sense, free-ride this increased pricing environment. The shock for domestically produced goods is likely to be quite significant.
-- Gregory Draxo/2025 [econ pundit, just like me, told ya so]
-- Dr. McElhone/1974
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-- Lord Acton/1887
We have a golden share, which I control, or the president controls. Now I'm a little concerned whoever the president might be, but that gives you total control.
-- Mad Dictator Don/2025 [the march of dictatorship shambles on]
I think we are on the verge of losing vaccines for this country, from this country. And the reason is that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will hold up a paper, in the next four or five months, that says it's aluminum in vaccines that are causing a whole swath of problems, including autism. I think he is about to destroy vaccines in this country. I do.
-- Dr. Paul Offit/2025 [may the MAGA and MAHA be with you]
There's not a single example of things working out for the appeaser.
-- Nicolle Wallace/2024 [like this? the next extortion is on the way]
[Even U.S. producers] will also increase their prices and, in a sense, free-ride this increased pricing environment. The shock for domestically produced goods is likely to be quite significant.
-- Gregory Draxo/2025 [econ pundit, just like me, told ya so]
I don't know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.
-- Angela Rasmussen/2024 [Bonzai!!]
-- Angela Rasmussen/2024 [Bonzai!!]
-- Marriner Eccles/1951
This Week's thought
[A]nd then reluctantly we blow them to smithereens. -- David Petraeus/2025 [worked for Curtis "we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age" LeMay, now didn't it?}
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