So, Donald Trump's latest piece of drama is that he now has to pay $83 million for defaming some women who claims that he sexually assaulted her and then called her a liar.
I'm not even going to take a position on whether Trump sexually assaulted someone or not, or whether he even met the women or not, or whether she's crazy or not, etc. I really just don't care.
Boring! Boring! Boring!
I'm also not going to even take a position on whether Donald Trump was a good President or a bad one, or was involved in an "insurrection" on January 6th and the days surrounding it. Again, there's plenty of evidence for people who want to believe that, and, strangely enough, there's plenty of evidence for people who don't want to believe that. It's a rabbit hole that you can go down and get lost in for months on end, skipping meals in the process.
Again: Boring! Boring! Boring!
The best, simplest, and in fact the only way to understand Donald Trump is that the guy is just a big, fat, stinky shit magnet. It's not even judgmental. He might be completely innocent, he might even be a great guy who decided to give up his luxurious lifestyle to, ahem, "save America," or he might be the biggest piece of shit ever. Opinions clearly vary.
Yet again: BORING! BORING! BORING!
But whether Trump is a decent guy or not doesn't really matter, because the shit magnet card trumps all else.
With Trump it's one stupid fiasco after another, one embarrassing low-life shitshow on top of the turds of the previous one, a never-ending diarrhoea stream of drama staffed by obvious low-life scum and maggots.
Shit magnet and his "lawyer"
All this means is that the guy, whatever his inherent merit or shittery, is just totally useless as a politician and especially as a potential Commander-in-Chief of the central nation of the global order.
The best result would be that Trump shuffles off somewhere and quietly continues being the shit magnet he unquestionably is in some dark, dirty corner, somewhere out of the political spotlight. By being a shit magnet where he now is, right in the centre of things, he's just bringing all that bad karma into American politics, where it just gets amplified and spread like manure from an agricultural muck spreader.
Back in the day, when Ronald Reagan was President, they used to talk about the "Teflon President," because whatever went wrong none of the shit stuck to him. It didn't matter if the problems were caused by him or not, or were due to his lack of intelligence and attention, or even his personal failings, because Ronnie was the exact opposite of Donnie -- he was an anti shit-magnet, and, as a result, a lot of things went well for him, his Presidency, America, and the rest of the world.
That's just a fact.
That's just a fact.
Maybe this is the western equivalent of the Chinese "Mandate of Heaven" idea, namely that leaders have a certain karma or luck about them. While some of them -- no matter how honest, hard-working or talented they are -- inevitably fuck up and get mired in the shit, others sail through, as if borne aloft by a golden sunbeam from heaven.
P.G. Wodehouse Famously said, "It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine." Equally it is super easy to sort out those politicians and leaders who are shit magnets from those who enjoy the golden blessings of the gods.
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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying it here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia).
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