Confederacy of Dunces...or, as we know it, TrumpWorld
Because pure, unadulterated idiots vote in America
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Dumb people like Trump think they're super smart, because they are so spectacularly stupid, they don't even know how much stuff they don't know. They are so dumb, they don't even know that other people know a lot more about a topic than they do.
Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren
It would appear there’s only one person in this world (besides his brain-dead devotees) who fails to recognize how thoroughly and utterly screwed Donald J. Diaperfull is…and that’s the man himself. Despite having lost two civil cases and had two judgments entered against him totaling almost $540 million, Orange Jesus still thinks he’s in control of the process.
Yes, he’s in control, all right…up until the moment he’s not, which should be March 25th, when his 30-day clock runs out on his $454 million judgment, and it’s time to either file an appeal or pay up. But, to file an appeal, he has to post a bond worth 120% of the judgment with the court. Absent that, New York AG Leticia James can begin trying to seize Trump’s properties in order to satisfy the judgment against him.
Donald Trump is, if you want to use highly technical legal parlance, well and truly fucked. And while I don’t normally endeavor to find joy in the suffering of others, I am all over this like a herd of flies on elephant shit. This is like the Super Bowl, Champions League Final, the FA Cup final, the Masters, and the seventh game of the Stanley Cup, World Series, and NBA Finals all rolled into one and multiplied by a factor of six.
I await with great anticipation my long-awaited opportunity to bathe in the warm, healing waters of Lake Schadenfreude.
Then I’m going to pop a 55-gallon drum of popcorn and watch the American legal system strip Trump down to his skid-marked and frayed Fruit of the Looms. I hope AG James takes the Adderall and Preparation H from the medicine cabinet at Trump’s apartment in Trump Tower.
Yes, he’s not only cash-poor; he’s looking at the very real possibility of being asset-poor and seeing his carefully constructed fantasy financial world come tumbling down.
Yes, karma can be SUCH a bitch, and I’m here for every rich, creamy, and delicious moment. I may even pop open a rare and expensive bottle of sparkling wine fermented from the waters of Lake Schadenfreude to accompany my popcorn.
financially, Donald Trump is Wile E. Coyote right now, twenty feet past the edge of the cliff and refusing to look down.
he’s in complete denial about how truly screwed he is, and he still imagines he’s fully in control of the situation.
the fuck you are, numbnuts.
Trump is the sort of personality who believes that no matter what, he can bend events to his will. Whether through threats, bluster, or greasing the right palms, in business, he’s always been able to get his way by doing one of those three things.
Truthfully, all that’s done is to make him an increasingly larger target over the years. You don’t fuck people over for decades without leaving a lot of damage and people who hope they’ll live long enough to exact revenge on you. Even if they themselves aren’t the ones to exact revenge, they can hope that someday they’ll see Donny Diaperload taken down a few dozen notches.
And maybe, just maybe, that time is nigh. In his eighth decade and a lifetime of fucking people over for his own benefit, perhaps it’s finally all coming back on him now. Maybe now is the time for the boatloads of people he’s taken advantage of, lied to, and generally fucked to finally be able to look forward to gaining a measure of revenge, even if only vicariously.
As much as I’d like to say that perhaps this time, those who continue to follow Trump will finally see him for what he is, I know some victims of the Dunning-Kruger Effect have NO idea how profoundly stupid they are and how deeply they’ve been deceived. They’ll continue to believe that everything was better when Trump was President, and they’ll refuse to recognize the truth that everything he touched then, and continues to touch now, has turned to shit.
They’ll ignore the 750,000 COVID-19 deaths that have been attributed to Trump by the Brookings Institution. They’ll soft-pedal his cozying up to Vladimir Putin and his desire to destroy NATO. And they’ll ignore the massive damage he did to America during his time in the White House.
No, many of them will continue to insist that Donny Diaperload was ordained by God to lead America and that Trump’s “brilliance” is proof of God’s wisdom and grace.
And these loons claim that theirs is a benevolent God?? Right-o…keep calm and carry on, yabunchafukkinmaroons….
Meanwhile, Trump’s virulent racism continues to be displayed when he declares that his mug shot and indictments appeal to Black voters…because they’ve been there.
Right; they’re adjudicated rapists and insurrectionists who’ve tried to overthrow a democratically elected government. Got it.
He also doesn’t understand how people of faith can vote for Democrats…as if those who follow Jesus Christ should be OK with a man who couldn’t lead a Christ-like life if he had the Pope stand in for him.
Meanwhile, many who worked for Trump are declaring that he was an incompetent and inept disaster as President the first time around. Trump is, as is his habit, calling them liars. Unfortunately for him, the evidence doesn’t break in his favor.
What else could you say about a mental and moral midget who’s without a doubt the worst President in American history?
Unfortunately, being an idiot is no impediment to voting in America. If it were, then Joe Biden would be far ahead in the polls. Unfortunately, America’s future is in the hands of millions who are in the grips of the Dunning-Kruger Effect but lack the self-awareness to recognize it. These people are too stupid to recognize, much less understand, just how profoundly dense and unable to process even simple reality they are.
And yet these walking, talking mental tabula rasae will belly up to their polling places on Election Day and cast their votes. They’ll vote for Donald J. Diaperfull because he hates the same people they do, and for that, they love him.
And it’s a helluva lot easier than thinking critically, yeah?
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Nailed it! Also, the fact that he’s unable to recognize how Putin and other evil leaders have played him like a sock puppet. Blow a little smoke up his ass to inflate his ego, and he thinks they’re best buddies. We might never know what he’s divulged to our enemies. Scary treasonous shit!!