Trump ‘Hatted’! What A Loser!
I wonder if there’s a way of measuring the world’s depression scientifically, because after yesterday’s fiasco in Washington I believe depression throughout the planet must be off the charts. It was bad enough before, what with climate change, the wars in Ukraine, the horrors of Sudan and the Middle East. Now, with the bedlam Trump & Co have already started to pump out, one is inclined to ask if the poor camel can bear any more straws on its back.
Trump is such an un-masculine person, which is not to say he has any worthwhile feminine traits. He’s just not a man. He has no dignity, no charm, he lacks any sort of attractive personality. He is the epitome of the traditional schoolyard bully.
It’s not just Trump, of course. On his own Trump is lost. He’s a nobody. Like a vampire he feeds off those around him, sucking the juices of any intellect they may have, to provide his deteriorating brain cells with policies he can use to prop up his insecurities. Because, inside this overly-loud, brash and unpleasant person dwells a little boy, still crying for the love he never received from his father.
Then we have the “Tech” brigade. Zuckerberg, Bezos, and let’s not forget Elon the Muskrat at the inauguration yesterday giving his fascist salute to the world…
…what a pathetic, little boy image. It’s almost sad, but not quite. Cringeworthy? Absolutely. As Rebecca Shaw wrote in her Guardian article recently, they are all cringeworthy:
“Alongside those holding political office, tech gragillionnaires (I had to invent a new number) like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg obviously wield huge global influence with their computers and numbers and whatnot. There has been a lot written about them and there will be more, as they continue to shape the world and win favour with Donald Trump. Big, scary, probably ruinous things lie ahead. But I’m here to discuss the smaller part. The insult to injury, the sprinkling of salt in the wound.
Whether I am engaging with the news, or with Musk tweeting constantly like a man with no job or friends, or with Zuckerberg sending out weird videos and appearing on Rogan, I am in pain. Not just because I don’t like what they are doing but because they are so incredibly, painfully cringe.
I knew that one day we might have to watch as capitalism and greed and bigotry led to a world where powerful men, deserving or not, would burn it all down. What I didn’t expect, and don’t think I could have foreseen, is how incredibly cringe it would all be. I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice – but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers…”
Yes, Rebecca, you got it in one. These are not men. These are little boys playing men’s games. They think the vast wealth they’ve aggregated makes them something special, above the rest of us, creatures of divinity almost, not realising they’re just victims of their own overblown, out-of-control, egos.
Yesterday marked the beginning of something of which we have yet to know the end. I believe it will not be a fairytale, a world united in benevolence. There are a myriad of possibilities and everyone is a disaster, both for the human race and for the planet.
And all because of little boys so desperate to be men.
Agreed on all of this. One of the qualities all of them lack is kindness. They are mean of spirit like the schoolyard bullies of old. Few of them, if any, have pets which is a telling sign. Most of them marry transactional women (emigrants, etc.) and as one of my friends says many of these women are also along the spectrum. Their children are not close but also transactional. And many, also, were at odds with their own fathers. Elon’s father spoke of his disdain for his son recently. They try to fill the dark voids in their spirits with money and meaningless multiple affairs and hire those most like them. See cabinet picks. Barbarians at the Gate indeed. Long foretold. And Handmaid’s Tale is upon us.
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WWW ~ Yet again I must apologise for the delay in responding to your comment. I must say it is so accurate I have little to add of value. It’s hard to know where the next four years will lead us. I am not optimistic. Unless the EU, Canada, and other non-American/Israeli nations make a stand against the Orange plague we will all end up suffering. Sadly, our yellow-streaked politicians seem more concerned with their economic figures and how tariffs will affect them politically. Can’t they see we’re at war? The ordinary people need strong, righteous leadership, not lily-livered scumbags only interested in hanging on to their voting figures. We may not be at war with America, but we are certainly at war with the present right-wing political US establishment that is a disease spreading among its people. We know what is right and what is wrong. It’s time Western nations stood fast against the Orange Pox that emanates from the US White House and could destroy us all if we don’t vaccinate ourselves against it. For that we need strong leadership. I fear we may not get it.