Trump 2.0 II

By Steve

Mon, 23 Jun 2025
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To say that Trump is unrepressed and uninhibited is an understatement. He says whatever is on his mind. He has pretty much done everything that he wanted to do already. He has had sex with pretty much whomever he wanted. He has become a billionaire through self-promotion. He has denied things when bad things have been said of him. He had denied things when those things harm his narcissism. He makes other people in his staff like him too. People are saying exactly what they are thinking or feeling. People are becoming a totality and a totality is somewhat of a monstracity.

By being unrepressed, Trump empties himself of himself. He listens to Fox TV and fills himself with the political culture. He becomes the body-politic of the conservative movement. As where most Presidents can identify with a certain conservative group, Trump internalizes it all and turns it into psychological content. He is conservativism, all of it. Again, there is no censor, no superego in the equation. White nationalists, Neo-Conservative, Classical Conservative, Tea Party Conservative, he is all of it. The justice department's personal lawsuit against him becomes a political witch-hunt against America. The illegal Hispanic immigrants become the evil shadow invading his soul, polluting his mind, and only fit to be scapegoated since his narcissism rejects any hint of imperfection. Liberals become the object of his special brand of contempt since they allowed this form of internationalism into the US. But is it really the liberals? Isn't it the farms, restaurants, corporations, the butcheries, and more businesses that permitted illegal immigrants to work in the US because labor was becoming too expensive and they wanted to make more profit?    

 

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Submitted by celticman on

Nothing good can come from the moron's moron. WW 3 is a much greater possibility with such a malign presence in such an important job.  

 

Submitted by Steve on

If World War III happens, then Trump would have a third term. It's good to hear from you my friend.

 

Submitted by David Kirtley on

An interesting piece of writing. I think you have a good understanding, as well as any of us can, of the strange character of Trump. His politics do seem to develop from his own feelings, and he does seem quite capable of believing his own lies and his exagerations, an unstoppable, self aggrandising, and overconfident force. And your last line, about business 'welcoming' the cheap labour of migrants seems very astute and true, making the extent of his actions against them seem strange and hypocritical, and ill thought out.

 

Submitted by Steve on

Milton Friedman, the Late Nobel Prize Economist, believed that illegal immigration could be beneficial to the United States if the labor provided by illegal immigrants filled a shortage in the market and if the illegal immigrants did not later receive Social Security benefits. The Hispanics did fill the shortage in the market and did not receive Social Security benefits. If you speak to many owners of farms, butcheries, they often say that no one else will do the work that Hispanics do. That means that either there is a shortage in the market or that no one else will do it for the pay they are willing to give. Either way, there was an economic need for illegal Hispanic workers and now Trump is kicking them out. This is horrible, and you're right, it makes America look very hypocritical.

This may sound like a tough deal for illegal immigrants, but it is existentially a much better deal than going back home. Besides, later, their kids will be citizens hopefully.