https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1257041820124680192
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Itâs wild shit
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Youâre grammar are bad!
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This is honestly the most pro trump article Iâve ever read.
Beppe Severgnini, one of Italyâs best-known columnists, told me that while Italians feel enormous empathy for Americans who have suffered as they have, they feel differently about Trump: âIn this time of darkness and depression, he keeps us entertained.â
But if Trump is ridiculous, his administration is invisible. Carl Bildtâa Swedish prime minister in the 1990s, a United Nations envoy during the Bosnian wars, and a foreign minister for many years after thatâtold me that, looking back on his 30-year career, he cannot remember a single international crisis in which the United States had no global presence at all. âNormally, when something happensââa war, an earthquakeââeverybody waits to see what the Americans are doing, for better or for worse, and then they calibrate their own response based on that.â
This time, Americans are doing ⌠nothing.
When people say for better or worse itâs a polite way of saying presumably for worse. The fact that this atlantic writer is oblivious to that and the naked assumption, so deeply assumed that it is never even stated is that america not interfering in every single thing going on in the rest of the world is prima facie a bad thing. Ask iraq if theyâd rather america do something or nothing. Ask Syria, ask the entire middle east for that matter. If trump really is helping to dismantle the american empire thatâs a good thing heâs doing.
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Maybe, but of course the US is still doing things in a lot of areasâitâs doing something in most of the ones you actually list. Also the US âempireâ isnât bad because the US is uniquely evil and a more chaotic multi-polar world could quite easily be worse. Weâve seen plenty of smaller examples recently of âbadâ strongmen falling, leading to instability, leading to all sorts but almost always normal people getting fucked.
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Spoiler that shit yo
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To be fair to Donnie Dumb Dumb, everyone who becomes President looks like shit by the end of their first term. Probably exaggerated for Dear Leader because he was an obese habitual fast food abuser to begin with, but still.
I dunno his skin is literally melting off in a slightly slower version of the Nazi guy from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Hereâs a pissed off George Bush in 1992.
He was 68.
Speaking of which, CBS is running it right now. We can fantasize various faces on the Nazi bodies during those scenes.
Doesnât everybody get to witness the best president of their lifetime right before their eyes? Youâre not special, you dumb fuck.
My tolerance for stupid people is at an all time low right now. Doesnât take much for me to be yelling at some random name on my screen these days.
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Your regular alert that there is a new David Roth piece out.
In close up, on television, at a glance, with the volume down, Donald Trump can from time to time look like a president. That effect becomes less convincing the more you pay attention, though. Even under professional lighting, Trump reliably looks like a photographic negative of himself; on his worse and wetter days, he has the tone and texture of those lacquered roast ducks that hang from hooks in Chinatown restaurant windows. The passing presidentiality of the man dissipates utterly in longer shots, where Trump can be seen standing tipped oddly forward like a jowly ski jumper in midair, or mincing forward to bum-rush an expertâs inconvenient answer with an incoherent one of his own, or just making faces intended to signal that he is listening very strongly to what someone else is saying. (These slapdash performances of executive seriousness tend to have the effect, as the comedian Stewart Lee once said of James Corden, of making Trump look like âa dog listening to classical music.â)
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But thatâs because they care about the country and its citizens and the stress of the job gets to them. Florida Man watches TV and rage tweets all day.
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Stewart Lee is fucking excellent.
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