Confefe, Conspiracy con El Stupido
I cannot find the clip and didn't watch more than a few seconds, but some fool with a YouTube channel was pontificating about Trump's Machiavellian mastermind plot concerning Cuba and how he first went after Venezuela to set up some domino effect and how it's part of Trump's brilliant plot to take down Cuba.
I don't think so, no.
The nanosecond Trump took Venezuela, a zillion people who know stuff about the relationship between Venezuela and Cuba began rabidly speculating about how this impacts Cuba.
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There's no elaborate domino design Trump has been carefully setting up for months so that with a flick of his finger, the first domino falls and now the end game is inevitable.
This is more like a giant tangled mess of yarn that's been growing for decades in your grandma's knitting bag and then she says "Sweetie, grab me that brightly colored thread sticking out that you can distinctly see."
You run over and grab the thread and PULL! And now twelve other knots you had no idea existed have gotten dramatically WORSE.
Trump: "I meant to do that! I've been PLANNING that all along!"
While some advisor whispers the names of countries and such in his ear, like that scene with the two assistants standing behind Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada making her look like she knows a bunch of stuff she doesn't know.
I mean when he's not tweeting gibberish like confefe because he's addle brained and too cheap to spend some of his billions on a Twitter secretary to check his spelling before hitting the button that makes his tweets live.
There are other presidents who never held elected office prior to becoming President. They were military officers beforehand or they had been appointed to a position.
Trump is the first president with no prior public service of any kind: no military service, no appointed office and no elected office.
He has a catch phrase -- Make America Great Again -- and no game plan to back it up. He's not really a political creature. He doesn't really think that way.
I was in my thirties before I made a concerted effort to just stop making flippant remarks about people, trying to be funny and telling myself "I don't get it. Why does everyone hate me? If I were a comedian on stage, you would be cracking up."
I'm prone to social debacles that I metaphorically describe as being like politely congratulating someone on their pregnancy to try to be sociable and she and all her friends go ballistic on me about how she's not pregnant, she's just plump and I'm amazingly RUDE and ill mannered and offensive.
Because she really is pregnant and she's from a highly religious family and she's supposed to be a virgin until the wedding night and I'm the only dummy who didn't get the memo "We're all pretending she's fat and when we ship her off to the home for unwed mothers to give birth and give it up for adoption, our cover story is the fat farm."
I don't actually know why I am talented at making eerily accurate social observations without meaning to do so. I'm usually trying to crack a joke or keep things lighthearted while going down in FLAMES.
And I also get told I'm a drama queen and intentionally shit stirring for stating what looks to me like "the obvious."
I just increasingly try to keep my lip zipped and not guess what is socially acceptable or what everyone can clearly see, so that should be safe to comment on.
I look at Trump and think stuff like "He probably bombed Iran because it somehow makes him personally richer." Or "He probably invaded Venezuela to secure a steady supply of cocaine."
Because I don't believe for one minute he's actually got any kind of political agenda -- I mean beyond trying to get the federal government to pass laws and make policies that help no-talent assholes born to wealth (like him) keep their money and get richer no matter how stupid, lazy and self indulgent they are.
So I look at everything he does and I wonder "What's in it for HIM personally?"
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he's some paragon of virtue and routinely says "Oh, no, it's not you. It's me." to be diplomatic and that's how this poor unfortunate soul ended up in The Epstein Files.
I've never met the man. What the hell do I know?
But opinions like "He probably bombed Iran for some kind of profit motive." are wholly unwelcome in places like Metafilter.
And I'm pretty sure that's about seventy percent "Doreen, STFU and stop pointing out the obvious that little Johnny looks nothing like his Daddy Warbucks that no one ever mentions because MONEY." and only thirty percent "God, you're an IDIOT who knows NOTHING about this topic and you're WASTING everyone's time with your retarded attempts to entertain yourself by talking to intelligent people online."