Oh, how I love a good euphemism.
I love that SpaceX’s recent attempt to “get life multiplanetary” failed spectacularly, with Starship experiencing ‘rapid unscheduled disassembling‘ over the Gulf of Mexico ‘Merica.
I love that Tesla shares are in freefall. Elon Musk wanted some good space-news but instead gave the Mexicans a $100M USD lightshow.
I love that Elon is $83B USD poorer because people hate him and have stopped buying his crap cars.
I love that he’s had to set up a toll-free number in case pieces of his 123m metal space-penis land in our backyards.
Dissembling I do not love is unstable genius Trump calling Zelenskyy a dictator while staunchly refusing to describe BFF Putin a dictator, despite, you know, Putin being a dictator.
It takes hypocrisy to heights SpaceX has yet to reach that hillbilly JD Vance could critique the Ukrainian President for being disrespectful to the American President after, you know, the American President was disrespectful to … etc.,
Understandably there is growing unease (a type of slower dissembling) among his hardcore conservative base. While #Leaving MAGA may not be trending just yet, give it time. 80% of Americans believe the economy has not improved, or has in fact worsened since DJT took power.
80%. That’s double your current approval rating, Donny. What happened?
With inflation at 3% and consumer confidence plunging, Trump won’t deliver his cost-of-living promises no matter how many public servants TMWSGT (The Man Who Shits on a Gold Toilet) disemploys.
Domestic failures aside, Orange Jesus’ failures are mostly abroad. With a little help from the hillbilly he’s abrogated his chance of engineering a ceasefire between Russia and the Ukraine.
Trump famously hates that Barack Obama won a Nobel Peace prize, but kyboshed his own prospects by being a cock. Idiot. The architect of lasting peace will be Keir Starmer or Emmanuel Macron, who is looking very statesmanly at the moment.
Indulge me a segue here, because when Europe realizes they don’t need America anymore, how long before the euro bumps the dollar as the international reserve currency?
American primacy, dead for all to see.
Trump’s legacy? The rapid unscheduled dissembling of the almightly $USD. In ten years time we’ll be wiping our ass with the greenback.
Good job, buddy! Making America great!
Must be especially galling for Trump that, after their verbal stoush, Zelenskyy hopped on his jet and met a real King.
Closer to home, while our punch-drunk Prime Minister remains an unequivocal supporter of Ukraine, how about the Opposition who are flagged to steamroll into power in May?
Peter “Spud” Dutton’s sockpuppet recently told reporters “We’re fully supportive of the Ukraine at this time” unquote.
Why the qualifier, Spud?
Our incoming PM is a property developer who throughout his campaign parrotted Trumpisms to the point that #TemuTrump looked like it might stick.
But Dutton is smart and vicious. He know Trumpist cost-of-living lies will win him the election; that and trans-bashing, tax breaks for the rich, anti-“wokism” and lots of finger-pointing.
So, more lowest-common-denominator stuff.
It’s fatiguing and disappointing. But it also makes me wonder: Do conservatives actually (being serious now) REALLY believe that some hypothetical disabled-transexual-refugee-treehugger is coming to steal their job?
If they are actually REALLY that stupid they they too are due for some rapid unscheduled dissembling.
Hmmm.
As it happens, I might just know a guy…
