From:
david.j.worrell@gmail.com
Yeah, we are considering watching that Elvis documentary.
I had a weird dream last night, and when I awoke I realized that
although the dream outwardly had nothing to do with Donald Trump,
it nevertheless showed me one of the main things he does that
makes him so incredibly dangerous.
Trump continually goes outside the bounds of appropriate behavior
to create a form of chaos in which all kinds of fingerpointing,
accusations, and manipulations are possible. He *creates* confusing
situations on purpose, just like a con man, and then he starts
hyperbolic word wars and weird arm-twisting "deals" over them.
(As an aside, there is no way this should ever fool anyone,
since Trump has been exposed lying over and over so many times
it's ridiculous so that whenever it's his word against another's
you KNOW that 90% of the time HE is the liar - but for partisan
reasons his supporters refuse to admit this or do anything about
it, although nothing could be more obvious at this point.)
Two recent examples. One important; one trivial.
First, important:
Trump went outside the bounds of appropriate behavior by speaking
with James Comey privately, although Comey was directly involved
in the Russia investigation. That's something a president should
not have done to begin with, but once it was done Trump could start
his absurd finger-pointing and "he said - he said" crap. That whole
situation should never have existed and Trump *initiated* it.
Trump creates blurred lines and chaos between different spheres of
influence - such as between politics and the business world or the
world of religion - also between different branches of government
that are supposed to serve as checks and balances on each other.
An environment of increased chaos and blurred lines gives him
more opportunities to twist things and try to place blame for
anything where it doesn't really belong (also to try to take
credit for things he doesn't really deserve credit for).
With the Comey flap, Trump blurred the lines between the justice
department and the executive branch and then started a deceptive
war of words over the resulting problems, repeatedly trying to
drag the attorney general into it (and god knows what else he did
behind the scenes). Andrew McCabe was ensnared in all the chaos
this created and ended up getting screwed.
Second, trivial:
President Macron of France, after speaking with Trump, stated in
an interview that he'd convinced Trump to leave troops in Syria.
American officials came back saying Macron had misinterpreted
that conversation.
Yeah but see, almost anyone who speaks with Trump in ANY context
whatsoever will ALWAYS be in danger of "misinterpretation", just
due to the vague, slippery and weird ways in which Trump speaks.
At the same time, Trump changes his views and tactics so often
(usually due to some bad mistake HE insisted upon on making)
that it's hard to even keep track of what his views are, and hard
to be sure what he's saying or intending to do.
The result of all this: Trump will be seen to continually accuse
others of mistakes and/or problems they're not really to blame for,
and usually the situation itself will have been created by Trump.
Indeed, so very often, the very thing he accuses someone else of
is exactly what he himself *caused*, or is *guilty of*.
So anytime I see anyone get accused of "misinterpreting" Trump,
I rest assured that 90% of the time that will be happening because
Trump himself either led them into misinterpreting him and/or
he spoke so unintelligibly that he made it hard to even figure out
what was being said.
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My strange dream:
I walked into a hole-in-the-wall Cleaners to pick up some clothes.
There was no one at the counter and I had to stand waiting a long
time for someone to show up. I noticed there was a weird little
machine on the counter that dispensed candies, and it seemed to be
lying open so that anyone who wanted could just take either candy
or money right out of it. I wasn't sure if it was broken or if that
was the way it was supposed to be (like an honors system kinda thing).
You also couldn't even tell how much money you were supposed to put
in it. Since I had to keep waiting and was getting bored, I put a
quarter in the thing, and took a couple of small pieces of candy
and began eating them. Then this weird little man finally came
out of the back, and the first thing he did was ask me if I had
broken his candy machine? I said I just put a quarter in and took
a couple of pieces. He then asked me to explain why the money was
all exposed. I said it was like that when I came in. He acted like
he didn't believe me, and started accusing me of stealing out of
the machine. I was like... man, there was hardly any money in it
anyway, how much did you even have in there? He wasn't sure, but
then he wanted to look inside my backpack to see if I'd put a
bunch of his change in there. Well, I actually had some change
in the top pouch of my backpack, since I'd been throwing my own
change in there. I admitted, well yeah, there's some change there,
but it's mine - and again I asked him to say how much money he
thought he even had in his machine (it didn't look like it would
hold that much even if full), and then... just to get out of the
totally absurd situation I offered to simply give the guy all the
change I had (which I didn't think was all that much). I really
didn't care about the money - I just wanted to get my clothes
and leave. He then acted as if I'd admitted to stealing change
from him, and said he was going to call the police and have me
put in jail. At that point I told him to go ahead, saying I'd be
glad to talk to the police about dishonest and crazy he was!
Then I woke up :) and after thinking about it for a few minutes
I realized this dream was a perfect metaphor for how Donald
Trump continually behaves in real life.
First, he creates some weird situation or breaks something.
Then he starts lying about it and manipulating others over it,
and even getting downright aggressive over it - USING it
to try to GET something he wants (which is usually stupid).
My dream was almost funny and trivial, but take that kind of
behavior to the level of national or global issues, and ask what
kinds of situations it could create if repeated over and over?
I really think Trump is one of the most dangerous men in the world,
and having a corrupt, devious man like him in the driver's seat is... terrifying. He's doing immense damage to our nation and potentially
to the entire world, along with all the genuinely horrible people
he appointed to high offices.
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