Trump (!) Whines About a Big, Sudden Change
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
It can be hard to write commentary in the Trump era, and a big reason for me is that pretty quickly, the question arises: Where do I even begin?
Latest case in point: Trump is unhappy with the NFL's new Dynamic Kickoff rule, which is intended in part to lessen the chances of players being concussed. I have no opinion on the rule since I haven't watched an NFL game yet.
But Trump does, and it is about as unmoored from reality as his opinions on tariffs, foreign policy, freedom of speech, and everything else. You can read what he "thinks" at the first link above. It isn't important for my purposes, and if our politicians and public had any sense, none of his opinions on anything would matter for anyone's purposes.
(Having re-learned what the Founders knew -- that giving absolute power to an absolute idiot is dangerous -- Trump would have been impeached and removed from office long ago, his evil Vice President recognized the shot across the bow, and some group of statesmen would be figuring out how to end the Imperial Presidency.)
We shouldn't have to worry about this person's dumb takes, but we do.
What takes the cake, though, is his reaction to getting a taste of his own snake oil:
How can they make such a big and sweeping change so easily and quickly.This is rich, coming as it does from the idiot who raises and lowers taxes on our overseas purchases like it's a bodily function -- a major reason too many (real) businessmen can't plan ahead anymore and are in serious trouble.
One needn't be touch-feely or even a proponent of empathy to have one's jaw dislocate by dropping far and fast. One need only ask, Is this guy capable of putting himself in anyone else's shoes long enough to consider how his decisions might affect them?
The answer is, plainly, No!
But when someone routinely displays the degree of ignorance Donald John Trump does about so many things, why should consequences of my decisions register, either?
-- CAV
2 comments:
"his evil vice president" - yet one more case of an objectivist dropping the e-bomb:
You don't know his motivations. People do all kinds of foolish things, have foolish ideas. You are not entitled, just because you are so angry and disgusted at someone whose views are so opposed to yours to conclude that he is evil rather than foolish or mistaken.
This is just one more reason why people, especially today in an angry and polarized and insult dripping culture, why Objectivists don't get listened to by reasonable and thoughtful people.
One more example of things that people could learn from Charlie Kirk, who assumed people were open to reason and was willing to disagree without being insulting or psychologizing negatively about them.
I'll concede that there is room to question whether Vance is evil, but he clearly is much different (and not in a good way) from the man who wrote Hillibilly Elegy. I would have done better to call him dangerous.
At the same time, one needn't be clairvoyant to call someone evil. Actions often do speak louder than words, and I see in Vance someone who correctly called Trump dangerous only a few short years ago only to sell out and back him no matter what (e.g., his designs on Greenland) to the point that he is now Vice President -- to someone whose prior Vice President was asked to betray his country.
I'm open to being wrong to call him evil. Hell, I hope I'm wrong.
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