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“They’ve wanted it for over a hundred years”

This is the US president talking about the ballroom absolutely nobody seems to want. The interesting thing is that he reaches for a “they” that indicates in this case, and many others, nothing more than whatever he is currently talking about is his wish. Basically he regularly imagines a social will that is in line with his own desire. Remember we kind of know from experience there is very likely no research behind this or much else of what this guy says, and it may be an obvious falsehood. That never prevents the fibber-in-chief from making a statement. This is one of the problems with the combination of protected speech (1st amendment) and a person who has been legally allowed not to be prosecuted for anything he does or says as president if his lawyers are able to argue successfully that he acted as president at the time, which they no doubt will after his party is routed in 2026 (mid-terms) and he is removed in 2028. The reason for my postulate that that move will be successful is because of a clearly biased supreme court. You’ve gotta give it to whomever is making the rampant corruption of all facets of the the US structure of governance a thing, and I do not mean the fool with the orange skin, they have been more successful that could have been imagined. The protection also seems to include insulting people and suggesting they may be mentally deficient.

The US president has actually repeatedly suggested that top US journalists are stupid, and fail to understand what he is saying. He makes a statement that we all know is nonsense and offers anger when challenged, often citing everyone that disagrees as “not a smart person”. He referred to a US elected official as “retarded”, he called a female journalist “Piggy” while telling her to be “quiet”. He claimed he has “aced” cognitive tests that White House reporters would be “incapable of” . He often suggests that he is a very smart guy, yet we all know that if you are smart you will never need to suggest or state it, people will notice. Add in that really smart people tend to be humble and doubtful (the Dunning-Kruger effect again), not brash and harsh, and it is likely another facet of the self delusion this, in my opinion, feeble minded and thin skinned individual, requires to perform his act and to feel good about himself. The Tangerine Mussolini goes as far as to often suggest that nobody knows more about X than he does, and this X can be any subject or discipline, from energy production to technology to diseases to taxation.

Trump – I know more than anybody – YouTube

We do not need to be actual intellectuals to know this man’s utterances are not true. Sir Isaac Newton was arguably one of the smartest people that ever lived, with so little historical information he guessed the weight of the earth quite successfully, invented calculus, worked out the circumference of the moon and how far away it is, and there’s gravity etc etc… Yet, he lost his family fortune in a financial bubble. There are gaps in everyone’s knowledge, ability, and skills. For a person to believe themselves to be what they are demonstrably not, like Trump obviously does, is in psychological terms, fucking delusional. It must be the product of associated narcissism on the part of the person, where they have been allowed to hold that position by those that support, what they know better than, just to please the dear leader. If I believed I could operate an aircraft with no knowledge or training, I hope I live in a world where I could not convince anyone to let me try.

The cult followers are maybe more to blame than the cult leader. For others, those that actually believe this man’s assertions, that this one person who talks like a henchman in a bad gangster movie, acts like an emotional child, and oozes vindictiveness toward anyone that disagrees with him, is so smart and capable in all things, is an unforgivable level of gullibility. It’s irrational cult-like dogmatic and religious type behaviour, follower behaviour, zealous, arising from faith not reason, and in faith in something demonstrably detrimental to that worshiper. In truth it looks to the rational observer, he/she that appreciates truth, proof, and reason, maybe more like an addiction than a belief. When a person states something that you know cannot be true, and if you were wiser would realise that they don’t actually believe it either it’s just useful to them to have you accept it as true, to then actually believe them, or continue to believe in them, is an unforgivable act.

Know that assertions of blatant falsehoods are a habit for this regime, not a mistake. I believe, with my amateur psychology hat on, they are a narcissistic feature of this person, a feature not a glitch. We cannot merely attribute them to the Dunning-Kruger effect because he, our tangerine intellectual imposter, has dismissed and resisted information rather than been deficient in it. He has any information he needs access to. We could look at his assertion that his inauguration crowds were bigger than Obama’s and a quick comparison of the media objects available dispels that bullshit immediately. He will have seen them too, and his choice then is to present a falsehood that he knows to be false, this is not error it is intent. We could look at his assertion that London is a war-zone and see that the stats just don’t support it, again not error intent. We could look at his claims that the people of Greenland have been let down by Denmark because they have not spent much on defending them, yet I think Denmark maybe thought that Greenland wasn’t under threat until the Orange wannabee tyrant took an interest, intent again. The people of Greenland have been free to express their position to Denmark for centuries. It is a democracy after all, not an occupation. Bear in mind they have state sponsored healthcare, the US does not.

This is not an isolated statement, the oft reached for “they”. The strangely Orange one calls on this seemingly non-corporeal social support base of people that want what he wants quite often, citing that “they” asked him to perform whatever trajectory he is currently funnelling his nation’s resources toward. This tactic has a purpose in that it positions him as a perceived servant of the wishes of the people performing a duty of his office, and the people of the US, which appear to the rest of the world to be mostly a bunch of knuckle-dragging religious zealots who seem easily fooled by razzmatazz, may actually partially buy that rhetoric periodically. I say ‘appears’ because we are, and I am aware that I seem to be speaking for the rest of the world, still mostly all aghast at the fact that the US ballot wielding population elected this guy a second time following such a clown-show during his first go. I can only imagine the propaganda work that went on to make him look like a viable option again. Fool me once?

My theory is that he has won twice, but if the Democrats had offered a male alternative he would not have won even one term. I believe that the US is such a patriarchal society that they are just not ready to elect a woman as president no matter the alternative. We must remember that the majority white citizenry of this nation have a history that derives from a European tradition of Protestantism that espouses traditional living where a wife is the property of a man, so is a daughter, and they cannot rule in the domain of men. Remember your bible people, Mary has no choices, she is commanded by her deity, inseminated without consent, God and Jesus (men) are the important characters who face difficulties and choices, Mary is praised merely for being adherent to choices she has foisted upon her, and this is a repeating observation for women represented in exegetics (I am not a believer, I’m just pointing out a founding/influential principle). We can link the current prominent republican party with the cultural artifacts of this tradition if we look to see how women are generally treated, even their own prominent female political actors.

Donny himself has an approach to women, he clearly judges their value based on their attractiveness, this seems apparent to the casual observer, but he also clearly does not view them as his equal. Many outbursts and insults to female journalists, a history of derogatory statements concerning many women, civilly convicted of a sexual assault and then for a defamation of the same journalist, the fact that he calls women unattractive or misshapen when they disagree with him or they ask a difficult relevant question, as if their sexual attractiveness itself is something relevant to whether he should answer. There is much to suggest that the US, if they tolerate this guy and keep doing so, remains a society that has not yet freed itself of its historic misogynistic tendencies. Fox news keeps reenforcing this message by suggesting that no matter how bad things are now they would have been worse if Kamila or Hilary had won. There is no way to prove those assertions, but they are women, so it seems to get accepted by the misogynist MAGA mob.

When Churchill spoke to the masses he was yes trying to persuade, he needed public support, what he was not doing was pretending that he already had it and telling the people it was what they wanted. There is a big difference between a manager and a leader in that a leader wins over subordinates and a manager merely orders them. Churchill was a wartime leader. The effect is different also, people who believe in what they are acquiescing to a leader over are more likely to continue their support during the rougher times, whereas ‘managed’ people move toward resentment and discontent much more quickly. They may wake up to the obvious bullshit, and that seems to be happening a bit at least in some areas, though the militarisation of the mechanisms whereby power is expressed combined with the demonstrable weaponization of the US justice system to become a force for punishing difference of personal philosophy rather than violation of actual law, puts a barrier in front of resistance in a way that it might not have been thought possible for a country that often espouses a constitutional underpinning of the rights of people to not conform in mind and sometimes in deed.

None of this at all matters however because this regime of one person (cult), a wannabe king/dictator/tyrant, and his sycophantic amateurs, have successfully exposed the limitations of the US constitution in linguistic interpretation. I think they all studied rhetorical argument at high school, joined the debate club, and likely they have previously pursued media roles. I say that but I do not mean they are journalists, far from it. In modernity the TV presenter that hosts the show is not an investigator in the same way as someone like Donal Macintyre, Bob Woodward, or John Pilger, they are presenters, part of a mechanism whereby motivated opinion is packaged as a news-like propaganda object for the purpose of both entertainment and the steering of the social conscience in line with corporate ownership. Debaters are sophists, that is their day job, the search for affect is much more important than the quest for truth or the representation of effect. The goal is not to expose reality for the appetite of the people who wish to know things, but to merely be successful in persuasion, the provision of an intellectual sedative, or to hide the corruption within a palatable narrative. Truth and reality are unimportant aspects of the TV numbers game, advertisement is the key, because that’s who owns the channel and the airtime. Independent media is the only real media in modernity, Cui Bono…

We look to the media to expose government, we want insights and transparency. What we do not want is a media that gives us just the performance of being at odds with power, nor do we want an obvious bromance between media and any mechanism of power. In the UK we have two prominent journalists who are far too friendly with top political actors, making them compromised, becoming what Frankie Boyle described as “courtiers”. We also have a media owned by the same financial underwriters who get invited to the Party conferences. This relation should be built of scrutiny without malice, it should be adversarial but not vindictive, at its best the journalists should be idealistic seekers of truths regardless of where they lead. What they have been forced to do now is not journalism or investigation, it is massage.

Fiat iustitia, ruat caelum – Let justice be done, though the heavens fall

It is because of these unfortunate circumstances, the way that the Populus know what they think they know being through motivated media in television and on the web, that we can have such a world leader as this guy and others in place in the first instance. They rely on people being won over by the magic show, the razzmatazz, and in truth it is likely assertable that Mr Murdoch is the actual magician in this show. I wonder does this grand enabler now realise what his influence has done, and how he does he feel about the landscape of the world of false information he has helped to create (not solely)? I doubt if he cares, he’s very rich and powerful, and I doubt he set out to make the world a better place in the first place.

We come to know that the politicians cannot be trusted, we come to know that they aren’t actually going to do what they said were their intentions, this is not a slur, the reality really does never meet the promise, but what would be ice would be if they had even tried. We sooner or later realise that they have their own agenda and they serve other interests, other bases. But it’s always way too late to do anything about it.

We in the UK had Boris, a man who failed consistently to get anything real done, yet was seemingly very good at spending the money. Boris’s bridge was never built but the consultancy was paid, Boris’s airport had the same fate, Boris’s overhead cable car system went the same way too. Also on Boris’s watch the fast lane was created to allow some of his cabinet’s business associates to seemingly benefit from preferential treatment when it came to the provision of PPE during a pandemic. This is currently being investigated but it’s unlikely any recompense will follow (lessons learned will be the cry at worst). The US is not an outlier when it comes to alleged corrupted actions, but it is unique in the power that it has to change and influence the rest of the globe. Nothing stands in the way, the US has a strangle hold on data storage, computing, and the internet, the rest of the world is culpable for letting that happen. We in fact are seeing a rise in self-hosting and open source computing, even by governments, and for the sake of personal/corporate/business data security. I interpret this as a strategy to keep data out of the clutches of the US government, because we maybe cannot trust them any longer since the POTUS has involved the US administration in the business of top tech companies.

The latest brag is that “nothing can stop us”. In this he means him, not the US population, nor the US congress which is rarely now consulted. If he was confident that the actions he has now taken would be supported then he would have gone through the normal channels of getting the support and the congressional permission for a conflict, but instead it seems to be as much a surprise to them as it is to the rest of the world. What Donny believes is that he is above scrutiny, that he shouldn’t need to ask anyone to express his will. That is a king, a tyrant, a dictator, not a representative of the power of a democratic republic. So one tactic, his, is to just do the thing without asking, then to mediate the thing as not the thing that it appears to be, even though it is obviously the thing it appears to be. The US compliant administration personnel are already describing their military intervention into foreign sovereign nations as “not war”, yet at the same time their leader is describing them often as “war”.

US military forces entered another country and disabled its governance structure from the top down, then declared that they were taking over control of that country’s resources, and also imprisoned its president and his wife. Looks like an act of war to many observers no matter what it is actually named? Now as I edit this piece they have started a war with Iran, and they’re not calling that a war either, nor can they explain their rational for starting it coherently, nor what their goal is when it concludes. Donny just did it because he wanted to, then bragged about how the richest most powerful nation attacked a small and relatively weak adversary that in technological terms is decades behind them. I personally think he has fucked up so much stuff in the US he might as well fuck things up everywhere else too, or maybe he is trying to distract from something really bad like his links to a global paedo ring run by his once closest pal?

That statement of power, “nothing can stop us”, nods to military superiority through the technology of waging war, it lets us, the rest of the world, know that the US have the best toys, and combined with his DOD puppet’s assertion that “we can do this anywhere” it is chilling because this is an actual warning, a muscle flex that I suspect Denmark and Mexico and Cuba are supposed to witness. The rest of the world will now scramble to either prepare to repel a possible difficulty they will have with the US (Donny and his people specifically), which is now not beyond imagination, or they will move quickly to become sycophantic states kowtowing and grovelling at the might of the new daddy. I suspect the latter is what the little western child emperor has in his desires, but I hope leaders like Macron, Carney, Lula, Merz, Tusk, Sanchez et al will collectivise, unify their positions, and look to strengthen their military collaborations. The wait is only until the next election, and the hope is that there is no way after this dickhead ends his term the US system will allow another one like him.

Bottom line, the US decided to become a bully under Donny, and yes it is a big one, but the way to repel a bully is not to give in, it is to gain or fake the strength to oppose. It is not accidental that people say of Donny that TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out), it is an observation that he does not have the strength he pretends, that when stood up to he is the one that wilts. We have seen this when he backs down, he backed down in the company of Mamdani (NYC Mayor) and became very civil, this followed a period of false claims and speculations of what would happen if he was to be elected, personal slurs, and support for anyone who opposed him. Donny is all bluster, when people wilt he punishes their weakness because they have been weak, when they resist it is him that becomes civil. He threatened China with Tariffs and they Tariffed him back so he backed off, he bad mouthed Canada and they pushed US goods out and their PM went about the world convincing sane leaders he was one of them.

Militarily, such awesome destructive capabilities should add a burden to a country in how it makes decisions to instigate or respond to conflict. In a moral sense the strong must decide if they will take from the weak or assist them. There are two schools of thought on the nature of man that come into play, one is the Hobbesian perspective that states something akin to man being ever in struggle and conflict, competitive in a brutish environment, the other is the Rousseau perspective where man is mooted to be a collaborative animal that creates optimal outcomes through sharing and trading abilities. We know that the world, as in the peoples of the world, not the owners of the world who have always lived high on the hog, has benefitted from peace-time collaboration. Capitalism, though imperfect, which has brought forth wonders not before seen, requires stability now and a somewhat predictable future because that’s what drives the incentive to make things (no point in building the good city if it is certain to be overrun by barbarians), but we also know that war makes some people money, so some people will always foster it. In the cold war there was a balance but not much escalation, but now there is only one true superpower and it must decide how it intends to use it.

When the power of decision is handled by just one person, an obviously child-like person to boot, who is reportedly, and IMHO, showing clear signs of cognitive decline combined with a history of calamitous decisions that indicate a consistent resistance to learning from mistakes, add in a capricious and vindictive nastiness in personality toward dissent and an obvious flagrant disregard for judicial processes, and the world needs to start worrying. We have a baby’s fingers on the trigger of the most destructive weapons ever built. I say a baby because, and this is just my amateur psychology on the subject, our big orange baby appears to be a purely ego driven creature with a persecution complex when he doesn’t get what he wants. He sees any time where he is not rewarded as a personal insult, he needs a present at another child’s birthday party. Ego is where we first start, it is desire without restraint, it is confidence without the caution that comes from experience, it is purely self-focussing, narcissism, it’s non-social and problematic if carried into adulthood as the entire psyche.

As most persons develop they learn, and learn from, loss and failure, but for some people they never hear the word “no”, and they never face the consequences of their failure because someone or some thing always bails them out. The Orange baby has been a failure often but he has learned nothing because ensuring he continues has always seemed to be useful to some other people. This means compromise, leverage, a bill that some day has to be paid, a marker that gets called in. I have nothing but speculation on this, a perspective gained from absorbing the contentions of other persons who are in opposition to the Orange one in independent media, and those that have been involved with him and have made it out of the cult of his personality when they criticise. It is though true that everything he has touched has failed, his casinos, his airline, his product ranges et al. What was a success was the apprentice tv show, though he was not the root of that success (show was created in Britain by producer Mark Burnett) and Donny was an employee who eventually got fired himself.

I don’t want you to think that I am a political commentator or a journalist, this stuff is just my opinion and I may not know enough to be correct. Yet, I do personally dislike the current US president and I do think he is a very big problem that the world has got to solve sometime soon. The trajectory of the world, the politics that drive our relations with each other, the economic landscape of who owns what, the moral justice we in the west try to believe we are working towards and inspiring in other places that do not yet have it, the rights of persons to be what their inherent nature dictates as long as it is within the bounds of acceptability, our differences and diversity and how these enhance our lived experience, our possibilities to use science to make a safer and better existence for all animals, our progress as intellectual beings, our almost absurd need for relevance acceptance and love, our right to express our disagreement without oppression and violence, our capacity to think beyond the restrictions imposed by an adherence to the books of a bronze-age mythology, our need to doubt as a necessary mechanism of protection, our dissatisfaction that drives us to improve ourselves and the lives of others, and many more aspects of what it is to be us existentially, is under attack from a man who represents a force of suppression not only in the physical world but in the inner space of our minds.

Filling his power base with people who oppose science, justice, reason, morality, fairness, and lacing it with greedy amateurs with social media followers will turn us all into nitwits as falsehoods compete with truths on a playing field that is artificially skewed toward the appearance of a fair fight. Long disproven nonsense is elevated and presented as if it is a credible alternative, an example of this is the anti-vac movement which happens to be spiking diseases thought to be long beaten in the US, yet the administration chooses to see no correlation between their offered anti-scientific wisdom and the reality that is measured. We proved vaccines to be useful and necessary, it took decades, this assuredness was destroyed by replacing the people in the positions of trust, but the tendency to trust lingered like a hangover despite their obvious ineptitude. That’s the problem, that it will take a while for people to realise that they can no longer trust what they once did, and even if they break from this relation they still be adrift because what is the alternative?

In fact their response is to stop measuring, claim successes that cannot be proven, and then present no receipts. Imagine what this approach can do when applied to other aspects of governance, and imagine what this approach actually means. Well you don’t have to imagine it, the utterances by the convicted felon at the head of the US administration are based on no real measurement, they’re just his projection of what he’d like you to believe about the economy, foreign threats, employment numbers, health, happiness, his own support, laws etc. It is against everything we have gained since the scientific revolution, it puts all that empiricism (observation, experimentation, evidence, proof) into the trash can. We are supposed to ignore the best output of trained professional scientists (who are occasionally wrong admittedly) and instead trust in the offerings of woefully unqualified youtubers with an opposing opinion and a strong personality? This makes zero sense, would you prefer to personally like the persona of your surgeon or your pilot rather than know they have experience and the necessary skills to do their job? If no then why would you trust RFK Jr to steer your health, Hegseth to keep you safe from foreign threats, or Bessant to run your economy?

This is what it comes down to, the fact that the TV screen and the Internet browser have allowed for a grand grift and created a landscape of competition for palatable notions. Prof Barry Schwartz wrote of a paradox of choice where a person is confused by there being so many offerings and it made them hesitate, ever considering that they may be about to make the wrong one and fearing the consequence of that (FOMO). We mostly only know what we are told because we do not have time to chase first principal in all things, so we live in a world of trust in things like the structural integrity of the stairs we are about to ascend, or the maintenance schedule of the fire extinguishers in our workplace, or the minimum levels of safety we can expect to be provided by systems of governance. 

When we cannot trust the sources of what we are told, nor the systems that we have previously known, then it is likely that we will make bad decisions, require reassurances, and subsequently become at the mercy of charlatans that offer those reassurances. It would be a stupid person who would come to believe that African potatoes cured AIDS, but this happened in Uganda because the health ministry actually claimed it and the people had no way to verify the truth of the claim. You may think you are not going to be a victim of this sort of nonsense, but this is what happens when we have what Kellyanne Conway called “Alternative Facts” competing with real facts, and a population that has historically trusted their government to a large degree. To the point you might make that governments have always been nefarious and full of slime I would say that you can also usually find noble actors among them that act as a restraining or disabling counter force, and the 20th century had some great reporters exposing the corruption where it popped up.

Mr Murdoch, and his ilk, have bought up the networks of mediation, they have seeded the ground for the politicians we have now, they have massaged the message and controlled the platform itself, removing anything that does not feed the narrative that suits their purposes. This is the deplatforming that those that seem to get all the airtime complain about, and example of which would be in the UK where more air time is given to Reform UK Party than their numbers in parliament, or their impact, warrants, especially on state media that refers to itself as “independent” (the BBC). This skewed relation is not accidental, they speak the words of the establishment and the establishment makes sure you hear them. And they may not have fully grasped what could happen, that we would have such blatant unjustifiable immorality and open unrepentant corruption now as political actors shamelessly do whatever benefits them financially while telling fibs about their actions on TV, while anyone that wishes to expose it has to become a citizen journalist or engage with a platform that has very few followers and no advertisement to underwrite its cost of airtime.

So we find ourselves disturbed by recent events, the Orange US Nationalist has just taken over another country and has admitted that the motivation behind the action was to take control of that country’s resource, the largest oil reserve in the world (20% of all oil), and now he has openly threatened another country that has oil in the same region. For the purpose of purported “defence”, as if the heaviest armed country in the world needs to be defended in this way. He is also mooting the possibility of seizing control of the land of a European country against the wishes of the people of that country (Greenland/Denmark), “taking” Cuba, and having his DOD nitwit warning the rest of the world as if hyping a pro wrestling event. He is a makeup clad disaster in an ill-fitting suit, but we need to be scared of this guy. A child minded bully with a greed that cannot be satisfied, doing the bidding of the faceless energy corporations and financial manipulators. I’d go as far as to say that this tyrant and all that follow him are now maybe the greatest immediate danger to his own nation, and every citizen of the world.

There is three more years of this to come, three more years for this administration to figure out how to dismantle democracy all throughout the world and install a falsehood that claims it is democracy in its place. The tactics will be propaganda and might, combined with an assault on the judiciary that has already begun and is working. Trump’s DOJ is toying with the idea of paying out to insurrectionists because they were prosecuted for their crimes, and that’s just insane. There is a reason why one person cannot, and should not, be in total charge in a nation, it is that one person cannot restrain their own unreasonable anger and their maladjusted thoughts, especially if that one person is not possessive of a high enough level of intellectual reasoning that constantly overrides their ego based passions. And Trump is clearly what he tries to project onto others, a “low IQ person”.

Groups tend to be reactionary, structures of well trained people tend to move toward their training, but political actors are expected to reason and persuade, and they should be good at it. Theirs is a temporary power that is lent to them by the people, and documents of state make it clear that there are boundaries to how they wield it. If we find ourselves with a leader (I use that term with caution) that has managed to become unrestrained and unrestricted, and that leader appears to be a grifter with nefarious motivations, then there should already be mechanisms for their removal. If this conjecture is so, and if that leader is not restrained, then we must blame the power structure that has allowed him to rise to prominence and stay there unchallenged.

That existing power structure must have been at some time justifiable and answerable to the people. The Republican party in the US obviously put winning above their own conservative based morals, they would have been aware of how this guy is and would be in power, they are not stupid, yet they do not act, they do not use their power to impose their conservatism. This is like the Epicurean paradox, where either the power can act but doesn’t, or the power is willing to act but cannot.

Conservatism is a justifiable political stance, it is not ridiculous nor extreme, neither is democratic socialism, neither is the labour movement. One can look to the writings of someone like Robert Nozick or the speeches of Buckley, the administration of Reagan, for proper conservatism. Donny is not a conservative, he’s not a pragmatist, he’s not a politician because he has never been in any other political position, in fact he may not have an underpinning ideology, an understanding of one, or a set of political experiences to guide him at all. He is maybe in reality nothing more than an opportunistic con-man that wants your power and money, and he’ll get this by acting as an influencer for people more powerful than he who prefer to occupy the background. JD Vance once said that “Trump will be America’s Hitler” and becoming VP has not made him incorrect about that. He protected and admonished those people he himself has been accused of inspiring to attack the capital building, issuing pardons. He has suggested that people in his own party that disagree with him may be in danger, that’s a mafia tactic… “Nice place you got here, be a shame if anything happened to it”

Donny has said things that could be interpreted by his lower IQ followers which indicate that they should enact violence in his name because that would please him. Yet at the same time he has misremembered the words of political allies such as Kirk who called for public executions of criminals. What suits him is what suits what he wishes to achieve at whatever time he wishes to achieve it, he clearly has no moral centre that restrains his whim based wandering from desire to desire, he will do whatever he needs to to be what he wishes to be and get what he wishes for, which is usually someone else’s money or praise. Most people have an internal policeman that stops them from being too greedy, from being violent, from being scum, but not Donny. What he does have that restrains him is a lack of real courage, yes he has power but that is different, he never served in any military or judicial force, he has not been in the coast guard or performed a shift as a firefighter, yet he will stand in front of them as if he is their equal.

It’s easy to play the big man when the might of the US forces are at you command, that is the schoolboy with his big brother and his mates behind him facing you when you are facing them all alone. I suspect we might see a military uniform with a bunch of medals like the British Royals he loves so much are oft seen to sport. Unfortunately for Donny our monarchy sometimes actually serves and maybe deserves their accolades at times.

That was a long one, there’s a lot happening….

Paul S Wilson