CSotD: A Mind Up His Sleeve
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I don’t know that Loper has pinned down the entire Bad Bunny controversey, but he made me laugh and that’s a good thing.
Certainly, in the days after the Super Bowl, I’ve seen lots of praise and support for Bad Bunny’s half time show and only general whining from supporters of the Kid Rock alternate show, but that could be a reflection of how I’ve curated my social media.
However, while the actual, final, official ratings aren’t in yet, it’s clear that most viewers stayed with the Super Bowl’s own show, only a fragment switched over, and that the Puppy Bowl got better numbers than Kid Rock.
Trump mostly set himself up to look foolish, which seems counter-productive here.
Granted, his target audience are the loyalists before whom he can shoot people on Fifth Avenue and dance clumsily to a song that celebrates anonymous gay hookups at the local Y without losing a single vote from the religious no-fun-damentalists in his core support group.
However, while Trump got nearly the same share of the Latino vote in 2024 as Harris did, it seems unlikely they will continue to support him in those numbers, given the violent assaults by ICE on brown-skinned people in the streets and the overt racism Dear Leader and his supporters unleashed on Bad Bunny for singing in a forbidden language.
He also took time this weekend to deliver a massive insult to the Black community, though that Pew Center analysis indicates he hadn’t received many of their votes in 2024.
But how many votes can a political party afford to flush, even if they’ve got the support of white supremacists?
If the racist posting mocking the Obamas as apes was intended to distract from the Epstein files, well, it was an odd choice, though, admittedly, the MAGA crowd was a lot more fired up about pedophilia when they pictured it as happening among liberals in the non-existent basement of a Washington pizzeria.
Once it emerged as a hobby among wealthy powerbrokers, it stopped being much of a problem for them.
And it does seem, as Anderson suggests, that Trump’s sociopathic lack of empathy allows him to stir up his loyalists without investing a great deal of research into things, or to even follow through himself: Reportedly the TV’s at his club didn’t switch over to Kid Rock at halftime.
It’s not hypocrisy if you never meant it in the first place.
Or if, as Golding explains, it never made any sense.
Did one of his staffers concoct this facocta lunacy? Trump is threatening to forbid the opening of a major US/Canada bridge and further torpedo our economy because … the Chinese are going to ban ice hockey?
Granted, the Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA and the Trump-arranged trade deal that supplanted them all left disagreements over dairy, potash and softwood lumber.
But his ludicrous, irrational belief that the Canadians owe us for conducting trade under agreements we signed is yet another blow against the reputation of the Wharton School of Business, which probably thought giving the lazy goof-off an undeserved diploma would be the last they’d ever see of him.
I’d love to have some journalist ask him for a little more detail on why the Chinese government is planning to ban Hockey Night in Canada, but when you ask him a question he can’t answer, he just hurls a personal insult at you in order to change the subject.
Is he lying or is he looney? One way or the other, he doesn’t even try to explain the foolish things he says. In a criminal case, that level of self-awareness would undermine an insanity claim, but it doesn’t appear to be disqualifying in politics. Not that they haven’t prepared for unwelcome questions anyway.
This administration has deliberately, formally changed the reporting set-up in the White House in order to give lackeys and toadies preferential access, and made Pentagon reporters promise to do nothing but rewrite press releases. That isn’t sarcasm or hyperbole: It’s how the Trump administration has purposely worked to protect Dear Leader from the working press.
As opposed to the fawning press.
This is how they respond when a piece of information escapes the tight net they’ve strung: After Trump’s tax returns somehow became public — and not because he released them as he’d promised to — he fell back on his usual parlor trick of launching a lawsuit.
And this one is against the IRS, which means he’s seeking tax money, making it very much as if he were suing you.
Though if an ICE officer drags a citizen from his car and kneels on him, breaking six of his ribs, it is, to use a legal phrase, “tough titties.” Trump can sue the IRS but ICE agents have absolute immunity.
Well, at least that’s what JD says, although legal experts say otherwise.
Thing is, if Dear Leader either strokes out, starts gnawing the curtains or is otherwise made so clearly incapacitated that the 25th Amendment comes into play, JD ends up in the driver’s seat.
Be careful what you wish for.
And besides, while he never willingly released his taxes and we still haven’t seen his magical health care proposal, Dear Leader did come through with TrumpRX, which he named for himself. Fancy that!
Anyway, it’s up and stumbling. The fact that it doesn’t work nearly as well as GoodRX or buying prescriptions through Amazon isn’t the point. Unless you care, because there are several disadvantages to TrumpRX for all but the makers of brand-name drugs.
Once again, Dear Leader leaves us wondering if he’s running a deliberate scam or if he just doesn’t understand how things work.
And what possible difference that could make.
But my goodness gracious, don’t laugh at him or he’ll sue your socks off.
And even though his lawsuits are as crazy as any of the other nonsensical drivel that issues forth from the Oval Office, it costs money to defend even a nuisance suit, and he’s learned that major corporations would rather pay him off than let him drag their expensive lawyers through a court battle and dozens of appeals.
He may be crazy, but he’s got a system.
Mike Peterson has posted his "Comic Strip of the Day" column every day since 2010. His opinions are his own, but we welcome comments either agreeing or in opposition.
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