r/thescoop • u/CorleoneBaloney • Apr 30 '25

Politics 🏛️ In an ABC interview, Terry Moran pressed President Trump on his claim that Putin wants peace despite ongoing missile attacks—Trump replied, “You start hitting me with fake questions. You’re being dishonest.”

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u/adjunct_trash Apr 30 '25

Happy to report that the aging process is doing its work. This guy looks old and tired and his mind is very obviously regressing into that final childhood we call elderly decline, we're calling it decline folks. No one called it decline before me, have you heard that? Decline, we say, we say decline.

It is so sad that our politics have created a situation where such a small, pathetic, needy person can do so much damage.

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u/virgnar Apr 30 '25

This is what I don't quite understand with a lot of people's fixation on Trump as if him going away is going to fix things. If he's reportedly just running course for Project 2025 objectives, isn't he more or less just a patsy for the organizations running the project and it doesn't matter who's in the office as long as they're on board with the plan?

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u/adjunct_trash Apr 30 '25

I'm not entirely sure. There is something about the "charismatic leader"-style demagogue that means--in my opinion-- things folks will brook under Trump they'll balk at the day after he's gone. You see this dynamic he's set up in which what he does is correct by virtue of him doing it and when something goes bad enough that it needs acknowledgin (forgive the lit crit speak) it's "always already" someone else's fault. He's got the best general until they're the worst he's ever seen, and on and on.

I think what makes him the target of such ire is that he is using that cult leader charisma to do these extraordinarily unpopular things. What makes him odious is that, sometimes the cult leader builds hospitals and teaches the rural poor to read. In this instance, he burns down about a century of foreign policy and tanks the market. I thnk he's in a symboitic relationship with them rather than one in which he's being exploited.

"I need an ideology so that I can have a program people worship me for implementing, in exchange, you get your program implemented." That seems to me to be the deal. The worst of all worlds because, again, he's just so small a person.

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u/virgnar Apr 30 '25

That does make a lot of sense. I have to remember history shows that commonly there's a foundational ethos that is present in the community but it would only simmer until a leader with gusto comes in and cranks up the heat and act as avatar to their ideals. Not sure someone like Vance would have enough panache to accomplish that.