Re: Pearls Before Swine: TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome)

On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 19:48:32 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

Pearls Before Swine: TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome)
   https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2025/07/06

Taking "TDS" at its word, I would point out:
1. Tippecanoe (Harrison) is better than Trump (and arguably a few
others) /precisely because/ he didn't do anything.
2. Buchanan was President in 1859/early 1860 (still March, IIRC), but
what, exactly, was he supposed to do with horse-based land
transportation in that time? Have Congress (what was left of it) fund
a recruiting drive for the Army?

Trump is fighting every side.  The liberals say that he is doing too
much and the conservatives say that he is not doing enough.

The wing-nuts are still ... wing-nuts.

Locally, we were assured that the shelves would be empty (as a result
of Trump's tariffs) by the last two weeks of May. Didn't happen. This
/may/ still happen, and some businesses have been affected, but so so
good.

The recent left wing-nut attempt to blame a flash flood on DOGE
appears to have collapsed: the warnings were sent, but nobody was
watching. The county wanted a cut of Federal money (parcelled out by
the State) to upgrade their warning system (not including an actual
audible alarm because the residents didn't want one) but were turned
down on both of their attempts by the State committee created to dole
the funds out. All these State-level groups were, it should go without
saying, not run by Democrats. So, in the long run, it is the
Republicans running Texas at the State level that appear likely at
this time to be stuck with the blame. And they may even deserve it,
who can say?

That would make it another example (like the Uvalde school situation)
suggesting that being run by extreme right-wing Republicans is not a
good state for a State to be in.

The right wing-nuts appear to be espousing familiar positions:
1. Weather manipulation.
2. It's all a fake. Presumably with crisis-actors.
There may be others out there, of course.

Four years until the financial apocalypse of the USA according to the
documentary “The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047”
 
https://www.amazon.com/Mandibles-Family-2029-2047-Lionel-Shriver/dp/0062328247

Normally, I would still be attributing the state of the economy to
Biden, as six months is normally not enough time for a new President
to have an impact. I'm not sure if that holds now, given Trump's
endless search for things to do to get his name in /all/ the
headlines, but a crash in 2029 (especially if in the first half) would
probably be attributed to Trump, not whoever succeeds him.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"