Slouching Towards Oblivion

Friday, August 02, 2019

How Stuff Works


WaPo:

President Trump on Friday made light of new reports that the Baltimore home of Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) had been recently burglarized, drawing a chiding response from his former U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley, among others.

“Really bad news! The Baltimore house of Elijah E. Cummings was robbed. Too bad!” Trump tweeted to his more than 62 million followers.

The one thing you have to do is make sure there's no way to link you back to the fuckery of the Cult45 devotees, but of course, that's exactly what 45* did - partly because, "You just don't do that."

He hinted at it, perhaps trying to give himself a little "plausible deniability", but he can't stop himself; he has to gloat and invite the inference that he gets the credit - just like he does with practically everything.
And of course, it doesn't matter if most of us cringe and recoil because he doesn't care about that. 

And he doesn't care about making any specific thing happen.

And he doesn't care about the morality of taking a hand in making something happen.

He only cares about stirring the shit, getting something to happen, and looking for a way to benefit from whatever grows out of the chaos.

Stochastic Probability may well be 45*'s animating principle (and I use the term "principle" in the loosest context possible).


Almost as an aside:

Daddy State Awareness Rules

2a. Sometimes, what sounds like boasting ("I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any votes") is intended to soft-peddle some horrific thing they've done, or intend to do.

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