Donald Trump loves to claim that his unpredictability was an asset on the world stage, but in today's The Big Picture, writer Todd Beeton explores all the ways Trump's "Mad Man" theory of leadership actually made us weaker, not stronger. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/donald-trump-mad-man-theory
Donald Trump's version of Nixon - Kissinger's mad man theory of governance is a phrase, not an idea. He borrowed it from the last president before him who should have been indicted for his crimes.
If the past has taught us anything, it is that this form of civil protest is often essential.
Administrators, especially the current generation of corporatized administrators, rarely listen to faculty, let alone students. As in business, learning to ignore their views is a right of passage, like learning to fire someone or to hate labor unions.
Power is not given. It has to be taken. A tool to do that peaceably is to wield shame against those who refuse to be embarrassed.
Eric Trump? LOL. His father was never focused on bookkeeping, except to make sure his books never represented accurately his financial condition. That's why he didn't keep them in accordance with GAAP, didn't have a compliance director, and refused to have them audited or reviewed.
The Trumps regard their books and apparent financial condition as a tool to use in lobbying for whatever they want, not as a description of the condition of their business.
Pat Sajak must have run short that day, or needed a little more money for Hillsdale College, of which he is apparently chairman of the board, so the bonus round was a little ... harder than usual.
His lack of sincerity when a contestant loses the bonus round was par for the course. Not sad at all that this will be his final round on a show that has made him wealthy, most recently at a rate of $13 million/year.
Trickle down economics is not meant to work. It's a fantasy meant to placate hoi poloi, in hopes that they'll fight each other for scraps, rather than fight for a fairer share of their productivity, which the rich now keep all to themselves.
Respecting pronouns is very simple. It's the Golden Rule and basic respect. Or was until the right decided to add it to their culture war, which isn't about culture - it's about dominance and political power.
Would Donny Trump have bothered to attend his youngest son's graduation, if he hadn't tried to use it as an excuse to skip a day of his criminal trial in NY? Or would he have slept in? Asking for a friend.
Remember when RFK Jr. seemed like a real contender against Biden? Now, it seems like Trump and his team are worried about RFK Jr.'s appeal to their voting base. With RFK Jr. potentially siphoning off votes from Trump, the dynamics of the 2024 election are shifting. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/rfk-trump-biden-election-spoiler
Ginny Thomas's involvement in attempting to overturn the 2020 election followed her 2000 effort on behalf of the CheneyBush transition team - and much in between and since.
