Refried Boogaloo: Trump Just... Sucks

Trump's supertalent, if you want to call it that, is that his lizardbrain understands the base desires and smallness of his MAGA base better than most. Not just down to messaging, but also the form of that messaging. So he can play to the bühne like a master, to the point that even when he does stuff that is clearly silly and at times borderline insane, the base still laps it up eagerly.

Couch********er is the guy who cannot even order a donut like a normal person ("Just whatever makes sense"), nor make small talk with a store employee like a normal person. I just don't see him ever having Trump like appeal to the MAGAts. Even when he tries to be a Trump tribute act, it feels fake and cringe.

Of course, by the time it's his turn, electoral appeal might not matter much, if at all.

 

MAGA never understood how soft power works. It has a mindset which is a combination of cowboy braggadocio and mobster thuggery.
As far as they are concerned, everyone is leeching from the US and the best way to rectify this is with a "big stick": so they better pay their "dues" or they can drop dead.

 

I'm not as big into music as most here and I had never heard the term "New Romantics" before (I was more familiar with the "second British invasion". I decided to look it up on Wikipedia suspecting I was a fan without knowing it. Sure enough, basically almost all of my favorites, most of whom are still on my playlist, are listed as being part of the movement.

 

Any popularity Vance has now with MAGA is because he's attached to Trump. That evaporates if Trump is out of the picture.

 

He really endeared himself to soccer moms everywhere by victim blaming Good

 

British Invasion, you said?

 

Greenland is such a marginal piece of land, it took three different tries by three different peoples to actually successfully settle it.

Trump seems to have this notion in his head that there are large mining opportunities, but mining companies haven't had much luck there, and there's no reason to think that will change any time soon.

 

Almost like what they thought about oil in Venezuela. The Oil companies are telling him that it is not worth investing there.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-plan-venezuela-oil-economic-mistake/685572/

It is almost as if we were being ruled by a delusional dictator.

 

What's more authentic than cruelty?

 

Never trust anyone who makes nihilism their personality has been something my parents taught me and has come in handy quite often.

Same goes for people who make it a point to show how eccentric they are.

 

I've never heard of that either. At first I thought it was a musical style stuck somewhere between Wagner and Debussy, but it seems that's not the case.

 

That is correct for the UK,not as much for American punks

 

Most of the punks I ever encountered were rednecks with funny haircuts.

To be sure, I was in the South. I suspect it might have been different in NYC, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, etc.

 

For the record, American punks have always believed that nazi punks should fvck right off...