But we shouldn’t run too deep into the rabbit holes of Trump’s supporters’ logic. He is himself a vortex of instability and violence. As his supporters like to put it, he likes to “stir the pot.” And he does. Attention, in his vision, is the only real currency in business or politics or media. So he keeps upping the ante and pushing new limits to get it, like a heroin addict he has to keep upping the dose to get the same fix. The externalities of that behavior have been lapping up, splashing onto countless other people for almost a decade. Now they’re also splashing up onto him. Trump’s supporters ask rhetorically, if it’s not Biden and Harris who are doing it, are you really saying that Trump is inciting people against himself? The answer is actually yes. He’s now twice almost been consumed by the fires he himself is lighting.

  • @cheese_greater
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    173 days ago

    Hopefully he’s “traumatized” away from ever playing golf again. All that open space and unguarded perimeter makes you and your gold club a lightning rod for sudden death

    • FuglyDuck
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      113 days ago

      I’m shocked his security detail even let him golf.

      Like. the position of the holes are known. I don’t want to give bad guys any ideas or how to’s, but they gotta be freaking out every time he’s on the links.

      • @stoly
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        13 days ago

        That’s because you don’t schmooze with CEOs and senators. “Elite” people tend to golf.

        • FuglyDuck
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          13 days ago

          pretty sure cheating while using golf to schmooze is not a great way to cut some deals.