aquascoot wrote on Aug 30
th, 2025 at 9:22am:
ProudKangaroo wrote on Aug 30
th, 2025 at 8:57am:
You call this "studying" Trump, but what you've actually written reads more like a fantasy diary than analysis. You're projecting your own authoritarian daydreams onto him, celebrating cruelty and corruption as if they were marks of brilliance. Bullying, stacking courts, threatening martial law, you frame this as genius, but it's just worship of raw power, all while you once chanted "don't tread on me." Now you're just saying, "harder, daddy."
You're too short-sighted to see that all this consolidated power will be used against you or those like you the moment MAGA turns on itself over Epstein, opening the doors for the Dems to reclaim office with all these new powers. Don't expect anyone who's been warning you all along to stand up for you then. It will be open season on revenge. Even I'll be cheering it on.
Your contradictions are glaring. Trump is simultaneously a lazy, unhealthy businessman and a master strategist who has supposedly out-thought entire governments. That's not insight, it's self-delusion. This isn't study, it's wish-fulfilment dressed up as intellectualism.
You cheer dictatorship, you applaud lawfare, you turn every exaggeration into proof of superiority. What you admire in Trump exposes your own resentments, your obsession with the desire for dominance, and your alienation from anyone who doesn't share your fantasies.
You're not studying a politician, you're just feeding a personal cult.
And that's fine, you can post whatever you like and believe whatever you want. Just don't pretend it's something that it isn't or that much of this doesn't contradict much of what you've stood for and posted about for years.
Well all politicians want to increase their power.
It's the metric used to measure their effectiveness.
Would you admit this newbie politician has increased his power in terms 2.
I agree it's totally unethical.
Like coca cola or Marlboro or Pablo Escobar increasing their power.
But you can't argue that Trump has increased his power.
Which democrat is going to go head to head with him?
Power is not a measure of effectiveness.
Service is.
Leadership is measured by what you do for your electorate and your nation, not by how many people fear you or how much leverage you can amass. By that standard, Trump's "success" is a failure, because all he has done is consolidate power for himself, enrich his family, and humiliate institutions meant to serve the public.
Comparing a politician to Coca-Cola, Marlboro, or Pablo Escobar isn't just lazy, it's revealing. It exposes the worldview you're operating from: that domination, profit, and intimidation are somehow morally equivalent to governance.
They are not.
Escobar's "power" killed people, corporate power exploits people, political power is supposed to serve people.
Trump's metric is fear and loyalty, not competence or contribution.
And the idea that no Democrat could go head-to-head with him is irrelevant, even though Newsom killing it at the moment and he's not even running for President (yet).
That's like saying a strong bully is automatically the best school captain. It confuses intimidation with leadership. Real political skill is measured in solutions, in service, in creating functioning institutions, none of which Trump has demonstrated.
Maybe it's time you modified your "study" technique. Less asking Google or LLMs to confirm what you already want to believe, and more actually looking at reality.
What you're calling insight is just a mirror reflecting your own delusions.
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