U.S. officials familiar with the planning said options for "reclaiming" the vital waterway include close cooperation with Panama's military and, absent that, possible war.
My theory is that we’re in an ‘emperor has no clothes’ situation, where a cult of sycophants has nourished itself on a leader with a genuine case of cognitive decline, and who are too afraid, because of the sunk cost or a fear of banishment or retribution, to point out this flaw or contradict their madman.
You see them parrot his insane talking point with such glee because the madness and fervour are contagions. Within the cult, the insanity is self perpetuating, and the longer you’re in, the crazier you become. 15 or 20 years ago, these same people probably had fairly typical views and opinions and, if confronted by their past self, would now only see a stranger or a traitor. Their past self might look at what they’ve become and wonder, “What did I do to deserve that?!”
Only slightly more grounded, I see a lot of similarities with Caligula or Nero.
He has the ineffective pettiness and cruelty of Caligula, but Nero had the cultist followers who wouldn’t even accept his death and kept spreading legends that he’d show up again.
(I wonder if they rioted the capital lol)
Hoping for an ending like Caligula’s sooner rather than later though.
He already said annexation of Greenland will happen.
Is he just doing domestically something purely evil again and throwing feces at a window to distract people.
My theory is that we’re in an ‘emperor has no clothes’ situation, where a cult of sycophants has nourished itself on a leader with a genuine case of cognitive decline, and who are too afraid, because of the sunk cost or a fear of banishment or retribution, to point out this flaw or contradict their madman.
You see them parrot his insane talking point with such glee because the madness and fervour are contagions. Within the cult, the insanity is self perpetuating, and the longer you’re in, the crazier you become. 15 or 20 years ago, these same people probably had fairly typical views and opinions and, if confronted by their past self, would now only see a stranger or a traitor. Their past self might look at what they’ve become and wonder, “What did I do to deserve that?!”
What I’m saying is I think Trump might be Cthulu.
Only slightly more grounded, I see a lot of similarities with Caligula or Nero.
He has the ineffective pettiness and cruelty of Caligula, but Nero had the cultist followers who wouldn’t even accept his death and kept spreading legends that he’d show up again. (I wonder if they rioted the capital lol)
Hoping for an ending like Caligula’s sooner rather than later though.