Savvy
TraitorTrump is the hashtag.
I listened. It’s sick-making as always. Braindead overstuffed pillow talks hoarsely about genius Putin and how it neva woulda happppened on his watch.
He was talking to a right-wing pod person called Buck Sexton, who asked him what went wrong.
Well what went wrong was a rigged election, and what went wrong is a candidate that shouldn’t be there, and a man that has no concept of what he’s doing I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, “This is genius.” Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.
It may look as if I punctuated that oddly but that’s how he said it – there was no pause between “what he’s doing” and “went in yesterday.” And “went in”? Went in where? He talks like a small child. Small children assume people know what they’re talking about without being told, because small children don’t have theory of mind yet. Trump is 75. “There was a television screen” – where? Whose? There was a tv screen, and he said oh this is genius. You do the math.
So Putin is now saying it’s independent, a large section of Ukraine.
Yes, he said the whole thing twice. The exact same thing, twice.
“I said, ‘How smart is that?'” the former U.S. president continued. “And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s the strongest peace force… We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen. There were more army tanks than I’ve ever seen. They’re gonna keep peace all right. No, but think of it. Here’s a guy who’s very savvy. I know him very well, very very well, by the way this never would have happened with us had I been in office, not even thinkable, this would never have happened, here’s a guy that says, you know, ‘I’m gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent,’ he used the word ‘independent’ and ‘we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.’ You gotta say that’s pretty savvy. And you know what the response was from Biden? There was no response. They didn’t have one for that. No, it’s very sad. Very sad.”
Yes we all saw how firmly Trump drew the line with Putin when he had the job.
So Putin is keeping the peace, but he wouldn’t have done that if Trump was still in charge?
I’ll tell you what would have happened if Trump was in charge. he would have handed all of Ukraine to Russia on a platter, all while rimming Putin while moaning “oh you’re so strong, so smart, I love you.” Who would have imagined the GOP would be the party that loves Russia more than America or her allies of the last 120 years.
I think Trump is actually implying that Putin wouldn’t have done that if Trump was President because they’re good friends.
In Harry Frankfurt’s terminology, Trump is a bullshitter, and he’s showing appreciation for Putin’s bullshitting.
Trump isn’t saying that what Putin is arguing is true in any way at all. It’s just a pretext, that any informed person knows is false. The only point of the bullshit is (1) it fools a few uninformed idiots (“but I heard it’s not an invasion? Seems like there’s arguments on both sides?”); (2) it dares opponents to call you a liar; and (3) it gives comfort to some supporters who are squeamish about openly saying “yeah, we’re invading, so what?”