A word not used often to describe Orangina: IRRATIONAL
From Google: Irrational describes thoughts, feelings, or actions not based on logic, reason, or clear thinking, often appearing absurd, unreasonable, or illogical. It implies a lack of sound judgment or evidence, such as "irrational fears". In mathematics, it refers to numbers that cannot be expressed as a simple fraction.
Many essays, podcasts, books, and commentators use various terms and adjectives to describe the actions of this man in the White House. I do not need to list them here because you’re compiling a list in your head as you read this. Personally, I enjoy the use of the term “irrational” because it explains a lot.
It is natural for so-called normal people, like us, to seek cause-and-effect: for example, one can say that Joe Biden drives a Corvette convertible with distinctive sunglasses because he loves the feeling, likes how he looks, enjoys the complex societal understanding of that particular auto, feels youthful while doing so, harkens back to a particular moment in his life he’d love to revisit…you get the point. It’s not necessarily something we all might do if given the chance, but it makes sense, it’s rational and quite allowable within the normal constructs of our civilization. His behavior can be RATIONALIZED.
His successor however, behaves “differently”: he is a compulsive liar which on the one hand is not all that unusual a behavior, but his means of dealing with the results of his lies are not rational. For example: he engaged in sex with a porn star, a perfectly reasonable, rational, if not morally despicable action, given that his wife had just given birth. It’s frowned upon but not irrational. The irrational behavior was enlisting a whole coterie of individuals to launder funds, write checks and declare them as IRS deductions, and create a mountain of criminality…for no reason other than to save money. The rational thing to have done would have been to go to the bank, withdrawn the cash, paid her and be done with it. But he doesn’t think that way. He learned no lessons from Watergate wherein the coverup is technically worse than the crime.
He is a rapist and a pervert: there are a lot of them about and when caught, they do not generally get to attend a mental institution or psychotherapy rather than go to jail. There is nothing irrational about their actions which are criminal, despicable, and abhorrent. They acted on their desires which they should not have done with the fantasy, unfortunately not always a fantasy, that they won’t be caught and punished severely. This guy starts a major conflict with a Middle Eastern civilization whose history basically is the oldest in the Northern Hemisphere in order to distract from the evidence of his perversions. This makes no sense and is irrational: when the majority stop watching basketball and hockey playoffs and realize that he is entirely at fault for their $6 plus gasoline prices, they will say to themselves, WTF could he have possibly been thinking when he did this TO ME, which is the narcissist’s viewpoint. It was an irrational decision made by a madman who cares not one iota for anyone else in the entire Universe. A fair number of people will come to the rational, logical conclusion that he initiated a war to distract from his likely criminal behaviors.
This is why every day you have red chyrons at the bottom of your tv screen: everything is a surprise because virtually none of us would utilize his thought patterns. It’s like watching a transcript of an interview with a patient in a hospital psych ward where the interviewer only says to the patient: “So what do you think you would do next?”
It is nearly impossible to predict.
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