It's Time For The "Just Locker Room Talk" And Sanewashing To End - Trump Is Pushing The Country To The Brink

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Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg


Morning all. Every morning I sit and write, trying to make sense of all the craziness swirling around us and bring to you what is most important that day. Hopium is not really a newsletter. It’s more of an importletter. I don’t chase the new each morning, as Trump wants us to do. I try to start focused and grounded in what’s most important that day, not just what’s new.

I don’t think wha I am about to share with you totally worked out in my head but here we go……

Trump’s madness, depravity and decline have become impossible to ignore. For years we’ve heard all sorts of rationales that soften what we see with our own eyes every day - was just “locker room talk”; he was just joking; all you guys have Trump derangement syndrome; he didn’t really mean it; oh those swollen ankles no biggie; he misspoke; no one has been hunted down or attacked like him; it was a peaceful protest; Putin wants peace; we aren’t cutting Medicaid; the tax cuts will pay for themselves; the tariffs won’t be paid for by American consumers, we’ve defeated inflation…..the list goes on and on.

Trump has from the day he came down that elevator ten years ago lived in a fictional world of fantasy and untruth of his own invention. His weaving of these fictions and the battle he has waged to make and keep them true has been his central project. But there is an objective reality out there, and Trump’s fictional world has occassionally crashed hard into it - they got blown out in the elections in 2018, lost 2020 and the red wave never came in 2022; hundreds of thousands of people died unnecessarily and the economy crashed in 2020 due his negligence; he is a 34 times felon; he did sexually assualt E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room. There are limits to his powers of invention and spell-casting. The Apprentice was eventually cancelled.

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