I criticize Trump often — deporting people for free speech is retarded and dangerous, and why is he violating the 1A at Israel’s behest? Like who gives shit if people are saying mean things about Israel as opposed to Russia or China? Free speech is free speech. How can JD Vance lecture Europe about its totalitarian speech policies when we have our own version at home.

Also I get it might take a while to dot the is and cross the ts for proper indictments of Epstein traffickers and Covid malefactors, so I don’t have a problem giving the admin some time. But why the catastrophically bad fake release of those binders to influencers? Why the preposterous charade?

Why did he release a scam coin? It’s bad enough for some “crypto influencer” to do it, but have some respect for the office of the presidency. It’s the same argument I made when Bill Clinton got a blowjob in the Oval Office, and people said, “Lighten up it’s just a blowjob.” He’s the fucking president — conduct yourself with some dignity, restraint and self-respect. Have some standards even many ordinary people uphold.

There are many other criticisms one can make, and they should be made. I’m in favor of accurate criticisms.

But the shit I am hearing is driving me crazy because it’s so ridiculous and false.

"He’s got dementia, he’s crazy, he’s an idiot, he’s a convicted rapist, he’s a 36-time felon, he’s a dictator, etc.”

Or just the general tenor about the tariffs and economic policy. Bitch, we’re $36T in debt, the status quo was catastrophically bad for vast swaths of the US population. It’s like being down 21-0 in the first half and trying some trick plays.

“Trick plays are too risky, you have to try and establish the run.”

Take a lot at the scoreboard. Or as Clarence Bodicker told Dick Jones in Robocop “Take a look at my face, Dick.”

I don’t know if the tariffs will work. They might in fact make things worse, and no I’m not taking about boomer’s paper wealth fluctuating for a few weeks on their computer screens.

I don’t know if there’s any baby with the DOGE bathwater, maybe there was. I’m not interested enough to fine-tooth comb it even if most of the things they unearthed sound not only wasteful and fraudulent, but actually evil and purposely against our interest.

But the severe mental retardation with which I hear these issues discussed is getting intolerable. It’s making me want to defend Trump, and that’s not something I have any interest in.

He *might* in fact be fucking up! I don’t want to take a side on this. The only *teams* I root for are the Giants, Yankees and Knicks. But people are so brainwashed, so egregiously misrepresenting everything that’s happening and happened, everything he’s said and done, reflexively I feel pushed into it, just to defend reality from their insane assaults on it.

But in defending reality you are, bizarrely, defending Trump in this case. What a strange moment we’re in.