I was hoping there would be real news when I saw the featured article when I opened HUFFPOST. First thing in the morning I check their main story just to see what it is. This is what I saw there:
I thought "Wow, they have a scoop about what the title said."
Nope.
Clicking there went here:
This went to updates by Lydia O'Connor:
Trump Distances Himself From RFK Jr.:
Vaccines That Work 'Should Be Used'
Trump Says He's Hosting Next Year's G20 Summit At His Own Club
Trump Says You Can Tell Which Immigrants Are Bad By Looking At Them
Hegseth: Department Of War Will Be All About 'Maximum Lethality'
and more.
So this is supposed to be main page news?
It is really weak sauce.
Even the Four Trumps on Mt. Rushmore was weak sauce. None of the depictions come close to showing aspects of the aberration of a president worthy of a main page photo. I can get better ones using AI as I do for my Substacks:
Yesterday I wrote “Again Trump shows he's the Master of Distraction: Like a pesky fly on his eye Epstein was a fuss that flew away in a day.”
I tried to show how it is Trump who personally controls the news cycle. However, it is essential to use the correct words here. The news cycle is determined by actual people who fancy themselves to be journalists. They decide which stories merit the most attention.
Trump can be seen as the metaphorical camel whose back is in danger of breaking as one straw after another is loaded on its back. What is most imporant to grasp in this analogy is that not all of the straws are of equal weight.
Back in 2016 when I wrote online it was called a blog rather than a Substack, I posted the illustration below (see that webpage here). I repost it here because that’s when I first thouse of the camel’s back analogy as applied to Trump.
It is up to well known journalists, and throw in pundits, historians, and anyone who wants to be seen as an expert, to assume the role of the weighmaster at a truck weigh station.
I made these during Trump’s first term:
Everything I surrounded the truth fueled Popeye (as a hero resisting Trump) with was a straw then. Some were more important than others. All are aspects of his personality today, although I would add sadism. All of the things he has actually done are far more important because they are actions in service of his ultimate goal of destroying democracy.
We can’t predict which, if any, will break his back and crush him. It could be a lightweight straw or it could be a heavy straw.
Ultimately, if it happens, everything he has done added together, that is, will be a bale of metaphorical hay, that leads to his downfall.
Either that or he will soldier on, carrying it all on his back, wihout a care in the world.
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