Donald Trump’s stock in trade is to so thoroughly inundate his perceived enemies with outrageousness that it confuses and exhausts us.
It reminds me of a tactic starlings use. To outwit hawks and falcons they form a murmuration, a swirling, undulating mass that confronts the predator not with individual victims, but with one huge, seemingly impenetrable target.
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In Trump’s case, somewhere in the swarm fly his impeachable crimes. And we (the Resistance, the remaining honorable members of Congress, and the still-credible media) are the falcon, overwhelmed by the sheer volume of wrongdoing.
Well, it dawns on me that this can work both ways. What if we were to counter the Crimbecile’s deluge of absurdity with our own deluge? You know, turn the tables on him. A swarm of falcons to his swarm of starlings, if you will.
We know this man; he can no more resist
well-placed ridicule than he can flattery.
Now this isn’t something just any Joe Blow from Kokomo can pull off. TinyHands, a monumentally insecure little man, can ignore jabs from people with no power or renown, but he simply can’t shake off a put-down by someone rich or famous.
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AI overview says, “Newsom and his office have purposefully adopted Trump's all-caps, aggressive social media style to
troll the former president and get his attention. This mimicry
is a form of political jujitsu that uses Trump's own tactics against him.”
What if we—I guess it would have to be the Democratic National Committee (DNC)—identify and recruit other lead-
ers like Newsom with enough visibility to command Trump’s attention, and have them take up the same tactics? Troll him. Make absurd accusations. Call him names. Question his manhood. Blame him for dirty tricks right before we use them on him. And lay it on so thick that, despite his all-hours rants on X, despite his phalanx of lawyers, there’s no one person to target; all he sees is a murmuration of ridicule.
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There’s no shortage of candidates to take up the troll—folks who’ve already provoked Trump’s rage. Rosie O’Donnell, Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, Robert De Niro, Jimmy Kimmel…oh, and one who, with a little grooming, could really undo the Crimbecile: Elon Musk.
Will it work? We know this man; he can no more resist well-placed taunting than he can flattery—even, by the way, from our country’s worst enemies, using him to help ply their own evils.
Trump’s reckless, undisciplined rants are already starting to trouble some of his supporters. He’s picking up some of the signs that he and his improbable power trip have peaked. Oh...and then there are the Epstein files.
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He’s become so desperate to conceal them that he’ll do anything to distract us. Order U.S. citizens abused and killed in the streets for simply witnessing his brutal immigration crackdown. Defy Congress to start multiple wars around the world. Float the prospect of making himself President For Life.
All to distract us from the lethal—to him—trove of evidence showing he’s raped young girls.
That fact has left him as vulnerable as he’s ever been in his hyper-privileged little life. Along with the E. files, this new, right-back-atcha trick is going to do to him what he’s done to all those young women. I dream of it all catching fire deep in the void where most folks have a soul. He'll implode.
At long last, this vulgar charlatan, the con man of our age, will fall. Not to rejection by his party, not to impeachment, but to his very own vileness turned against him.
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