When Trump was elected I said to someone "This is just the alternate ending to Death of a Salesman where Willy gets everything he wants" And the next four years both proved I was completely right and revealed all this depth to that observation I wasn't even thinking abouthttps://twitter.com/dreamingnoctis/status/1333553294329974788 …
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He couldn't understand why he was in this guy's office, surrounded by people and stuff he didn't care about or understand, with the goal of getting a job to *stay* in that office and *continue* to be surrounded by stuff he didn't care about or understand, *forever*
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The whole thing about bullshitting and faking it till you make it - you're fucking yourself over too It's bullshit because you don't actually want to be here, you don't want to do this job, and if you did you wouldn't *have* to fake it
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It's so transparent and tragic that Trump doesn't really *want* to be a leader, he doesn't *want* to have the responsibility that comes with authority None of these people do, they're the proverbial dogs chasing cars, they can only destroy and never create
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We have a whole damn party that has as part of its explicit identity that when they get in power they seek not to govern, that they think government is tyranny Best case scenario this is just naked hypocrisy to win votes, worst case they mean it
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And yeah it's extremely dangerous to have people running around whose only interest is in winning the election, not in doing the job People motivated by stupid ego are way more dangerous than people motivated by bribes - ego's hunger can't be satisfied and constantly escalates
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I'm now thinking about the surprisingly insightful backstory Larry Hama wrote for Cobra in GI Joe Cobra starting out not as a political party or a militia or a religious cult, although it later becomes all those things But as a grifting MLM started by a disgruntled salesman
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