Platinum Dasher Bill

Let the games begin

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Survival of the fittest, natural selection — and like that. We’re all familiar with Charles Darwin’s theory (or at least a few of us are). Change with the times or go the way of the dodo bird.

Thanks to the wacko we elected president, times are changing at an unprecedented rate nowadays. Who knows what that impetuous child will do next?

The Trump presidency has affected me in two basic ways. The first is the unfortunate result of Trump never cracking a book in college. The “very excellent student” (the way he describes himself) missed the part about tariffs being inflationary. His protectionist policies have caused my and everybody else’s equity portfolio to take a hit.

Yup! The “stable genius’s” hair-trigger and scatter-brained “tariffing” has set the markets in a precipitous downward trajectory. I knew it was going to happen, yet I didn’t get out. So my bad. Unlike the president, I own my mistakes.

So while I lose thousands in what I call the Monopoly money part of my wallet, I have seen an uptick in my laughable (comparatively) income from one revenue source: delivering food for DoorDash.

While my background acting pursuit is all but over, and my freelance writing for major media is likewise on the wane, Trump’s Draconian initiative with respect…