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Ignoring Terminal Idiocy

5 min readJun 12, 2025

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Gemini Image: clowns unable to understand a complex control room [Author’s prompt]

What will happen to us all with Donald Trump and his busload of stooges dedicated to revenge for their own idiocy? Anger at your own stupidity that you refuse to admit is a challenging problem.

Surrounding yourself with similar or more stupid people makes the situation worse. We are only five months into this disaster, and the destruction intensifies, but is ignored by those opposed or even applauded by those caught in the cult.

The corporate media are not at all hesitant to sane wash Trump and to pretend that the Federal infrastructure under the administration of Trump’s incompetents is somehow functional. Things can only get worse.

Trump is driven by fear and has little or no concern for the implications of his actions, other than a desperate need to declare martial law to prevent going to prison. He has given up all pretense of work on anything except generating disasters to justify imposing martial law. His stooges run the government and must realize they will also face prison when he is gone.

Trump’s only method is that of an aging crime boss. He must constantly make things worse to lock his followers in fear of himself and the consequences of failing to follow his irrational orders. There is no interest in obtaining anything but lucre and hagiography for…

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Mike Meyer
Mike Meyer

Written by Mike Meyer

Writer, Educator, Campus CIO (retired) . Essays on our changing reality here and at https://rlandok.substack.com/

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