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A COUPLET OF THOUGHTS  

A Market-Rattling Attempt to Make the American Economy Trump Always Wanted

The president dreams of factories reopened and towns revitalized by tariffs, but stocks plunged on fears economic growth will suffer - WSJ

Having become Heaven's Gaetz clone,

GOP's building its very own Jonestown.

If you are thinking,

“O, WTF!

This has to end."

Good night. And good luck.

You're out-of-touch, friend!

DON’T PANIC!

I’ve got this entirely in hand.

It’s working out just as I planned.

“Allies'” reserves are in U.S. dollars.

I render them worthless, they gotta borrow

crypto from me and (TRUE son) Elon

who, though South African,

like me — and God — is North European.

It’s fun having money, it’s fun to deploy it,

but when I destroy you I really enjoy it.

SNAP!

Do you recall when they stress tested banks

and said things were (mostly) okay.

With my Trumpocracy testing democracy,

I'd say things are going the opposite way.

TRUMP LEGAL DOCTRINE

‘LAW’ is a theory. As is ‘Evolution’.

Why does TRUMP need a ‘Constitution’?

Whatever I do and get away with

is, as I see it, perfectly legal.

A Kremlin envoy on Thursday praised the

Trump administration for hearing "Russia’s

position on many issues"... - New York Times

I am instructed to tell you directly from Vlad

belated thank you for support in Crimea.

Also must ask — I trust not in vain —

can you please help us conquer Ukraine?

Our forces, like yours, have lost the knack

of fighting folk who choose to fight back.

Our proposition: in Ukraine you lend us a hand

then, maybe, we help you seizing Greenland?

As maybe perhaps-be you already know,

we have expertise with ice and snow.

Numb. 1356 Trump v History

The new populist president railed against the judiciary as they blocked his aggressive moves to restructure his country’s government and economy.

This was in Mexico, where former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador eventually pushed through changes that required every judge in his country to be elected rather than appointed…[which]caused markets to lose confidence…which led its currency to weaken.

- AP

“When in the future TRUMP history’s taught

textbooks will mention how I changed the courts

into the state where they today are,

mirrors reflecting the thoughts of the Tsar.

“My consiglieres did talk me through this.

They said no president could ever do this.

Ignore both law and Constitution.

Only one problem. That did not stop me.

“I no longer need lawyers to lie for me.

Law no longer applies to me.”

Numb. 1323 Clipped From The Headlines 02/13/25

Numb. 1308 Fast Forward Backwards

The prospect of legal challenges to President Trump’s purges may be a feature, not a bug, for adherents of sweeping presidential authority. - New York Times

When OPL’s* dictates† come before court,

those wishing dismissals may come up short.

SCOTUS, from which succor is sought,

moons ago was paid for and bought.

We may see law, i.e. what law’s thought to be,

ignored in favor of what law “ought to be”

in a Christian Republic where what “virtue" prevails

is that of an OGRE‡ who daily assails

all things he perceives as in the way

of him forever having the final say.

If SCOTUS decision isn't what he expects,

he will demand, “WHO got elected?

I got voters, Secret Service escorts.

I am SUPREME over all courts.

My pocket's got codes for nuclear forces.

I got connections to Mafia bosses.

Furthermore, as I told you before,

you mess with me, you get Marshall Law.

As Frank Sinatra might smilingly say,

I don't do regrets. I do it my way."

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* Our Peerless Leader’s

† Executive Orders

‡ Our Great and Respected Executive

Numb. 1292 TRUMP's Under Thumb Rule Of Law

Law, rules, regulations? Fine in their places.

(Wherever the fuck those places are.)

These things apply to little people,

never to rulers, Kaisers, or Tsars.

(Let alone presidents chosen by God!)

What do I think of the “Constitution”?

Fading ink staining withered ram skin.

Means less to me than it does to him!

What these stains mean my courts decide.

And, being mine, they see my side of the story,

agree unanimously, and I restore American glory.

If they do not ... should they be ... out of sorts?

No problem, there. I order new courts.