I have a dramatic series in mind documenting the Trump Crime Family's thefts, manipulations and nefarious activities modeled on Peaky Blinders, the excellent British show about an Irish gang that makes the sniveling cowards of Trump's version look like the pathetic lightweights they are, using the status and power afforded them by their government positions to bully and abuse people with no such leverage.
They aren't even respectable villains. They stink at it, parading their insecurities around and lording it over the locals, trying to prove something, that quest for their elusive manhood or a hint of character. Real crooks don't allow such things to interfere with maximizing profits relative to risks. Now, Trump and his cronies are stealing incomprehensible sums, I'll give them that, but it looks bad on the risk front.
They're blowing everything up. A Valentine's Day Massacre a day, seems to be the reference quality, with allowances for their access to WMDs. Yes, those WMDs they were worried sick about. We knew THEY had them, of course, a privilege supposed to be earned by a capacity for restraint and reserve. Self-control -- not a known character trait of Donald Trump, a bawling infant if there ever was one.
Our derivative culture has coughed up a raft of derivative rogues, a derivative resistance that can't stop them, and is suffering a derivative decline almost certain to culminate in a derivative collapse. We can't even fuck things up properly or with a little plot and style. We suck infinitely. But let it be said we suck with impressive collateral damage and mess. Imperial and colonial collateral damage and mess.
We were never supposed have those aspirations, the imperial and colonial type, so maybe we're getting what we deserve even if we backed into it.
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