He's lucky beyond all imagining. But here's the thing about luck: It runs out

[Demovictory9]

I know, I know: He’s Trump. He carries the secret weapon of his spectacular shamelessness, which means that he’ll resort to ploys and lies that even the most unscrupulous of his opponents wouldn’t attempt. He’ll destroy what he must so long as he gets to rule over the wreckage.

And the usual laws of nature don’t apply to him. He was caught on tape bragging about grabbing women by the crotch. Didn’t matter. He got nearly three million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. Still he won. If he wasn’t exactly found guilty of elaborate coordination with the Russians, he was certainly shown to be open to it. Onward he rolled, and he kept rolling past his gross abuse of power in dealing with Ukraine and his richly deserved impeachment for it.


He’s Houdini, he’s Scheherazade, he’s all the escape artists of history and fiction rolled into one and swirled with golden-orange topping. He’s lucky beyond all imagining. But here’s the thing about luck: It runs out.

There’s incessant talk of how fervent his base is, but the many Americans appalled by him have a commensurate zeal. For every Sean Hannity, there’s a Rachel Maddow. For every Kellyanne Conway, a George Conway. She and her ilk may be wily in their defense of the president. He and his tribe are even better in their evisceration of him.

And what of the diaspora of refugees from the Trump administration: people like Rick Bright, the government scientist who says he was just stripped of his leading role in the search for a coronavirus vaccine because he wouldn’t parrot Trump’s cockamamie talking points? I predict that as November nears, more and more exiles will speak out, sharing alarming accounts of life inside the president’s hall of mirrors. Trump in turn will mutter about the “deep state,” but the phrase won’t fly when he’s left with such a shallow pool of charlatans around him — and when he’s making such a repellent fool of himself.

Don’t tell me that his nightly briefings are just a new version of the old stadium rallies; their backdrop of profound suffering makes them exponentially harder to stomach. Americans who take any comfort from them were Trump-drunk long ago. The unbesotted see and hear the president for what he is: a tone-deaf showman who regards everything, even a mountain of corpses, as a stage.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/opinion/bleach-sunlight-coronavirus-trump.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

[COLGATE4]

1. I agree. But, as the great H.L. Mencken is reported

to have once said, "No one ever went broke overestimating the stupidity of the American pubic".

[tulipsandroses]

2. Every con man eventually runs into a mark he can't fool

He can't con the virus - John Heilman had a great analogy about the virus - As Trump is trying his best spin and trying his best to con the American people - First it was nothing, then when it hit us, it will all go away, magically disappear in April, now he's moved on to promoting miracle cures and denying that it will return in the fall - Heilman said meanwhile the virus is like Jaws, it has no ears to hear his spin and con (ok, sharks have inner ears) but I got his point - If you can picture Jaws - charging through the water, its a killing machine that keeps coming no matter what Trump says. Trump has finally met a mark that he can't con.

[John1956PA]

5. +1

[brewens]

3. The priority is that the wealthy come out of this even farther ahead. They don't mind all the

people that will be ruined by this, even if it takes a lot of their money too. It won't hurt their lifestyle. They will still be the richest people around.

What does scare them is that people might wise up and not accept being screwed when the rich got even richer. They really need people to believe that it wouldn't have been that big of a deal if we'd just let it go, and the democrats forced the shutdown on everyone. That's why they lost everything.

[uponit7771]

4. He's not lucky, he's just not being held accountable, the M$M refuses to treat him like a lunatic &

... the kGOP refuses to act like his political future is tied to theirs

[Hugin]

7. My assessment as well. n/t

[MerryBlooms]

11. +1 GOP finally found someone to do every dirty thing they've always wanted done.

[mountain grammy]

13. He's an entertainer, just like the the MSM is entertainment

and they treat him like one of their own, because he is.

But he's also lucky; an idiot born into incredible wealth. A member of the lucky sperm club. In America, if your rich enough you can get away with almost everything..

[Nasruddin]

16. That's the thing about luck

There's no particular reason for it to run out any time, just like there's no particular reason for it to continue.

[Hugin]

6. I used to believe that...

Just like I used to believe in Karma.

Now, I only believe that everything Nazi Spice touches will go to crap and the mass media will normalize it by saying he was only being sarcastic.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Totally agree. Plus he got away with dozens of sexual predator

moves and how many bankruptcies?

Watch the four party documentary on his life (Netflix)...his very first deal he convinced (paid off?) NYC to give him a forty year tax abatement! It was said he was the greatest self promoter ever.

Naive to think someone/something will stop this monster.

[dalton99a]

10. +1. Republicans refused to remove him and will continue to refuse to remove him.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. And, sadly, we actually did too. In late 2017, when Steven Cohen D-TN

introduced his brilliant articles of impeachment on 11-15. His approvals we're the lowest then. Some polls had him below 40%

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. tRump drunk, a perfect description of His Deplorables.

Does tRump think his luck is about to run out? Bet he doesn't.

[Joinfortmill]

12. Amen, my friend, amen.

[Kitchari]

15. K&R n/t

[crickets]

17. K&R for visibility.

[DavidDvorkin]

18. Luck does not always run out

There are no cosmic rules for such things. There is no karma. Some evil bastards remain successful and lucky until they die of natural causes.