"There Was No Plan. He Is Deranged"

[Whiskeytide]

16. Like EVERYTHING Тяцмр has done most ...

… of his life, he had no plan except to fling shit everywhere and then see how he might take advantage of the resulting chaos to get something he wanted.

I’ve believed since it happened that he was just winging Jan 6. He was winging his campaign in 2015. He was winging the transition after - much to his surprise - he narrowly won the election. He was winging his presidency. He winged every press conference and diplomatic meeting.

That doesn’t mean that those around him didn’t have a plan to use him like a tool. McConnell used him while he was in office. Putin and Kim used him to accomplish their foreign agendas. Numerous militant groups here in the US used him to advance their narratives.

But he has little strategic thought about it all - with the one notable exception that he IS pretty good at spotting a way to con people out of money. He was always a small time, NY con man until he went National and realized that 30% of the American people were unbelievably stupid, and could be fed unadulterated bull shit to get them to pay him and do things for him. He was a small time act that accidentally fell into the National stage, and then made it work for him.