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Fiendish Thingy

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2. He has been stopped, stalled, or dissuaded numerous times
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 08:38 PM
Aug 2025

How do you think he got the nickname TACO?

Yes, he occasionally ups the ante, but generally just trolls for effect, like Hegseth’s retweet about women losing the vote distracted everyone from Epstein for most of the weekend.

Not only is he not omnipotent, he is incompetent and surrounded by incompetent sycophants.

The states, and foreign trade partners, and the people push back, and things don’t unfold as either Trump or the DU doomsayers imagined.

This is not an environment where simple linear progression prevails;

It doesn’t go like this:

1. Trump issues orders
2. Orders are carried out
3. Desired affect is achieved

Instead:

1. Trump issues orders
2. Some are carried out
3. The states, courts, people, weather, or other uncontrolled variables intervene/react
4. Chaos ensues, or orders are suspended, or withdrawn, or modified, or appealed
5. Achieving desired results is thwarted, or only partially successful.
6. Other unintended/undesirable consequences occur (like a recession from tariffs and a reduced immigrant labor force)
7. Lather, rinse, repeat

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