The Idiocy Is Strong With Trump, Zelenskyy To The Rescue, And An Update From Anderson Clayton

Описание: Morning all. Sending along the recording from our paid subscriber gathering last night at Hopium Chronicles. This one had two parts - a special appearance by Hopium favorite Anderson Clayton, the Chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, and then my usual weekly update.
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Anderson dropped by to update us on their big night on Tuesday - hundreds of thousands more Dems voted in our primary than Republicans in theirs, and an audacious campaign to defeat four traitorous state legislative Dems in their primaries was successful. As we discussed our huge investment in Anderson and the NCDP ($1.1m in 2024) not only helped us get some of our most important down ballot wins in the 2024 battleground; helped us win the legal battle to ensure Allison Riggs was able to serve on the Supreme Court; it also gave Anderson and her team the ability to build a modern, serious state Democratic Party, one that has set a multi-year strategy to liberate North Carolina from one of the worst gerrymanders in modern times, and is recruiting candidates, communicating 24/7/365, organizing in every county, and just putting points on the board every day.

As for my talk that followed I did my best to try to make sense of all the Trumpian lawlessness, malevolence, and craziness we and the world are experiencing, enduring, and suffering through right now. What sits with me this morning more than anything else is just how much of an impulsive f*** up Trump is. It’s fair to say that only thing he’s done that has worked well over the past 13 months is his relentless campaign to enrich himself. It’s clear that this new war is already spiraling out of control in ways his old, addled diseased mind could not foresee; just as he could not foresee that his tariffs would drive inflation and harm the economy and the country; or that his mid-decade redistricting plan would boomerang wildly against him; or that the country would reject, powerfully, his attempt to create a paramilitary force loyal to him; or that his own party would vote unanimously to rebuke him and release the Epstein files, and vote again to subpoena Pam Bondi; or that the Europeans would rally around Denmark and force him to yield on Greenland; or that Putin does not want peace; and on and on and on.

Among the things our addled leader did not anticipate is how the war could turn Zelenskyy - whom he despises, and been working to de-legitimize - into a savior of the Gulf Arab nations and even the US. For now Ukraine is openly allied with Putin’s OPEC partners, and the US, against a common enemy - the Russian-Iranian alliance and their Shahed drones.

There is a lot more about the coming moment in my talk from last night. Get to it when you can, and keep working hard all - Simon