| Posted: 24 May 2025 at 3:56am | IP Logged | 3
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I get it. Cosmic comeuppance. My take is that he’s dead. Won’t matter to him. He’ll never face repercussions. He’ll have lived his entire life as a shit stain, a mediocre nobody except in his ability to shape a narrative and garner a following. Powerful, that, as it’s kept him largely one step ahead of the law for more than five decades. He’s a high stakes grifter who has enough money to buy power and influence. Nothing more. That said? What does he care about legacy. He doesn’t. That would take foresight he simply does not possess. It’s always been about the here and now, the next grift, the next “art of the deal”.
I feel that “reckoning” in death is like Christians talking about hell. If you’re a believer, there’s the school of thought that we all pay for what we’ve done in the afterlife. I’m not, so I find it cold comfort that Trump will pay for his extreme misdeeds long after he’s gone. He deserves to be called out and punished in the here and now, not some mentions in textbooks, essays and 21st Century overviews. If not, what does it matter to someone who has reaped so much at the expense of so many if it’s just history that marks him as a bad actor, a troll and a charlatan after he’s dead?
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