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Let Him Talk

Donald Trump is not the strong and silent type. In fact, he never shuts up. His endless flow of verbiage reminds me of this exchange between William Holden and Gloria Swanson’s characters in Sunset Boulevard:

  • Joe Gillis : I’m not an executive, just a writer.
  • Norma Desmond : You are, are you? Writing words, words, more words! Well, you’ll make a rope of words and strangle this business! With a microphone there to catch the last gurgles, and Technicolor to photograph the red, swollen tongues!

The Insult Comedian and I have one thing in common: we both dig Sunset Boulevard. When I learned this in 2022, I nearly reassessed my passion for that Billy Wilder joint. I quickly came to my senses since Trump identifies with Norma Desmond, not Joe Gillis.

In many ways, the Kaiser of Chaos is like Norma Desmond. She effectively kept Joe Gillis hostage in her mansion and bought him off with clothes and trinkets. Eventually, Norma murdered Joe in a fit of rage. It’s what Trump plans to do to the constitution if returned to the White House.

There’s a way, however, to guarantee Trump’s defeat. Talk about his crazy talk. Put him on teevee every day. Let him vent, bloviate, and lie. The more he talks the more votes he loses.

Sure, it won’t hurt him with hardcore MAGA maggots, but they’re lost souls who comprise no more than 30% of the electorate. Most people find shit like this obnoxious:

Delusion or a lie? I think it’s both. Like Norma Desmond, Trump has lost the ability to tell the difference between his fantasies and lies.

The Insult Comedian has many tells. When he’s lying or spinning a delusional fantasy he does this weird accordion thing with his hands:

To those who think Trump’s unhinged rants shouldn’t be given any oxygen, I say let him talk. To paraphrase Norma Desmond, let him make a rope of words and strangle his campaign. He knows from rope; he encouraged his supporters to do this:

And Trump had the nerve to claim that Kamala Harris was nasty to Mike Pence when they debated in 2020. Oy just oy.

Let the Insult Comedian fly his freak flag and talk his way to defeat.

The last word goes to James Booker. Just substitute him for them and Bob’s your uncle:

 

2 thoughts on “Let Him Talk”

  1. And, most assuredly, we are ready for another of his closeup mugshots, Mr. DeMille.

  2. TFG addressed the Economic Club of New York today and this was his answer to a question about making child care affordable:

    “Well, I would do that and we’re sitting down, you know, I was, somebody, we had Marco Rubio and my daughter, Ivanka, but I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that because the child care is, child care couldn’t, you know, there’s something, you have to have it, in this country, you have to have it, I want to stay with child care. So we’ll take care of it. Thank you.”

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