The Empire Strikes Back

[Sue U]

Trump, of course, famously does not drink alcohol because his brother died an alcoholic. I'm curious how much alcohol Trump has sold - we can still get Trump branded whisky and as a hotelier he probably sold a bottle or two. I think he has done a good job in staying off the booze himself but I wonder what his motive was/is for selling all that alcohol despite knowing its capacity for harm. El Chapo, according to some accounts, did not himself use the drugs he so willingly supplied. Which places Trump and El Chapo on roughly the same moral footing.

Of course, Trump also just pardoned the former president of Honduras who was serving a 45-year sentence after being convicted in a U.S. court for drug trafficking. The hypocrisy is so monumental and the corruption so flagrant that Trump surely believes he will never suffer consequences for any of it. And so far he's been right about that.

[BoSoxGal]

Trump is the classic addict from a family of addicts who looks in the mirror and because of his disordered personality, sees only that he’s not an alcoholic like his brother and doesn’t see that he’s just a different kind of addict addicted to different substances but no less a mess than the brother daddy ‘loved’ but was never pleased by. Trump is the brother daddy never loved and was never pleased by.

I have moments of feeling a teeny tiny bit of empathy for Trump because he is very much a monster made, not born. But he is nevertheless a monster and at 80 he’s been choosing to be a monster for a very long time.