Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "Trump lost the election. By a lot. Al Gore has a message for him" video.

  1. Trump is not crazy. He's doing the smart, correct thing, for his goal. It's just that his goal is different from all other presidents (in my lifetime) so far. Until now, they've all wanted to do as well as they could, either for the country, or for their party, or for their big donors, or for their voters, or for the world, or for their future reputations. They had different ideas of what was good and whose benefit was most important to them, and different ideas of how to achieve the good they wanted, but they all wanted to accomplish something for a community. In contrast, Trump doesn't care about the country, or about his party, or about his big donors' interests, or about the voters, or about the world, or about his future reputation. Trump's goal is to maximize the amount of money his cult-members send to him (and/or his various corporate avatars), in the very-short term. The theory which best explains, and best would have predicted each thing he has done since he first started his campaign, is: he counts the money his followers have sent in the past two weeks, ("$ received from day -14 to day zero") and compares it to the amount from the preceding two weeks ("$ received from day -28 through day -14"). If the most recent two weeks' takings are more than the takings from the two weeks before, then he thinks to himself "that's good," and he'll go on doing and saying what he was doing and saying, maybe ramp up the volume and intensity. If, on the other hand, the most recent two weeks' takings are less than the takings from the two weeks before them, then he thinks to himself "that's bad," and he will change what he's saying and doing. This explains why he talks so much about liking authoritarian leaders, but didn't do much to actually make USA more authoritarian. He talked as if he wanted to put journalists in jail for opposing him, but he didn't actually jail any journalists, did he? And it explains why he has so little staying-power. Where's the wall? Where's the funding for a mission to Mars? etc. The talk is what makes the cultists send money. The follow-through doesn't matter; by the time anyone asks about it, he's moved on to some other stimulating fantasy to shout about. Now, continuing to shout that Biden cheated and he (Trump) really won, motivates his followers to send more $ than conceding would motivate them to send. So he'll go on shouting that Biden cheated, until somehow, his people stop rewarding him with donations. Same with his promises that he will somehow be reinstated: his followers hear that and they send money. That means that in view of what he's going for, what he's trying to achieve, his decision to keep shouting that he won and he's gonna be reinstated, is not crazy. It's a smart and effective way of doing what HE wants to do, which is, to keep those cult-members sending him their money.
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