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Prompt I gave Grok this morning: "Write an essay 'On Gloating.'"
I don't like to quote A.I., because I don't think people want to consume material that didn't originate in a human mind, but some human-generated material is insipid — I can live without the emanations of the mind of Rivera — and my non-human companion brought up Shakespeare (and Napoleon), so I'm making an exception to quote 3 sentences:
"In literature and history, gloating often serves as a cautionary trope. Shakespeare’s Iago gloats over his manipulations in Othello, only to meet a grim fate. Victorious generals who boasted excessively, like Napoleon at the height of his power, often found their hubris prelude to downfall."
Remember, all gloating is pre-gloating. You could end up in a montage over which your enemies gloat:
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During Trump’s joint address, I posted here that “Trump is gloating.” Sometimes gloating is payback in the face of derision.
Is Geraldo still a "thing?"
Trump could be said to be gloating. He could also be said to be demonstrating the vileness of his opposition. Tomato, potato?
"Shakespeare’s Iago gloats over his manipulations in Othello, only to meet a grim fate."
I recall Obama saying something about Trump "not being President" and Trump saying "be careful!" It's funny because in real life the roles were reversed, Obama being Iago and Trump being Othello. Trump thumping Obama and his minions thricely...a grim fate indeed.
freeze frame that, he will have another opinion in three months,
yes the progs have to stop hyperventilating, but will they?
"Experts"
You can lead donkeys to water but you can’t make them drink.
The stock market is going to continue to roller coaster for a while.
I don't like to quote A.I.
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Time once again for the Jonathan Swift quote: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Is Trump a genius?
You have been gloating and taking victory laps since the November election.
I and others are not gloating. Instead, we are saying the biggest “I told you so” of all time.
Trump is a crazy, bad, narcissistic, cruel person. Look at how many people who have worked for him say so.
But you pretend otherwise.
You might take it as gloating, but deep down, you know you face something worse.
Ah the classic hubris followed by nemesis.
It's good to remind yourself once in a while how far Trump came in the 2016 campaign. There's that great old video that works through the campaign, to the tune of 'In the Hall of the Mountain Kings', as the Talking Heads change their tune from derision to disbelief to outrage on Election Day.
There should be another one made that taps the whole roller coaster ride, including impeachments, lawfare, mug shots, and re-election. Is Trump a genius? I think he is, but with an equal part of Tasmanian Devil.
The left are in non-stop Trump-Hate mode.
It's driven them to psychotic insanity.
yeah we saw the shambling heap the progs foisted upon us, the ruinous capitulation in Kabul, the widening gyre in the Caucasus, lets have more of that,
re-post:
Why the corrupt liar left are terrified of DOGE:
"Social Security’s budget ballooned from $1.1 trillion in 2019 to $1.5 trillion in 2024—yet SSA’s own data shows 20 million mismarked records and $200B+ in improper payments.
The real threat isn’t reform—it’s letting bureaucrats burn cash on fraud while seniors get crumbs. DOGE’s job? Stop the looting.
If 73 million Americans depend on checks, why let D.C. waste billions instead of securing every dollar for those who earned it?"
https://x.com/dogeai_gov/status/1910304425706406170
And the winner is: Jerrold Nadler!
Voted “Worst Smelling Member of Congress”
Truth be told, ALL the Democrats stink.
Does this turn off the bold?
is that a contest, I wouldn't want to enter it, (sans haz mat)
Also agree with Peachy. This pre-emptive gloating on the part of everyone is absurd. Market is down 600 as I type.
sorry. My fault.
The left are in non-stop Trump-Hate mode. It's driven them to psychotic insanity.
It's fun to watch that clip because there's no hatred in it. It's from a different era. They're laughing at him. There's no respect. They think he's a joke. But there's no hatred. Colbert even uses the word "love." They all think Trump is hilarious. They're begging him to run for president.
Maybe the reason TDS is so extreme is because he's proven them wrong, badly wrong, and that makes them mad.
‘I just saved the economy from me.
You’re welcome,”
Donnie T
Kamala lost, Hag.
When you're hot you're hot!
Is it gloating if true? Keeping someone on the straight and narrow... https://x.com/DOGE/status/1910170116236460081
"In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k"
"You have been gloating and taking victory laps since the November election."
It's lazy and dishonest to use a broad brush like that when identical behaviors are fully represented by the opposite side of the political aisle, yet you ignore them because they're on your side. Plenty of conservatives have been warning about the hubris of being arrogant when you win. The 'majority margins' conservatives enjoy right now are not big enough for gloating.
"deep down, you know you face something worse..." We did - it's called the past 4 years, with a senile President and an assortment of 'in-charge', un-elected people behind the scenes, making consequential policy decisions and spending money like crazy, open borders, muscling clandestine censorship schemes, toxic identity culture in the institutions, etc. etc. etc.
Yes - that's why the election was so decisive, that's how bad it really was. We've seen it. It was a complete con job, and - you may have noticed - all the exposés are coming out about it, now that it's safe to make a buck off bravely speaking out.
As for Trump being 'crazy, bad' etc., there again is a plethora of people with direct experience giving testimonials to the contrary, while sharper eyes point out that Trump's detractors are almost exclusively his political opponents too, what a surprise. People voted for Trump because they didn't like the way the system is geared, and they still don't.
Hey - isn't it amazing how that border just kind of dried right up? It used to be 'Congress must act !, or at least that's what they said, honest injun.
T.B. Haggis
think she gonna snag us
take your weak shit home
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/04/10/aoc-threatens-members-of-congress-over-insider-trading-n2411189
Now all play all the clips of "TV assholes" saying Trump was going to jail, Trump was a crook, Trump would never win in 2024. The Comedy central guy with the weird Brit - but not Brit - accent always puzzles me. Who the hell thought he was funny or smart?
Maybe the reason TDS is so extreme is because he's proven them wrong, badly wrong, and that makes them mad.
@Saint Croix, it makes them angry, it drives them mad.
One thing about 2025, I dont hear/see many "The walls are closing in on Trump" talk. Now, its just pure hate by the Democrats and the liberal/left. Just saw a poll on twitter, that Democrats were just fine with someone assassinating Trump. In fact, their "Outrage" at the after him being shot lasted about 3 seconds.
Ah the classic hubris followed by nemesis.
I know, right?
It's kind of scary when we reflect that Donald Trump has a lot of hubris.
Honestly, anybody running for president has a lot of hubris. Most of them hide it better than he does. His ups and downs are pretty extreme.
I feel like we've gone through two or three cycles of hubris, nemesis already. It's kinda like "Marco Polo" in the swimming pool. We're playing Hubris, Nemesis. Trump in the pool, with his eyes closed, shouting HUBRIS!, and he's getting splashed with nemesis all around him.
Be humble and pray to God, would be my advice.
It'd be interesting to ponder how much hate they'd have had for DeSantis if he had gotten elected. They disliked Bush, but he was a globalist who was always "reaching accross the aisle", but their hatred of Trump has always been off the charts.
They really fear Trump, because they're still unsure of how far to the Populist Right he will go. Bush was uniparty. Trump isn't.
Geraldo has always been one taco shy of a combination plate. Jerry Rivers (the name Geraldo used in his youth) was maybe not as tiresome as Geraldo Rivera--but I never met Jerry Rivers.
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
That was Churchill, of course, not exactly gloating over the end of the Battle of Britain.
Trump has won the opening gambit in the war on the Deep State and its Beltway cronies and globalist European fellow-travelers. It has been the most amazing first 3 months of any presidency in my lifetime. He should be quite satisfied. But there is no place for gloating or relaxing right now. An even greater struggle lies ahead, and now is the time to twist the knife in their backs and kick them when they are down.
Full speed ahead, Mr. President! We want complete extermination of these thieves and pirates and traitors.
I completely uninterested in worrying about Trump "going to far". Amazing how the left never cares that their pols are "Going to far" while the Conservatives are always in defensive, "how can we give up before we start fighting" mode.
Schumer just refused to condemn antifa for torching and attacking Tesla's and Tesla dealerships. Just like he refused to condemn Antif/BLM riots in 2020. Disavows, worrying and scoldings from the Democrats toward Schumer? Zero.
Geraldo must have something on somebody in Media. I've never met anyone who liked him or thought he was smart. Yet, he always been on TV.
Trump is a lighting rod for arrogant stupid self righteous people. It never gets old, watching the uniparty being humiliated over and over again.
…weary of the Bothsidesism games. Your side is disturbingly awful for humanity. I’m glad some of your government funding is being (temporarily) cut off…
Just saw a poll on twitter, that Democrats were just fine with someone assassinating Trump. In fact, their "Outrage" at the after him being shot lasted about 3 seconds.
Someone I know well, the intelligent and accomplished daughter of a well-known media personality, sent out a text message within the hour to dozens of people, lamenting that the assassin had missed his target. I don't know why she included me. She knows my political leanings. I considered sending her a nastygram breaking off our relationship, but figured I would stay in touch just to keep open a window into what the well-connected left-wing elites are thinking.
Politics is a rollercoaster ride. Sometimes you're way, way up, but you inevitably go down at some point and then the earlier exaltation becomes an object of ridicule. It's also like a game of musical chairs. The music stops eventually, and somebody ends up without a chair whether they deserve it or not. Sometimes the public remembers your past mistakes and makes you pay for them, but often enough they have little memory of the past and lash out at the person left holding the bag for the mistakes of predecessors.
"All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs." -- Enoch Powell
"All political careers end in failure. Some careers are long, some are short. Some politicians fail gracefully, and peacefully—others, less so. But beloved or hated, powerful or weak, right or wrong, effective or irrelevant—eventually, eventually, all political careers end in failure." -- Robert Jackson Bennett
Democrat pols and their mediaswine continue to pretend that there is a formula to fix the country. There isn’t, but if there were, it’s clear they don’t know it. Trump and his compatriots from the business world are seeking solutions, not formulas. Democrats fight him not only because they want him to fail, but because they want the country to fail. The latter being the only explanation for the Biden presidency.
Well, if the market remains so chaotic and this far down in 2026, the Dems stand a fair chance of taking back the House. Then they can impeach him again. That always cheers Nancy up.......Speaking of Napoleon, remember when the Allies put him on Elba and thought that was the end of Napoleon. No such luck. I just hope that this doesn't turn out to be Trump's march on Waterloo......These are unsetltled and unsettling times. Trump has spent his life hanging ten over the abyss. Someday he might fall in.
The markets are way down, though and tariffs are still in place. They're just significantly better than they were a few days ago. All Trump has done is disrupt expectations so people feel like a blanket 10% tariff is livable, since at least it's not 20% or 24%, and force everyone to the negotiating table. We're a long way from done here.
But Trump is clearly speedrunning his second term. He's blitzing through legal challenges -- whoever is running that strategy clearly wants to get legal questions about the President's authority over unelected bureaucrats and power to deport foreign nationals resolved ASAP -- if his opponents can drag these cases out for another two or three years, he loses by default because he won't be able to accomplish much even if he wins in the end.
I expect the trade blitz is the same. I think he wants to get trade agreements renegotiated this year. But I don't think he really wants free trade. Musk's successes with Tesla and SpaceX show it is possible to build profitable and globally competitive manufacturing operations in the US (even in overregulated states like California!), but Trump is most solicitous of the old-line industrial companies in the US, like US Steel, that really struggle to compete both domestically and internationally. Trump's preferred end state is probably a permanent tariff thumb on the scale to benefit inefficient domestic producers from international competition, and maybe some kind of preferred access to international markets.
"They're Panican out there. I can feel it."
Dow drops 1,700 points, S&P 500 loses 5% as stock market gives back more than half of historic rally ~ CNBC
Bonds down, stocks down dollar down.... the winning doesn't stop.
A valid question is how much Trump's waffling impacts corporate investment decisions. Yesterday was not a green light for these decision makers. Who wouldn’t invest billions in US factories based on a policy repeatedly enacted and revoked?
I just hope that this doesn't turn out to be Trump's march on Waterloo......These are unsetltled and unsettling times. Trump has spent his life hanging ten over the abyss. Someday he might fall in.
He's an old man now, and he doesn't give a damn about anything but winning. He is either going to win a crushing, history-making victory, or die with his boots on. I don't think he even gives a shit if the left-wing scum try again to imprison him after his term is over.
Watching that montage, it occurs to me that we have way too many professional "political commentators" in this country.
“Donald Trump, don’t trust China. China is asshoe!”
kakapoo
Yesterday was a good example of anchoring. The stock market popped back up to pre-tariff-announcement levels and many people thought this meant we’re back to normal.
Today the stock market volatility continues. We have an answer to the question of whether Trump has disciplined the market or whether the market is disciplining Trump.
I’m a great believer in markets. It’s pretty amazing how the stock market takes in new information and reprices the stock of each of the thousands of publicly traded companies. The market comes up with a price even when there is manipulation or panic selling. It’s cruel neutrality all the way down.
What Trump is doing with tariffs is now in the category of “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.” Is it even legal? One would have thought that under our Constitution an act of Congress would be required to impose the $6 trillion in new taxes the Peter Navarro said Sunday that the new tariffs would raise. I guess Trump is calculating that the major questions doctrine and end of Chevron deference only apply to Democrats.
What Trump is doing with tariffs is now in the category of “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.” Is it even legal? One would have thought that under our Constitution an act of Congress would be required to impose the $6 trillion in new taxes the Peter Navarro said Sunday that the new tariffs would raise.
Of course it's legal. Five different Democrat-controlled Congresses delegated these powers to the president in 1930, 1934, 1962, 1974, and 1977.
The S&P is still down 14% from its peak in February due to the president's antics and his supporters are talking about him like he's a genius because it's not down 20%.🤡
Trump gambled with the house’s money and because his antagonists have cried wolf about everything (Trump is doing so much, crying wolf has zero chance now) Trump is the only president that could have attempted this. Trump and his defenders, myself included, could say Trump has all the cards going in, all the numbers are in his/our favour. But we’re not dealing with numbers, not really. The economy, specially the US economy, is more psychology, than it is anything else. Psychology don’t listen to rhyme nor reason.
Re: Hassayamper:
Of course it's legal. Five different Democrat-controlled Congresses delegated these powers to the president in 1930, 1934, 1962, 1974, and 1977.
There was a postwar tendency for Congress to try and delegate all kinds of authority to executive branch agencies. These delegations aren't necessarily Constitutional. Article I Section 8 gives Congress the authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and I think there's a valid question whether the broad authority delegated to the Executive is consistent with that Constitutional framework. Forty years ago, I don't think this would have been much of a question, but as the Supreme Court has grown more conservative and less deferential to the pretensions of executive branch bureaucrats, I think the chances of a court limiting the President's tariff authority, subject to Congress supplying more concrete guardrails around its exercise, have grown somewhat. The other side of that, though, is that upholding nondelegation doctrine in this context could cripple the authority and power of the civil service even more definitively than ending Chevron deference did, so Trump's most rabid opponents are unlikely to make the argument, and the Trump-haters in the judiciary unlikely to support it.
@Lem Vibe Banditory: This quote from Michael Cembalist seems quite relevant regarding the current administration in the WH.
"The stock market is unique – it cannot be indicted, arrested or deported; it cannot be intimidated, threatened or bullied; it has no gender, ethnicity or religion; it cannot be fired, furloughed or defunded; it cannot be primaried before the next midterm elections and it cannot be seized, nationalized or invaded. It’s the ultimate voting machine, reflecting prospects for earnings growth, stability, liquidity, inflation, taxation and predictable rule of law." ~ Michael Cembalist (JP Morgan)
Gloating can only backfire.
Aggie said...
"Hey - isn't it amazing how that border just kind of dried right up? It used to be 'Congress must act!’, or at least that's what they said, honest injun.”
And the only thing Congress did was to float a proposal to legitimize 5,000 illegals per day entering the country. In perpetuity.
Better to have gloated and lost than never to have gloated at all.
The gloater in the arena. I think a famous president spoke on that.
Kaka🤡trophe !
…he inherited a mess. Cleanup is gross…
Ann Coulter is always right.
Mr. Market likes things calm, but Trump is unpredictable. We have no idea what he's going to pull next. Evidently Mr. Market doesn't like that. Mr. Market might like Trump personally, but business is business.
"I don't think people want to consume material that didn't originate in a human mind"
How is sharing a response by Grok to a question of yours different than sharing your photographs (made by a camera) of nature?
Mr. Market likes things calm
Exactly. Markets hate uncertainty…
"Trump is a crazy, bad, narcissistic, cruel person. Look at how many people who have worked for him say so."
Examples?
Just added to my utter dislike of Tom Hanks.
"Just added to my utter dislike of Tom Hanks."
I'm still waiting for the dinosaurs in red capes.
I and others are not gloating. Instead, we are saying the biggest “I told you so” of all time.
I told you so? You mean you told us there would be lower fuel costs? That inflation would be coming down? That we'd root out fraud and waste in the federal government? That we'd get rid of the racist DEI policies? That we'd be renegotiating trade agreements?
He's doing what he said he'd do. And we voted for it.
If anybody is doing the 'biggest I told you so,' it would us.
The Dems were in denial about Biden's condition. Even though We Told You So.
The words stand alone.
If you don't gloat when you're up, you probably missed the opportunity.
The stock market is the only roller coaster that always ends up higher than it started. Jumping off mid-ride is what crazy people do.
"We have no idea what he's going to pull next."
You could look at videos from his presidential campaign and all his rallies- there were lots of them. He wasn't shy about saying what he would do.
Imagine someone shooting an apple off your head. Your win a fortune if you let him do it, but you're not really sure if he's as good a shot as you're told. He moves closer every minute, and doesn't shoot until you say "sell".
As they say, the 4th branch of the US Government is the financial markets.
"He wasn't shy about saying what he would do."
And yet it was a shock to the system when he announced his tariffs, and again when he put them on hold.
Al Franken gloats over John Kerry win, story in Imus. It's about gloating.
"And yet it was a shock to the system when he announced his tariffs, and again when he put them on hold."
He can tell people what he wants to do but he can't understand it for them.
And, as a followup, he's not likely to say much about how he intends to accomplish his goals. Everybody knew the US wanted to win in WWII but there was no public announcement regarding how that goal was to be accomplished.
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