Trump - Ramaswamy 2024!

That's the ticket! It's the perfect pairing for where we are right now - an easily manipulated narcissist and a smarmy, disingenuous bot. 

I've been ranting a lot lately about how buying what we want with borrowed or printed money has corrupted our society. Talking about the destruction of our cities and the open borders, I said this about how we would resolve our self-inflicted crises.

Someone else will clean up the mess. It will be paid for by the government who will get the money from ... somewhere. There's no need to defend the public places, no need to defend order and peace, no need to defend civlization because it will all bounce right back without any effort from us...

The decay is more than just the needles and feces and graffiti and closed stores. It's a decay of morale as well. We're numb. Not comfortably numb, because you know something is very, very wrong. We're just numb to it, our senses deadened by the borrowed money.

I've also ranted a great deal about the shortcomings of the progressives. Corrupt and degenerate they certainly are, but the borrowing and printing binge is partly to blame for them going off the rails. They didn't used to be this way. 

Well, if they are marinating in a culture where someone else will clean up the filth and destruction, the Republicans are, too. Conservatives may have a tragic view of the world in comparison to the liberals' romantic view, but we still live in a world where no one has to pay to rebuild the things we're ruining.

That's why Trump-Ramasmarmy* is the perfect ticket to face Biden-Harris or whoever the DNC decides to run. Trump is fixated on 2020 to the point of insanity and Ramasmarmy is saying whatever he thinks sounds good at the moment. One is deranged and the other is phony.

Meanwhile, there are some really good governors out there who are solving real problems, like DeSantis in Florida, Kemp in Georgia, Kim Reynolds in Iowa, Chris Sununu in New Hampshire and, as governor-emeriti, Nikki Haley of South Carolina. What do they all have in common? Donald Trump hates them and, in some cases, takes credit for their achievements. Ramasmarmy says they're all bought and paid for by special interests. Well, he says that this week. Next week, he will deny ever saying that and will say something else.

There is major bad blood between the Republican front-runner and the most successful Republican governors.

So what? That would only matter if we were responsible for fixing anything. Instead, we're convinced we can just keep borrowing and printing money. That gives us the luxury of talking about court dates and idolizing a huckster. We don't want a broom and a dustpan, we want a showman and a fast-talking con artist. 

Yay.

Look, it's Mr. Tough Guy doing his tough guy face for the camera!

I don't know if he wants me to vote for him or buy his detergent.

* - I saw the nickname Ramasmarmy elsewhere and absolutely loved it.