{"id":42747,"date":"2025-08-07T13:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42747"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:48:20","slug":"a-bump-in-the-road-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/08\/07\/a-bump-in-the-road-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bump In The Road?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months back I had an ambition to write a post comparing the Trump Administration to a poorly assembled engine that disintegrates when run; the closest I came to fulfilling that ambition was this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I should have tried harder, in view of this post<\/a> from Professor Richardson. Incidentally, I’d quote the Bloomberg<\/strong><\/em> article upon which Richardson’s post is, in part, based, but that article is paywalled, of which I approve, and I don’t often have a need for a Bloomberg<\/strong><\/em> subscription.<\/p>\n

Kathryn Anne Edwards at Bloomberg explained the implications of Trump\u2019s determination to control economic statistics: \u201cThe peril\u2026isn\u2019t a potential recession; it\u2019s losing highly reliable, accurate and transparent data on the health of the world\u2019s largest economy.\u201d As Ben Casselman pointed out in the New York Times, officials at the Federal Reserve, for example, need reliable statistics on inflation and unemployment to inform decisions about interest rates, which in turn affect how much Americans pay for car loans and mortgages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>It might be best to visualize the President’s mendacity and ego’s needs as throwing a bag of ball-bearings into a tornado. Lying and smirking isn’t going to get him an advantage; the ball-bearings will likely reduce his body to jelly.<\/p>\n

It’s a useful lesson in why<\/em> honesty is the best policy. We all lie about little things, but that’s just a single ball-bearing in our analogy, unlikely to cause damage as it is spun out of the vortex.<\/p>\n

But throw in a full bag of bearings and they become vengeful demons, sooner or later running down their originator.<\/p>\n

That’s the President. His disregard for the core tenet of any successful society, honesty<\/em>, is leading to his undoing. He’s survived this long based on his alleged wealth, a fleet in being<\/em><\/a> if you will, his acting chops, and a long line of naive victims receptive to, nay desperate for, the messages he was peddling.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The left was unconsciously complicit in their autocratic inclinations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But will the independents and even MAGA<\/strong> remain loyal to the Mendacity Machine? Rather than cite special elections, let’s look at a more extensive history: How does Trump’s true hometown, Manhattan, feel about the man who failed to fulfill his contracts incessantly?<\/p>\n

Trump lost his hometown in 2016, 86% – 10%, to Hillary Clinton<\/strong>. That’s what proximity to Donald J. Trump does to folks.<\/p>\n

Retensioning the timing belt isn’t going to help. If the electorate doesn’t find a way to remove Trump from office, we’ll be learning all about austerity, while the propaganda dins incessantly in our ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few months back I had an ambition to write a post comparing the Trump Administration to a poorly assembled engine that disintegrates when run; the closest I came to fulfilling that ambition was this. I should have tried harder, in view of this post from Professor Richardson. Incidentally, I’d \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42753,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42747\/revisions\/42753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}