Trump Takes a Dump on Everything that America Used to ValueSilicon Bites Ep275 | 2025-12-18 | Trump **** on everything and everyone when they cease to be useful to him. We will go back to his first chaotic administration to understand the patterns and see what he’s learned in his second to avoid dirty laundry in public and the revolving door of sacked and disgraced aids, supporters and sycophants. We’ll also ask, what are the implications for Ukraine, and the Trump security guarantees, as well as for Venezuela and an incipient war, based on a repeated pattern of behaviour in Trump that seeks to avoid all accountability, responsibility or blowback from his mistakes, actions and inactions, and clear venality that is happening in plain sight.
There’s a particular kind of political nihilism that doesn’t merely break norms — it gobbles them up and splits the bones out in your face. It doesn’t build coalitions or alliances; it burns them in a test of fealty and subservience. That demands conformity, obeyance and obsequiousness. It doesn’t govern, but dominates through humiliation, coercion and bribery, and cycles through people, institutions, and alliances like disposable diapers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnWcV9C-oqQ"Political nihilism" based out of ignorance, ignobility, and a refusal to learn anything of real value in this life, I would add...
So easy for a person just to say, "all I care about is money in this life and material possessions", then you don't have to worry about much at all. How easy that is. If you really think about it that worldview is the easiest and laziest worldview there is. It's really just a massive cop out and a shirking of all responsibilities and duty to be the best person one can possibly be.