Does President Trump Talk Too Much?
I found myself on a recent Judging Freedom episode saying that Trump as statesman tweets too much. In retrospect, who am I to tell the President or anyone else to stop talking; it’s anti-liberty and rude. Yet, it may be good advice; saying too much can help “enemies” to shape public opinion, and even to target Trump specifically.
Getting the dirt on a country’s leader – the intentions, the predilections, their secrets and their open confessions, tweets and threats – and using that dirt strategically is an intelligence function. It’s what humans do on their own and in the employ of governments and businesses. It’s part of the competition. The hunter and the hunted, the prey outwitting the predator, or vice versa.
In nature, prey animals try to stay quiet, and the predator does the same. Trump’s favorite sport is also a quiet game. Even so, in both animal and human worlds, sound and action are used to warn the group, to compete for the best mates, and even to trick prey through subterfuge and deceit. There are a variety of creatures that exhibit camouflage patterns to hide their real vulnerability, and mislead potential predators. They pose as foul-tasting or dangerous, or hide in plain sight.
Trump may be the political version of the Texas wasp moth, which appears to be a dangerous stinging insect to avoid being eaten. Is Trump the Mothman?
Trump has created a lot of diversionary noise and confusion in his role of “Statesman Seeking Peace.” His thinking on “king” dollar is a case in point, where he boldly and erroneously claims that BRICS was set up to “degenerate” or “break” the US dollar.
The average person, economist, and politician, in and out of BRICS, takes a far more evolutionary and fact-based approach. The market in money, like anything else, moves towards security, trust, familiarity, and profitability. There was a reason that the old Soviet ruble was never a natural draw for global investors – it was state-issued fiat on top of an impossible system of production, coupled with a largely made-up set of state data about that system of production. Beyond that flawed model, state corruption and propaganda is a global constant. The bigger the state, the less accountable it has to be to either domestic or international forces. Trump’s solutions for saving the dollar do not appear to include actually improving dollar security, trust, familiarity and prof
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