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A Prize Every Time

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I suggest a more precise metaphor describing the Present-dent of the Diss-United States and his sweeping campaign allusions to "so much winning." He's a carnival barkster promising, "A prize every time!"

The games are rigged and the prizes are mostly crummy, but some people just can't help but play. It's all simply too thrilling to resist, and better than a sharp stick in the eye. Until, at least, the barkster dismisses complaining contestants with a back-handed wave: Move along, kid, you spent all your money and I ain't got more time for you. (Aside:) Sucker!

In 'Murca, everybody wins! Just not most of the time or all of the time, and the winnings are mostly going to a small group -- who, naturally, are running the games and who will seek to blame others whenever things go so wrong that the customers rise up in anger.

Note in the photo above how, at an example carnie emporium, a spendthrift gamer must win one of those crummy prizes: By filling a fake clown's mouth with liquid from a squirt gun. Hmmm. Let's not consider the implications of that metaphorical detail too closely. However, other inspection will show the clown targets have a certain resemblance to a human Cheeto whom we are now all forced to endure. [He doesn’t really make deals.]

Encouraging (although simultaneously depressing) is that our Barkster-in-Chief is not a particular savvy businessman. A gambling casino, like a carnival game booth, fundamentally is designed so that for the operators it's easy to extract cash and virtually impossible to lose money on their investment. Yet (and this may be a small part of the reason why the Barkster won't share his tax returns), the Trump Casinos in Atlantic City went bankrupt in a handful of years. Not a helpful metaphor for the shape of the nation's future indebtedness.

Fortunately, English history provides us with a solution to Donald of Orange -- and that would be William of Orange. It is written: When a monarch overreaches, true revolution follows. See more at anglotopia.net/…/great-events-in-british-history-william-o…/


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