Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman - 10 out of 10

 Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman

10 out of 10

 

 

I admire Maggie Haberman to the point where if she is invited on CNN, where she is an analyst, i stop what i am doing and pay attention, for she always has something interesting to share, then there is the charming voice, the appealing attitude, and the smartness of what a very pertinent thiner has to say...

 

Counterintuitevely perhpas, it is also funny, because the subject she is such an expert on (obviously along with many other things) is the very opposite, a loud, uncontrelled, iratic, emphatic, pompous, strident, preposterous, foolish fellow, and when she presents herself, it makes the mouse so much smaller.

There is a Latin saying ‚parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’ and this describes perfectly The Confidence Man in my view (which would enhanced by this marvelous book) since he promises so much, ‚you will win so much, you will be tired of winning’, i will Make America Great Again (ergo MAGA crowds of deplorables, i totally agree with Hilary Clinton, another contrast between brains and just nonsense, when you see her versus the Absolute Clown) and then the result is...A Ridiculous Mouse

 

There are many books on the most shamenful leadership i have heard of – Fear, Trump in The White House http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/09/fear-trump-in-white-house-by-bob.html by the iconic Bob Woodward is one – and they describe what we have all seen, except they reveal some secrets and to see it all together is astounding, we tend to forget how he made a hurricane change path on paper, told people to drink disinfectant to cure COVID, ‚grab by the pussy’, and os much more, for he keeps adding to the pile of manure and lies

Bob Woodward became famous when, together with Carl Bernstein, he investigated what would become The WatergateScandal, portyed in books and the stupendous All The President’s Men http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/08/all-presidents-men-by-william-goldman.html whihc is one of the best ten political movies ever made, maybe the very best, and Bob Woodward is aghast at what Trump has done and keeps doing

 

He is the paradigm of The Confidence Man, and wondrous Maggie Haberman has selected the perfect title – agian, i need to repeat this, she is one of the best thinbkers i know of, and as if that was not enough, one of the most decent, serene, calm, modest humans you can see – which represents the synthesis of Trump

The How of Happiness http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-how-of-happiness-by-sonja.html is a fabulous, life-changing magnum opus by fantastic Sonja Lyubomirsky and when it comes down to the rules and endevours, you start with something that is found at other experts, though there is a difference as to the frequency of the act

 

‚Happiness Activity No 1 is Expressing  Gratitude –counting your blessings for what you have either to a close other or privately, maybe in a journal, conveying gratitude to one or more individuals you haven’t properly thanked’ and this is what must be done here, expressing gratitude to Maggie Haberman.

For there is also another paradox, the author is such a enlighting, inspiring figure, and she manages to bring wellbeing, comfort, to readers that leanr about, well, Beelzebub, and his whole rise to the top is astonishing – i still do not believe it, it is part of what makes me think of Maya, the idea that reality is in fact just a mirage – and one of the aspects that is so incredible is the votes he received from...evangelicals

 

Speaking of Maya, one of the fundamntal masterpieces is Glasperlenspiel aka The Glass Beads Game http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-glass-bead-game-by-herman-hesse.html by divine Herman Hesse, which indicates to us what we should be doing (i am kidding, it is much more than that, and in fact, we would not be able to engage in Glasperlenspiel) abandon lesser work and take care of the essentials

The Magister Ludi is the Master of The Game, the best educated, sophisticated, greatest, most noble, spiritual, enaged, able, the list is long, and what we have here is the Confidence Man, claiming to be all that and more, he is ‚a very stable genius’, he has ‚a very big brain, the best words’ and the list of bombastic and yet false staemtnts is crushing, and what is worse, is the fact that in excess of seventy million voters have belived that, and it gets ever more calamitous, he may win again next year, he is ahead in the polls!

 

This is a problem for the world, it is not the thing we can dismiss ‚oh, it is their problem’, given tht the USA is the leader of the free world, it affects all of us, besdies, that very role is in doubt, becasue with such a Mad Man at the top, there is going to be decay, and then he does not care on his own admission

Ukraine will be given to Putin on  silver plate, after all, Trump prefers, and disgustingly, abhorently he belives the ulitmate monster over the intelligence agencies of the US – the famous Oslo lines – and he is so iresponsible as to make you disbelive this, if you see it in a comedy, that parade with the plan to invade Iran, the stelaing of secret, official documents and then all that dance and song with employees, to hide the boxes, then put them on the stage of his balroom, with Republicans siding with...the traitor, which he is

 

 

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world  – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

From To The Heritage:

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life. As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality. Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

‚parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’

“the Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special. Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”