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America, You Are Fired!<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Some ironies are just too precious to pass by. The 2016 US presidential elections gave us Donald Trump, a reality TV star whose famous tag line from his show \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d was \u201cYou are fired!\u201d Focus on this tag line; it is all that is important to this story. Some Trump Derangement Disorder sufferers might disagree. This is because they are laboring under certain misapprehensions: that the US is a democracy; or that it matters who is president. It isn\u2019t and it doesn\u2019t. By this point, the choice of president matters as much as the choice of conductor for the band that plays aboard a ship as it vanishes beneath the waves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have made these points continuously<\/a> since before Trump got into office. Whether or not you think that Trump was actually elected, he did get in somehow, and there are reasons to believe that this had something to do with his wonderfully refreshing \u201cYou are fired!\u201d tag line. It\u2019s a fair guess that what motivated people to vote for him was their ardent wish that somebody would come along and fire all of the miscreants that infest Washington, DC and surrounding areas. Alas, that he couldn\u2019t do. Figurehead leaders are never granted the authority to dismantle the political establishments that install them. But that is not to say that it can\u2019t be done at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happened instead was that the political establishment spent two years thrashing about in search of a reason to say \u201cYou are fired!\u201d to Trump but has been unable to find one, and so Trump remains in office, although to say that he \u201cremains in power\u201d would be to invite sardonic laughter from anyone who knows what real political power smells like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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America, You Are Fired! Some ironies are just too precious to pass by. The 2016 US presidential elections gave us Donald Trump, a reality TV star whose famous tag line from his show \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d was \u201cYou are fired!\u201d Focus on this tag line; it is all that is important to this story. Some Trump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8773,204,14866,20966,827,3142],"class_list":["post-46036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-club-orlov","tag-democracy","tag-dimity-orlov","tag-political-establishment","tag-united-states","tag-us-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46037,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46036\/revisions\/46037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}