Showing posts with label billionaire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label billionaire. Show all posts

Friday, February 02, 2024

for fun

The price of life is a question. Metallurgists hunt through the wreckage for dead friends and family and emotions.
 
Billionaires kill, do not have babies, pour south through ice into the tomb of machinists, but those in the ground are tombs of mother and father no more.
 
Head blood already pours dead America. You badly and violently think to erase yourself. As to why, a question silently and violently granted my wish to be removed from Earth, removed violently from Jupiter’s tomb—an exploded electron flailing in the grass, raining from the sky, failing to fucking death.
 
No one can beat you harder and faster or more violently into submission. The violator goes paid or unpaid into service. Regulators die, metallurgists die, violators make billionaires grow sick, their unpaid screams echoing through the tombs
 
sun fading like the young and beaten to death. Seeing them dead, my payment.

Friday, September 16, 2016

about regret


In January 2016, US presidential candidate Donald Trump famously boasted that he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue (a major thoroughfare in Manhattan, New York City) and not lose any voters. Whatever one thinks of his phrasing, the realization he was expressing was powerful: he was a candidate who could take chances. His detractors should view Donald Trump as a missed opportunity rather than a political black swan.


Friday, May 06, 2016

A leap of faith connects a Trump supporter with his vote


Donald Trump presents himself as not only a success, but a winner. And by all appearances, Trump is a winner--a winner whose toughness earns victory, a champion boardroom arm wrestler who leaves only fractured elbows on the negotiating table. Indeed, to win, someone must lose. The Trump campaign has left behind a trail of losers. As a candidate, he has been vicious: willing to say anything to keep or grow his support base while taking down his competitors.

Trump supporters like what he says about building the border wall, about Muslims, about renegotiating trade deals to bring back jobs and keep companies in America. They support Trump because of his positions; but they vote for him because they believe he really is the winner who can achieve these policy goals.

There is tension within the concept of a winner running for public office. A winner's success comes at the expense of others, not in service to them. But we are to choose Trump because he wants to serve, not because he wants to win.