A Republican Bad Buy

Anthony Bialy
4 min readOct 31, 2024

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Republicans bust stereotypes by not caring about economics. It’s nice to feel surprised. A party once dedicated to freeing markets now makes regrettable choices within them. The squanderer faction can only blame themselves, which at least shows a roundabout commitment to personal responsibility.

Repeating a ghastly purchase is not the only way Donald Trump’s sycophants are liberals. But condemning markets because they make such terrible choices offers a red flag of the same type that they ignore.

An atrocious economic decision may as well have been made by Democrats. The enemy of trade’s political manufacturing concern got the opposing product they wanted. Republicans can’t claim to serve as an alternative as long as they can’t be trusted to measure prices.

A longtime member of their alleged rival who promises to retain every bit of country-crushing spending has pre-empted the case of differentiation. The regrettable nominee is afraid to confront unfathomable debt like a truly fearless financial expert. They’ve refused to avoid nominating a lecherous scumbag for a couple elections.

Weighing costs versus benefits is as obsolete an occurrence as full shelves. It would help if they had someone who had ever done that once. Trump thinks he embodies financial success when he’s nothing but a living ad pitch. Republicans completed the shift from commerce to commercials.

The easiest election possible will end with the toughest result. The only way to blow it would be to nominate the sole individual capable of being miserable enough to make Kamala Harris inspire hope by comparison. So, Republicans did just that. Competitors shouldn’t pursue parity.

Everyone already knows how his term would go on account of enduring just that. Republicans can’t claim they’re dedicated to market efficiency as long as they stick with a financial satire. Spot the difference by how they endorse unfathomable debt while standing in front of an American flag. And you thought there wasn’t a real choice.

Doling out entitlements makes both parties poor, which is why a business and presidential genius aspires to keep doing so indefinitely. Enough Republicans merely wanted their own bully. The whole bit of constitutional fidelity that leads to prosperity went out with Mitt Romney. Government running every aspect of a formerly free nation is treated as a matter of style, which makes nominating someone without any that much more appalling.

The greatest winner already lost once. Trump hates hearing that, so make sure to mention it again. It seems like a rather obvious thing to announce. But so is noting that Trump isn’t a conservative any more than he is a business king.

Winning the most electoral votes is irrelevant. Does that alleviate woe? Both candidates will still suck it hard, so whoever stumbles into a slight majority will exacerbate whatever misery has become commonplace.

Flaunting no principle other than winning is the only thing rich about the nomination. A misunderstanding of every last thing comes naturally from an oaf playing a character. Trump represents pursuing power without authority, loyalty without values, anger without righteousness, confrontation without cause, mouthiness without muscle, and preening without integrity. He’s authentic otherwise.

Praising any dictator who flatters him reflects a principle of sorts. As a companion, the resentment list surely displays grace. Damning anyone who refuses to comply offers a break from drawing hearts around the names of lickspittles.

Backing everything they claim to hate is the perfect way for Trump to despise his flunkies. Their disrespectful messiah embodies why they’re irritable in the first place. Telling submissive worshipers what they want to hear is as worthless a consolation prize as any of his other daft promises. Trump is officially an insider. The only reason he wasn’t before was due to personal ineptness.

It’d be hard to conclude that business was swell if your primary example is a perennial presidential candidate who keeps announcing he’s the richest without producing two dimes to rub together. Trump embodies the precise opposite of what dealing is actually like. As how corporations aligning with government is the opposite of capitalism, he has as little to do with profiting as purple-haired baristas.

Suckers crave grifts. Victimhood is their secret turn-on whether they realize it or not. The only thing that matter to rubes is labels, which like their boss is the opposite of results. Trump embodies the worst sort of choice as candidate just like he does the worst of entrepreneurship. It’s hard to find someone so consistent.

An aspiring second-time executive is setting up another divorce. Treating the presidency like marriages disrespects both. Creating things customers want is as elusive as respecting vows. Putting his name on generic bottled water and subpar steaks is the process of duping enough marks into thinking anything carrying the Trump name epitomizes class. Record another unimpressive conquest.

One can’t be prosperous just by a ridiculous notion like fulfilling needs of others. How would you know who won? Create an election that confirms it. Study impending dreadful results to finally learn how to avoid them. Seeking better options is is a goal that’s as obvious as it elusive.

There’s quite a toxic mess to clean up in 2024, so let it keep bubbling. Ever-astute voters are either giving the least deserving incumbent his sole chance of napping on the same desk for twice as long or providing the least deserving erstwhile incumbent with a chance to pout instead of doing anything useful. The choice is vast.

Fearing change is the ultimate Boomer move, or lack thereof. Comfort of routine means putting on The Office yet again instead of experiencing a new story with unheard jokes. Another Trump nomination is like watching the Will Ferrell episodes.

Schemers should at least have something worthwhile planned to achieve with deviousness. The atrocious calculation from calculating people is an emblematically terrible economic choice in honor of the debt enthusiast who couldn’t turn owning slot machines into a thriving enterprise. Both parties are officially separated from true exchange. As usual, the lesson is unwitting.

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Anthony Bialy
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