Trump’s Facade is Transparent if You Know How To Look at Him
Hustlers are Hustlers. President or not
I’m not one of those “weird liberals” who think Trump is some ultra-clever mastermind hellbent on world domination. I could never give him that much credit. In my old neighborhood, we’d refer to him as an old two-bit hustler with no credit. This means he walks around talking about all his money but has little proof. He talks about what a great hustler he is but has no evidence. He is fortunate to be in the right time and place to take advantage of an under-educated and, until recently, uninterested populace. Hustlers love dummies with a little bit of money.
I’m also not one of those folks that believe he’s a nazi, despite all evidence to the contrary. Why? Hustlers don’t have beliefs. They adapt and mold themselves into whatever gets their marks worked up. Worked up marks don’t think very well. They get emotional. The hustler uses that to override the mark’s common sense. That’s how three-card monte, for example, works. The dealer and there’s always a hype man working people into a frenzy so they can’t think. They’ll never find that card. In real life, that card is the truth. That’s what Trump works off of. He doesn’t have enough actual beliefs to be a nazi. He just has a lot of their qualities.
The final trait all good hustlers have is the ability to make you think what you’re doing for them is actually good for you. He’s laying off thousands of federal workers for their own good and yours. He’s not going to make a dime off of it. This is all for the people. Those tax cuts that seem only to benefit the upper five percent? That is all for the country’s good. He won’t benefit at all. He’s not making any dough from that card game; it’s just your bad luck, but you should keep trying. Hustlers are all the same. If you scratch their surface, you’ll find a flea. Itchy and irritating. No real substance.
In my old neighborhood, it was considered a sin to be a mark. If a hustler caught you in a scheme, it was your fault, and you deserved it. There were only three ways to deal with a hustler, and they’re not for the faint of heart. One is simple: walk away and don’t engage. Hustlers want easy marks. They won’t chase the unconvinced. Two, stand up to them; hustlers have bully-like tendencies; they hate real confrontation. Three, hope they get locked up. This is the most gratifying way because most hustlers aren’t fighters and end up in solitary for their own protection. This is the worst punishment for a hustler. Even worse than death. Starve them of the attention and oxygen they seek. Ignore them. That is death to a hustler.
