The best Trump-slam SNL piece is over.

SNL has dedicated waaaaay too much time to insulting Trump. It would be one thing if it was funny but most of it is just not.  I don't watch much TV these days simply because each year that goes by is about 7% of my remaining time on this planet (yes, that is exactly how I think and it keeps me from wasting time), but Youtube is a great way to just watch this part or that. And I have watched Alec Baldwin's Trump impersonation and LOL more than once.

So why is it that Baldwin says he's done with that?  Oh sure, wanted to spend more time with family, the usual excuse used by elite who are getting out while the getting is good.  NO show biz person walks away from something that is working because you never know when you will get the next gig.  And Baldwin's best days are certainly behind him so its not like Hollywood is beating his door down to have him look at new offers.

I think Baldwin is showing some intelligence here.  He is getting out at the top.  He rode the anti-Trump wave up and doesn't want to ride it back down knowing that when Trump bashing loses its appeal even to the far left, that he doesn't want to be the last guy still up on stage doing the bashing. 

I should not have to repeat that even though I predicted Hillary's loss well in advance of it happening that I am not a big fan of Trump.  His "style" if you can call it that is to just try things, most of them designed to intimidate or bully his opposition.  Now, don't get me wrong, for the most part he's not bullying the weak.  He's bullying the bullies and criminals.  He's trying to get his thug life on against thugs.  But it still comes off very rough and unpolished.  His flip flop policies keep everyone off balance.

With that said, he tries things in rapid succession and then keeps the ones that work and throws the rest out.  In other words, he's willing to accept a series of small defeats that highlight the eventual path to victory.  He is really the first president in history to use this and it has been quite successful IMO.  Contrast this to liberal policy makers who believe in their own supreme infallibility so much that, if their dumb shit moves don't work, their response is that they must not have done enough of it and so next time double down on the same dumb ass path.  Trump takes his defeats weekly and monthly whereas the liberal elite save their defeats up for 1-2-3 decades and then all the shit comes at you like a giant public toilet being flushed.

Trump's strategy and lack of shame about being wrong in the short term enables him to make bold short term gambits which he learns from.  The recent 5% tariff on Mexico with threats of 25% if Mexico doesn't stop acting like a free passageway for South/Central American refugees into the US seems to have worked.  Mexico responded by sending troops to their southern regions to intercept caravans headed north.  It remains to be seen if Mexico will follow through but if they do even the dumbest people on the left will have to give Trump kudos for effective negotiation over what even some of them have recognized to be an emergency situation.