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That pink stuff, November 21st, 2022. Introduction. So Donald Trump has announced his candidacy

for the Republican nomination, and this sets up on any number of miscomponderables.

We shall have to think this through you and I. The fact that I'm going to say what I think,

straight, no chaser, should not be taken as an indication that I'm going to say it in an agitated

manner. No, no, not at all. It is possible to state the facts and to exhibit the implications,

and all while aping the demeanor of the Buddha contemplating a collection of lilies

in a Japanese pond garden. Just watch, and yes, aping is the verb I want. I am going the calm

route instead of the rant route, because in addition to the points I wish to make, I also want to

illustrate an interesting development in ethical theory. It used to be thought that vile behavior

was when you engaged in vile behavior. Now, vile behavior is anything that causes someone else to

engage in vile behavior. Since we are dealing with a certain kind of person, this can always be

arranged. Just watch. Personalities. One thing to remember about all of this has to do with the

strategic importance of personalities, not to mention the huge, excuse me, huge impact of at least one

personality. For those moderate Republicans, and I use the phrase advisedly, wrenching at their

heads over the fact that Trump is running again, and I'm speaking here of the never-never-never

Trump contingent, the time has come for these unhinged opponents of Trump to consider their

complicity and all the events that have brought us to this point. I'm talking about the clear

preferences that the Fistidius and Pure Ones, Fapo, among us, display for manifest and rancid

corruption over against the upstreparousness, petulence, and pugnacity of Trump. They would rather

be ruled by criminals than by a boar. Anyone who thought that a good way to get a man like

Trump to step gracefully aside, and doing so in a speech filled with fulsome praise of Ron

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