Friday, May 13, 2022

it's not brains or luck

In the 1991 movie, Thelma & Louise there is the following exchange near the end of the movie:
Stephen Tobolowsky as FBI Agent Max: You know, the one thing I can't figure out is whether these girls are real smart or just real, real lucky?

 Harvey Keitel as Arkansas State Police Detective Hal Slocumb: Don't matter. Brains'll only get you so far and luck always runs out.

Now, that remark sounded familiar to me, i am not sure if the writer came up with it, or repeated a folk saying. It is a true statement.

Now, Trump is a criminal, a psychopath, a man with very limited intellect and no morals(we could go on...every horrible thing that he has been accused of, he has probably done, and others that have not come to light), and yet — he escapes, skates away, pays no penalty, accepts no blame, is not forced to comply. Trump does not have the brains. The luck? He has bankrupted his casinos, and emerged time and again? Dostojevskij wrote a novelette, The Gambler. It is a study in psychology. He writes of strings of luck (or fate, i am not going to get the book out now). Roulette was the game, there are 18 red slots, 18 black slots, and 2 green slots. One can bet several times on red showing up consecutively, but it will eventually come up black or green.

Trump is both stupid, and evil. How come he can not lose? I believe he is under special protection by the Devil.

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