This is completely unfair to Donald Trump, maybe, but I am reading through more than a dozen Batman ...
This is completely unfair to Donald Trump, maybe, but I am reading through more than a dozen Batman graphic novels -- from Year One to The Black Mirror -- and I decided to throw Joker in there, too. There's an interesting bit by The Joker:
"I met a man who was obssessed with driving a car around the world in one day. He swore up and down he could do it. And he tried to. Many times, from what I understand. At the end of those failed days ... he'd sit on the side of the road cursing his back luck. Eventually, a good samaritan would stop. After slaughtering the samaritan -- and anyone else with the samaritan -- like his wife, children -- he'd put them in his car, set it on fire, and drive off in theirs. Then he'd fill up the tank and wait on the sun, so he could try to drive around the world again. ...
"He blamed the cars for his failures. It never crossed his mind that what he believed he could do was impossible. I admire that."
This evoked Donald Trump in my mind. I am not sure if he is The Joker or the driver, though.
"I met a man who was obssessed with driving a car around the world in one day. He swore up and down he could do it. And he tried to. Many times, from what I understand. At the end of those failed days ... he'd sit on the side of the road cursing his back luck. Eventually, a good samaritan would stop. After slaughtering the samaritan -- and anyone else with the samaritan -- like his wife, children -- he'd put them in his car, set it on fire, and drive off in theirs. Then he'd fill up the tank and wait on the sun, so he could try to drive around the world again. ...
"He blamed the cars for his failures. It never crossed his mind that what he believed he could do was impossible. I admire that."
This evoked Donald Trump in my mind. I am not sure if he is The Joker or the driver, though.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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