“You Can Just Do Stuff”
April 5, 2026
Digby's Hullabaloo
Remember this? The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’ [] ‘That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out.
We’re history’s actorsand you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do’. That famous quote did not come from Trump or one of his minions. That came from a Bushie, long presumed to be Karl Rove. This imperial megalomania infected the American right wing long before Trump came along. MAGA is not quite as articulate of course. They’re barely literate. They have a different expression: “you can just do stuff.” In other words, do whatever you want and let the other side just see if they can do anything about it. Most of the time you can get away with anything. This is the mentality of the unprincipled, amoral, sociopath and it perfectly captures their ethos. Until it’s demonstrated that there are consequences for their actions they will keep doing stuff.
Digby's Hullabaloo
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