If you can't taste the Democracy killing poison in Trump's Kool-Aid there's something wrong with you. By Hal M. Brown
Sabrina Haake wrote Governance by deception. Here’s her reference to the flavored cloying drink used in the Jonestown massacre:
After commerce reports came out this week, Trump doubled down. During an embarrassing televised cabinet meeting orchestrated to praise himself, Trump confirmed that he sought to undo everything Biden did to improve the economy, stating, “We came in and I was very against everything that Biden was doing in terms of the economy. … We took over his mess in so many different ways.”
Trump and his cabinet may drink their own economic koolaide (sic), but Wall Street is abstaining. Multiple indicators confirmed that Biden delivered the strongest post-covid economic recovery in the world, including: growth and job creation that exceeded G7 and other advanced economies' growth in 2024; inflation control despite global inflationary pressures; avoidance of the post-covid recession predicted by many; wage gains; strong market performance with record S&P 500 highs; and stellarinfrastructure investment that Trump, in a toddler-esque pique of jealousy, is scrambling to unravel.
and this prompted me to respond with the comment below.
Drinking the Kool-Aid, indeed, but this well known phrase coming from Jonestown prompted me to wonder what it would taste like. I doubt even Kool-Aid would mask the taste. The following is from a 2006 newspaper article in Australia.
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The case is a tragedy, but a doctor says it solved a long unanswered question - what does the deadly poison cyanide taste like?
An Indian man who committed suicide left a hastily scrawled note describing the taste of the fatal toxin, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported on Saturday.
"Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid," he wrote, according to the paper.....
This leads me to wonder how brainwashed those who are drinking both his cyanide laced economic Kool-Aid and all his other poisonous policies have to be not to taste it. The sickly sweet drink may or may not mask the taste of the poison Trump is feeding the country.
Trump is using his poison to murder democracy. We don't need a taste test to verify this. We just need common sense.
Addendum: There are ways to test for actual cyanide.
To 500 to 1000 cc of the solution to be tested add 1 to 2 cc ammonium sulphide, (NH4)2S, and evaporate just to dryness. The final stages of evaporation should be done slowly. Cool, add 10 cc water, stir well, let settle, and filter. To the filtrate add 2 drops of saturated ferric chloride, FeCl3, solution. A red coloration indicates the presence of cyanide.
