Pitting the states against each other makes me feel like we're living on a war game table

[eleny]

The coasts against the flyover country and the south. What will they do when the port of NY is shut down?

The thing is that he spouts before thinking and then has to retract or assert he never proposed whatever because it's usually a completely bone headed idea. And one that some Trump Whisperer murmured into his ear during one of his numerous daily phone calls with sycophants ... erm <cough> friends.

[lostnfound]

1. Putin's agenda. Nt

[procon]

2. My first impression was a Roman arena with two

opposing groups fighting for survival. The crowds laugh and the emperor is in a quandary trying to decide whether the order the release of the lions or bears.

[Celerity]

3. a more apropos analogy would be the Greens v the Blues in the factional wars of the Byzantine Empire

Blue versus Green: Rocking the Byzantine Empire

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/blue-versus-green-rocking-the-byzantine-empire-113325928/


Violence, Sex And Chariot Racing: The Story Of The Nika Riots

https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/10/20/nika-riots-chariot-racing


BLUE vs GREEN. Passion and politics in the Roman circus.....

http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2018/01/blue-vs-green-passion-and-politics-in.html

[Amaryllis]

4. THe Hunger GAmes.

[csziggy]

5. It reminds me of the corporate strategy that killed Sears

CEO Eddie Lampert played departments and stores against each other instead of getting the various parts of the business to to promote the entire brand. Even though the first major mistake was closing their catalogue sales section just before internet sales took off, Lampert's leadership killed the company.

[Hekate]

6. It's The Apprentice with a sick sick sick mind.

[AnnieBW]

7. The PPE Games

May the odds be ever in your state's favor.

[Flaleftist]

8. It's much worse than that.

He is outbidding the blue stars with his nearly unlimited federal funds and withholding supplies.

The blue states can afford to outbid red states. They can't outbid the federal government.

Florida got everything they requested and New York got fucked. I can't blame New Yorkers for fleeing here. This bullshit Trump is doing is going to make this pandemic worse.

[eleny]

13. Because he never wanted us to succeed against covid-19

It's only an opportunity for him to steal more. So he doesn't want to spend it on us.

[Baclava]

9. Clash of Clans, build your walls and protect your loot while u go raiding their stuff

[KentuckyWoman]

10. Governor's apprentice...

You just have to remember DJT is a carnival barker not a CEO, not a Statesman, not a diplomat... barely a human being.

[eleny]

14. It's the only way to understand everything he does

Then it all makes horrible sense.

[Whiskeytide]

11. Getting others to in-fight has been his management model for decades. n/t

[eleny]

15. Yes, it has

Now it's a divide and conquer strategy for him to gain more power.

[DenverJared]

12. Trump sees the world as properties

and people as props or toys .... not surprising