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George Bush says we are losing the War on Drugs. You know what that implies? There's a war being fought and people on drugs are winning it!

What does THAT tell you about drugs?

Some smart, creative people on that side. They're winnin' a war and they're fucked up!

"Are we winning?"

It's like, they fight the War on Drugs like the colonials fought the Indians, right? They're walking in a straight line in red coats. Drug users are like Indians, they're up in the trees going, "[puff puff puff puff] Are they fightin' us?"

You never see a positive drug story on the news, do ya? No.

Always negative. News is supposed to be objective, isn't it? Supposed to be? THE news? But every drug story is negative?

Well, hold it! I've had some killer times on drugs!

I'm not promotin' it, but I'm not denying it. Let's hear the whole story!

Same LSD story every time. "Young man on acid thought he could fly, jumped out of a building. What a tragedy."

What a dick!

Don't go blaming acid on this guy. If he thought he could fly, why didn't he take off from the ground first and check it out?

I'd like to see a positive LSD story, would that be newsworthy? Just once? Hear what it's all about?

"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather!"

"Gol'. Did you see the news?"

Courtesy of Bill Hicks

Honestly, I think the most credible answer I can come up with is what Tim Snyder called "The Weak Strongman." Trump didn't invent it and he's not the only one, but he is one huge example of a very particular way of leadership: Basically, he's not strong or popular enough to succeed fairly, so he's made a whole strategy out of undermining anything effective or popular that he runs across. Once the whole field is polluted, and anyone who sticks out as an alternative to him gets destroyed, he can succeed within the wreckage and he looks like a winner.

I don't think he really would explain it that way, but that's my best guess for what's going on and why he wants to destroy cancer research. He just has an innate hatred for anything that people like that isn't him.