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17. Why is Trump doing what he is doing?

Sun Jun 14, 2026, 11:27 AM

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Anyone ever watch the 1993 movie "Tombstone?" It's a typical Hollywood greatly fictionalized account of the fued between the Earp family and a local group of rustlers, thieves, and all-around bad guys called "The Cowboys."

One of the supremely bad Cowboys is one Johnny Ringo -- he was a real person (May 3, 1850 – July 13, 1882) and there's a good Wikipedia article about him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Ringo

In the movie he is portrayed as an evil genius. Late in the movie is a conversation about Ringo between the characters for Wyatt Earp and the tubercular and dying "Doc" Holliday.

Wyatt Earp: "What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?"
Doc Holliday: "A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it."
Wyatt Earp: "What does he need?"
Doc Holliday: "Revenge."
Wyatt Earp: "For what?"
Doc Holliday: "Bein' born."

And that is Trump . . . exactly, perfectly.

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