Winners & Losers Superpowers and Super-Fails
Sam Osterhout
Usually, this column pits two individuals against each other in a sort of cage match of morality. On one side, we have the Loser. This is generally a person or a group that behaves like a Loser. They may, in fact, be winning!
Take Trump, for example, the Big King Shit of the Loser crowd. Despite his polling (which is really, really bad), he’s literally the President of the United States! In so many ways, he’s won. He’s able to extract billions of dollars from dupes, corporate titans, and taxpayers for his personal use. He flies around the world on our dime, protected by bodyguards we pay for. When someone asks him a question he doesn’t like, he calls them stupid or piggy.
He’s winning. But he’s a Loser.
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This week, my Winner is China, and they are winning literally, but that doesn’t make Xi a Winner. But their winning is tied so closely to our losing that I’m going to lay it all out in a single section — a first for this column!
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