The no-filter president - today's edition

Just how cacophonous and stupid is discourse in post-America?

This one would confuse someone who just dropped in from another planet, totally unacquainted with what's been going on here for the last ten years.

Leftists loathe the Koch Brothers, mainly because nearly all of them are hopelessly ignorant and don't understand that the Koch Foundation generously supports the arts and has financed the building of several hospital wings around the country, and have no idea of the essence as well as the scope of Charles Koch's worldview, the formulation of which he lays out in his book Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies.

But how are they going to reconcile the fact that the supreme object of their hate, the Very Stable Genius, is also excoriating the Koch network?

The Kochs believe in maximizing human freedom and economic uplift. Opportunity excites them, and they spread that excitement through groups they fund, such as Americans for Prosperity, the Libre Initiative and Generation Opportunity.

They don't have any use for protectionism, which is what spurred the Very Stable Genius to exhibit his signature pettiness and penchant for "alpha male" insult on Twitter today:

The globalist Koch Brothers, who have become a total joke in real Republican circles, are against Strong Borders and Powerful Trade. I never sought their support because I don’t need their money or bad ideas. They love my Tax & Regulation Cuts, Judicial picks & more. I made them richer. Their network is highly overrated, I have beaten them at every turn. They want to protect their companies outside the U.S. from being taxed, I’m for America First & the American Worker — a puppet for no one. Two nice guys with bad ideas. Make America Great Again!

What a Trumpism-rich paragraph. "Globalist." "Highly overrated." "Total joke." "I made them richer."

You see, they love the actual free-market stuff, bu aren't so keen on the protectionist stuff.

Mr. President, I doubt this is going to occur to you, but what this means is that they have a consistent set of principles and you have nothing more than a scrambled, fevered mind. (The kind of mind that comes up with an utterance like "Without trade, we'd save a hell of a lot of money.")

Along with reinforcing his image as a petulant man-child, this outburst indicates that there's no getting to him, no convincing him to change his mind on tariffs and agricultural subsidies.

Do the shills now have to fall in line? If any of them are AFP members, do they have to tear up their cards?

I have a feeling we'll see more of this kind of stepping on toes of people searching for some kind of reason to work with this hot mess.