Powerful. Devastatingly powerful. And you hit it on the nose. I'm glad you used the word "sadistic." In August, 2016, I watched the Republican debates. I was astonished by the pleasure Trump took in humiliating his opponents. I am a retired psychiatrist, and recognized his behavior for what it was: sadism. From that day till now, I have never used his name. (I did here, which is one of my very few exceptions.) My name for him is, and always will be, "the orange sadist." I've added a middle name recently: "the orange pedophilic sadist." Could we have a worse creature in charge of our nation?
There is a plan… it’s called “Operation Epstein Distraction”. He will destroy the world as we know it to hide the fact that he is the world’s second biggest predator.😡
Trump's conduct has nothing to do with any potentially lawful or constitutional purpose. It is not governance or government. It is abuse and usurpation of power. It calls to mind the reason that the people who wrote and ratified our Constitution decided not to give the power to choose to start a war to the President.
The people who wrote (and many who voted to ratify) our Constitution understood that choosing a war may be the fastest way possible to destroy the nation, itself, and to deprive its people of life, liberty and property without due process of law. They knew (and considered) the fact that the people of Athens, themselves, ended the Golden Age of Greece and essentially destroyed their own nation by choosing to attack Syracuse. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Expedition.
In Federalist No 6, Alexander Hamilton or James Madison wrote about the Peloponnesian War, the man who led Athenians into it, his petty motivations, and the war's devastating consequences in terms similar to those that apply to Trump today:
"The celebrated Pericles, in compliance with the resentment of a prostitute, at the expense of much of the blood and treasure of his countrymen, attacked, vanquished, and destroyed the city of the SAMNIANS. The same man, stimulated by private pique against the MEGARENSIANS, another nation of Greece, or to avoid a prosecution with which he was threatened as an accomplice of a supposed theft of the statuary Phidias, or to get rid of the accusations prepared to be brought against him for dissipating the funds of the state in the purchase of popularity, or from a combination of all these causes, was the primitive author of that famous and fatal war, distinguished in the Grecian annals by the name of the PELOPONNESIAN war; which, after various vicissitudes, intermissions, and renewals, terminated in the ruin of the Athenian commonwealth."
So in Federalist No. 69, Hamilton emphasized that the President's “authority” as Commander in Chief “amount[s] to nothing more than” being the “first General and admiral” of the U.S., in striking contrast with the power “of the British king [which] extends to the DECLARING of war and to the RAISING and REGULATING of fleets and armies, all which, by the Constitution [were vested exclusively in] the legislature.”
Trump is transactional. He’s just giving his backers what they want to stay out of jail. Oligarchs have gov contracts and control of regulation, the Fed, the Treasury, the healthcare system, tech bros have our data & the military, crypto bros have the US dollar, and everyone in the regime is grifting.
The fascists got retribution on blue cities with ICE, private prisons, and a world order built on violence and domination - AND, the Supreme Court.
Now the Christian evangelicals are getting a holy war, on top of anti-gay/trans policies.
The regime is running out of time. They’re sure they’ll lose in Nov. It’s why he’s pushing the SAVE Act so hard.
Stop looking for a normal reason for what is happening.
Also … I’m reading “The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate.” Great insight into this political moment.
Is his only "Plan" syaying out of prison? I think the pleasant tour of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was such a plan and pedofilia is a much more serious charge. His mental decline is in the family history and his ability to pull off the next distraction is waning. Yes, he's fkn nuts today.
His adoring Rapture adhereants are creaming in their jeans right now. Jesus will be the new Speaker of the House!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! For the last year I’ve been telling anyone who would listen (and a few who would not) to stop pretending there’s any strategy to Trump’s tantrums. I’ve proposed a thought experiment: Imagine someone’s demented grandpa. Now imagine that demented grandpa is a sadistic malignant narcissist. Now imagine someone went ahead and made sadistic, malignant narcissistic, and demented grandpa the commander-in-chief of the U.S. what would it look like?
I don’t mean any offense toward those who suffer from dementia or their loved ones, but that seems to be a key component to what you describe as Trump being “nuts.”
Powerful. Devastatingly powerful. And you hit it on the nose. I'm glad you used the word "sadistic." In August, 2016, I watched the Republican debates. I was astonished by the pleasure Trump took in humiliating his opponents. I am a retired psychiatrist, and recognized his behavior for what it was: sadism. From that day till now, I have never used his name. (I did here, which is one of my very few exceptions.) My name for him is, and always will be, "the orange sadist." I've added a middle name recently: "the orange pedophilic sadist." Could we have a worse creature in charge of our nation?
It is easy to see the hurt and broken child screaming into the void.
Are you referring to the orange sadist?
Great choice for that top photo. trump howling at the world.
There is a plan… it’s called “Operation Epstein Distraction”. He will destroy the world as we know it to hide the fact that he is the world’s second biggest predator.😡
Spot on analysis, David 🎯
Yes, and Mikey Johnson would welcome Jesus reaching down to pull nim up to heaven.
Trump's conduct has nothing to do with any potentially lawful or constitutional purpose. It is not governance or government. It is abuse and usurpation of power. It calls to mind the reason that the people who wrote and ratified our Constitution decided not to give the power to choose to start a war to the President.
The people who wrote (and many who voted to ratify) our Constitution understood that choosing a war may be the fastest way possible to destroy the nation, itself, and to deprive its people of life, liberty and property without due process of law. They knew (and considered) the fact that the people of Athens, themselves, ended the Golden Age of Greece and essentially destroyed their own nation by choosing to attack Syracuse. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Expedition.
In Federalist No 6, Alexander Hamilton or James Madison wrote about the Peloponnesian War, the man who led Athenians into it, his petty motivations, and the war's devastating consequences in terms similar to those that apply to Trump today:
"The celebrated Pericles, in compliance with the resentment of a prostitute, at the expense of much of the blood and treasure of his countrymen, attacked, vanquished, and destroyed the city of the SAMNIANS. The same man, stimulated by private pique against the MEGARENSIANS, another nation of Greece, or to avoid a prosecution with which he was threatened as an accomplice of a supposed theft of the statuary Phidias, or to get rid of the accusations prepared to be brought against him for dissipating the funds of the state in the purchase of popularity, or from a combination of all these causes, was the primitive author of that famous and fatal war, distinguished in the Grecian annals by the name of the PELOPONNESIAN war; which, after various vicissitudes, intermissions, and renewals, terminated in the ruin of the Athenian commonwealth."
So in Federalist No. 69, Hamilton emphasized that the President's “authority” as Commander in Chief “amount[s] to nothing more than” being the “first General and admiral” of the U.S., in striking contrast with the power “of the British king [which] extends to the DECLARING of war and to the RAISING and REGULATING of fleets and armies, all which, by the Constitution [were vested exclusively in] the legislature.”
Trump is transactional. He’s just giving his backers what they want to stay out of jail. Oligarchs have gov contracts and control of regulation, the Fed, the Treasury, the healthcare system, tech bros have our data & the military, crypto bros have the US dollar, and everyone in the regime is grifting.
The fascists got retribution on blue cities with ICE, private prisons, and a world order built on violence and domination - AND, the Supreme Court.
Now the Christian evangelicals are getting a holy war, on top of anti-gay/trans policies.
The regime is running out of time. They’re sure they’ll lose in Nov. It’s why he’s pushing the SAVE Act so hard.
Stop looking for a normal reason for what is happening.
Also … I’m reading “The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate.” Great insight into this political moment.
I can hear Trump chortling "nyuh-uh-uh" in the background like a cartoon villain after people suffer in his regime.
Is his only "Plan" syaying out of prison? I think the pleasant tour of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was such a plan and pedofilia is a much more serious charge. His mental decline is in the family history and his ability to pull off the next distraction is waning. Yes, he's fkn nuts today.
His adoring Rapture adhereants are creaming in their jeans right now. Jesus will be the new Speaker of the House!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! For the last year I’ve been telling anyone who would listen (and a few who would not) to stop pretending there’s any strategy to Trump’s tantrums. I’ve proposed a thought experiment: Imagine someone’s demented grandpa. Now imagine that demented grandpa is a sadistic malignant narcissist. Now imagine someone went ahead and made sadistic, malignant narcissistic, and demented grandpa the commander-in-chief of the U.S. what would it look like?
I don’t mean any offense toward those who suffer from dementia or their loved ones, but that seems to be a key component to what you describe as Trump being “nuts.”
Why the F does everything they do need a hat?