Any one else feel like the president is taking his insanity to a new level?
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The bar on that is pretty high.
Well, mathematicians say that there are infinities beyond infinity . . .
That sounds suspiciously like a “some people say” reference.
Mathematicians KNOW there are infinities beyond infinities, they just can’t name them all. <grin>
Even with infinite infinites, still a high bar for Trump.
Where else can he go?
Down!!!
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Nixon counsel and Watergate figure John Dean says the House has little choice but to commence impeachment proceedings. https:/www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/08/congress-will-have-start-impeachment-process-afte
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The story without the firewall … here
Hopefully just the inexorable progression through Dante’s Inferno.
Very troubling that a deeply deranged egomaniac ignoramus is the prez of the US, but Trumper’s psychological maladies and manifest deficiencies were quite apparent (even to a moron) by July 2016, yet the incompetent white electorate simply had to have him. They just don’t give a shit anymore. Anything to Own The Libs.
Trumper’s toadies & courtiers best remember Nuremberg and the demise of the “following [criminal] orders” defense….especially applicable to generals, Messrs Kelly and Mattis.
I posted a link the other day of countries that don’t extradite to the US. That’s one option for his future plans.
Even his own arrogance is no longer an escape for him and his bizarre tweet the other day of if I wasn’t so unpopular I’d be popular is telling that he is not capable of accepting reality.
I’ve heard that narcissists aren’t capable of violence to themselves, they’re not suicide risks but just like Betty Broderick showed us they’re sure capable of violence against those close, and in Trump’s case that probably means we’re all in danger.
If Senate members turn on him in January he will make all of us pay. Everything that reaches his desk will be vetoed. He’ll be uncontrollable. Govt shutdown…you name it, he will just stop functioning.
WTF, Betty Broderick? You get a 4 for using that obscure reference.
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Thought of Broderick because in the movie she was classic Trump, attacking everyone while calling herself the victim. After looking at Trump’s wild, even for him, tweets about Sen Richard Blumenthal, it’s pretty easy to picture the guards that surrounded Betty to restrain her will be coming for Trump. https:/www.mediaite.com/online/trump-calls-senator-richard-blumenthal-the-dick-in-bizarre-tweets
I think it’s more that Trump has almost self-awareness and certainly no self-discipline or perspective about his position as president. Who knew the job be so hard, he must think everyday in spite of the fact that he doess almost nothing that the job requires even at a minimum. So his many obsessions and hatreds, while psychopathic, at this point are just becoming louder and louder not really changing in degree, it seems to me.
Yeah he thought it was just some sort of popularity contest.
A) People with mental health issues decompensate when subjected to stress.
B) Aberrant behavior can develop associated with progression of senile dementias – do not know if this is happening but it is a possibility.
Actually I hadn’t noticed. It would stand to reason though that at some point he’d notice that the water in the pot is getting awfully warm.
Trump is all in on the George Costanza theory of truth telling. “Jerry, just remember….it’s not a lie, if you believe it”.
Not guilty by reason of insanity?
Certainly wouldn’t be the first time it’s been tried. Of course, that would really make one hell of a trial.
Any one else get the sense that DT is sounding a bit relieved today? I think he knows what he did, and thinks based on yesterday’s filings that neither Cohen nor Manafort squealed about the really damning stuff.
I’m no longer able to meaningfully distinguish between his
There’s obviously a fair amount of overlap. On an unrelated note, I learned recently that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was the nephew of Adnan Khashoggi, an Iran-Contra connected businessman who sold Donald Trump a yacht back in the early 1980’s. Small world!
JK was on one side of a rift (probably one of many) in the royal family. These Trumper idiots signed US up for one side. If MBS gets what’s coming to him, well…. The Khashoggi family has an incredible number of cross connections in Saudi and across the middle east (they’re also of Turkish descent and have connections in the non-Arab middle east).
The Trumpers are like FOB tourists who come stumbling into the bazaar planning on cheating the locals. We know they got their clocks cleaned, we just haven’t gotten the details (or the bill) yet.
Worse? I figure it’s only a matter of time until they’re having this conversation in the White House:
He might be clinically more deranged since Mueller tipped the goods to the SDNY which just named him as an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal felony to violate the federal election laws.
But we’re well down the rabbit hole and not in Kansas any more by this point no matter what. Things are starting to go significantly pear-shaped in Trumpistan and neither Trump nor his adoring fans are at all equipped to deal with it. We don’t know what any of them will do. But, nothing good.
I honestly don’t know that the Dr. Strangelove quote I cite above is really any more insane than what we’ve already endured.
President Merkin Muckly in that film was a LOT saner than Trump. He at least had the common sense to tell his subordinates: “Sit down General. I think we’ve heard more than enough from you.”
Nobody can imagine Trump managing any sort of crisis. He’s already totally unglued and ready for anything. He says’ “then it will be war” if Democrats dare to investigate him. And he means it. There will be many investigations, and Trump will go more out of control over each one. If you think he’s unhinged now, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
For him, having to leave the White House in shame is worse than death. He’d a lot rather die than be dragged out and hustled back onto a helicopter on his way into exile, like Richard Nixon.
I honestly don’t know it isn’t a bad thing that Congress will never convict him in any impeachment trial. He very well could consider blowing up the entire planet in a thermonuclear war a less bad scenario than being forcibly removed from office by his enemies.
He has his hands on the nuclear codes, and I don’t see any safe way to pry them off. I suppose it’s rather like trying to get a child away from a live hand-grenade in the middle of a crowd. If you just try and grab the child and startle him, he’ll probably drop the grenade killing a lot of people including yourself. But, at the same time you can’t just let the child wander about with a live grenade either, you have to get it away from him somehow.
It’s a ticklish situation and I don’t honestly know the solution.
Turgidson was probably based on actual guys that ran the Strategic Air Command. Curt Lemay is a famous one but there were also guys like Thomas Power, who said things like this:
He was based on Curtis LeMay.
Re. this:
“He says’ “then it will be war” if Democrats dare to investigate him. And he means it. There will be many investigations, and Trump will go more out of control over each one.”
When Trump leveled his “if the House Democrats investigate me we will retaliate by investigating the Democrats” threat, he was fairly specific. He said the Republican-controlled Senate would investigate Democrats.
With more Senate Republicans exposed in the 2020 election, McConnell is not going to do anything and everything Trump wants. He’s already refused to bow to Trump’s repeated demands that the Senate kill the filibuster, and has also refused to do what Trump wanted on other issues.
Trump could try to direct the Agencies to investigate Democrats, but the people who would be asked to lead those investigations would risk a jail term for obstruction of justice and/or abuse of power. With the current trajectory of the DOJ investigations of Trump and his henchmen, I don’t find it likely that Cabinet members will want to walk the plank for this motherfucker.
“Taking” implies a conscious act or strategy. I don’t think there is any restraint on him, certainly not internal, and so long as the GOP ignores his mounting madness there will be no external constraint on him either. He will sink lower, and lower, and lower, till he’s barking at the moon, and even then the corrupt GOP will do nothing.
In this context, the idea of a “new level” doesn’t work. It suggests something upward. but he’s in freefall, and there is no bottom.
Spiraling is more like it. I agree with someone else that Individual-1 is in freefall. When or if he hits rock bottom is anyone’s guess. The necessary House investigations and completion of Mueller’s work cannot occur soon enough, for the good of what is left of our republic.
Trump is a rich asshole who’s never had to face accountability, for anything, and I believe Trump is just as crazy now as he’s always been; no more, no less. With the walls closing in we’re just seeing more acts of crazy.
What we’re seeing is not so much an increase in insanity, as it is an increase in anxiety related to the walls closing in, and his insane reactions to it. Stupid crazy.
Trump’s Law: the incidences of insanity are directly proportional to the calls for accountability.
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Actually Booman…I think that you have it backwards.
Trump’s insanity is taking him to a new level.
Ever further downward.
Watch.
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These go to eleven
This kind of question reminds me of “There’s a low below the low you know” – Malvina Reynolds.
It’s the hail storm we’re all headed for, alas.