I agree 100% Steve! I was criticized yesterday on Substack for calling demented Trump a narcissistic psychopath! I DO NOT KNOW WHAT EVIDENCE ANY RATIONAL AMERICAN NEEDS TO DETERMINE THAT TRUMP IS INSANE AND NOT FIT FOR ANY OFFICE LET ALONE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!!
Unfortunately, three of my siblings are in the MAGA camp, or at least are voting for Trump. The other three of us, and our partners, are vehemently opposed to him, and voted Harris. We live in completely opposite realities. I hope for the best (a Harris win!) but am preparing for the worst (a Civil War).
President Biden has the power under the US Constitution to declare martial law and put down any terrorism initiated by the MAGA crowd! The National Guard and Armed Forces will put down any insurrection and the leaders of the insurrection will be arrested!
I’m not sure about Biden. He is a pacifist at heart when it comes to defending America against trump; he hasn’t demonstrated in the strongest terms how he would act if the moron looses this election, save for calling him out with the oft repeated phrase: “it’s unamerican”. He’s left Garland to make his own decisions about pursuing trump and that’s how you got stuck with trump as the Repugnican running for the highest office in the land.
CaroleAnn, the president isn't supposed to get involved with what the DOJ is doing. I think you might have been listening, by accident of course, a bit too much to Trump. It is he that wants to weaponize the DOJ by getting involved in their business. And #2, It's smart and strategic for Biden not to be discussing publicly what specifically he would do regarding either a Trump win or loss. And finally, I am actually quite shocked that 10 readers here have liked your comment. It's made me scratch my head. What do we have here, some deep down MAGA's at some level they don't even realize of themselves?
Last night, I attended a screening of a film, showing the 1/6 Insurrection, made in connection with the UVA Center for Politics. In attendance were Officers Grennell and Hodges, both who testified at the Congressional hearings chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson. Reliving that day brought tears to many of us in the audience. I spoke to Officer Grennell after the film and the pain that I saw in his eyes will probably never go away. Nor will it for me. We are all on our last nerve as Election Day approaches.
Sharon, I would love to see it! Please tell me when and what time.
January 6th, to me is like 9/11, we should NEVER forget either day! To remind myself of the horrors of 9/11, I watch the programs about that day, every year! And, every year, it brings back the feeling I had on that day, and the days that followed. I do the same on November 22, when JKK was assassinated. I also do the same for January 6th-I never want to forget what Trump put us through! If we don't remember, the horror of those days, they will be forgotten!
If I had children, I would have them view those days too-if not, they might repeat the nightmares that we went through! It is sad that our educational system has watered down our history! Do our children, grandchildren, etc., know what went on during the civil rights period? Do they know how many women lost their lives for the right to vote? So many Americans lost their lives to get the Constitutional right to vote! And they might be taken away from all of us, if Trump wins! Do they know how many lives were lost before Roe/Wade was passed? (They , unfortunately are beginning to see that repeat itself!) Our children have been sheltered from the truth that is our history! Now, they might have to live in an America that will be foreign to us all!
They want to shoot Liz Cheney? That tough woman from Wyoming who is undoubtedly pretty good with guns? Trump is beyond disgusting. Trumplicans have descended to crazy depths and this treason needs to be stopped now. We’ll soon find out what kind of country we are- a great country where we pull together in times of danger or another ignorant and destructive power, past its prime.
Concur, Jay. The Senators, Members, states’ legislators & “ordinary” citizens hear all this and just as one came to DC Bec of a lie about a pizza restaurant; they rallied post 2020 election, 1/6, in Michigan, most recently in NC to “hunt down FEMA workers, they are likely to heed the calls. Michael Flynn told them to go to Scranton to rally outside the statehouse. I hope Liz Cheney has greater security. Then will come more lawsuits. This is a cancer not easily banished.
Here's where my head is, Callie. As I was reading your comment, my finger hit something on the screen that momentarily blocked out Substack. I thought the closing words of your comment were "our lives." Then the screen came back and I saw it said "our votes." There's a lot of truth in what I thought I'd read, but truth, too, in your actual words. I'm praying for the latter.
What an article. After reading who was probably on TFG's enemies list, it is clear that he wants to jail or execute most of the people in the U.S. This dumb a$$ doesn't realize there won't be anyone left to vote for him or wait on him hand and foot. It's Martin Niemöller's epic statement writ large and in real time.
Think about this… Remember when Dick Cheney accidentally shot his friend while hunting? Imagine that had been Donald Trump in Cheney’s friend’s shoes… I know pretty warped, but the last nine years have been traumatic.
Not warped at all. We all think like that. Throughout history, it's these warped single leaders that take control, and when they die, the carnage goes with them. I've so much hate for that man, and I'm baffled by the followers.
I am worn down. Yesterday walking through Narita airport I overheard a young, white male explaining to his "brown" girlfriend why Kamala is dumb, and that she slept her way to the top. Later that evening at a pub here in California, an unknown couple started talking to us about nothing in particular. Then Joe Biden's name miraculously came up, negatively, I might add. By the time another unknown couple, in the same pub, said matter-of-factually, that there "was no way they would take a poisonous vaccine", I had had it with my silence. I said loud and clear "I believe in science and I'm sure glad that in the 50's my parents took me to get the polio vaccine" and we split. I am so tired of these blithering idiots.
True, it is dumbfounding how soaked in lies so many are. I’ve been blaming Rupert and the Fox for many years. Their slow drumbeat of industrial scale propagandist lies for profit have brought us to this.
You can add the conservative American branch of the Catholic Church and the Evangelical churches. They also have been spreading this misinformation. It's horrifying watching conservative friends believing it. They here it daily on Fox and reinforced on Sunday on church.
Goes back 2014. Tha garbage that has been propagated by Putin has taken over the hearts and souls of so many people. Where is the CIA and NSA on this stuff?
I’m a nurse, and the amount of stupid within the MAGA movement is just jaw-dropping. Anti-vaxxer RFK, Jr. to be appointed to Public Health is only one line item in a very long list of stupid ideas and actions on display.
Science denialism is just a variation on the psychotic denial of objective reality that has infected the minds of the MAGA cult. There is a whiff of collective, and doubtless of personal as well, death wish in Trump and among his mindless minions. The stronger odor of Jonestown writ large is wafting over America.
IMO, the vaccine thing is purely a Tragedy of the Commons issue. Folks who don't take it rely on the people who do (and take whatever tiny risk accompanies it) to protect THEM, and they can not take the vaccine but reap the benefits. I have had this discussion before on the Covid vaccine, for example. They say THEY don't need it and THEY will take THEIR chances. I said ok for you, but what about everyone else? What about you, with no mask and full exposure, transmitting it to thousands of people in a chain, and some of them die? What about them? And that's when they expose themselves. They don't give a crap about anyone else. QED.
He’s out on parole, so why is he able to provoke his mob to act out his violent fantasies? This guy is so off the rails…it’s mind boggling that he is the nominee from a once great party.
I agree. What Trump said inflames both sides and presents an immediate threat of violence. This is NOT FREE SPEECH!!!!! It is crying out "fire" in a crowded theatre. We HAVE TO SHUT THIS MOVEMENT DOWN!!!! NOW!!!
What the hell is wrong with our justice system that this adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, and con man is allowed to go about this country spreading his demented lies and ugly threats at will?
I think Tucker Carlson is slipping into insanity. In addition to this article, there's the maniachal, evil villain laugh, the speech he made at Turning Point, and I just saw this morning that he claims he was awakened 18 months ago in bed by a demon mauling that left scas (for which he hasn't yet shown the evidence). You put one sundowning, malignant narcissistic grandpa and an insane man together, and you get firing squads for their political "enemies".
Tucker is just aligning himself with the evangelical right wing with the demon stunt. He's getting religion so they will take him seriously. I fully expect to see a video very soon of him being prayed over. It's gonna be a miracle!
Tuesday is America’s “Break Glass Moment.” We need, not a marginal win, but an epic blue win to smack fascist GOP back hard, once and for all. Trumpler has been marinating his fact-absent rubes and lemmings in, “They cheated if they win,” mentality. Stunning, though true, like a 6 year old playing a board game. This is who he is, but who are we? In 2012, he declared Romney was cheated by Obama (Mitt ran from him), Cruz cheated him when he won 2016 Iowa caucuses (in a scant few weeks, Cruz crawled to him), was oiling up his suck-ups and knuckleheads in 2016, 2020 and, now again, with, “If I lose, they are cheating,” outlook. These people are fucking stupid or fascists. This movie, a replay of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany’s 1930’s. Same exact story but, of course, 80 years later, epically more dangerous.
They are not being duped. They want this. They believe in this. But after the consequences, you won't find anyone admitting their role in it. They'll talk about it like spontaneous combustion. I hope I'm still around to call the bullshit. Probably not.
You could not have captured a more salient and rebarbative truth about Donald Trump, Steve, namely, that his accelerating mental illness of psychopathy features a cruelty that pumps his poisoned blood through a heart of darkness. There are deep psychological reasons for the misbegotten person he turned out to be that emanate from his truncated and damaged childhood, as his clinical psychologist niece Mary Trump excavates here on her Substack: “The End of Empathy” (https://www.marytrump.org?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web)
But explanation is not justification. Trump could and should have sought professional psychiatric care decades ago, yet there is no evidence of him having done so. The bottom line is that cruelty is Trump’s primary, overcompensating defense mechanism for never having received the parental love and ‘mirroring’ indispensable to a young child’s development of a capacity for human empathy. As his kindred psychological defenses collapse through a phenomenon psychiatrists call ‘decompensation’, the cruelty appears to be intensifying as a rear-guard measure to forestall ultimate psychological breakdown. Americans need to be warned with flashing red lights of just how his threat to kill Liz Cheney is a metaphorical harbinger of killing thousands, if not millions, and why returning this uncontrolled psychopath to power is existentially perilous for us and the rest of humanity and its civilization.
Wonderful comment. The things is, malignant narcissists, like Trump, don't know that they're ill. Because of their sadism, they actually get pleasure from inflicting pain upon others. I grew up with this, unfortunately, so I know these patterns all too well. My dad could be so unbelievably cruel, and yet I never saw him suffer for his sins, right up until the day he died. It is a profoundly perplexing conundrum, how these people are so deeply loved in their communities, yet behind closed doors can inflict damage so deep that it's literally impossible to put into words.
In the case of Trump, look at what he has done to his children. Don Jr is clearly a rabid addict, and when I see Trump with Tiffany, his loathing of her is so apparent that I find myself looking away when I see the pain in her eyes. It looks like Ivanka may have done okay and who knows about the other sons, but people like Trump sow pain and destruction wherever they go. It's taken decades of therapy for me to bring myself up to zero and live somewhat of a normal life in my remaining years. That's what makes this Trump spectacle all the more tragic for me personally.
Mary Ann, your personal experience of malignant narcissism is extremely poignant and doubtless much appreciated for enlightening us here and beyond, I am deeply sorry for the pain you have suffered but grateful for your narrative and the warning it portends for America and the world should this deeply psychologically disturbed miscreant wield power once more. May a Kamala victory further help to salve the remnants of those personal wounds.
I believe he would have had 9 stand to volunteer to shoot her. It is sad, disgusting, shocking, but where we are right now. And any media reading this it lays at your feet. You didn’t have the character, the strength, the dignity, to call all of this out years ago. Don’t wonder the reason why the media is not trusted, you are the reason.
I think there would have been more. They know that trumpf would pardon anything they did, and they would like to make their statement clear--if we don't like you, we can just eliminate you.
Donald is a coward. Liz Cheney has more integrity and honor in her pinky than Donald has in his whole body. Bravery is a quality Donald Trump knows nothing about. He doesn't understand why certain people stand tall and go to war and face the brutality of the battlefield. Donald was given a chance to honor his citizenship and got a case of bone spurs that kept him from fulfilling his duty, however those bone spurs never kept him from the golf course or tennis courts. There is no honor in bone spurs or in Donald J Trump. He should keep his mouth shut and keep Liz Cheney's name out of his mouth. Liz Cheney is an honorable person and a great patriot, Period.
"The cruelty is the point. An enduring facet of human nature is that when evil manifests itself the first instinct always seems to be denial."
What exactly is eating Trump voters? Seeing-is-believing unless you're on the Trump train. In that case believing-is-hearing anything lying liars tell you to believe.
I've come to understand that an awful lot of the perceived economic anxiety is psychosomatic, brought on by the disingenuous doctors of right-wing propaganda prescribing fear and hate. Underneath the skin of all the MAGA chest puffing fake machismo men are a bunch of scared little bunnies.
I agree 100% Steve! I was criticized yesterday on Substack for calling demented Trump a narcissistic psychopath! I DO NOT KNOW WHAT EVIDENCE ANY RATIONAL AMERICAN NEEDS TO DETERMINE THAT TRUMP IS INSANE AND NOT FIT FOR ANY OFFICE LET ALONE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!!
Unfortunately, three of my siblings are in the MAGA camp, or at least are voting for Trump. The other three of us, and our partners, are vehemently opposed to him, and voted Harris. We live in completely opposite realities. I hope for the best (a Harris win!) but am preparing for the worst (a Civil War).
President Biden has the power under the US Constitution to declare martial law and put down any terrorism initiated by the MAGA crowd! The National Guard and Armed Forces will put down any insurrection and the leaders of the insurrection will be arrested!
I’m not sure about Biden. He is a pacifist at heart when it comes to defending America against trump; he hasn’t demonstrated in the strongest terms how he would act if the moron looses this election, save for calling him out with the oft repeated phrase: “it’s unamerican”. He’s left Garland to make his own decisions about pursuing trump and that’s how you got stuck with trump as the Repugnican running for the highest office in the land.
CaroleAnn, the president isn't supposed to get involved with what the DOJ is doing. I think you might have been listening, by accident of course, a bit too much to Trump. It is he that wants to weaponize the DOJ by getting involved in their business. And #2, It's smart and strategic for Biden not to be discussing publicly what specifically he would do regarding either a Trump win or loss. And finally, I am actually quite shocked that 10 readers here have liked your comment. It's made me scratch my head. What do we have here, some deep down MAGA's at some level they don't even realize of themselves?
Mary, your response leads me to surmise that you don’t suffer fools gladly.
Biden & Garland have been pathetically weak...its as if D has neutered them.
Hopefully. 🤞🤞🤞
Last night, I attended a screening of a film, showing the 1/6 Insurrection, made in connection with the UVA Center for Politics. In attendance were Officers Grennell and Hodges, both who testified at the Congressional hearings chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson. Reliving that day brought tears to many of us in the audience. I spoke to Officer Grennell after the film and the pain that I saw in his eyes will probably never go away. Nor will it for me. We are all on our last nerve as Election Day approaches.
The title of the film is “The Thin Blue Line” and it will be streaming on PBS.
Sharon, I would love to see it! Please tell me when and what time.
January 6th, to me is like 9/11, we should NEVER forget either day! To remind myself of the horrors of 9/11, I watch the programs about that day, every year! And, every year, it brings back the feeling I had on that day, and the days that followed. I do the same on November 22, when JKK was assassinated. I also do the same for January 6th-I never want to forget what Trump put us through! If we don't remember, the horror of those days, they will be forgotten!
If I had children, I would have them view those days too-if not, they might repeat the nightmares that we went through! It is sad that our educational system has watered down our history! Do our children, grandchildren, etc., know what went on during the civil rights period? Do they know how many women lost their lives for the right to vote? So many Americans lost their lives to get the Constitutional right to vote! And they might be taken away from all of us, if Trump wins! Do they know how many lives were lost before Roe/Wade was passed? (They , unfortunately are beginning to see that repeat itself!) Our children have been sheltered from the truth that is our history! Now, they might have to live in an America that will be foreign to us all!
Go to WETA.org on your phone . It is streaming there. Full title: Defenders of Democracy: The Thin Blue Line.
Thank you!
Thank you.
They want to shoot Liz Cheney? That tough woman from Wyoming who is undoubtedly pretty good with guns? Trump is beyond disgusting. Trumplicans have descended to crazy depths and this treason needs to be stopped now. We’ll soon find out what kind of country we are- a great country where we pull together in times of danger or another ignorant and destructive power, past its prime.
They are all out of control and are not going to stop until we stop them with our votes.
I want to agree with you but I fear, even a Harris/Walz victory will not put a stake into the heart of Maga…….i feel such a sense of dread.
Concur, Jay. The Senators, Members, states’ legislators & “ordinary” citizens hear all this and just as one came to DC Bec of a lie about a pizza restaurant; they rallied post 2020 election, 1/6, in Michigan, most recently in NC to “hunt down FEMA workers, they are likely to heed the calls. Michael Flynn told them to go to Scranton to rally outside the statehouse. I hope Liz Cheney has greater security. Then will come more lawsuits. This is a cancer not easily banished.
I know. I hate that we’re going through this again. But I feel optimism overall. Take care …
Here's where my head is, Callie. As I was reading your comment, my finger hit something on the screen that momentarily blocked out Substack. I thought the closing words of your comment were "our lives." Then the screen came back and I saw it said "our votes." There's a lot of truth in what I thought I'd read, but truth, too, in your actual words. I'm praying for the latter.
Interesting.. Me too. 🙏🙏🙏
For an extensive, yet not complete list, of those Trump would consign to the same firing squad as Liz Cheney, or worse, click:https://www.axios.com/2024/11/01/trumps-enemies-within-list
What an article. After reading who was probably on TFG's enemies list, it is clear that he wants to jail or execute most of the people in the U.S. This dumb a$$ doesn't realize there won't be anyone left to vote for him or wait on him hand and foot. It's Martin Niemöller's epic statement writ large and in real time.
We do not have to be one country...
Think about this… Remember when Dick Cheney accidentally shot his friend while hunting? Imagine that had been Donald Trump in Cheney’s friend’s shoes… I know pretty warped, but the last nine years have been traumatic.
Not warped at all. We all think like that. Throughout history, it's these warped single leaders that take control, and when they die, the carnage goes with them. I've so much hate for that man, and I'm baffled by the followers.
I am worn down. Yesterday walking through Narita airport I overheard a young, white male explaining to his "brown" girlfriend why Kamala is dumb, and that she slept her way to the top. Later that evening at a pub here in California, an unknown couple started talking to us about nothing in particular. Then Joe Biden's name miraculously came up, negatively, I might add. By the time another unknown couple, in the same pub, said matter-of-factually, that there "was no way they would take a poisonous vaccine", I had had it with my silence. I said loud and clear "I believe in science and I'm sure glad that in the 50's my parents took me to get the polio vaccine" and we split. I am so tired of these blithering idiots.
True, it is dumbfounding how soaked in lies so many are. I’ve been blaming Rupert and the Fox for many years. Their slow drumbeat of industrial scale propagandist lies for profit have brought us to this.
Humans, they’re stupid and evil, mostly…
You can add the conservative American branch of the Catholic Church and the Evangelical churches. They also have been spreading this misinformation. It's horrifying watching conservative friends believing it. They here it daily on Fox and reinforced on Sunday on church.
Found this article about Putin moving in on Evangelical movement https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/how-russia-became-a-leader-of-the-worldwide-christian-right-214755/
Goes back 2014. Tha garbage that has been propagated by Putin has taken over the hearts and souls of so many people. Where is the CIA and NSA on this stuff?
Oops, auto"mis"corrected me: They hear it daily....
I’m a nurse, and the amount of stupid within the MAGA movement is just jaw-dropping. Anti-vaxxer RFK, Jr. to be appointed to Public Health is only one line item in a very long list of stupid ideas and actions on display.
Science denialism is just a variation on the psychotic denial of objective reality that has infected the minds of the MAGA cult. There is a whiff of collective, and doubtless of personal as well, death wish in Trump and among his mindless minions. The stronger odor of Jonestown writ large is wafting over America.
IMO, the vaccine thing is purely a Tragedy of the Commons issue. Folks who don't take it rely on the people who do (and take whatever tiny risk accompanies it) to protect THEM, and they can not take the vaccine but reap the benefits. I have had this discussion before on the Covid vaccine, for example. They say THEY don't need it and THEY will take THEIR chances. I said ok for you, but what about everyone else? What about you, with no mask and full exposure, transmitting it to thousands of people in a chain, and some of them die? What about them? And that's when they expose themselves. They don't give a crap about anyone else. QED.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
Yes, a.k.a. Herd immunity. It benefits them, but they benefit no one else.
He’s out on parole, so why is he able to provoke his mob to act out his violent fantasies? This guy is so off the rails…it’s mind boggling that he is the nominee from a once great party.
I agree. What Trump said inflames both sides and presents an immediate threat of violence. This is NOT FREE SPEECH!!!!! It is crying out "fire" in a crowded theatre. We HAVE TO SHUT THIS MOVEMENT DOWN!!!! NOW!!!
What the hell is wrong with our justice system that this adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, and con man is allowed to go about this country spreading his demented lies and ugly threats at will?
100% agree…
Where is DOJ?
Helen, the local judicial authorities are looking into pressing charges against him for those comments.
Best to vote first then let the prosecution rain down like a ‘water storm’ you know or you should dear leader told us.
We need to march to get the doj to do it's job
You are right. We need to get as fired about this as the 60's and 70's Vietnam war protesters were.
Right you are, Anthony, speaking as one of them.
As a man, I am grateful for Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney protecting me. I am trying in these final days to protect them back.
I think Tucker Carlson is slipping into insanity. In addition to this article, there's the maniachal, evil villain laugh, the speech he made at Turning Point, and I just saw this morning that he claims he was awakened 18 months ago in bed by a demon mauling that left scas (for which he hasn't yet shown the evidence). You put one sundowning, malignant narcissistic grandpa and an insane man together, and you get firing squads for their political "enemies".
Tucker Carlson IS an incubus…..probably mauled himself.
Makes sense.
😂
Tucker is just aligning himself with the evangelical right wing with the demon stunt. He's getting religion so they will take him seriously. I fully expect to see a video very soon of him being prayed over. It's gonna be a miracle!
And yet the republicans are silent, MAGA, Make America Garbage Again.
Who are we?
Tuesday is America’s “Break Glass Moment.” We need, not a marginal win, but an epic blue win to smack fascist GOP back hard, once and for all. Trumpler has been marinating his fact-absent rubes and lemmings in, “They cheated if they win,” mentality. Stunning, though true, like a 6 year old playing a board game. This is who he is, but who are we? In 2012, he declared Romney was cheated by Obama (Mitt ran from him), Cruz cheated him when he won 2016 Iowa caucuses (in a scant few weeks, Cruz crawled to him), was oiling up his suck-ups and knuckleheads in 2016, 2020 and, now again, with, “If I lose, they are cheating,” outlook. These people are fucking stupid or fascists. This movie, a replay of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany’s 1930’s. Same exact story but, of course, 80 years later, epically more dangerous.
Who are we?
They are not being duped. They want this. They believe in this. But after the consequences, you won't find anyone admitting their role in it. They'll talk about it like spontaneous combustion. I hope I'm still around to call the bullshit. Probably not.
I hope I'm around to SCREAM the bullshit. I hear you.
You could not have captured a more salient and rebarbative truth about Donald Trump, Steve, namely, that his accelerating mental illness of psychopathy features a cruelty that pumps his poisoned blood through a heart of darkness. There are deep psychological reasons for the misbegotten person he turned out to be that emanate from his truncated and damaged childhood, as his clinical psychologist niece Mary Trump excavates here on her Substack: “The End of Empathy” (https://www.marytrump.org?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web)
But explanation is not justification. Trump could and should have sought professional psychiatric care decades ago, yet there is no evidence of him having done so. The bottom line is that cruelty is Trump’s primary, overcompensating defense mechanism for never having received the parental love and ‘mirroring’ indispensable to a young child’s development of a capacity for human empathy. As his kindred psychological defenses collapse through a phenomenon psychiatrists call ‘decompensation’, the cruelty appears to be intensifying as a rear-guard measure to forestall ultimate psychological breakdown. Americans need to be warned with flashing red lights of just how his threat to kill Liz Cheney is a metaphorical harbinger of killing thousands, if not millions, and why returning this uncontrolled psychopath to power is existentially perilous for us and the rest of humanity and its civilization.
So well put.
Wonderful comment. The things is, malignant narcissists, like Trump, don't know that they're ill. Because of their sadism, they actually get pleasure from inflicting pain upon others. I grew up with this, unfortunately, so I know these patterns all too well. My dad could be so unbelievably cruel, and yet I never saw him suffer for his sins, right up until the day he died. It is a profoundly perplexing conundrum, how these people are so deeply loved in their communities, yet behind closed doors can inflict damage so deep that it's literally impossible to put into words.
In the case of Trump, look at what he has done to his children. Don Jr is clearly a rabid addict, and when I see Trump with Tiffany, his loathing of her is so apparent that I find myself looking away when I see the pain in her eyes. It looks like Ivanka may have done okay and who knows about the other sons, but people like Trump sow pain and destruction wherever they go. It's taken decades of therapy for me to bring myself up to zero and live somewhat of a normal life in my remaining years. That's what makes this Trump spectacle all the more tragic for me personally.
Mary Ann, your personal experience of malignant narcissism is extremely poignant and doubtless much appreciated for enlightening us here and beyond, I am deeply sorry for the pain you have suffered but grateful for your narrative and the warning it portends for America and the world should this deeply psychologically disturbed miscreant wield power once more. May a Kamala victory further help to salve the remnants of those personal wounds.
I believe he would have had 9 stand to volunteer to shoot her. It is sad, disgusting, shocking, but where we are right now. And any media reading this it lays at your feet. You didn’t have the character, the strength, the dignity, to call all of this out years ago. Don’t wonder the reason why the media is not trusted, you are the reason.
I think there would have been more. They know that trumpf would pardon anything they did, and they would like to make their statement clear--if we don't like you, we can just eliminate you.
That array of stripes behind the two of them, cropped of their 50 American stars, needs to be rotated vertically, and turned into prison bars.
Wholly disqualifying. I know so, but what will we the people say? Like you have written, it's November. KAMALA HARRIS for President!
Donald is a coward. Liz Cheney has more integrity and honor in her pinky than Donald has in his whole body. Bravery is a quality Donald Trump knows nothing about. He doesn't understand why certain people stand tall and go to war and face the brutality of the battlefield. Donald was given a chance to honor his citizenship and got a case of bone spurs that kept him from fulfilling his duty, however those bone spurs never kept him from the golf course or tennis courts. There is no honor in bone spurs or in Donald J Trump. He should keep his mouth shut and keep Liz Cheney's name out of his mouth. Liz Cheney is an honorable person and a great patriot, Period.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
"The cruelty is the point. An enduring facet of human nature is that when evil manifests itself the first instinct always seems to be denial."
What exactly is eating Trump voters? Seeing-is-believing unless you're on the Trump train. In that case believing-is-hearing anything lying liars tell you to believe.
I've come to understand that an awful lot of the perceived economic anxiety is psychosomatic, brought on by the disingenuous doctors of right-wing propaganda prescribing fear and hate. Underneath the skin of all the MAGA chest puffing fake machismo men are a bunch of scared little bunnies.
Agreed. It is misplaced fear and anxiety.
I agree.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Harris/Walz......