"The president of the United States is stark-raving mad. He’s a clear and present danger to America and the world. The American public is beginning to see it.
We’ve got to do whatever we legally can to remove him from office."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #MadKing #MentalInstability #megalomania
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-impeach-the-bastard-for-real
"As a full-fledged narcissist, Trump expects complete subservience — no matter how badly he treats others. He, therefore, must have been shocked when NATO countries did not rush to aid his disastrous war of choice against Iran."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #PopeLeo #MadKing #MentalInstability #megalomania #narcissism #NATO #StraitofHormuz
/2
"More recently, the White House was likely flabbergasted when its effort to strong-arm Pope Leo (!) triggered another Vatican tongue-lashing, which was leaked. Never in the post-World War II era have so many world leaders shown open contempt for a U.S. president."
#Trump #PopeLeo #MadKing #MentalInstability #megalomania #narcissism #NATO #StraitofHormuz
/3
"Trump still seems to believe that negotiations he has as president are basically the same as strong-arming a small business into giving him a better deal on some new curtains for one of his hotels. Preparation, understanding, and patience are for the weak; all he needs is to show is that he’s the dominant one, and his opponent will capitulate. Even when the strategy fails, he learns nothing."
~ Paul Waldman
#Trump #MadKing #megalomania #StraitofHormuz
/4
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-failed-iran-negotiations
"As the philosopher Vlad Vexler has observed, Trump is floating through dispositional states inside very malignant pathologies. There is no strategy to decode. There is no chess game to map."
~ Mike Brock
#Trump #PopeLeo #MadKing #MentalInstability #megalomania #narcissism #NATO #StraitofHormuz
/5
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/he-has-never-been-playing-chess
"There is a man moving from one psychological state to the next, driven by the same neurological machinery as any other organism in the grip of a compulsive disorder — seeking the next hit, escalating when the last one wore off, displaying dominance when the hierarchy feels threatened.
That is all that is happening.
That is all that has ever been happening."
#Trump #PopeLeo #MadKing #MentalInstability #megalomania #narcissism #NATO #StraitofHormuz
/6
"Insulting the Pope — the head of a 1.4 billion-person church, the most morally authoritative American alive, the man who has spent months calling Trump’s war unjust — is not a distraction strategy. It is the next largest available dose. It is what compulsion looks like when the previous doses are wearing off."
#Trump #PopeLeo #MadKing #MentalInstability #megalomania #narcissism #NATO #StraitofHormuz
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"The peace negotiations in Islamabad were a sham—as demonstrated by the fact that Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were at a UFC 'cage match extravaganza' as JD Vance was attempting to end a conflict that threatens the lives of US soldiers and the livelihoods of US citizens."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #JDVance #Iran #war #Islamabad #StraitofHormuz
/8
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-world-turned-upside-down
Dan Froomkin notes that at long last, New York Timess is willing to publish an article noting that many people are questioning Trump's sanity. But what remains to be seen is whether NYT will continue this line of inquiry, or will make this a "one-and-done" story as it has with similar reports in the past.
#Trump #MadKing #MentalInstability #megalomania #narcissism #NewYorkTimes #media
/9
https://criticalread.substack.com/p/new-york-times-finally-reports-on
"He rambles, he repeats himself, he roams from thought to thought — some of them hard to understand, some of them unfinished, some of them factually fantastical. He voices outlandish claims that seem to be made up out of whole cloth. He digresses into bizarre tangents about golf, about sharks, about his own 'beautiful' body."
~ Peter Baker and Dylan Freedman
#Trump #dementia #MentalIllness #MentalIllness #NewYorkTimes
/10
With the passage of time, the 78-year-old former president’s speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past, according to a review of his public appearances over the years.
"He relishes 'a great day in Louisiana' after spending the day in Georgia. He expresses fear that North Korea is 'trying to kill me' when he presumably means Iran. …
He considers himself the master of nearly every subject. ... He claims to have been named 'man of the year' in Michigan, although no such prize exists."
"Let me walk you through the timeline of Trump’s social media posting last night. Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ at 9:49pm. Then Trump Tower on the moon. Then random memes. Then news clips."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #dementia #MentalIllness
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/monday-afternoon-news-updates-blockade
Hi all, Ben here.
"Then, at 12:43am, he posted about the naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. By 2:35am he was posting articles about Biden. By 4:10am he was still going. If this was your relative, you’d immediately encourage them to seek help. But this is the President of the United States."
"This is what it looks like when a man is spiraling out of control and reaching for something—anything—to get well. This is playing on tilt.
In poker, when a player is on tilt he loses the ability to judge between good and bad risks. He’s so desperate that he pushes all-in not because he has the nuts, but because he thinks he has no choice."
~ Jonathan V. Last
"He chases cards, refuses to walk away, and turns what could just be a run of bad luck into full-on bankruptcy.
That’s where Trump is right now. And it is delicious."
David Kurtz entitles his Morning Memo posting at TPM today:
"Trump II Spirals Deeper Into Madness in One Bonkers Weekend."
Then, noting his attack on the pope, Kurtz says,
"We’re still nowhere near the bottom of Trump II’s descent into madness."
#Trump #dementia #MentalIllness
/16
https://open.substack.com/pub/tpmmorningmemo/p/trump-ii-spirals-deeper-into-madness
"It’s hardly the first time Trump has revealed his God complex. ...
But Trump’s malignant narcissism is now utterly out of control. Attacking the Pope. Posting pictures of himself as Jesus. Claiming he won the war in Iran. The man has become delusional, violent, and dangerous."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #MentalIllness #megalomania #narcissism #GodComplex #Iran #Orbán #PopeLeo
/17
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/king-trump-i-versus-pope-leo-xiv
darwin, that is genius.
Can you hashtag it?
I suggest an underscore or dash between the numbers, for clarity.
It is America's immediate need, in 4 characters.
(Also, I have a 14 year old grandson, so it took me a minute to grasp that this was not another nonsense number. Then I got it, and I gasped. Hah, I think I'll test him with it. He's only 14, so I doubt he'll figure it out).
Excellent article.
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Pusher of Pixels
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Darwin Woodka
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Peter Brown
Dieu
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