Janet Dement

Grandmother. Retired Military. Political Moderate. Just trying to understand why there is so much hate.

[Janet Dement @AlwaysCivil58]

And Jim Jordan

[Jerry_Saiyan @JerryWillResist]

This

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Americans are overwhelmingly glad the border is secure and that violent people or those who refuse to work are deported. But, the vast majority of Americans want a more Christian policy towards refugees who have no home to return to and towards those who are working hard and are good neighbors. And, with a shrinking workforce, it makes economic sense too.
https://t.co/VJCl1B1azO

[Janet Dement @AlwaysCivil58]

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[DasherPaine @DasherPaine]

If propaganda arms of the Republican Party posing as legitimate news sources were not allowed in our society Trump would be at 8% approval

[Janet Dement @AlwaysCivil58]

No one in the MAGA universe will ever know Trump said this. I would love to be at Fox “News” daily meetings for Bret Baier’s supposedly “fair and balanced” show when they decide which stories to cover. Daily lying by omission.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

President Trump moments ago, again: "I saw this early on and I've seen proof of it - where they have a vaccination (that) looks like the size of a bottle of soda poured into a little child's body."

In reality, childhood vaccine doses are a small fraction of a teaspoon.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

20 U.S. generals have resigned after rejecting Trump’s orders.

America is falling apart.

[Janet Dement @AlwaysCivil58]

Some of these people are in less touch with reality than MAGA Republicans. Extremists on both sides are an existential threat to the survival of the country. I would trust my teenage grandson to hold public office more than loons like her.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

DSA National Political Committee member Frances Gill says they want to get rid of police and prisons

Host: If my daughter were assaulted and raped, what agency would investigate the crime, find the attacker, and where would that person be taken?

Gill: I really want to avoid getting caught up in these hypotheticals

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

I wasn't the first to say it, but I've repeated it often - every projection Trump makes is a confession.
Psychological projection was first described by Freud, wherein individuals transfer their own unacceptable impulses, desires, or emotions onto someone else. Carl Jung expanded this idea with the concept of a shadow self - when we project, we cast a shadow onto others, seeing in them what we refuse to acknowledge in ourselves. It's not a leap to see this in Trump every f*cking day. He projects constantly.
But the biggest psychological projection of the Trump years is going on right now, and boy does it play to the ignorance of his base. This, of course, is the characterization of Democrats as communists. The Trump base, however, puts feeling before fact, and dopamine rushes before reasoned thought. They hear "Communist" and they hear "bad" so the attribution of Dems as Communist plays. They put no effort into understanding what the communist ideology actually preaches. Because it's a lot easier to feel than to think.
In Communism, the government wields power; it exerts control over the economy; it buys or takes stakes in businesses and industries; the government is weaponized to silence adversarial dissent; and the government glorifies its leadership. You want to see Communism in America? Look at Trumpism.
Where every projection is a confession.

[Janet Dement @AlwaysCivil58]

How many more people have to die or become seriously ill before unqualified and unhinged Kennedy is fired.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

7 people have died after being infected with Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria that contaminates water and seafood.

The Trump administration cut mandatory public health reporting of Vibrio vulnificus last year.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

The fact that a cop in Texas can use 83,000 cameras across the country to track down a woman for having an abortion should fucking terrify you.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy since the events of 2021.

Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and our nation has decided to make them unsafe. And for what?

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

Oh my God.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Over 400 former US intelligence and national security officials warn that Trump is following the authoritarian playbook: concentrating power, dismantling democratic safeguards and cultivating a personality cult.

One of them said “We are nowhere near the worst of where this is going.”

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

[Senator Mazie Hirono @maziehirono]

That money could be going to making your health care cheaper btw.

[Janet Dement @AlwaysCivil58]

I agree

[Paul Gundlach @PaulSGundlach]

@Mollyploofkins It is amazing the influence of state media on our country. I honestly don't believe the world would be in nearly as bad shape as it is today if Rupert Murdoch had never been born. Sigh.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Fun fact: Abdul El-Sayed has a doctorate in medicine and public health. He’s more qualified to do RFK Jr.’s job than RFK Jr. is.

[Janet Dement @AlwaysCivil58]

He had way more energy at 95 than I have at 68

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Jimmy Carter, 95, needed 14 stitches after falling at home. He showed up the following day to assist in the construction of homes for Habitat for Humanity despite his injury.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Ten weeks ago, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill reported that during early stages of indirect talks to end the war, Tehran’s negotiating team added two "senior psychologists" to help craft their messaging to deal with Trump.
Scahill said they were experts in the fields of cognitive impairment and anti-social behavior, and they were added to manage what an official described as "the American President’s psychopathic behavior pattern.”
Iran is a bad actor, and they're not geniuses. But they've understood and thwarted Trump on every turn.
And absolutely every single foreign leader - ally, adversary, and in-between - can do the same.
Because Trump is transparently flawed, needy and desperate, in decline, and owned by his disorders.
Understand his disorders, and you can outsmart him.