The interesting thing about Trump is that he shows us where certain people's ego breakpoints are.
By this point, anyone who previously supported Trump, but who has a healthy degree of humility or self-awareness, has realized that they made a mistake. They'll admit it and they'll own it. They may not like Kamala Harris or Democrats or whatever, but they know Trump was the wrong choice.
Those who are still supporting Trump, even after the terrible things he's done, are not well. They are in deep, willful denial of reality. They'd rather lose everything and die than admit they were ever wrong. This is a mental illness. And, given how many seem to be suffering from this affliction, I don't see how this country has a future. We cannot have a community if there isn't any consensus on reality.
The media called Trump’s deployment of Nat’l Guard troops in American streets a, “dangerous step.” His Greenland deal was also called a, “dangerous step.” His banning of CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House? “A dangerous step.”
Stop this! We are no longer taking dangerous steps. The danger is here.
🎯From a friend:
“It Is Time.
I'm 79 years old. I've lived through Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, both Bushes, Clinton, Obama, presidents I agreed with and presidents I fought against at the ballot box. I have never before felt the compelling obligation to say what I'm about to say.
For a long time, my objection to this President was political. I disagreed with his policies, his rhetoric, his priorities, just as any citizen disagrees with a president from the other side. That is not what this is about anymore.
Looking honestly at the evidence in front of us, not one isolated bad day, but a sustained pattern, I've come to a different and more serious conclusion.
This is no longer a case of a President I dislike.
It's a case of a President who is no longer capable of discharging the duties of the office, and who has lost focus on the domestic problems actually facing this country: the economy, healthcare, infrastructure, global stability, the daily concerns of the people who elected him.
Grievance has replaced governance. Loyalty tests have replaced policy.
Incompetence is the norm. Instability has become domestic and foreign strategy.
I want to be clear this isn't just my gut reaction as a layman. Over the past several years, several mental health professionals, many psychiatrists and psychologists with real clinical training, have gone on record publicly raising similar concerns about erratic judgment, grandiosity, and a diminished capacity to separate personal grievance from the responsibilities of the office. I know that field is divided on this, and I know many clinicians rightly object, on ethical grounds, to diagnosing someone they've never personally examined. But when informed professional voices say out loud, consistently, what many ordinary citizens have been quietly thinking and experiencing, that conclusion carries weight.
The damage isn't abstract. Markets flinch at every erratic announcement. Allies who've trusted Washington for eighty years are now hedging their bets. Adversaries have learned that unpredictability from the American President is an opportunity, not a deterrent. An ideological war fought on narcissistic instinct rather than strategy doesn't just disrupt a news cycle; it unravels decades of alliances and stability built through generations of sacrifice.
I don't see any tangible benefits to set against that cost.
This is why I now believe the 25th Amendment needs to be invoked, now. Not as a partisan weapon, not to relitigate an election, but as the constitutional safety valve it was instituted for. I no longer see this as a close call. The cabinet and Congress have a duty to look at the pattern in front of them and act on what it actually shows: an incapacitated President.
I don't say this out of hatred for the man. I say it out of respect for the country I've spent nearly eight decades in, and fear for what more years of this pattern could mean for my grandchildren.
Stability isn't a partisan value. Neither is sanity in the exercise of power. I hope enough people in both parties are willing to say so and act before more damage is done. 🇺🇸”
Is it a coincidence that everything Trump is doing is following the same playbook as Hitler?
1. He’s banning books
2. Targeting the press
3. Defunding the arts
4. Blaming immigrants
5. Turning on our allies
6. Demonizing educators
7. Stoking fear of outsiders
8. Prison camps
This is the "strength" that 77 million Americans wanted to lead the United States.
This is a fat clown in makeup and a diaper that is so old and medically deteriorated that he cannot even stay awake during a ceremony honoring 9/11.
This is a POS.