Your political career was over, @JohnCornyn.
All you had to do was vote “no” on the nomination so that you could retain at least some small claim to integrity and honor.
You couldn’t muster up the moral courage to take even that minor, token step.
“And every four years when the World Cup comes around, we will say that we’d dominate if we had a stronger youth program.”
“And will we develop a stronger youth program?”
“We will not.”
Trump is many things, but first and foremost, he's a grifter. He's been one his entire life, long before he entered politics.
After he squandered his inheritance, his grifts began to fall flat and he failed - over and over - and was bankrupt; he got rescued by The Apprentice and the fictional success and persona that Mark Burnett created.
As he entered politics, he realized - grifter that he is - that he could capitalize on the fictional character from The Apprentice that had built him his following, by further amassing a fearful angry following of people who felt disenfranchised. He learned to turn their deep-seated fears into grievances and told them who to blame for it. He learned he could pose as one of them, even though he's the farthest thing from them.
He became a carnival-style conman, peddling rudimentary and unmistakable frauds to a larger and larger audience of followers - who - quite frankly - disgust him. For years he's peddled his frauds to them, feeding them heaping helpings of bullshit, and for their part, the dopamine rush overpowered reasoned thought; some looked askance at the bullshit he was feeding them, but a good number of them asked for bigger spoons.
But a conman has to remain true to his con, and Trump can no longer muster that as well; he's unable to be true to anything beyond himself, and he now tells people openly that he doesn't care about them.
And a conman has to protect his myth, and Trump's secrets, lies, and frequent humiliations are showing.
And a conman also has to be able to convey a thought coherently, and he is ill and medicated, and puffy and lumpy and he doesn't come off well.
And finally, a conman has to give his marks something to encourage their continued support, and Trump is losing even this ability because he hates everyone, malice seethes inside him, and he hates most of all that he's approaching his final chapter, and he's too preoccupied with power to give a damn for his people - or any people.
This is a malignant narcissist in decline. It behooves us to take this lesson from history: Malignant narcissists ALWAYS get worse. They NEVER want to go down alone.
This grifter, unable to do anything else competently, and too ill to learn anything new, is returning to his core business - grift. The grift is brazen, and it's at a scale never before seen.
It's the corruption - the grift - that will take him down.
Martina Navratilova: "I defected from a totalitarian regime, and like hell am I going to be cowed again, and have to be careful about what I say…Speaking out is the patriotic thing to do. When you see something wrong, don’t be afraid.”
The irony of Republicans controlling all branches of government while
bankrupting the country, starting a war, sending money to fraudulent programs, violating the Constitution, giving corporations immunity...
but arguing that the biggest problem we have is “stolen elections.”
Here’s the deal for those confused: “America 250” is the bipartisan celebration committee. “Freedom 250” is a Trump organization celebrating him masquerading as a celebration of America. The concert was Freedom 250. Hence the cancellations
@JohnCleese LOL, don't worry John, nobody is paying attention to this dumbass. Just look at the number of 'likes' and 're-truths'. Just a senile, crazy of bastard shouting into the void.