@FluteMagician I have to renew my passport within 17 months. If I travel with a post-it covering his image saying “warning, child rapist below” if I’ll get thrown in prison like they do in communist countries?
@BlackKnight10k And unlike Trumps weaponized investigations that keep getting rejected by grand juries and judges, the Democrat’s investigations will have evidence and proof and consequences.
@amandacarpenter And unlike Trumps weaponized investigations that keep getting rejected by grand juries and judges, the Democrat’s investigations will have evidence and proof and consequences.
Listen to what he says about his Haitian employees: "I wish I had 30 more. They come to work every day, they don't have a drug problem, they will stay at their machine, they'll hit their numbers, they're here to work. That's a stark difference from what we're used to."
There was a rule when I was in Trump's first term: if a memo had a staple in it, it was too long for him to read.
Life-or-death decisions were cut to one page. Or a half-page. Or less. Bold fonts. BIG pictures.
When you’re wondering why everything’s a mess, remember that.
The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
One component of Malignant Narcissism is SADISM. People don’t fathom how deeply Trump is driven by it. In normal people, those types of impulses are offset by caring emotion. Trump has none. He is a Black Hole. He enjoys chaos and actually takes glee from others' suffering.
He defames women he's raped. He pokes fun at others' disabilities. He loves peddling fear. He enjoys inducing outrage. He makes threats - multiple times a day, every single day. He sees enemies in ALL conflict and disagreement, and he sees it as part of a zero-sum game - where he has to win AND they have to lose - and he enjoys both, which is a sadistic posture.
Of course, he didn't care when he botched Covid and it led to massive unnecessary deaths. Of course, he didn't care when he bombed 170 Iranian schoolchildren and rationalized it as an acceptable casualty of war. And of course, he JUST YESETRDAY cancelled plans to sign a bipartisan housing bill to benefit Americans, preferring to dangle the humanitarian benefit for additional partisan gain.
BECAUSE -
He doesn't care about humanitarian consequence.
He literally doesn't feel empathy, shame, or contrition.
He sees his lack of empathy as negotiating advantage.
AND - let's NEVER forget - he didn't just foment an insurrection, he savored it - even more so as it grew violent.
He is The Joker.
So many layers of symbolism:
• The narcissist's mirror, fouled by his own hand.
• The sterile sealant that caused nature to run wild.
• The public taking home chunks, as a symbol.
• A fence to protect public space from... people.
There's a fable in here somewhere.
Trump is suing ABC for $15 million because he didn’t like the way they reported on his reflecting pool. Why doesn’t he sue the media for suggesting he had anything to do with the rape and molestation of children in Florida? The answer is obvious.