Wouldn’t that be lovely? I don’t know where they found him, but he’s been asked and then told us about Trump’s intention to make himself the only one with power. Well, he doesn’t have much left in government. SCOTUS is afraid of him. Congress has Republican majority members who bow and kiss Trump’s disgusting arse. He’s still working on law firms, schools, and mainstream media. The people with the widest reach are the ones Trump tries to beat down. Some have caved and are now in a worse position. Others have not. From Raw Story:
With multiple experts agreeing that Donald Trump is using every page out of the authoritarian playbook to seize more and more power, a professor who specializes in the rise and rule of dictators suggested there is every reason to believe he may not live long enough to finish the job. In a column for The Bulwark, Lee Morgenbesser of the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University in Australia, claimed the 79-year-old American president, who increasingly shows signs of mental and physical decline, wavers back and forth from fully being aware of what he’s doing to occasional signs of dementia.
Okay, that might have been a bit long, but the setup was needed. Professor Morgenbesser will tell you why. He says the quiet part out loud, the part that we’ve been screaming about for months, and no one has heard. Here we go!
More to the point, he wrote: “He is alternately a conniving destroyer of Republican institutions or a mentally and emotionally debilitated, increasingly senile wackjob.” “Trump is merely implementing the authoritarian playbook poorly,” he observed., Early in Trump’s first term, Benjamin Wittes dubbed this synthesis ‘malevolence tempered by incompetence.’” Saying Trump lacks the skill of a “top-tier destroyer of democracy,” he claimed his impetuousness is making it harder in his second term to keep a substantial number of people by his side.
Some of the weird things Trump has done are living (ha) proof of his deterioration. How about that episode when he was on top of the White House? Or his obsession with Obama? These are not the actions of a man in his right mind. Or even better proof, all the insane tariffs and continuing to lie about the money they bring in? Or, mercy, his ongoing beefs with Canada and Mexico that are completely irrational, and he insists he’s right when he’s blatantly wrong?
All of us have a list that is as long as we are tall of the crazy things he’s done. Oh yea, he’s completely ruined the reputation and abilities of the US. We aren’t a leader in the world. We’re a side note. I don’t like telling people I live in America. The first thing they tend to say is “oh, right, you have that crazy Trump as your President. What is wrong with him?” and I don’t have an answer. No, I’m embarrassed, and I try to deflect the question so I don’t have to answer.
“Time may not be on Trump’s side,” he suggested. “He is already 79, showing signs of deteriorating health, and liable to be under considerable stress for the foreseeable future. And he does not seem mentally robust, which is too bad for him and too bad for the United States.” He then warned, “While elected autocrats can numb citizens to their actions by generating economic growth, stoking nationalist fervor, and providing political stability, mad kings wreck just about everything they touch.”
Wreck. Yes indeed. I don’t know how much of this we’ll be able to fix. I hope we’ll be able to. But we’ll never be the leader of the world again. That just rips me apart. We may have a seat at the table, but we won’t be deferred to. We’ll have our say and that’s it. Just another country in the world. I can’t find the words to describe what we are now, but it’s bad. There are so many things we’ve lost. Welcome to America. Now get gone.
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Hey you fat, child killer…ashes to ashes…dust to dust mutherfucker. No exceptions. Pauper…prince…President…doesn’t matter buttwipe. Tic phucking toc…judgement awaits.