Well, the panic isn’t terribly surprising. Why it took so long to be noticed by lawmakers is beyond us. We’ve been watching him go downhill practically from Day 1 of his second term. Are they just now figuring it out? Apparently, they know the phrase “willfully blind” and acted on it. This would be funny if it weren’t such a cause for concern. But we discussed that earlier tonight. This is about congressional lawmakers losing their minds, not us. My regards to AlterNet:
Congressional lawmakers and Trump’s own former lawyer are panicking over how wracked President Donald Trump’s mind appears to be with illness.
“I don’t know how anyone can see what he posts or watch him in any meeting and think that he’s fit for office,” said one lawmaker speaking to reporters.
Another lawmaker said: “We have strategic ambiguity. But [Trump] is just … He’s confrontational, inconsistent, erratic,” said another congressman, who then fluttered his tongue in a demonstration of Trump’s lucidity.
“I don’t trust that man to be able to cognitively make a complete sentence, let alone negotiate with China,” said another.
“I think he’s seriously ill,” said still another. “I think Trump needs medical attention, and there needs to be an intervention.”
Well, it’s lovely that they think so, but they need a way to *do* something. The problem is that his ‘cabinet’ is all slobbering sycophants, so that leaves them right out. The ‘cabinet’ is also willfully blind. They work with him every day. How can they *not* see this? And to sound repetitive, he has the nuclear codes. That’s big. No one seems to be worried about that part. There isn’t any way to grab these people, shake them, and yank off the rose-colored glasses.
Back in the studio, MS NOW host Ari Melber interviewed Trump’s former attorney Ty Cobb, who offered little good news to deliver on that front.
“In 2017, Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist and president of the World Mental Health Coalition, a well-respected psychological professional trained at Harvard and Yale and highly regarded at the national institute of mental health, and 26 of her colleagues and other respected psychiatrists around the world, posted a lengthy article commenting on Trump’s malignant narcissism, and the appearance of early frontal lobe dementia,” said Cobb, who served Trump’s White House in his first term.
“The symptoms have only gotten worse from there. They are remarkable at this stage of the game, and the wake-sleep reversal is a very common symptom highlighted by mental health professionals when discussing Trump’s cognitive decline.”
“The reality is that what he does late at night causes him to sleep during the day. And that is a very well-known symptom of cognitive decline, frontal lobe dementia, and Alzheimer’s, and because he has no impulse control left, he is guided solely by his malignant narcissism now,” Cobb continued.
Now, doesn’t that give you warm fuzzy feelings of confidence? …. Me, either. The country is in trouble. Trump is so erratic that there’s no way to be sure what he’s doing from one minute to the next. I don’t think I’m crying wolf, folks. We’re stuck in a dystopian novel with an insane child running America. He just got back from China. How big a mess did he make of that? Is he going to continue the war with Iran? So, what the hell do we do now?
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