Human history is rife with these willful brats coming to power and discombobulating civilization. It should be a prerequisite of high office that an aspirant have to have served capably at lower levels of government. Notice that not Trump nor any of his top officials ever served at all, let alone effectively, at any elective post.
serving previously as a prerequisite is an excellent idea. it's not foolproof, but it's the best suggestion I've seen for how to weed out the crazies going forward. sadly, dems need to take 60% in both houses to make any difference, and with martial law on the near horizon, I don't see that happening.
When people were hired under civil service, some jobs required testing and all required background checks by the FBI. Some of the tests were tough, E.G. The Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) historically had a pass rate around 30-40%.
In some cases, used the MMPI, lie detectors, etc.
I'd bet that Trump had IQ, SAT and an AFQT in his background, if not personality tests.
I'm sure we hired a few people who were nutsy koo koo, but after hire, they were continually evaluated in most positions. ..
A brain is a terrible thing to waste, but sometimes it is just a terrible thing!
I have been beating this drum for the last 9 years. Many psychiatric professionals have been all over this; an online source is "Shrinking Trump".
Reading The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson is an entertaining way to help people understand this. It's based on the test that Dr. Robert Hare devised after studying prison criminals. Its official title is: Psychopathy Checklist—revised (PCL-R). The bottom line is that psychopaths are a certain percentage of society. Without a doubt, you have dealt with them.
Trump is a convicted criminal. The Trump Syndicate is filled with people just like him. Let's plan on convicting them too.
Each one teach one as Thom said. I'd say his book is a good place to start. Protect yourself and those you love. See you in the streets.
In most of the adult mental listings, reference is made to the longitude from childhood.
When Trump was a kid, the state of the art was much lower. Most of the close coterie, including his family are probably co dependents.
I'd bet that some of them had the same mental profile as kids.
We've been watching his niece, Mary Trump, who is a psychologist. wrote in her new book “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” that she believes her uncle suffers from multiple personality disorders.
“I have no problem calling Donald a narcissist — he meets all nine criteria. But the label gets us only so far,” she wrote. “A case could be made that he also meets the criteria for antisocial personality disorder, which in its most severe forms is generally considered sociopathy but can also refer to chronic criminality, arrogance, and disregard for the rights of others…. Donald may also meet some of the criteria for dependent personality disorder, the hallmarks of which include an inability to make decisions or take responsibility, discomfort with being alone, and going to excessive lengths to obtain support from others.”
Trump has a “long-undiagnosed learning disability that for decades interfered with his ability to process information.”
I bet that his condition is aggravated and exacerbated by like minded yes men and women.
I was disappointed that when he acted out in court in his two New York cases, the judges did not enquire whether he should have undergone a psychiatric evaluation.
There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to effect meaningful change. Not only are we dealing with a president whose traits come straight out of the pages of the DSM-5, we have a majority Supreme Court that seems quite content to rubber stamp any of Trump's acts, no matter how blatantly unconstitutional they might be. Case in point: The Court has just ruled to curb the lower courts' powers to block Trump's fiats, in particular in regard to birthright citizenship (Constitution be damned). Couple a compliant court with a narcissist with god-like pretensions and, unless the people immediately act decisively, we are, to paraphrase El Presidente, fucked.
Quite honestly, might we suggest that the most extreme faction of the Supreme Court also checks those boxes? Consider the 6-3 opinion allowing Trump to violate due process and continue to ship people to despicable facilities in countries where they have no history, no ties, etc. What the heck is that if not targeted cruelty?
"During his first presidency, Trump had largely surrounded himself with normal adults who succeeded in moderating his behavior and restraining his worst impulses."
Not to nitpick, but I do not think that is quite accurate. Trump's generals and some of his cabinet members in his first term were within what could be considered a "normal" range, but he primarily found the most obnoxious, ruthless, and unprincipled people he could find. The Republican Party is filled with those kinds of people, and he got them all to do his bidding from day one.
The real problem is that there is an inordinate proportion of the American public, in the media, and in power in corporations who love to see people being abused and exploited and whose image of strength and greatness is meanspirited and ugly. Watching Trump fire people on his ludicrous reality TV show for several seasons was a great hit. This is what defines MAGA. Bread and circuses. Put the people getting mauled by the lions on display. Bravo. They only protest when it reaches them personally. Our society is based on cutthroat competition and bottom-line thinking. Our schools are the perfect institutions for perpetuating that mind-set.
I agree with you Robert. Every time I see Mattis, John F Kelley, Lt Gen H R McMaster on MSNBC I could barf.
Everyone with two neurons to rub together knew who and what Trump was, yet those officers, high ranking officers, self seeking asshots, wanting bragging points and social prestige, joined his administration thus giving him credence.
Even Gen Milley, he, as did Pence, only stopped at stepping on the Constitution, otherwise they enabled and supported Trump and his agenda.
I vacillate between despair and hopelessness with moments when I see glimmers of possibility. I did not mean to infer that a majority of Americans are prone to buy into the totally pathological views and attitudes of Trump and the Republicans when the rubber meets the road. Nor did I mean to suggest that Thom was wrong in drawing a clear distinction between the people in the first Trump administration and now. Bondi is terrifying along with Hegseth and most of the others. However, one can hope that people have enjoyed a certain level of sanity and democratic security enough in the last seventy years or so to finally rise up and put the weirdos in their proper place despite their recent ascendency. We are on the razor's edge.
how many people warned us before the election of his 2nd time around, that this was going to happen ?....no more serious people around to prevent this disgusting, immoral, racist, nazi, fascist from breaking the law and placing suckups & sycophants as total yes men and women to do his bidding without question.....it's not like we were not warned, it's just many didn't want to listen...now this "TICK" has burrowed itself deep into our American fabric, poisoning the blood of our democracy and eating away our constitution.....soooo, what are we going to do about it now ? .....there is no more time for debate, it's time for action.....the congress is of no help, the courts are too slow and are being kneecapped by tRUMP and the POS' on the SCOTUS...the military is all but under the control of tRUMP....so it's up to the rest of us....NO KINGS PROTESTS need to increase 10 fold....join a resistance group, make a sign, let our collective voices be heard....if I can drag my ass out to a protest in my local area, so can the rest of us....the orange, fat, bloated, gasbag of a "TICK" needs to be "Surgically removed" ....
Spot on. Too bad republicans have rolled over and ceded their power to him, at the expense of their own power. Too bad SCOTUS is powering the authoritarian takeover. I cannot believe they allowed him to send migrants to third countries AFTER trump violated two court orders to get in front of them. they gave a green light to him disregarding court orders, and now it's gonna escalate rapidly and exponentially. can you say Constitutional Crisis?
The saddest thing to me is knowing how many occupants of this country—I refuse to call them Americans—support and likely envy the felon in chief. A recent Pew study totally demoralized me, indicating that if all those who could have voted but did not had gone to the polls, his margin of victory would have been LARGER. If so, I have little hope for this country, even with Mamdani’s shock win in the NYC Democratic primary. See https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition.
The morbidly rich have won. The odds of reclaiming our country seem very slim. And the Sinister Six of SCOTUS are helping to worsen them with each cruel, sadistic, unworthy and anti-American decision they render. If anyone has a practical notion of how to change course that doesn’t involve a lot of violence (which would be self-defeating to me), I’d love to see it. And don’t say working to support anti-MAGA candidates with all you have. Millions of us are doing that. Next year will be the “final exam” if you will. I am not optimistic about whether we will even have elections, whether they will be fair if we do, or whether the results, if unfavorable to MAGA and the felon in chief will be allowed to stand. We are that far gone.
I shared your intense pessimism...until Lohran Mamdani emerged on the scene. NEVER would I have predicted a self-proclaimed socialist to win ANYTHING. So there's always hope....
Two things: NYC is one of the most liberal places in the country. And Mamdani won the primary. Watch the big money and lying news machine come at him hard in the general election. He needs to win there to keep the flame alive. And I say that as a fairly severe Islamophobe but also a loather of Netanyahu. We anti-MAGAts need strong, YOUNG, dynamic leaders like Mamdani if we are to have ant hope of galvanizing a reversal of what is happening. Or of even slowing it down. The fascists are winning day after day now. How long before it is game over? Soon, without a lot more Mamdanis.
Being a mental health professional myself, I particularly applaud this effort to educate the lay public. It also supports the importance of early support/intervention in child development and learning.
Yes! Americans have not been well-served by the Goldwater Rule. That is like an outdated “playing fields of Eton” approach conceived in a time when the kind of damaged, soulless, morally bankrupt man like Donald Trump could have risen as far as he has. I am so grateful for Bandy Lee and the Duty To Warn professionals who have had the courage to speak out.
They can tell, though? They just want to use him as cover for their behind-the-scenes machinations. I’ve said before he’s like a dancing bear his handlers put on stage as cover/distractions. Unfortunately he’s not de-fanged so he can still do so much damage, probably beyond what even they foresaw. It’s like they tied themselves to a loose cannon that eventually they won’t be able to control.
Maybe he is not the only sick person in America. What about a Congress full of sick people that will not impeach him? Maybe his sociopathy and our sociopathy have something to do with materialism/consumerism. Maybe Capitalism has created this sociopathic culture. Perhaps we need to pull our head out of our ass and take a hard look at what WE HAVE CREATED. Trump is just you or me on steroids. We define ourselves with the material we surround ourselves with. We are not abstract thinkers; we are material thinkers. The way out of this trap won't come with the politicians, economists, or armies; it will come with the images created by the poets, painters, and storytellers.
We chase the material and are saved by the abstract.
"the beginning and the end in each other's arms" ~Stanley Kunitz
Your book pre ordered. I ordered to support you. I don't much read books anymore since my operation, and you are preaching to the choir (me) I am quite familiar with why Trump is the way he is, and also with psychopathy. You are correct the secret of success in business is not hard work and giving the customer what they want, but psychopathy.
Sam Walton was not a pyschopath, he had a plan and an idea, to help poor people and buy and sell American, but he needed money to expand and to get it he went public, an IPO, and the company he founded became a mega corporation, with a board of directors that hired a ruthless psychopath as CEO and so it remains.
Show me the CEO of a large corporation and I will show you a Psychopath.
I am half inclined to include large non profits as well. The March of Dimes, founded by Eleanor Roosevelt to find a cure for polio andto help victims, never did any real research to find a cure. The Salk Vaccine was discovered by the had work of Jonas Salk, and no financed by the MOD.
But by 1985, when it was obvious that there were no more victims, instead of closing it's doors, the MOD went into group think, and reinvented itself, their mission is to end preventable maternal health risks and deaths, preventable preterm birth and infant death, and close the health equity gap.
All of the well paying staff positions, and social clout is safe for there is no cure.
In America we fete, we glorify psychopaths. Ayn Rand especially, she chose a murdering psychopath (William Edward Hickman) as the hero and role model of her novels.
Trump? He has twice struck the "motherlode" of "Personality Disorders" within his cult.
He can never be made anywhere "near" sane. Nor can he be made to approach civilization's behavioral standards born of positive character attributes, e.g., Service, Patriotism, Honesty, Trustworthiness, Intelligence, Courage, etc, etc, etc.
This putz from Queens, NY, is a true loose cannon. And a loaded one, at that. Yes. He will ignite. He will continue to damage our ship of state.
What has to happen is a mass psycho-analysis [or analysis of psychos] and subsequent deconstruction of his cult's collectively defective psyches.
They need desperately to be reprogrammed. We need a truthful, sane version of Fox et al. 1500 Leftwing radio stations.
That is, before he thoroughly Koreshes / Jim Joneses the lot of them any further. They need help. Esp the 49% of Hispanics. 53% White females, and 60% of White males who voted once, twice, thrice!!! for this Orange, Bimbo.
This scum-bag may just Pied Piper these "citizens" over the rim and into an active volcano of hostile American reaction, if he is not very careful.
How did that work out for the flesh peddlers/owners of the Confederacy, during the war they started? And spent 100 years White-washing.
There are those of US within the "US" that have had long standing experiences different from "others and WE have known that Amerika has been broken since its inception. Smitty did not "break" it, he is but one of its fragments on the floor.
Human history is rife with these willful brats coming to power and discombobulating civilization. It should be a prerequisite of high office that an aspirant have to have served capably at lower levels of government. Notice that not Trump nor any of his top officials ever served at all, let alone effectively, at any elective post.
serving previously as a prerequisite is an excellent idea. it's not foolproof, but it's the best suggestion I've seen for how to weed out the crazies going forward. sadly, dems need to take 60% in both houses to make any difference, and with martial law on the near horizon, I don't see that happening.
When people were hired under civil service, some jobs required testing and all required background checks by the FBI. Some of the tests were tough, E.G. The Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) historically had a pass rate around 30-40%.
In some cases, used the MMPI, lie detectors, etc.
I'd bet that Trump had IQ, SAT and an AFQT in his background, if not personality tests.
I'm sure we hired a few people who were nutsy koo koo, but after hire, they were continually evaluated in most positions. ..
Have ordered your book. Mary Trump, in her book " To Much and Never Enough" tells of his meaness as a child.
“Too much and Never Enough” — also applies to Trumps’ ultra-wealthy Cabinet.
have read it....it's truly eye opening.
A brain is a terrible thing to waste, but sometimes it is just a terrible thing!
I have been beating this drum for the last 9 years. Many psychiatric professionals have been all over this; an online source is "Shrinking Trump".
Reading The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson is an entertaining way to help people understand this. It's based on the test that Dr. Robert Hare devised after studying prison criminals. Its official title is: Psychopathy Checklist—revised (PCL-R). The bottom line is that psychopaths are a certain percentage of society. Without a doubt, you have dealt with them.
Trump is a convicted criminal. The Trump Syndicate is filled with people just like him. Let's plan on convicting them too.
Each one teach one as Thom said. I'd say his book is a good place to start. Protect yourself and those you love. See you in the streets.
Thanks Thom. I heard disability cases for 10 years. I also worked on chilhood diability and worked on the Social Security Listings of Impairments. https://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/ChildhoodListings.htm
These days most kids are closely evaluated, courtesy of IDEA. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, https://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/ChildhoodListings.htm
In most of the adult mental listings, reference is made to the longitude from childhood.
When Trump was a kid, the state of the art was much lower. Most of the close coterie, including his family are probably co dependents.
I'd bet that some of them had the same mental profile as kids.
We've been watching his niece, Mary Trump, who is a psychologist. wrote in her new book “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” that she believes her uncle suffers from multiple personality disorders.
“I have no problem calling Donald a narcissist — he meets all nine criteria. But the label gets us only so far,” she wrote. “A case could be made that he also meets the criteria for antisocial personality disorder, which in its most severe forms is generally considered sociopathy but can also refer to chronic criminality, arrogance, and disregard for the rights of others…. Donald may also meet some of the criteria for dependent personality disorder, the hallmarks of which include an inability to make decisions or take responsibility, discomfort with being alone, and going to excessive lengths to obtain support from others.”
Trump has a “long-undiagnosed learning disability that for decades interfered with his ability to process information.”
I bet that his condition is aggravated and exacerbated by like minded yes men and women.
I was disappointed that when he acted out in court in his two New York cases, the judges did not enquire whether he should have undergone a psychiatric evaluation.
Yes. It is leaving a wake of destruction.
There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to effect meaningful change. Not only are we dealing with a president whose traits come straight out of the pages of the DSM-5, we have a majority Supreme Court that seems quite content to rubber stamp any of Trump's acts, no matter how blatantly unconstitutional they might be. Case in point: The Court has just ruled to curb the lower courts' powers to block Trump's fiats, in particular in regard to birthright citizenship (Constitution be damned). Couple a compliant court with a narcissist with god-like pretensions and, unless the people immediately act decisively, we are, to paraphrase El Presidente, fucked.
Quite honestly, might we suggest that the most extreme faction of the Supreme Court also checks those boxes? Consider the 6-3 opinion allowing Trump to violate due process and continue to ship people to despicable facilities in countries where they have no history, no ties, etc. What the heck is that if not targeted cruelty?
Yep, the Six were. the part of the Klown Car that I was thinking about.
Today we should venerate Elizabeth McDonough, the Senate parliamentarian, who deserves recognition and respect for her work this week.
See Jennifer Rubin in the Contririan. https://contrarian.substack.com/p/undaunted-10b?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3719374&post_id=166913365&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=zc69i&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
"During his first presidency, Trump had largely surrounded himself with normal adults who succeeded in moderating his behavior and restraining his worst impulses."
Not to nitpick, but I do not think that is quite accurate. Trump's generals and some of his cabinet members in his first term were within what could be considered a "normal" range, but he primarily found the most obnoxious, ruthless, and unprincipled people he could find. The Republican Party is filled with those kinds of people, and he got them all to do his bidding from day one.
The real problem is that there is an inordinate proportion of the American public, in the media, and in power in corporations who love to see people being abused and exploited and whose image of strength and greatness is meanspirited and ugly. Watching Trump fire people on his ludicrous reality TV show for several seasons was a great hit. This is what defines MAGA. Bread and circuses. Put the people getting mauled by the lions on display. Bravo. They only protest when it reaches them personally. Our society is based on cutthroat competition and bottom-line thinking. Our schools are the perfect institutions for perpetuating that mind-set.
I agree with you Robert. Every time I see Mattis, John F Kelley, Lt Gen H R McMaster on MSNBC I could barf.
Everyone with two neurons to rub together knew who and what Trump was, yet those officers, high ranking officers, self seeking asshots, wanting bragging points and social prestige, joined his administration thus giving him credence.
Even Gen Milley, he, as did Pence, only stopped at stepping on the Constitution, otherwise they enabled and supported Trump and his agenda.
That is a very sad picture you've painted. The worst part is that it is true....
I vacillate between despair and hopelessness with moments when I see glimmers of possibility. I did not mean to infer that a majority of Americans are prone to buy into the totally pathological views and attitudes of Trump and the Republicans when the rubber meets the road. Nor did I mean to suggest that Thom was wrong in drawing a clear distinction between the people in the first Trump administration and now. Bondi is terrifying along with Hegseth and most of the others. However, one can hope that people have enjoyed a certain level of sanity and democratic security enough in the last seventy years or so to finally rise up and put the weirdos in their proper place despite their recent ascendency. We are on the razor's edge.
how many people warned us before the election of his 2nd time around, that this was going to happen ?....no more serious people around to prevent this disgusting, immoral, racist, nazi, fascist from breaking the law and placing suckups & sycophants as total yes men and women to do his bidding without question.....it's not like we were not warned, it's just many didn't want to listen...now this "TICK" has burrowed itself deep into our American fabric, poisoning the blood of our democracy and eating away our constitution.....soooo, what are we going to do about it now ? .....there is no more time for debate, it's time for action.....the congress is of no help, the courts are too slow and are being kneecapped by tRUMP and the POS' on the SCOTUS...the military is all but under the control of tRUMP....so it's up to the rest of us....NO KINGS PROTESTS need to increase 10 fold....join a resistance group, make a sign, let our collective voices be heard....if I can drag my ass out to a protest in my local area, so can the rest of us....the orange, fat, bloated, gasbag of a "TICK" needs to be "Surgically removed" ....
Spot on. Too bad republicans have rolled over and ceded their power to him, at the expense of their own power. Too bad SCOTUS is powering the authoritarian takeover. I cannot believe they allowed him to send migrants to third countries AFTER trump violated two court orders to get in front of them. they gave a green light to him disregarding court orders, and now it's gonna escalate rapidly and exponentially. can you say Constitutional Crisis?
The saddest thing to me is knowing how many occupants of this country—I refuse to call them Americans—support and likely envy the felon in chief. A recent Pew study totally demoralized me, indicating that if all those who could have voted but did not had gone to the polls, his margin of victory would have been LARGER. If so, I have little hope for this country, even with Mamdani’s shock win in the NYC Democratic primary. See https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition.
The morbidly rich have won. The odds of reclaiming our country seem very slim. And the Sinister Six of SCOTUS are helping to worsen them with each cruel, sadistic, unworthy and anti-American decision they render. If anyone has a practical notion of how to change course that doesn’t involve a lot of violence (which would be self-defeating to me), I’d love to see it. And don’t say working to support anti-MAGA candidates with all you have. Millions of us are doing that. Next year will be the “final exam” if you will. I am not optimistic about whether we will even have elections, whether they will be fair if we do, or whether the results, if unfavorable to MAGA and the felon in chief will be allowed to stand. We are that far gone.
I shared your intense pessimism...until Lohran Mamdani emerged on the scene. NEVER would I have predicted a self-proclaimed socialist to win ANYTHING. So there's always hope....
Two things: NYC is one of the most liberal places in the country. And Mamdani won the primary. Watch the big money and lying news machine come at him hard in the general election. He needs to win there to keep the flame alive. And I say that as a fairly severe Islamophobe but also a loather of Netanyahu. We anti-MAGAts need strong, YOUNG, dynamic leaders like Mamdani if we are to have ant hope of galvanizing a reversal of what is happening. Or of even slowing it down. The fascists are winning day after day now. How long before it is game over? Soon, without a lot more Mamdanis.
I hope you are not right. But I am worried that you could be.
Being a mental health professional myself, I particularly applaud this effort to educate the lay public. It also supports the importance of early support/intervention in child development and learning.
Yes! Americans have not been well-served by the Goldwater Rule. That is like an outdated “playing fields of Eton” approach conceived in a time when the kind of damaged, soulless, morally bankrupt man like Donald Trump could have risen as far as he has. I am so grateful for Bandy Lee and the Duty To Warn professionals who have had the courage to speak out.
As # 45 several members of his cabinet said he was too incompetent to be functional.
Appartently everyone except MSM can tell he's bonkers.
They can tell, though? They just want to use him as cover for their behind-the-scenes machinations. I’ve said before he’s like a dancing bear his handlers put on stage as cover/distractions. Unfortunately he’s not de-fanged so he can still do so much damage, probably beyond what even they foresaw. It’s like they tied themselves to a loose cannon that eventually they won’t be able to control.
Maybe he is not the only sick person in America. What about a Congress full of sick people that will not impeach him? Maybe his sociopathy and our sociopathy have something to do with materialism/consumerism. Maybe Capitalism has created this sociopathic culture. Perhaps we need to pull our head out of our ass and take a hard look at what WE HAVE CREATED. Trump is just you or me on steroids. We define ourselves with the material we surround ourselves with. We are not abstract thinkers; we are material thinkers. The way out of this trap won't come with the politicians, economists, or armies; it will come with the images created by the poets, painters, and storytellers.
We chase the material and are saved by the abstract.
"the beginning and the end in each other's arms" ~Stanley Kunitz
Your book pre ordered. I ordered to support you. I don't much read books anymore since my operation, and you are preaching to the choir (me) I am quite familiar with why Trump is the way he is, and also with psychopathy. You are correct the secret of success in business is not hard work and giving the customer what they want, but psychopathy.
Sam Walton was not a pyschopath, he had a plan and an idea, to help poor people and buy and sell American, but he needed money to expand and to get it he went public, an IPO, and the company he founded became a mega corporation, with a board of directors that hired a ruthless psychopath as CEO and so it remains.
Show me the CEO of a large corporation and I will show you a Psychopath.
I am half inclined to include large non profits as well. The March of Dimes, founded by Eleanor Roosevelt to find a cure for polio andto help victims, never did any real research to find a cure. The Salk Vaccine was discovered by the had work of Jonas Salk, and no financed by the MOD.
But by 1985, when it was obvious that there were no more victims, instead of closing it's doors, the MOD went into group think, and reinvented itself, their mission is to end preventable maternal health risks and deaths, preventable preterm birth and infant death, and close the health equity gap.
All of the well paying staff positions, and social clout is safe for there is no cure.
In America we fete, we glorify psychopaths. Ayn Rand especially, she chose a murdering psychopath (William Edward Hickman) as the hero and role model of her novels.
Trump? He has twice struck the "motherlode" of "Personality Disorders" within his cult.
He can never be made anywhere "near" sane. Nor can he be made to approach civilization's behavioral standards born of positive character attributes, e.g., Service, Patriotism, Honesty, Trustworthiness, Intelligence, Courage, etc, etc, etc.
This putz from Queens, NY, is a true loose cannon. And a loaded one, at that. Yes. He will ignite. He will continue to damage our ship of state.
What has to happen is a mass psycho-analysis [or analysis of psychos] and subsequent deconstruction of his cult's collectively defective psyches.
They need desperately to be reprogrammed. We need a truthful, sane version of Fox et al. 1500 Leftwing radio stations.
That is, before he thoroughly Koreshes / Jim Joneses the lot of them any further. They need help. Esp the 49% of Hispanics. 53% White females, and 60% of White males who voted once, twice, thrice!!! for this Orange, Bimbo.
This scum-bag may just Pied Piper these "citizens" over the rim and into an active volcano of hostile American reaction, if he is not very careful.
How did that work out for the flesh peddlers/owners of the Confederacy, during the war they started? And spent 100 years White-washing.
Thom, excellent article. I’ll send this to many I know. Spot on.
There are those of US within the "US" that have had long standing experiences different from "others and WE have known that Amerika has been broken since its inception. Smitty did not "break" it, he is but one of its fragments on the floor.