Morford: When the president is a madman

[niyad]

Trump points to which White House visitors he'd like to have arrested and/or killed for not taking a flattering enough picture of him


Your neo-Nazi , destroy-the-state adviser, looking healthy and clear-eyed and not at all clogged to the brim with demons and cheap bourbon


The president, watching Fox News at 3AM in a paranoid delirium, just before tweeting about bad hombres and sluts.

He is inept and incompetent. He is petulant and hugely disorganized, sloppy by multiple definitions, his harried, frustrated staff ever in a state of confusion, a mad scramble for footing that’s never to be found. He is temperamental, raging, a truly unstable old man-child with terrible impulse control, tweeting, replete with tyyppos and ALL CAPS, one moment about how former president Obama “wire tapped” his hotel, and then, apparently bored with that extremely serious but entirely unfounded criminal accusation, choosing, less than an hour later, to blast Arnold Schwarzenegger’s low ratings on Celebrity Apprentice, the President of the United States whipsawing between whiny emotional sneer and nutball right-wing conspiracy theory like a glue-sniffing ‘tween.

There is no accounting for it all, except to suggest mental instability, a savage derangement wrought of too much power swallowed too quickly into a bloated orange fleshball completely unable and incapable of handing it, no moral compass, nothing to prevent the President of the United States from drunk-texting America in a spazzy, demon-haunted pre-dawn fury (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/07/youll-never-guess-who-tweeted-something-false-that-he-saw-on-tv/?utm_term=.9f25e2a169b3). Is he bipolar? Schizophrenic? He never released his medical records, so it’s impossible to say just how many demons afflict him at any given moment. He is most certainly enormously paranoid, given his panicked outrage at the recusal of Jeff “Forrest Gump” Sessions and his tweets about wiretaps; he doubtlessly knows the Feds are closing in on him, is surely aware that multiple intelligence agencies around the world are gathering all kinds of rock-solid intel on his vast, treasonous corruptions with the Russians (among multiple others), and it’s only the lead-booted, totalitarian power-suck of the GOP coupled to and various madcap distractions – immigration bans! Guantanamo Bay! Gutting your health care! Campaign rallies in Florida! – that keep it all from collapsing in on itself. For the moment.

One thing is clear: Trump hates this job. He hates the press corps, the various protocols, the lack of freedom, the “acting presidential” thing, the people. He even hates the White House itself, spending fully 1/3rd of his short time as president at his eminently tacky golf resort in Florida. He holds a special place of hatred for democracy itself: for the courts, federal agencies, regulations, investigations, congress. Witness: Trump (at Bannon’s behest) has deliberately left hundreds of vital positions unfilled across multiple federal agencies, countless vital junior-level diplomatic and administrative roles essential to a functioning country, from the State Department to HUD to the Treasury, all in a calculated attempt to destabilize the basic workings of government and create a power vacuum that Bannon will fill with flying monkeys and moral cyanide and, apparently, copious amounts of vodka.

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It’s all just madness, really, barely controlled, intensely shoddy and deeply weird, to a degree that the media can barely keep up (though they’re getting better), Europe is preparing for the worst (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/world/europe/european-union-nuclear-weapons.html?_r=0), and the despicable Republican party lets him inflict whatever horror he wants lest it restrict their ability to gut health care, cut taxes for the rich and cram through their shockingly poisonous, unpopular agenda. Meanwhile, the resistance is working, in fits and pockets, to push back, as the Democrats are gaining voice and finding their spines as fast as possible – which isn’t nearly fast enough, given how we are living in one of the most volatile, dangerous moments in history – and we haven’t even had a serious crisis yet, one in which Trump & Bannon will surely leverage to bash all criticism, invoke a police state and, who knows what else, shut down the press, create a state-controlled media, arrest and beat all protesters? It’s all more than possible. Don’t believe it? You’re not paying attention.

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http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2017/03/07/when-the-president-is-a-madman/#photo-788497

[smirkymonkey]

1. K&R

[Blue_Tires]

2. Tried to warn folks, but emails and private speeches and Clinton Foundation or something

I don't even remember anymore...

[niyad]

3. many, many of us tried. fell on deaf, unwilling ears.

[ehrnst]

11. Yep. She's a total witch, and we shouldn't be paying attention to "scary Russian talk."

[sheshe2]

4. And the winning picture is...

Donnie at 3AM...played by a GIRL! Donnie won't like that at all.

[sheshe2]

5. Bwahahahahahahaha

And the first pic... Hills portrait hanging on the wall behind the con She is heads above that POS.

[lunatica]

6. I noticed that too

He was probably clueless.

[sheshe2]

7. That's donnie....lunatica.

Clueless.

[niyad]

8. had not noticed that. tooo funny!!

[sheshe2]

9. Looks like she is laughing as well

[niyad]

10. I had to point this out to the drumpfy supporters on morford's site. cannot wait to

see what disgusting things they will say.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

12. I have a question for you all.

"We haven’t even had a serious crisis yet, one in which Trump & Bannon will surely leverage to bash all criticism, invoke a police state and, who knows what else, shut down the press, create a state-controlled media, arrest and beat all protesters? It’s all more than possible. Don’t believe it? You’re not paying attention."

If that happens, how many here are ready to get out of their comfort zones and participate in a massive nonviolent nationwide general strike to shut the country down?

[ehrnst]

13. Those who can afford to miss even a day of work, and still pay for food, shelter & medical

care for themselves and their family.

For some it's not about "comfort zones," it's about way more than that.

Privilege takes many forms.... remember that before you post something to that effect again here.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

15. So a police state is OK as long as you have a job.

[ehrnst]

16. Really? Your world is that binary? If someone doesn't participate in your strike

when they can't afford to lose a day of wages, then they think that "a police state is OK."

Some 'revolution' there. Check your privilege.

Here's some recommended reading on why most protests don't pan out into actual movements or "revolutions" - hint: Manifesto, you're the enemy if you don't conform with us thinking.


https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2016/06/10/the-science-behind-bernie-sanders-failed-movement-explained/#684492679c80

[niyad]

17. you are apparently being deliberately obtuse and insulting.

[ehrnst]

19. +1000. (nt)

[lindysalsagal]

14. I've been thinking the very same thing. It's like a re-vote. But I doubt it would move the gop

They'll say it's against Obama or some other stupid thing. They're so gerrymandered, they have no seats to lose.

[niyad]

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