The President of the United States is stark

[malaise]

raving mad.

[safeinOhio]

1. I know he sure is

Nucking futs...

[Xipe Totec]

2. Willie Stark? nt

[demmiblue]

3. No kidding!

I just read a live tweet thread of his speech last night. Oh boy!

Link to tweet

[Lucinda]

9. Thanks for that!

[malaise]

11. But rational folks knew this ages ago

Last night should be the last straw for fence sitters

[Lucinda]

4. Why, yes. Yes he is.

[gademocrat7]

5. Lunatic beyond redemption.

[BlueJac]

6. K&R 10000 times

[Soxfan58]

7. I prefer

F**king nuts!

[vercetti2021]

8. Narcissistic, psychotic, nazi loving, racist bastard. nt

[Silver Gaia]

17. Yes. All of that. And sadistic, too.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

10. Here's the truly frightening part...

There are a ton of people who will not believe you. They think he’s the smartest president we have ever had.

I feel sorry for those suckers.

[exboyfil]

28. My wife just encountered one

of them yesterday. She served as our church's administrative assistant for 30 years. Trump is the best President we have had since Reagan according to her.

[Wounded Bear]

31. Most diehard Repubs don't know how low that bar is...

[haele]

42. To her, he probably is. His "speechifying" gives her the feels of a simple, small, and safe wrold...

...that is just for her and her friends and acquaintances. Like a neighborhood, except the neighborhood "Go To" guy is not Mr. Rodgers, but Chuck Norris protecting her from nebulous, unknown boogie men or monsters who are, as Rod Sterling put it "Due to arrive on Maple Street". And she clings to it because she is afraid of a larger, diverse world where she isn't mommy and daddy's special girl and all the polite help just "leaves" at the end of the day so there's no messy conflict about the need for a pay raise to raise their families on that Daddy "Lord of the Manor" doesn't want to part with because he wants a bigger fifth wheel for vacations. She doesn't want to share the world and certainly not take an active part as her responsibility for living in it. She just wants to know her place in the world and be comfortable in it.

Most Trumpeteers are like that. They don't like a big, messy, confusing world that isn't predictable with a clear "goal"; they want the comforting lie as they get fattened up and led off to eventual slaughter well before their time.

Haele

[Vinca]

12. He really is. It's all like a bad novel made into a screenplay.

What is wrong with the GOP? Are they cowering in an effort to save their behinds in November? The stature of our country shrinks every day this is allowed to continue. It's horrifying.

[Atticus]

13. And underneath the insanity---HE'S EVIL! nt

[malaise]

14. Evil on steroids

In every sphere of his life

[Silver Gaia]

20. Yes. Yes. Yes.

He is an abomination.

[MFM008]

15. Whew

I thought you were going to say stark....naked....

[malaise]

19. Choking with laughter

Ewwwwwwwww!

[Silver Gaia]

16. Yes, he Is.

I don't know how much more we can take of his abuse.

He needs to GO. Now.

[spanone]

18. True.

[VOX]

21. Numerous behavioral healthcare professionals would agree with you.

That he is deeply disturbed and getting worse, and that running a country is NOT right for him. Or us.

[area51]

45. Here's a link to

the Duty to Warn group.

"Duty To Warn is an association of mental health professionals and other concerned citizens who advocate Trump’s removal under the 25th Amendment on the grounds that he is psychologically unfit."

[VOX]

46. Somehow this escaped my hypervigilant eye...

Thanks for the link. “Duty to Warn”...boy, are we ever in uncharted waters!

[BSdetect]

22. Democracy is crumbling around us. Camps for kids who are stolen?

[lark]

23. Yes, he is demented and weak.

However, he was a fascist criminal racist even before he was old and demented, so it's not age or disability, it's mostly he's a fascist, but worse because he's also ignorant & criminal and fraudulent as well as old fat ugly & demented.

[dhill926]

24. he's also simply a fucking asshole...

mean and vindictive....

[ck4829]

25. Indeed

[mahatmakanejeeves]

26. NOW you tell me. NT

[C_U_L8R]

27. He fancies himself to be Tony Stark

Yet the emperor has no supersuit.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

29. It's hard NOT to come to that conclusion.

It's not a Democratic viewpoint/thing either...it's obvious to the entire world. He's causing chaos while he and his family and friends raid the treasury and destroy our institutions. They want to rebuild everything to their specifications to benefit a class of people already get the best treatment as people in this country.

[Grammy23]

30. He has groomed his base like a child predator

grooms his mark. He has worked for several years teaching them the code words that he uses to pump them up at rallies. Remember how he used to encourage them to repeat key phrases at his rallies? (Lock her up!) He is very skilled as the Pied Piper and they are going to follow him right to the hinges of hell.

We are in very dangerous territory. He has a sizable portion of the population under his spell. Another portion of his party don’t necessarily “like” him but they like what he is doing. They think that somehow it will all work in their favor, even though common sense would tell you otherwise. They WANT to believe that he is doing good things in trade, world relations and immigration. Many of them will find that their jobs are on the line. Those who live in communities where BMW has plants or Mercedes employs many local workers could be in for a big kick in the ass if these companies take punitive measures because of the things he said or did.

I am not sure what can be done. I feel somewhat hopeless about what we can do to push back and be effective. I think being as loud and shrill as tRump is not the way to go. But silence is not acceptable either. Coming here to rant and rave is not the solution. It makes us feel better but we need active measures. I hope that as we talk among ourselves we will come together with real solutions to how we can get the message out to those captured in tRump’s spell. The base may be beyond help, but there have to be others in the Republucan party who still have enough free thought to understand they are being duped.

[malaise]

32. Very well stated

Thanks.

[Grammy23]

34. I was sitting here listening to MSNBC and they showed him

at his rally in SC last night. It sounded like all the other rallies he has had. He uses certain key phrases and chants. He indoctrinates his base and then the rallies are shown on tv so that even people who can’t attend get exposed to his methods. It is brainwashing 101.

Sadly, his base is caught up in it and do not know they are being manipulated. They won’t get it until they get pinched by the blowback brought on by the madman. Even then, they may not understand who has done this to them. So it is very frustrating. We need some experts in brainwashing and indoctrination to weigh in and offer specific things that can be done to counter the techniques tRump is using. Our armchair psychology is okay while we’re chatting here but we need some expert advise to be effective! I am betting we have fellow DUers who have the knowledge and expertise to guide us.

[malaise]

36. Someone suggested that they are watching a show

But it's like laughing while your own house is on fire. This is beyond madness on way too many levels.

[Grammy23]

39. For sure, tRump's techniques are compared to entertainment or a

Reality Show. Observing the people at his rallies, it is clear they ARE being entertained. It is as if reality is suspended for them. They act as if tRump has come down to their world and they are on the same level as he is. In other circumstances, tRump would not be caught dead with these people. But for a short while, he acts like he is one of them. And they are under his spell. A sad thing for certain.

[Snellius]

33. We feel the dilemma. All waiting for Nov. If he wins, watch out.

This has been a pivotal week. At least intellectually. Emperor Loser has lost his clothes. But if Repubs continue to hold all the reins of power, with him in the saddle, what happened this week will just be a minor skirmish.

[HipChick]

35. It's almost 2 months now...

since I turned on my TeeVee to watch any news...I won't even ask what he's done now...

[malaise]

37. LOL - that rally last night

He's beyond mad.

[Snellius]

38. It's a mental disease called Roseanne Barr syndrome

Prognosis is usually prolonged hysterical weeping followed by long ranting about "I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

[Golden Raisin]

40. And the complicit Republican Congress aids and abets a fascist madman.

[malaise]

41. Yes. Yes. Yes. n/t

[Blue Owl]

43. Donnie Starko

n/t

[Orsino]

44. Fortunately for the GOP, he's also really, really lazy...

...and will sign whatever Miller puts in front of him.

[madinmaryland]

47. Thanks for pointing out the obvious. Thankfully he is not stark naked.