I was rereading a section of Mary Trump's book last night

[malaise]

The insurrectionist bully was sent to reform school because he bullied everyone he could.
Having destroyed his entire family, several businesses and everything else he touched, he set out to destroy the entire USA. In every instance, it was so that he could be in charge. He is a very sick narcissist who has perfected the art of lying, the use of projection and propaganda.
He knows he should be locked up which is why he has used projection to promote the idea of locking up everyone he fears. From 2016 he spread the myth that if he lost the election would have been stolen. He repeated that with a louder volume in 2020.

He has to be locked up!

[Moostache]

1. I would view him more as a rabid dog at this point...

A fate befitting such an unfortunate animal would not make me very sad in his case either.

[malaise]

2. it wouldn't make me sad either

I just want him completely out of the picture - he has done way too much damage.

[spooky3]

6. I do too. But if he won't leave yet manages to destroy the

chances of the GQP while still here, that outcome is ok with me.

[malaise]

7. Same here

[MerryHolidays]

8. Dear Malaise: Trump is popular with a segment of the electorate for one basic reason

You know what that is, and that is what he is exploiting.

If it wasn't Trump, it would be someone else - diversity is an existential threat to those supporting Trump (and all the other folks that will come along).

This is a long-haul battle.

[malaise]

9. This is a long-haul battle.

THIS
but I still want him gone

[smirkymonkey]

10. I know that most people want to see him serve time for the crimes he has committed,

and though I would like to see that as well, at this point, I really just want him to drop dead.

Seriously, I just want the motherfucker gone from the face of the earth. His presence is toxic whether he is in office or languishing down at Mar-a-Lago.

However, I would like to see his three oldest children in prison and financially ruined. I want the name "Trump" to be just as reviled as the name "Hitler".

[Moostache]

13. Hear, hear!

I have no empathy stores for the offspring of the Orange One...but that extends to Stone, McConnell, McCarthy, that creepy vampire-thing Miller and anyone married into that disgusting clan.

[malaise]

15. Yes! Yes! Yes!

[oldsoftie]

39. I'd rather see him fail in business. Totally fail.

Going to jail just makes him a martyr & victim.
But watching his prized businesses go under would be the ultimate embarrassment

[CrispyQ]

58. I was so hoping the covid would take him out.

I'll bet repub leadership was hoping that too.

[SeattleVet]

12. 'Old Orange', as opposed to 'Old Yeller'?

Yeah, I could go for that!

[Moostache]

14. I do not forecast many tears in that remake...

I never thought the ending of Old Yeller would NOT make me cry, but I might just be in rapturous applause for "Old Orange" remake ending!

[SeattleVet]

40. I can just hear Boebert, Hawley, Gaetz, or Greene now...

"He was my President...I'll do it..."

[ShazzieB]

47. I think I would feel a huge sense of relief if Old Orange were to up and die sometime soon.

Huge, deep, profound relief. I hope it happens before 2024.

[spike jones]

17. Rabid dog from To Kill A Mocking Bird

[DAngelo136]

48. Difference is...

I feel sorry for the dog. It doesn't know that it's sick and it needs to be put out of it's pain.

[Blue Owl]

3. Throw that fat fuck piece of shit in the klink and toss away the key

[malaise]

4. Ditto

[NNadir]

11. Everything he touches dies, and I'm not sure the US will survive his Putin financed cult.

These people are completely and totally out of their minds, and there's a lot of them.

[malaise]

16. I still think the US is stronger than Trumpism

We will see

[multigraincracker]

18. I loved her book. Had a good laugh about the reform school.

In the 60s I was sent away to reform school(military school)too. I remember several tRump type cadets from back then. Big bullies, until someone got in their face and then they would back away in a hurry. I would love some stories from his fellow cadets. They couldn't have all signed nondisclosure agreements.

[malaise]

20. THIs

I would love some stories from his fellow cadets. They couldn't have all signed nondisclosure agreements.

They are always cowards

[Captain Zero]

45. If they were all narcissistic sociopaths like him....

I doubt many of them are still alive or not on a memory care unit.

[Jon King]

19. I read a high school classmates uncle's obituary yesterday....

it actually read, "he loved his children, grand children, fishing, and Trump".

Goodness, the utter level of his pollution of the planet is off the charts.

[malaise]

22. Ha - that is sad

[Midnight Writer]

21. He is "competing" with other famous families, like the Clintons, Bushes, Kennedys, McCains

Everything is a contest to him. He is obsessed with "the biggest ever", "the most in history", "like nobody's ever seen".

[A HERETIC I AM]

59. His biggest problem with those aspirations...

Is that he is little more than a trashy son of a trashy slumlord from Queens with absolutely ZERO ties to any “old money” in this country.

And he hates that.

After all, he bought Mar-a-Lago precisely because he wanted to be a part of the upper crust, but couldn’t really afford it. That’s why he turned it into a club, so it could make money instead of being a huge liability.

[malaise]

60. And a fucking dunce to boot

Additionally he showed up late for every fucking event

[mnmoderatedem]

23. disagree on one aspect - perfected the art of lying

in fact, he's a horrifically bad liar. All the more puzzling as to why his lemmings believe every friggin thing he says.

With all the practice he gets at lying, you would think he would be better at it by now.

[malaise]

25. But he lies and lies and lies like a rotting corpse-

bad lies or not

[notinkansas]

26. Not so sure the lie has to be believeable.

It just needs to be big, big, big and repeated often.

[Kid Berwyn]

24. Bullies only fear a bigger bully.

Plus, he’s never been held to account for his behavior, ever.

Like the stunted baby he remains inside, he cries until he gets his way.

Hope he got a hundred swirlies at military school.

[malaise]

33. He sure loves Putin

Won't forget that one

[Johonny]

43. Russians learned how to play him early

Trump is easy to play because he's such a narcissist and self centered. For a KGB man like Putin, Trump was likely an easy target. But also from all reports a frustrating one. He was soooo stupid Putin couldn't really do business with him. I think Putin envisioned a Reagan like friendship, new treaties, an end to trade deals (or new ones), but soon discovered his patsy couldn't even negotiate the dollar menu at McDonalds. Mostly Putin got negative space out of him. But no new deals to bind an incoming president.

[malaise]

51. Agree in general although I don't rule out Putin continuing to help him

destabilize the US

[spanone]

27. Saw this in another post....from sheshe2

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=15417697

[malaise]

30. Perfect

I would wear that

[spanone]

37. Me too!

👍🏼

[KPN]

61. I want that t-shirt!

[Earth-shine]

28. Trump has to continually prove to himself that he is powerful.

Ultimately, the only way he can do this is by destroying things.

[no_hypocrisy]

29. More to this story:

Trump was sent to reform/military school because of more than the bullying, which his father tolerated, esp. as Fred was a Trustee of Kew Gardens. When Trump was 14, he rode the subway in Times Square in Manhattan where he'd buy jack-knives. He had more than a few which he hid in his sock drawer, where his father found them. The knives were the last straw for Fred.

I got this anecdote from this book: Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success

https://www.amazon.com/Never-Enough-Donald-Pursuit-Success/dp/1250042380/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=never+enough&qid=1620685094&s=books&sr=1-6

[malaise]

31. A violent thug in the making

Thanks for this

He did succeed in being the biggest loser in presidential history

[brooklynite]

32. Mary and I have a common friend...

I’ve heard some dark stories about Trump’s behavior after her book and out.

[malaise]

34. Fill us in

[BobTheSubgenius]

36. It will be a happy, happy day when those barred doors clang closed behind him!

There are many others that should be joining him, and I get a perverse joy in several of those people being forced to listen to him for the next 10-15 years. Talk about your poetic justice.

[malaise]

38. I hope for that day but those final cement slabs would work

just as well. Let his goons rot in prison starting with Rudy.

[BobTheSubgenius]

41. I know how to mix and work with concrete.

Just sayin'....

[Johonny]

42. I think the point she made clear is he broke the law constantly and relied not on genius

but simple rich white privilege to stay out of jail.

Sadly, this fact is still holding up. I mean she outlines exactly how he committed fraud against her and cheats on his taxes. It's perfectly clear he's a criminal. Yet nothing.

[Captain Zero]

46. The prime time to bring him down was in the 80's, early 90's but the SDNY

was headed by Rudy Giuliani. Explains a lot, huh?

[orleans]

44. "He has to be locked up!" -- you won't get an argument from me

you probably won't get an argument from ANYONE here

[malaise]

50. Evil does not quite describe him

[Cerridwen]

49. Who said the election in 2016 was stolen first; bernie or the former occupant of the white house

Has anyone checked yet?
Ever play volleyball?

Ever set up an over the net "slam";assist?

Who was the setup for the slam

Why isn't tad devine out and about? I've been busy for a while not keeping track of all the players

[marble falls]

52. Locked up and welded in.

[Evolve Dammit]

53. Agreed. Even his mother wondered what she had created. Fred molded most of him (and Roy Cohn).

[panfluteman]

54. OF COURSE Trump's a Bully! He Has Aggressive, Pugilistic Mars Sitting Right on His Ascendant!!!

Donald Trump's Leo Ascendant is also tightly conjunct the fixed star Regulus, AKA the Royal Star, or Cor Leonis, the Heart of the Lion. In other words, Trump is like Don Corleone, the Mob Boss, and he is someone who wanted to be KING, not president.

[malaise]

56. and he is someone who wanted to be KING, not president.

THIS

[mrsadm]

55. Was he sent to a reform school or I though it was a military academy?

Sorry I have not read her book - didn't want to spend more time on Trump making myself upset. Yet here I am!

[malaise]

57. It is a military school but he and others were sent there to

reform
His niece (and others) called it reform school.

[kairos12]

62. My favorite part was when he got the mashed potatoes

dumped on his head at the family dinner table.

We needed a foto.