Senator Thinks Trump Is Literally 'Insane': 'He Is a Madman'
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Asked on Anderson Cooper 360 whether there was any hope for European leaders to “de-escalate” and “reason with the president” over his repeated threats to annex Greenland, Gallego said, “No, and I’ve been very clear. He is a madman. He is insane. He’s only thinking about himself.”
“You really think he’s insane?” pressed Cooper.
“Yes! I’m sorry, where are we at this moment where we don’t understand what’s happening in this country?” Gallego responded. “The man is threatening war against a NATO ally and we’re all thinking this is rational. Let’s accept what’s happening here. He is not rational right now. He is destroying our world reputation, potentially our economic opportunity, economic mighty power around the world because he is being petty.”
He argued, “None of this is rational. Everyone needs to stop pretending this is rational.”
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biophile
(1,242 posts)Because it’s true!
murielm99
(32,731 posts)
yellow dahlia
(4,818 posts)The president did blah blah blah. They say it as if it is in some sort of frame of "normal".
I think they should always say something like the deranged person who stole the oval; office is doing blah blah blah. The pretend president who is only there because of SCOTUS is saying blah blah blah.
He is insane! He is a thief. He is stealing everything he can get his hands on. He is breaking everything in sight.
Thank you Ruben Gallego!
peacebuzzard
(5,816 posts)the local university station. Primarily classical. Now and then there is news hour but if the news is about tsf I rarely listen.
My blood pressure at normal is what I need.
Attilatheblond
(8,382 posts)There are times when cacophony is required. There is a mad man leading a criminal mob and they have declared war on We The People. I choose to stay informed and involved.
You do you, and I wish you luck. But, being part of the solution is also healthy.
flashman13
(2,113 posts)peacebuzzard
(5,816 posts)I But I am on vacation and I am relishing the moments. Just me and the cats. Just the quiet. For the brief moments.
My norm are loud sounds outside: engines, constant motion; everyone trying to talk over each other and everyone is right and I am usually wrong. I get it….It is hard to keep up with the fast paced unfolding of the political stage I get bits and pieces here and there. But my norm is customer service. Usually with people who are irritated and everyone wants it yesterday. I work for days at a time on the road; I have to travel and be gone for days every week.
I pay a high price for my silence at home.
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alfredo
(60,256 posts)At 80, I’ve earned some peace and quiet, if I need more, i take out my hearing aids. I lost my hearing from my service, so I have government issued aides. I was a Morse intercept operator. For three years I worked in a windowless building surrounded by double fences, and barbed wire.
White noise blazed 24/7, only interrupted by a song from the Sound of Music, followed by ‘Jumping Jack Flash.’ After a few years the tape stretched, giving a satanic twist to “do a deer, a female deer.” When LSD arrived, that tape became a trip enhancer. the white noise was a major mind fuck when tripping. It seemed to distort visuals, but that was my trip.
The NCO’s were clueless of our state, most were drunk and probably had little concern. Someone hid his Vodka inside a teletype cabinet.
Can’t complain because was not slogging through some jungle, I had it made.
Sneederbunk
(17,308 posts)peacebuzzard
(5,816 posts)25 years of a safe haven.... thanks to all who built and contributes positively to this site.
littlemissmartypants
(31,901 posts)Anything that begins with the words "Trump said..." should be our cue to ignore all that comes next.
It's signal boosting of the worst kind. He thrives on the mention of his name. Why keep encouraging him?
The exact amount of energy that's being wasted on propping up his insanity, crying about his actions and perpetually hand wringing while ruminating in inactivity is an enormous misuse of our imaginations and an even more colossal waste of time. Time, which is the most finite resource we have.
We perpetuate his power and our own misery through it.
I think we could all use some strenuous exercises in self control. He certainly doesn't deserve all of our unintentional help.
We won't be able to meaningfully accomplish any resistance if we keep feeding the beast.
I learned a long time ago that attention is your most vital tool and whatever you focus your attention on, you strengthen.
Time for a giant step towards an act of collective refocusing.
yellow dahlia
(4,818 posts)littlemissmartypants
(31,901 posts)
eppur_se_muova
(41,119 posts)littlemissmartypants
(31,901 posts)
MadameButterfly
(3,802 posts)But I'm finding it harder now. The prinicples remain the same, but the impact on all of us harder to ignore.
I feel like I'm inside a Harry Potter novel that i can't put down. Or, Orpheus unable to resist looking back.
Oh, to have back all the hours I have given him over the last ten years.
Sweet Freedom
(4,048 posts)and instead just go silent. He lives for any type of reaction, positive or negative, and would have nothing to feed off of if there was no reaction at all.
littlemissmartypants
(31,901 posts)
mountain grammy
(28,743 posts)He’s a madman. Thank you Senator.
Uncle Joe
(64,348 posts)when he accepted the hand me down Nobel Peace Prize.
He had absolutely no concept of self-awareness.
sop
(17,639 posts)
debsy
(799 posts)And Mark Kelly, of course. We have started calling them every day to express our disgust and distress ( putting it mildly) at the absolutely crazy things that madman is doing!
LuvLoogie
(8,562 posts)And he knows America and its people, who ARE irrational. He feeds that and thrives off of that.
happy feet
(1,264 posts)Who he is with only incompetent, sociopathic, loyalists around him. Everything he touches dies.
niyad
(129,880 posts)rational" BS. WE KNOW IT IS NOT, and we have been saying so. STOP IT. Do NOT include us in the mass psychosis. I am truly disgusted and disappointed that you would say something so wrong.
The_REAL_Ecumenist
(934 posts)
littlemissmartypants
(31,901 posts)Characteristics of Psychopaths
1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior
nikatnyte
(341 posts)I mean, seriously? Who hasn't known he's bat-shit crazy from the day he through his pathetic hat into the political ring? I can't believe people who are just waking up to this NOW. Incredible.
Lulu KC
(8,576 posts)When I see a headline saying, "REPUBLICAN senator thinks....." I'll start feeling a little relieved.
littlemissmartypants
(31,901 posts)alfredo
(60,256 posts)I[monospace It is the 25Th amendment.
Section 4: Involuntary Transfer of Power: If the President is unable to serve but won't step down, the VP and a majority of the Cabinet (or Congress) can declare the President disabled, making the VP Acting President until Congress decides.
littlemissmartypants
(31,901 posts)Hold my breath waiting, that's for damn sure.
Orrex
(66,732 posts)Gallego is obviously 100% correct. Every time any Democrat is asked to comment on anything Trump-related, they should point that he's insane, and perhaps also mention that he's a rapist and felon who's spent decades partying with pedophiles.
Borogove
(551 posts)littlemissmartypants
(31,901 posts)
Jack Valentino
(4,478 posts)who now
'act like a dog that's been beat too much,
until they spend half their life just covering up'
~ Bruce Sprinsteen, 'Born In The USA'
The majority of rank and file U.S. citizens do NOT think that this is 'rational' !
Unfortunately we are not big media or elected officials---
but in the next election we must get rid of those who do and are!
(I don't want to hear about how there 'might not be a next election'
from defeatists!
I can vote by mail, so I don't have to show up at the polls---
but if there is any real serious effort by Trump to stop or impede the elections,
I MAY show up at the polls anyway, and I might be carrying a gun,
hopefully concealed! )
returnee
(838 posts)The dems are not adequately addressing his attacks on election integrity. It is my number one issue.
Xipe Totec
(44,487 posts)
BigmanPigman
(54,654 posts)He knows he is dying and it won't improve and he can not hide it so he is destroying the USA since he is a vengeful, sadistic psychopath who hates the USA. He is taking us down with him....that is his 2026 agenda. If he gets assassinated he won't care since he is dying anyway and he would end up in the history of the USA as a martyr. He will be even more famous. He will get remembered. He is so insane that he thinks he will be remembered like JFK and Lincoln.
"He is a living martyr....after the 2024 assassination attempt, some Republicans elevated him to "living martyr" status, seeing divine intervention in his survival".
peggysue2
(12,417 posts)You really think he’s insane?” pressed Cooper.
Come on! Trump is demonstrating absolute irrationality on the world stage. And the American press is still confused?
Shame on Cooper and any journalist still making excuses or acting shocked by the delusions and sheer craziness of a deteriorating old man.
roscoeroscoe
(1,813 posts)Call a spade an f'ing shovel, a madman a lunatic. Or a lunatic a madman. It is what it is. Step up!
AllaN01Bear
(28,703 posts)
Martin68
(27,162 posts)Like the poet said, the world will end not with a bang but a whimper.
debm55
(56,626 posts)Bluetus
(2,358 posts)I don't know that Trump is like the crazy guy standing on the corner bellowing incomprehensible words, but he is not too far from that.
Certainly he has always been a bit of a sociopath and toxic narcissist. I don't know that is changing much.
The problem is he clearly has dementia at an advanced level, and it probably is a dangerously progressive form like Alzheimer's. And what that means is that most of his brain is seriously degraded, including whatever impulse control and reasoning ability he might have had. In other words, the reptilian part of the brain is clearly dominant now, and he has very little grounding in reality.
hamsterjill
(17,110 posts)An everyone (in power) does need to stop pretending Trump is rational, especially the media.
maxsolomon
(38,287 posts)But he's not psychotic. He isn't having Hallucinations.
He's fixated on Greenland. Has been for decades now.
He puts on a crazy act to extract concessions from his targets. Threats, threats, threats, then profit.
Uncle Joe
(64,348 posts)hay rick
(9,400 posts)He is obviously in a state of mental decline, but that does not make him irrational. He can add two plus two, even if he will lie about the answer. The problem with Trump is psychological. He always had very little compassion for other people and that deficit has gotten worse in lockstep with his mental deterioration. He feels no guilt and no shame when his actions harm other people. When the failure and destruction he causes is pointed out to him he feels embarrassment and his unrestrained response is to deny the obvious and retaliate.