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Thu May 14, 2026, 11:01 AM Thursday

The Instability Is Baked In [View all]

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There’s been overwhelming reports since trump II of his qualified, certifiable, erratic, mental and physical decline. Going back to the first term reading voluminous childish tweets Americans for the first time saw a vain, petulant, petty, lowbrow reflection of what would have embarrassed former Presidents holding that respected office.

Ten years later the lies, profuse ignorance, grandiose economic claims, threats of ill thought out wars, conspiracy peddling, etc. make the first innocuous tweets of 2016 seem trite. I picture a sinister, petulant child that was given the keys to the toy chest and insists on breaking as many as he can to achieve newer, brighter colored ones from his benefactors. Now he needs a bigger box to put them in. Some fool has also given him a sharpie and he’s scrawling his name on every wall in his padded room.

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