Yet another Trump foot shoot

The election is days away and Trump in a Tucker interview manages to get Biden’s ‘scum’ comment off the news and substitutes instead his Liz Cheney guns in her face rhetoric. The few smart people in the Trump team must have cringed.

This is the weakest Democratic team ever….not likeable, bereft of ideas, angry with no accomplishments at all. A team to be thrashed. It’s amazing that a former President who did well with the economy and left the office without starting any new conflicts, is seen as the hair on fire guy.

But this is all due to his uncontrolled mouth which botched the assassination gift, botched the Convention, botched the first debate. The selfishness of this man to let his dislike of Cheney tempt him into crazy language, when the whole country is looking for stability and competence.

And how ironical that it happened on Tucker, the man who despised Trump, but for some reason was forgiven that and was viewed by many as a serious person. The atmosphere on that man’s show was so likely to tempt Trump into excess. When Fox is not right enough for you, you are seriously gone.

Meantime very serious issues that Harris has no qualifications to solve, await. Selfishness of a mega (no pun intended) kind.

"The election is days away and Trump in a Tucker interview manages to get Biden’s ‘scum’ comment off the news and substitutes instead his Liz Cheney guns in her face rhetoric. The few smart people in the Trump team must have cringed.

Simply saying she should face the blunt end of the wars she's mongering...taken completely out of context by the rabid media Harris praise singers...most Americans is way smarter than this...landslide Trump victory coming...everyone should be appalled by the blatant negative slanting of even the most insignificant events...no shame at all...this is gonna cost them big time...snot and trane for months!!

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Of course it’s taken out of context, it always is. So you anticipate this and you don’t give them completely unnecessary soundbites. And the language was not what one  would normally expect from a President.  It’s about winning not whining.

Disappointing Moz ................................. our sole rep at the US election not voting   .

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/02/donald-trump-is-a-superspreader-for-a-craziness-that-has-split-america-in-two

The Observer

In displaying all the signs that he is off his rocker, the Republican candidate has infected millions of others

In displaying all the signs that he is off his rocker, the Republican candidate has infected millions of others

Is Donald Trump going mad? It depends how you define the word. But since he’s hoping to be elected US president on Tuesday, it would be handy to know. Democrats describe him as “weird” and “unhinged”. His rival, Kamala Harris, raised the “M” question again last week. “This is someone who is “unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and out for unchecked power,” she warned.

Harris, to her credit, was being relatively polite, though goodness knows why, given the way he disses and demeans her. So let’s pose the question in more colloquial, idiomatic terms. Has stark raving Trump finally lost his marbles? Are there bats in the belfry? If he’s off his rocker, not playing with a full deck and away with the fairies, the world and the voters have a right to know.

Harris’s assessment is obviously not an objective medical diagnosis of mental disorder. It’s a normal person’s reaction to the abnormal things Trump says and does. Crazy-strange campaign speeches by him and his supporters, notably at Madison Square Garden last weekend – a gathering akin to a Nazi Nuremberg rally – are reviving the debate about his sanity that began during his first term.

In The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, published in 2017, a group of 27 psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals raised numerous red flags. One contributor suggested he was clearly off his chump: “Trump is now the most powerful head of state in the world, and one of the most impulsive, arrogant, ignorant, disorganised, chaotic, nihilistic, self-contradictory, self-important, and self-serving.”

That professional opinion, made seven years ago, still rings true. Yet is the madness of “King” Trump, like the madness of King George (whose tyrannical rule Trump seeks to emulate), getting worse?

By one measure – his wild, deranged language – the deterioration is marked. “His speeches have grown coarser and coarser,” wrote veteran White House watcher Peter Baker, who dubs him “the profanity president”.

“Counting tamer four-letter words like ‘damn’ and ‘hell,’ he has cursed in public at least 1,787 times in 2024,” Baker wrote. His analysis shows Trump is using such language 69% more often than when he ran in 2016. It’s shocking, even by today’s tawdry standards. Trump calls Harris a “shit vice-president” who is “mentally impaired”. Doubtless he knows of what he speaks.

Vulgarity, however gross, is not proof of madness. But it may be symptomatic. The Merriam-Webster dictionary, America’s oldest, defines a mad person as one “completely unrestrained by reason and judgment; unable to think in a clear or sensible way”. Trump aces this definition every time he opens his mouth. It fits him to a tee. Exhibit A: his oddball musings about golfer Arnold Palmer’s penis.

Bizarre Trump traits, such as compulsive, blatant lying, meet another dictionary definition of madness – behaviour that is “incapable of being explained or accounted for”.

A third definition, rooted in US rather than British usage, suggests that Trump is indisputably bananas, in the sense that he is constantly “intensely angry or displeased”. Always feeling furious, feeling “mad as hell”, must be exhausting. It’s enough to drive anyone round the bend. Older people often get irritable, of course; and screw-loose Trump is 78. So is incipient senility, or cognitive decline, another cause of his exceptional looney-ness?

Trump stumbles, mispronounces words, forgets where he is and loses his train of thought. Just like Joe Biden, in fact. But Biden is merely old. Trump is nuts.

Trump has refused to take credible mental acuity tests or release his medical records. Last month, more than 230 healthcare specialists urged him to be more transparent. “As we all age, we lose sharpness and revert to base instincts,” they noted. “We are seeing that from Trump as he uses his rallies… to crudely lash out.”

It may go back to childhood. One theory is that Trump, bullied and bullier, was driven up the wall by maternal love denied. Another theory is that he suffers from “disinhibition”. This is when people become less restrained, the older they get.

But the Atlantic journalist McKay Coppins, who interviewed Trump 10 years ago, says he’s always been this way. His “depthless vanity, his brittle ego, his tragic craving for elite approval” haven’t changed one bit, Coppins wrote.

Narcissism, hedonism, obsession, a need to provoke, scare, shock and scandalise, and chronic, paranoid feelings of victimhood are all indicators of worsening mental imbalance, if not early-onset imbecility. Recent Trump lunacies include claims that flies are buzzing round his head for “suspicious” reasons, North Korea is trying to kill him, the 6 January riot was a “lovefest”, pet-eating migrants are akin to Hannibal Lecter, and that God saved him in the assassination attempt on his life.

If Trump were to go mad on his own time, no problem. Unfortunately, by publicly projecting and displaying mental dysfunction daily on a national stage, he is driving America nuts, too – fans and foes alike. He brings out the worst in everyone, right and left. It could be termed national derangement syndrome (NDS).

The poisonous effect of NDS was on show at Madison Square Garden, where “comedians” amplified Trump’s sexist, racist, hate-filled messages. This superspreader craziness destroys reasoned debate, splits the country into opposing camps (hence the dead-heat opinion polls) and sends blood pressure soaring. Many Americans fear civil violence. That’s bonkers.

This collective madness, akin to mass hysteria, is all-consuming and universally destructive. Like much that happens in America, it reverberates around the globe. Trump’s fascistic Mad Hatter world is also the world of sicko revanchist dictators like Russia’s Putin, Europe’s far-right ultra-nationalist fruitcases, Iran’s manic mullahs and off-their-heads Israeli génocidaires.

It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world – to hijack the title of Stanley Kramer’s 1963 comedy classic – but it’s no laughing matter. It may be about to get madder still.

Moz............ this might be useful

Problem is I’m not currently in Florida…so I have to vote by absentee ballot, which never reached me because of the mail forwarding ban. But thanks for posting those instructions Blob, nice of you.

I might be wrong but I sense that this is one election you're happy to miss.

Oh well another day another foot shoot, maybe not, the Trump puppets will try to convince us that he won't lose any votes and that a savage media will not have a negative impact on his latest word salad.

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Damn Blob, I tried, I couldn't get halfway through...well, next week will be interesting for sure.

Weg's jy ............. skoon verlore.

ffs. the fkng idiot condemns himself with his own effing lying mal mouth.

"None so blind as those who will not see"

"None so blind as those who will not see"

Amen.

Some make a habit of wanting to be on the wrong side of history.

...luckily you know better, né?

Actually with a proven track record.....I do.

I look at things differently...and it's not what you think...freedom is precious...

Oh I would know freedom is precious but here's the thing.....your cult hero Trump has not only divided the GOP he's also divided the nation and he's enslaved the GOP to his wishes. And he shows no shame or regrets doing so.

Where we differ is that some of us won't swallow Trumps filth by that I mean his BS, narcissism and fascism.

Wake up!