We are a deeply divided country and I absolutely blame Trump for wielding the hatchet. He recognized the weaknesses in this country and the people he could exploit. These people - his base - have been waiting for a messiah for decades, maybe longer, to have someone that they think is going to make it all better. Someone who is going to make the nasty people who have stood in the way of their success go away. He hasn't done that of course but he always finds a way to blame the other guy and still maintain their support. It's a gift, just not the one we want or need. Hopefully, without him, eventually we will regain some sanity.
I agree with your hope that we will eventually regain some sanity, but there are a lot of magats in our government who probably won't disappear as soon.
Each individual is responsible for their own thoughts and inadequacies. Let's face it, we have a lot of ignorant, racists here in the ole US of A. Power hungry Republicans have capitalized on this. Let's hope there are enough sane folks to get through this, again. The 60's were horrible.
It's too frighteming to even imagine the individuals (no longer 'human' or 'people' to me) who, for whatever reason, support Trump. Was, am I that naive not to realize how many 'off-Republican' individuals are actually for, on the side of Trump's rhetoric? I'm beginning to ramble which opens the floodgates to my desperation in hopes Trump evaporates. Not a realistic hope, I'm told. Bless those who have expressed their thoughts, fears, hopes here. Good luck - to us. Does luck play a part here?
I keep thinking of this song when I do NOT understand Donald's supporters. Even though I still like the song, it's meaning has negatively changed since this election is too close.
“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept leaning towards the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood,
he was one of them”.
A Turkish proverb and a caveat to those voters who are undecided.
I agree, and I think at least some of them just like the "power" they think they hold by withholding who they will vote for. Some also are not telling for fear that people they know or are related to will find out and look down on them.
Thats certainly some of the undecided voters but there are also some undecided voters who are horribly uninformed and have limited if any knowledge about history or the basis of their rights.
Actually he's taking us back way further than that - like back to the 1600s. Remember those days, finding and killing witches? Remember the Spanish Inquisition and it's aftermath? That's where Trump has taken us along with his filthy, rotten,idiotic, unethical, immoral, Catholic, supreme Court.
More like 250 years! The classic statement of Liberalism is in the preamble to the Constitution: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their creator with certain INALIENABLE rights.... If Mary's uncle gains office again, our rights will be at the whims of individuals, just like under the English crown.
Does not really matter. This is not a democracy, but a Republic, and you can not use the fact we elect our representatives to undo the law. I do not believe the folks with those "Trump or Death" signs realize the effects years of the threat of violence have had on peaceful citizens.
Technically, it is not a republic but rather is a representative democracy because the public elects the government (the exception of the EC re POTUS, notwithstanding).
I really wish I could step onto a spaceship and fly away to someplace where love, compassion, empathy, and fairness is the normal way of life for everyone. Like a place in N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy. This place is really getting me down.
Ha! I live in a peaceful little corner of Germany. Currently though, I'm just spending too much time and energy following American politics and worrying about my family and friends back in the States. My German friends are all shaking their heads in wonder at how insane the right has become.
Donnie gives Americans permission to strike out for every little slight they have endured caused by THE OTHER: A Woman A man A MEXICAN A BLACK A JEW A MUSLIM A CHRISTIAN A NEIGHBOR A SCHOOL BULLY A BOSS A MEAN MOM DAD : A WHOEVER WRONGED YOU! This is DONALD SHOWING YOU “HIS PAIN” and WE ALL NEED TO FALL IN LINE AND FEEL “HIS” PAIN by hitting on EVERYONE! THIS IS MENTAL AMERICAN ILLNESS. WE ARE A SICK NATION BECAUSE ONE BROKEN MEN SAID SO ! SNAP THE f uc out of it !
I believe what is "wrong with us" is that we simply believe the polls. I think the polls are underrepresenting Democrat sentiment due to their obviously flawed methodology.
I don’t answer social media polls. I think many people polled might be afraid to admit who they’re voting for because of potential retaliation. They may not trust the pollsters. Others may be dishonest about their favored candidate for sport. Most of the internet based polls are attached to donation requests.
I believe w have been saying the same concerning how Nazis managed to rise to power and kill over 20 million people. HUmans don't learn and here we are on the precipice of repeating all that has gone before. Fear of reprisals comes to mind.
Not so long ago and within my lifetime black people were not allowed in the white high school. They were not allowed to live in a section of town called white but forced them to only live in a certain area. Placing the growing population stuffed in like Rats. This was wrong and many of the older people still alive are very racist. This still rings true for some. Calling the blacks the N word. Kippy Brown one of the coaches for the Seattle Seahawks came from the town I live in. He and others were natural athletes one young man could have been as famous as Michael Jordan. Sadly he was injured on the way home from college and the accident paralyzed him from the waste down. He and Kippy were best friends and led us to Championship after championship. What would Trump do if he met Kippy Brown and Michael Jordan? Would he call them names, no he would not he would call them the exception. Michael Jordans brother James, retired E9 from the Pentagon graded my performance as an instructor to the US Army. We became friends. Feel free to look him up he is a friend as well as Kippy. They are smart intelligent men with dark skin. In a century or two there will not be one race or color we, our families will be Mocha. Donald would die at the thought. I am pure Anglo Saxon but my ancestors were immigrants. Fought in American Indian war and the Revolutionary war. It part it was to free us from tearny and the radiation without reservation. Dear Donald we are pure but I grew up, average. While his grandfather came here and pimped out women, he murdered and stole, so Donald the apple has not fallen far from the genetic tree. The Statue at Ellis Island, gifted to us from France due to immigration. "Give us your hungry, your poor" it does not say only white English speaking people.
A very informed and succinct discussion of the attempt to rationalize socially constructed inequalities as “scientifically” determined; not that much different from the medieval use of the church to explain the socio-economic inequalities as purportedly determined by the metaphysical divinities of religious order.
Someone I read today on Substack (I think it was reported by Jay Kuo) said that if Donald layers the makeup bronzer on any thicker, he will have to deport himself. Don't we all wish he would just DO that.
Just a thought. If the 78 year old orange “king in his own mind” becomes President/Dictator on day 1, day 2, day 3, etc, and at anytime in the next 8 years (Trump 86 yrs old) becomes incapacitated the Veep becomes Prez. The Veep who wants to repeal Amendment 19, Women’s right to vote.
Vance is a very sick guy. He has real issues with women and seeks to dominate and subjugate, to make sure that they have no equality and no rights. In my mind even more dangerous than Trump. Hopefully the people will see that and make sure he never goes anywhere.
He probably treats his sacred couch better than his wife and women in general. His non-stop bizarre comments and his goals to take us back 100 years can't be overstated. In the meantime, tens of thousands evangelical Christians gathered in DC today to send their hypocritical delusional message that we need to elect Trump to bring us closer to God. WTF These clueless people have totally lost their way by worshipping the devil in disguise.
Vance is a firm believer/participant in many christo-fascist groups such as Opus Dei and NRx (the Dark Enlightenment movement). See Wikipedia. I credit Rachek Maddow and Substack for this frightening info.
Leonard Leo is a board member of Opus Dei's Catholic Information Center.
He is The Federalist Society's co-chair and advocated and advised for Donald's S.C. nominees. His money connections bring $$MM into the coffers of Project 2025.
None of us will have known pain until such time as their precepts become enforceable, should Fascista Primo get reelected. Nicknamed Donald's "Court Whisperer". Here's what happened when the D.C. A.G. tried to break the money river.
I am Catholic, but detest Opus Dei and similar groups. I don’t want them running my nation. I’m the latter years of Franco’s reign, they managed many governmental agencies in Spain. Leo manages the funds through which dark money funders carry out their legalized bribery. The SCOTUS majority seems content to let Trump, the billionaires, and the theocrats to destroy constitutional government and to set Trump up as a dictator. At some point Vance may well try to oust him through the 25th Amendment. I Vance is my Senator, but I didn’t vote for him, Peter Thiel bought Vance for us. Vance is a hypocrite, his book trashes his fellow Americans of Appalachian origin and is infused with a smug attitude, and I loathe Vance’s misogyny. I wonder what Usha Vance, his wife, thinks of his public statements?
Also, I am from a very Catholic family. My mom and godmother were friends with Dorothy Day and Catherine deHueck. I was raised to Believe that we had a moral obligation to care for the downtrodden and that was the true message of Christ. Every day I and my generational peers, children of these brave Social Justice pioneers, cry and wonder what all the sacrifices and work our parents did has come to. So sad.
It’s gonna take more than “the people”. Please figure out a way to help get massive turnout wherever you are. That may be the only way to prevent or thwart those who are waiting in arms to dispute the election
Vance was rather open about his dislike of Trump until Peter Thiel bought him his Senate seat. Vance has always been conservative, but he’s left that far behind and is headed to fascism, if not already there.
Its entirely possible that she’s a self hating victim of a thing close to Stockholm syndrome. Or of course as he only a year or so ago boldly called dumpf a modern day hitler she understands he bends whichever way power lies. FYI if you want to understand Vance just follow the money 1st step: Theil. Next: Theil+musk. And so on
I find myself wondering if she is downtrodden, being of Indian heritage married to a white misogynist. That would tend to mean that she would stay where she is. His attitude toward women may be something she's bought into.
Really? You think so? I seriously doubt it. And even so he’s made a deal with the devils. I’d put no sort of blackmail beyond their imaginations. We’re talking mafioso evil here, make no doubt about it.
IDK, with her husband being a anti everything--voting, women, etc. I just threw that out there, because she's an attorney according to another comment.
What I suspect, JDN, is IF by some fraudulent means trump is elected, inaugurated on Jauary 20, 2025. That by the end of February j(ustifably) d(emon) vance, with the concurrence of the rest of the MAGA maggots will invoke the 25th Amendment and have trump removed from office on grounds of dementia - which is obvious to anyone who has heard trump ramble . Vance is not a viable candidate on his own, he is exceedingly disliked. But he is a more intelligent fascist, fully prepared to hand over the wealth of the Nation to the Project 2025 oligarchy so long as they declare him dictator (and puppet) for life.
This is what I've thought ever since we found out that JD was chosen for Donald, by an oligarch. It is one of the steps closer to the filthy rich owning the entire country. Both TFG and JD are the puppets of the fascist rich.
Oh yes, actively participating, hence his being selected despite having a resume that's lacking actual experience. He'll make up for that with enthusiasm for his chosen dogma and further schooled along the way. He'll be as easily manipulated as TGF has been and in ways he hasn't even thought of yet.
Neither, the 25 Amendment, Section 4: "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President." the Amendment goes on to say under what conditions the President may return to office, as well as how to make the President's replacement permanent.
Anyone who has heard or read trump's recent speech can detect the very obvious loss of memory and deteriorating dementia. No one will even question that. And voila the fascist dictatorship of America will effect the bloodless destruction of democracy. And there we will have for dictator the man no one but Peter Thiel wanted.
We see it, but the mainstream media outlets, as well as the outlets who back Trump, have been “sanewashing” Trump and pretending he is a normal presidential candidate. Trump is not psychologically normal. He shows signs of serious personality disorders, and Trump’s attacks on President Biden’s nonexistent “dementia” was an example of Trump’s ability to project his own advancing dementia onto the incumbent. Unfortunately, Trump has a dubious talent for getting people to believe his lies.
I think DT is the train used to get JDV into the Whitehouse. Trump does not even realize it. They will allow Trump in long enough to pardon himself and then use the 25th Amendment to excise the cancer that he is and replace it with another cancer on humanity. We think our situation will be as bad as it can get if Trump wins. If JDV gets in he will take us to new heights, heights that a healthy, normal mind can't even imagine.
I can clearly see the obvious symptoms of dementia in The Donald. My mother had Alzheimer's and she constantly and repetitively recited all the things anyone had ever done to bother her during her life. Like Donald, she was angry, lashed out at people and about formerly normal activities, everything was someone else's fault. The paranoia was scary and made no sense. She was convinced people were out get her and stole from her. Everything was totally unfair at all times. She was always agitated and unhappy, raving to and about unseen people and things. Anyone who has observed an elder relative developing dementia will be able to see this is what's happening to Donald. He is already too far gone to even be considered for any sort of job, much less one of any responsibility. I am sure that many of his ardent fans can see this, so why they continue to support his candidacy is jaw-droppingly unfathomable.
Scary idea, JDN. Evidently society is no closer to solving the social metastasis of Donald T, Vance and their infectious band of cronies than medicine is to a cancer cure. The filth that they disseminate with every successive rally and interview seems only to reinforce the hold that they
have on their immovable adherents. There is no going back for us, because that would open the path for the disease to sweep the continent, and to progress from there. As Mary so aptly asserts, the disease of bigots that afflicts Donald has been festering for centuries in the minds of eugenicists and their fearmongering crew. Thanks to Mary L. for her incisive scholarly writing.
Recall that until the end of the 19th century women were considered to be mentally and physically inferior to men. This is why the Constitution makes no mention of women's rights and needs, which differ in some important respects to those of men. This is why SCOTUS found it easy to overturn Roe.
Our nation has never been able to rid itself of its misogyny, and Christian Nationalists behave as though the social norms of the first century of the common era were a divine mandate for all time. I think they underestimate women’s determination to fight back.
I 'd like to know why his wife stays with him. She is beautiful, very intelligent, a successful attorney. Why would she stay with this white supremacist, woman oppressor?
Children? Yes I see her as trapped, the harm to the children would be irreparable. She stays because she is a mother. And her love of them means the lioness stays with and protects her cubs AT ANY COST. I feel soooo sorry for her.
Being a public figure plays into it. Can you imagine the effects of social media putting them all under the microscope? Arrgggs. It would be hell for them. I did not say it was a good thing, it’s sad and pathetic.
They are a step ahead of you. Dumpf is already exhibiting signs of near full blown dementia. Speaking to genetics, his father had Alzheimer’s. Meaning his dementia may be clinical. The power grabbers around him are well aware. He is not fit to serve. So, they will invoke the 25th soon after he’s in power and JD Ahole will be the willing Faustian puppet. That’s the plan. I have no evidence other than my own reading and personal education.
He might have an Alzheimer’s type of dementia or another type of dementia. I agree with you that they may very well use the 25th Amendment to put Vance into office.
Trump has already had one four-year term so if, God forbid (please!), he wins next month, he may serve one more term only. However, if he is incapacitated - or, more accurately, his current incapacities are finally recognized - then JD Vance would become president and he is indeed far more dangerous, especially for women.
Trump has immunity for everything. So who’s to say he won’t try to remain in office and get rid of elections. He has threatened this. 1 more day of Trump is one too many.
AND his little tiny hands will be way too close to the codes to launch nuclear bombs. Although, Putin may tell DT how good his intelligent hair looks and then ask him to hand the codes over to him. Hair does not possess intelligence, but Donald, I am sure, believes his does.
Don’t think Trump understands eugenics … it’s enough that it only has three syllables so he can pronounce it. Doesn’t study, doesn’t understand, doesn’t care—probably just listens to the wise advice of Stephen Miller and Laura Loomer who are, oddly enough, “genetically ineducable.”
Stephen Miller’s uncle, David Glosser, has acted as a spokesperson for his family. He reminded Miller rightly that his own family had fled persecution in Tsarist Russia, and that they emigrated to Johnstown, PA. Jewish immigrants often encountered antisemitism and social hostility when they themselves came to this country. Dr. Glosser hasn’t forgotten this, but apparently, Stephen Miller has.
I had read this. Maybe Stephen thinks he can deny his roots by picking on others. Whatever his reason I don't want him back in the whitehouse and government.
I haven’t read past ‘fascination with genes and genetics’ yet, Mary. Quite honestly, as a Jewish woman in America, I’m feeling my life is in extreme peril as were the Jews’ in Hitler’s years of terror. I’m not saying….well…I guess I am….the orange oompa loompa is Hitler’s twin. I hope I’m not offending anyone by saying so. And I’m not equating my life with the ones Jews had to live, or die, for under Hitler. I’m just really really scared 😢
I am scared for you and all my Jewish friends. The brightest student I ever had is a proud Jew and an avid Trump supporter, as are several others of my former Jewish students. I just don’t get it.
As my son always says, “Can’t fix stupid.” Like you, Bonnie, I just don’t get it. And thank you for caring. Knowing you are holding the umbrella over Jewish people, including me, brings me comfort.
Yes, sad and scary. The high cost of living is the number one issue for many voters, who remember better times under Trump. Their frustration leaves them susceptible to Trump's lies and magical thinking.
The Magat cultist want a civil war......what are they going to do when patriots start shooting back with their own AR15s?? They will run and scatter like the roaches and rats that they are.
Hate defies logic, Laura. We have your back as well as all of our friends that make this country homogeneous and free. Tell your son to spread the word: We are in this together.
I am not Jewish, but I share your sense of fright. It’s ironic, but if you look at Donald Trump and Elon Musk, both of whom brag about their genetic superiority, you see that the claims of genetic superiority are a total crock, and that both men do it to hide their inferiority complexes.
Of course there is no proof of reincarnation. It is pure coincidence that DJT was conceived a short time after Hitler killed himself. And there is no evidence that DNA from Hitler could have been used to influence DJT genetic makeup. Actually, hasn't DJT admitted to adore Mein Kampf, which he has read in the English translation? Of course that must be where he gets his evil and hateful racist ideas....
Well, Fred Trump was a member of the Klan in his youth, and they shared many of the same ideas the Nazis did. The old guard Klansmen of the 1950s and 1960s had fought in World War II and were not willing to openly display the Nazi flag. David Duke was younger than they were and shamelessly flew the Nazi flag outside of his dorm room at LSU back in 1968 when he was attending school there.
I learned a lot from this post, Mary. Thank you for that. One thing I already knew, however, was that your addlebrained, racist, rapist, lying liar uncle is the worst human being ever to run for any political office in American history. And, the people he relies on to tell him what to think are even worse.
Starting with that Cheung thing, I’d love to see his head explode during one of his hate filled invectives. Shouldn’t take too long. He’s almost more loathsome than Donald. Well, ok, maybe not, but there’s not much daylight between them. Or brains, either, there’s that uneducable issue again.
Leave us not forget Mike Johnson. He probably thinks having a passing resemblance to Colbert makes him tolerable, which it sorta does, until you hear him speak. And whatever happened to the Habba person? Another future whistleblower? Although she never struck me as anything but a proxy tool.
So many candidates deserving of being called the 2nd Worst. Unfortunately. Jim Jordan, Clarence Thomas, Turd Cruz, Alex Jones, Marjorie Taylor Dumbass, the list goes on and on and on . . .
I Wikied the guy. He’s Asian Donald, perhaps worse than Donald considering his age. Wikipedia says he played football in high school. Perhaps he hit his head too many times?
Mary Trump, you are shining a brilliant light on many issues of vital importance, both contemporary, and in the past. Few people realize the influence that American treatment of minorities and disabled people had on Hitler’s plans for Germany and then, all of Europe.
As someone who lost a great many members of my family in the Holocaust, I have long thought that much of what was developing as policies in the Republican Party were ominously echoing that horrifying time.
Your words are so powerful and could not be more important.
I am so sorry for your losses, Terry. No one, especially orange oompa loompa and his minions, should hold power in this or any country on Earth that subscribe to his demonic ramblings and hatred.
Holy Smokes Mary?! What a Brilliantly written article you've given us this evening! Your uncle has really gone to a Dark Place in his soul and History. Both are Disgusting and should never come out of the mouth of someone who's running for the highest office in the land. The American people will do the right thing by Voting for the Harris/Walz ticket. When your uncle loses, Democracy and the Rule of Law will still be in place for Him. Thank You for putting your thoughts to paper this evening and will reStack ASAP 🇺🇸
They can lose. Unfortunately not unthinkable. Numbers and turnout is what matters. Please do what you can ( driving neighbors to polls, canvassing, knocking on doors, postcards, phone banking) we MUST get out the vote!
Mary, as you know, Donald has been an extreme racist his whole adult life - at least. It was the 70's when he and his father were cited for racial discrimination against black renters and nothing has changed - if anything it has gotten worse. But also he's pandering to his base. This is what they want, this is why they support him. And like any good snake oil salesman he knows how to cater to his base. But as long as they do, and as long as he seems to be getting away with every damn thing there isn't much we can do about it except to support Kamala and Tim as best we can and see what happens to dear old don after the election when he's still facing all those indictments and trials. And hope that after she wins she sees about dealing with some of the corruption and lack of consequences that is fueling the former Republican, now Trump party.
Fred Trump did have Alzheimer’s disease in the last years of his life. Donald Trump has deteriorated to the point where he is uttering word salad and using garbled words that to him sound like the actual word he wants to use.
Lisa, it’s important to remember that the polygraph is not actually a lie detector, and as such it is not admissible in court. What it actually measures is discomfort or anxiety, either anxiety at telling a lie, or even the extra work it takes for a relatively normal person to lie or otherwise deceive. People (e.g., spies) can be trained to defeat a polygraph. And sociopaths or anyone who is sufficiently pathological as to not care or even know when they are lying will not be “caught” by a polygraph. It’s a nice fantasy, though 😎
*They're* bringing crime? *They're* rapists? The gall of this convicted felon and adjudicated rapist saying such a thing. As usual he projects. I sincerely hope that someday soon it all catches up to him. I can't wait for November 26th, when Judge Merchan sentences him. Let that be just the first of many events finally holding him accountable.
What is WRONG with us?? It defies belief that we don’t all consider this reprehensible
We are a deeply divided country and I absolutely blame Trump for wielding the hatchet. He recognized the weaknesses in this country and the people he could exploit. These people - his base - have been waiting for a messiah for decades, maybe longer, to have someone that they think is going to make it all better. Someone who is going to make the nasty people who have stood in the way of their success go away. He hasn't done that of course but he always finds a way to blame the other guy and still maintain their support. It's a gift, just not the one we want or need. Hopefully, without him, eventually we will regain some sanity.
He has had plenty of help in doing so…
The Russian trawlers never left us, they've just traded the international waters for the internet.
I agree with your hope that we will eventually regain some sanity, but there are a lot of magats in our government who probably won't disappear as soon.
SCOTUS is the "Exhibit A" to that statement.
Each individual is responsible for their own thoughts and inadequacies. Let's face it, we have a lot of ignorant, racists here in the ole US of A. Power hungry Republicans have capitalized on this. Let's hope there are enough sane folks to get through this, again. The 60's were horrible.
It's too frighteming to even imagine the individuals (no longer 'human' or 'people' to me) who, for whatever reason, support Trump. Was, am I that naive not to realize how many 'off-Republican' individuals are actually for, on the side of Trump's rhetoric? I'm beginning to ramble which opens the floodgates to my desperation in hopes Trump evaporates. Not a realistic hope, I'm told. Bless those who have expressed their thoughts, fears, hopes here. Good luck - to us. Does luck play a part here?
Hitler rose to power precisely by means of the same mass shared psychosis.
I agree, mer t.
Thank you, Mary 💙, for your 2 in-depth columns today.
I keep thinking of this song when I do NOT understand Donald's supporters. Even though I still like the song, it's meaning has negatively changed since this election is too close.
"The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony"
https://youtu.be/1lyu1KKwC74?t=85
I do like the song. Not what it makes you think about though. I'm a musician. It's all about the music... :)
I used to play this song on repeat while I was making art. I can't associate it with MAGAts.
Many of us do. Hope we are in the majority.
Hello Corporate Media, anyone home?
“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept leaning towards the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood,
he was one of them”.
A Turkish proverb and a caveat to those voters who are undecided.
I don't believe there currently are ANY undecided voters.
They are merely voters who hold sacred the secret ballot that democracy provides to them, and so they are happy to not reveal who they're voting for.
I agree, and I think at least some of them just like the "power" they think they hold by withholding who they will vote for. Some also are not telling for fear that people they know or are related to will find out and look down on them.
Thats certainly some of the undecided voters but there are also some undecided voters who are horribly uninformed and have limited if any knowledge about history or the basis of their rights.
Donald Trump has taken us back 100 years.
Actually he's taking us back way further than that - like back to the 1600s. Remember those days, finding and killing witches? Remember the Spanish Inquisition and it's aftermath? That's where Trump has taken us along with his filthy, rotten,idiotic, unethical, immoral, Catholic, supreme Court.
"The Spanish Inquisition" to be hosted by the Christian Nationalist, probably.
You are right about that. I had not thought back that far. Thank you.
More like 250 years! The classic statement of Liberalism is in the preamble to the Constitution: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their creator with certain INALIENABLE rights.... If Mary's uncle gains office again, our rights will be at the whims of individuals, just like under the English crown.
Well, if he wins again, I guess that's where America wants to be!
Does not really matter. This is not a democracy, but a Republic, and you can not use the fact we elect our representatives to undo the law. I do not believe the folks with those "Trump or Death" signs realize the effects years of the threat of violence have had on peaceful citizens.
Technically, it is not a republic but rather is a representative democracy because the public elects the government (the exception of the EC re POTUS, notwithstanding).
I really wish I could step onto a spaceship and fly away to someplace where love, compassion, empathy, and fairness is the normal way of life for everyone. Like a place in N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy. This place is really getting me down.
That's what we did, it's called Portugal.
Ha! I live in a peaceful little corner of Germany. Currently though, I'm just spending too much time and energy following American politics and worrying about my family and friends back in the States. My German friends are all shaking their heads in wonder at how insane the right has become.
Just tell them that the American Public School System has gone to Scheisse
I have 2 new neighbors upstairs, newly-arrived from... Portugal ! [ The Grass is always Greener ... ,]
I have those fantasies too.
Wonderful books!
Good question, mer. You may find the answer in Kevin Phillips's American Theocracy.
Donnie gives Americans permission to strike out for every little slight they have endured caused by THE OTHER: A Woman A man A MEXICAN A BLACK A JEW A MUSLIM A CHRISTIAN A NEIGHBOR A SCHOOL BULLY A BOSS A MEAN MOM DAD : A WHOEVER WRONGED YOU! This is DONALD SHOWING YOU “HIS PAIN” and WE ALL NEED TO FALL IN LINE AND FEEL “HIS” PAIN by hitting on EVERYONE! THIS IS MENTAL AMERICAN ILLNESS. WE ARE A SICK NATION BECAUSE ONE BROKEN MEN SAID SO ! SNAP THE f uc out of it !
I believe what is "wrong with us" is that we simply believe the polls. I think the polls are underrepresenting Democrat sentiment due to their obviously flawed methodology.
I don’t answer social media polls. I think many people polled might be afraid to admit who they’re voting for because of potential retaliation. They may not trust the pollsters. Others may be dishonest about their favored candidate for sport. Most of the internet based polls are attached to donation requests.
I believe the majority of us DO! It's the minority that's the problem!!!
I believe w have been saying the same concerning how Nazis managed to rise to power and kill over 20 million people. HUmans don't learn and here we are on the precipice of repeating all that has gone before. Fear of reprisals comes to mind.
Such hatred and bigotry. We have to be better than this as a country.
Not so long ago and within my lifetime black people were not allowed in the white high school. They were not allowed to live in a section of town called white but forced them to only live in a certain area. Placing the growing population stuffed in like Rats. This was wrong and many of the older people still alive are very racist. This still rings true for some. Calling the blacks the N word. Kippy Brown one of the coaches for the Seattle Seahawks came from the town I live in. He and others were natural athletes one young man could have been as famous as Michael Jordan. Sadly he was injured on the way home from college and the accident paralyzed him from the waste down. He and Kippy were best friends and led us to Championship after championship. What would Trump do if he met Kippy Brown and Michael Jordan? Would he call them names, no he would not he would call them the exception. Michael Jordans brother James, retired E9 from the Pentagon graded my performance as an instructor to the US Army. We became friends. Feel free to look him up he is a friend as well as Kippy. They are smart intelligent men with dark skin. In a century or two there will not be one race or color we, our families will be Mocha. Donald would die at the thought. I am pure Anglo Saxon but my ancestors were immigrants. Fought in American Indian war and the Revolutionary war. It part it was to free us from tearny and the radiation without reservation. Dear Donald we are pure but I grew up, average. While his grandfather came here and pimped out women, he murdered and stole, so Donald the apple has not fallen far from the genetic tree. The Statue at Ellis Island, gifted to us from France due to immigration. "Give us your hungry, your poor" it does not say only white English speaking people.
A very informed and succinct discussion of the attempt to rationalize socially constructed inequalities as “scientifically” determined; not that much different from the medieval use of the church to explain the socio-economic inequalities as purportedly determined by the metaphysical divinities of religious order.
Yes. I commented similar.
⛪️ churches are houses of SATAN. WARS DEATH POWER INVOLVES MAN MADE RELIGION. HELL IS PLEASED
Someone I read today on Substack (I think it was reported by Jay Kuo) said that if Donald layers the makeup bronzer on any thicker, he will have to deport himself. Don't we all wish he would just DO that.
It was Jay! Lol great meme!
Just a thought. If the 78 year old orange “king in his own mind” becomes President/Dictator on day 1, day 2, day 3, etc, and at anytime in the next 8 years (Trump 86 yrs old) becomes incapacitated the Veep becomes Prez. The Veep who wants to repeal Amendment 19, Women’s right to vote.
Vance is a very sick guy. He has real issues with women and seeks to dominate and subjugate, to make sure that they have no equality and no rights. In my mind even more dangerous than Trump. Hopefully the people will see that and make sure he never goes anywhere.
He probably treats his sacred couch better than his wife and women in general. His non-stop bizarre comments and his goals to take us back 100 years can't be overstated. In the meantime, tens of thousands evangelical Christians gathered in DC today to send their hypocritical delusional message that we need to elect Trump to bring us closer to God. WTF These clueless people have totally lost their way by worshipping the devil in disguise.
i can image Melania and Vance's wife having a great time together. Bashing their husbands. How to get even with them.
I think we are seeing how the paths led to religious atrocities like the Inquisition and witch trials
Vance is a firm believer/participant in many christo-fascist groups such as Opus Dei and NRx (the Dark Enlightenment movement). See Wikipedia. I credit Rachek Maddow and Substack for this frightening info.
ONG I wrote my thesis on Spain transition to democracy and opus dei figured prominently in Fascist Franco zeitgeist
Leonard Leo is a board member of Opus Dei's Catholic Information Center.
He is The Federalist Society's co-chair and advocated and advised for Donald's S.C. nominees. His money connections bring $$MM into the coffers of Project 2025.
None of us will have known pain until such time as their precepts become enforceable, should Fascista Primo get reelected. Nicknamed Donald's "Court Whisperer". Here's what happened when the D.C. A.G. tried to break the money river.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/23/brian-schwalb-leonard-leo-investigation-00148385
I am Catholic, but detest Opus Dei and similar groups. I don’t want them running my nation. I’m the latter years of Franco’s reign, they managed many governmental agencies in Spain. Leo manages the funds through which dark money funders carry out their legalized bribery. The SCOTUS majority seems content to let Trump, the billionaires, and the theocrats to destroy constitutional government and to set Trump up as a dictator. At some point Vance may well try to oust him through the 25th Amendment. I Vance is my Senator, but I didn’t vote for him, Peter Thiel bought Vance for us. Vance is a hypocrite, his book trashes his fellow Americans of Appalachian origin and is infused with a smug attitude, and I loathe Vance’s misogyny. I wonder what Usha Vance, his wife, thinks of his public statements?
Yes Opus Dei is a neofascist Catholic group with very ugly ties to very horrific powers. I studied Franco history and know you are correct.
Also, I am from a very Catholic family. My mom and godmother were friends with Dorothy Day and Catherine deHueck. I was raised to Believe that we had a moral obligation to care for the downtrodden and that was the true message of Christ. Every day I and my generational peers, children of these brave Social Justice pioneers, cry and wonder what all the sacrifices and work our parents did has come to. So sad.
Thank you, Daniel.
It’s gonna take more than “the people”. Please figure out a way to help get massive turnout wherever you are. That may be the only way to prevent or thwart those who are waiting in arms to dispute the election
Fervently, Lois..." from your lips to God's ear!"
Another reason to not let them win. That means Vance's wife and all females would lose right to vote. Wonder what she thinks. We're not going back!!!
Vance's wife is an interesting case, because as I understand it she is a high powered attorney.
That one is most definitely a head scratcher.
I hadn't read up on her. Interesting. She has some leverage.
Maybe he wasn't the disgusting power-hungry, white supremacist until he was picked by Trump to be his VP.
Vance was rather open about his dislike of Trump until Peter Thiel bought him his Senate seat. Vance has always been conservative, but he’s left that far behind and is headed to fascism, if not already there.
Wish more people understood who Thiel is. And how powerful. And his old ties and partnership to fascist Elon.
I'm not sure where I heard about that. She clearly has some leverage, but i'm not sure she will use it.
Its entirely possible that she’s a self hating victim of a thing close to Stockholm syndrome. Or of course as he only a year or so ago boldly called dumpf a modern day hitler she understands he bends whichever way power lies. FYI if you want to understand Vance just follow the money 1st step: Theil. Next: Theil+musk. And so on
Interesting thought about Stockholm syndrome. I also wonder if it might be something cultural, like what caste she came from.
Leopards eating faces party , they weren’t supposed to eat MY face.
Maybe she is using her intelligence and womanly smarts and intends to use him to move herself into a powerful political position
Maybe if Trump doesn't get in, she will divorce him. Just thinking.
I find myself wondering if she is downtrodden, being of Indian heritage married to a white misogynist. That would tend to mean that she would stay where she is. His attitude toward women may be something she's bought into.
Really? You think so? I seriously doubt it. And even so he’s made a deal with the devils. I’d put no sort of blackmail beyond their imaginations. We’re talking mafioso evil here, make no doubt about it.
Ha!
Why? What leverage?
Just thinking divorce.
Sorry my comment didn't make sense.
IDK, with her husband being a anti everything--voting, women, etc. I just threw that out there, because she's an attorney according to another comment.
Ever see the movie Stepford Wives? Hand Maiden Tales?
What I suspect, JDN, is IF by some fraudulent means trump is elected, inaugurated on Jauary 20, 2025. That by the end of February j(ustifably) d(emon) vance, with the concurrence of the rest of the MAGA maggots will invoke the 25th Amendment and have trump removed from office on grounds of dementia - which is obvious to anyone who has heard trump ramble . Vance is not a viable candidate on his own, he is exceedingly disliked. But he is a more intelligent fascist, fully prepared to hand over the wealth of the Nation to the Project 2025 oligarchy so long as they declare him dictator (and puppet) for life.
This is what I've thought ever since we found out that JD was chosen for Donald, by an oligarch. It is one of the steps closer to the filthy rich owning the entire country. Both TFG and JD are the puppets of the fascist rich.
I would think jd is more of an active participant.
Oh yes, actively participating, hence his being selected despite having a resume that's lacking actual experience. He'll make up for that with enthusiasm for his chosen dogma and further schooled along the way. He'll be as easily manipulated as TGF has been and in ways he hasn't even thought of yet.
Agreed!
Poison or pistols?
Neither, the 25 Amendment, Section 4: "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President." the Amendment goes on to say under what conditions the President may return to office, as well as how to make the President's replacement permanent.
Anyone who has heard or read trump's recent speech can detect the very obvious loss of memory and deteriorating dementia. No one will even question that. And voila the fascist dictatorship of America will effect the bloodless destruction of democracy. And there we will have for dictator the man no one but Peter Thiel wanted.
We see it, but the mainstream media outlets, as well as the outlets who back Trump, have been “sanewashing” Trump and pretending he is a normal presidential candidate. Trump is not psychologically normal. He shows signs of serious personality disorders, and Trump’s attacks on President Biden’s nonexistent “dementia” was an example of Trump’s ability to project his own advancing dementia onto the incumbent. Unfortunately, Trump has a dubious talent for getting people to believe his lies.
I think DT is the train used to get JDV into the Whitehouse. Trump does not even realize it. They will allow Trump in long enough to pardon himself and then use the 25th Amendment to excise the cancer that he is and replace it with another cancer on humanity. We think our situation will be as bad as it can get if Trump wins. If JDV gets in he will take us to new heights, heights that a healthy, normal mind can't even imagine.
I’m so scared.
I can clearly see the obvious symptoms of dementia in The Donald. My mother had Alzheimer's and she constantly and repetitively recited all the things anyone had ever done to bother her during her life. Like Donald, she was angry, lashed out at people and about formerly normal activities, everything was someone else's fault. The paranoia was scary and made no sense. She was convinced people were out get her and stole from her. Everything was totally unfair at all times. She was always agitated and unhappy, raving to and about unseen people and things. Anyone who has observed an elder relative developing dementia will be able to see this is what's happening to Donald. He is already too far gone to even be considered for any sort of job, much less one of any responsibility. I am sure that many of his ardent fans can see this, so why they continue to support his candidacy is jaw-droppingly unfathomable.
YES!! Exactly.
Scary idea, JDN. Evidently society is no closer to solving the social metastasis of Donald T, Vance and their infectious band of cronies than medicine is to a cancer cure. The filth that they disseminate with every successive rally and interview seems only to reinforce the hold that they
have on their immovable adherents. There is no going back for us, because that would open the path for the disease to sweep the continent, and to progress from there. As Mary so aptly asserts, the disease of bigots that afflicts Donald has been festering for centuries in the minds of eugenicists and their fearmongering crew. Thanks to Mary L. for her incisive scholarly writing.
Scary that they have this much of grip over this country & the world. ONE man poked the sleeping underground.
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Recall that until the end of the 19th century women were considered to be mentally and physically inferior to men. This is why the Constitution makes no mention of women's rights and needs, which differ in some important respects to those of men. This is why SCOTUS found it easy to overturn Roe.
Makes sense.
Our nation has never been able to rid itself of its misogyny, and Christian Nationalists behave as though the social norms of the first century of the common era were a divine mandate for all time. I think they underestimate women’s determination to fight back.
That is the dark PLAN.
Yup. And stands a good chance of success.
I 'd like to know why his wife stays with him. She is beautiful, very intelligent, a successful attorney. Why would she stay with this white supremacist, woman oppressor?
Why did Eva Braun stay with Adolf Hitler???
Exactly.
Maybe she gives him cover-his “beard”
Children? Yes I see her as trapped, the harm to the children would be irreparable. She stays because she is a mother. And her love of them means the lioness stays with and protects her cubs AT ANY COST. I feel soooo sorry for her.
Pathetic excuse. Living with JDV is not protecting them.
Being a public figure plays into it. Can you imagine the effects of social media putting them all under the microscope? Arrgggs. It would be hell for them. I did not say it was a good thing, it’s sad and pathetic.
Money? Fear? Time will tell.
They are a step ahead of you. Dumpf is already exhibiting signs of near full blown dementia. Speaking to genetics, his father had Alzheimer’s. Meaning his dementia may be clinical. The power grabbers around him are well aware. He is not fit to serve. So, they will invoke the 25th soon after he’s in power and JD Ahole will be the willing Faustian puppet. That’s the plan. I have no evidence other than my own reading and personal education.
He might have an Alzheimer’s type of dementia or another type of dementia. I agree with you that they may very well use the 25th Amendment to put Vance into office.
I don’t believe JDV taking over the presidency would take nearly that long. Six months, tops.
I wouldn’t be one bit surprised if he tried! And I quite agree with you about 1 more day…
Trump has already had one four-year term so if, God forbid (please!), he wins next month, he may serve one more term only. However, if he is incapacitated - or, more accurately, his current incapacities are finally recognized - then JD Vance would become president and he is indeed far more dangerous, especially for women.
Trump has immunity for everything. So who’s to say he won’t try to remain in office and get rid of elections. He has threatened this. 1 more day of Trump is one too many.
This is why I’d recommend everyone read or reread Timothy Snyder’s “On Fascism” to be familiar with what we are seeing and to be ready to resist.
No immunity from the billionaires Opus Dei, and the powers behind project 2025.
AND his little tiny hands will be way too close to the codes to launch nuclear bombs. Although, Putin may tell DT how good his intelligent hair looks and then ask him to hand the codes over to him. Hair does not possess intelligence, but Donald, I am sure, believes his does.
Ha. That’s the plan. Dumper is senile. The handlers will retire him within a year. Vance is in like flint
I'm so grateful to you, Mary, for your common sense, your ability to speak out, and your courage to do so. Thank you
Second that.
Don’t think Trump understands eugenics … it’s enough that it only has three syllables so he can pronounce it. Doesn’t study, doesn’t understand, doesn’t care—probably just listens to the wise advice of Stephen Miller and Laura Loomer who are, oddly enough, “genetically ineducable.”
And Stephen is the result of immigration as is Trump. I guess it depends on the color of the skin for it to be alright with him.
Stephen Miller’s uncle, David Glosser, has acted as a spokesperson for his family. He reminded Miller rightly that his own family had fled persecution in Tsarist Russia, and that they emigrated to Johnstown, PA. Jewish immigrants often encountered antisemitism and social hostility when they themselves came to this country. Dr. Glosser hasn’t forgotten this, but apparently, Stephen Miller has.
I had read this. Maybe Stephen thinks he can deny his roots by picking on others. Whatever his reason I don't want him back in the whitehouse and government.
Stephen and Laura, Jared and dad, Roy Cohn—Donald’s picks, all that’s missing is Meyer Lansky.
I haven’t read past ‘fascination with genes and genetics’ yet, Mary. Quite honestly, as a Jewish woman in America, I’m feeling my life is in extreme peril as were the Jews’ in Hitler’s years of terror. I’m not saying….well…I guess I am….the orange oompa loompa is Hitler’s twin. I hope I’m not offending anyone by saying so. And I’m not equating my life with the ones Jews had to live, or die, for under Hitler. I’m just really really scared 😢
I am scared for you and all my Jewish friends. The brightest student I ever had is a proud Jew and an avid Trump supporter, as are several others of my former Jewish students. I just don’t get it.
As my son always says, “Can’t fix stupid.” Like you, Bonnie, I just don’t get it. And thank you for caring. Knowing you are holding the umbrella over Jewish people, including me, brings me comfort.
We must all do so. I can’t stand the resurgence of antisemitism.
Makes no sense, does it? I don’t get it, either…
I guess the only explanation is CULT.
I can’t tell you how sad and angry his words make me feel, especially for those victimized by them. I am so sorry!
Laura, at least half the country will stand in your defense. Fear not but fear itself. The USA is not Germany.
I pray that you are right, Victor.
??? The polls are showing Trump is moving ahead of Harris. That's scary.
VOTE!
Yes, sad and scary. The high cost of living is the number one issue for many voters, who remember better times under Trump. Their frustration leaves them susceptible to Trump's lies and magical thinking.
The Magat cultist want a civil war......what are they going to do when patriots start shooting back with their own AR15s?? They will run and scatter like the roaches and rats that they are.
WJB, responding with AR 15s would be the worst thing defenders of democracy could do. Lawsuits, boycotts, and strikes would be far more effective.
Unless the hostile side attack first with arms.
Thank you, Victor 🥲
Well aren’t we close to Weimar?
Cannot even. Love all and give us your tired, poor and hungry.
That beautiful woman in the harbor…I have no words. Why don’t bumplicans listen to her?! I just don’t get it.
Beyond the pale. Just need to say…FOX news fuels this fire and gets away with it daily
Because those words do not apply to people they dont like. Poison put in their ears, literally
me too. terrified.
Hate defies logic, Laura. We have your back as well as all of our friends that make this country homogeneous and free. Tell your son to spread the word: We are in this together.
Thank you, Sharon. I appreciate you so much and am comforted by your words.
I am not Jewish, but I share your sense of fright. It’s ironic, but if you look at Donald Trump and Elon Musk, both of whom brag about their genetic superiority, you see that the claims of genetic superiority are a total crock, and that both men do it to hide their inferiority complexes.
😢, indeed. Take care of yourself.
Of course there is no proof of reincarnation. It is pure coincidence that DJT was conceived a short time after Hitler killed himself. And there is no evidence that DNA from Hitler could have been used to influence DJT genetic makeup. Actually, hasn't DJT admitted to adore Mein Kampf, which he has read in the English translation? Of course that must be where he gets his evil and hateful racist ideas....
Well, Fred Trump was a member of the Klan in his youth, and they shared many of the same ideas the Nazis did. The old guard Klansmen of the 1950s and 1960s had fought in World War II and were not willing to openly display the Nazi flag. David Duke was younger than they were and shamelessly flew the Nazi flag outside of his dorm room at LSU back in 1968 when he was attending school there.
Do not blame you in the least! The anti semitism on the rise even here🇨🇦
Hey, yeah. He is Hitler twin how could that offend?
The shocking and sad truth is you should be scared. It could happen again. All we have to do is listen to his words and his projections.
I learned a lot from this post, Mary. Thank you for that. One thing I already knew, however, was that your addlebrained, racist, rapist, lying liar uncle is the worst human being ever to run for any political office in American history. And, the people he relies on to tell him what to think are even worse.
Starting with that Cheung thing, I’d love to see his head explode during one of his hate filled invectives. Shouldn’t take too long. He’s almost more loathsome than Donald. Well, ok, maybe not, but there’s not much daylight between them. Or brains, either, there’s that uneducable issue again.
Totally agree, Randy. Steven Cheung is a top candidate for the 2nd Worst Person on the Face of the Earth.
Naw, it’s a tie. Musk ovite is soo close. A tossup
3rd after Stephen Miller. Don’t forget that horrific blight on America.
Leave us not forget Mike Johnson. He probably thinks having a passing resemblance to Colbert makes him tolerable, which it sorta does, until you hear him speak. And whatever happened to the Habba person? Another future whistleblower? Although she never struck me as anything but a proxy tool.
So many candidates deserving of being called the 2nd Worst. Unfortunately. Jim Jordan, Clarence Thomas, Turd Cruz, Alex Jones, Marjorie Taylor Dumbass, the list goes on and on and on . . .
But as usual, the tragedy is that so many acolytes have abased themselves beyond recognition. Permanently.
I Wikied the guy. He’s Asian Donald, perhaps worse than Donald considering his age. Wikipedia says he played football in high school. Perhaps he hit his head too many times?
Mary Trump, you are shining a brilliant light on many issues of vital importance, both contemporary, and in the past. Few people realize the influence that American treatment of minorities and disabled people had on Hitler’s plans for Germany and then, all of Europe.
As someone who lost a great many members of my family in the Holocaust, I have long thought that much of what was developing as policies in the Republican Party were ominously echoing that horrifying time.
Your words are so powerful and could not be more important.
With deep gratitude,
Your supporter in spirit!
I am so sorry for your losses, Terry. No one, especially orange oompa loompa and his minions, should hold power in this or any country on Earth that subscribe to his demonic ramblings and hatred.
Thank you for getting the nitty gritty point of Mary’s brilliant post today.
Good description! Yes. Donald Trump is mesmerizing across our country, and he is doing great harm.
Wise up people! This cannot continue if we want to live in a civil place.
NY Times attitude toward DJT's attitude and ignorant and misplaced enthusiasm for genetics, is truly shameful.
The NYT has given Donnie a pass too many times, on too many issues. That's why I no longer subscribe.
Nor do I.
Nor do I.
Holy Smokes Mary?! What a Brilliantly written article you've given us this evening! Your uncle has really gone to a Dark Place in his soul and History. Both are Disgusting and should never come out of the mouth of someone who's running for the highest office in the land. The American people will do the right thing by Voting for the Harris/Walz ticket. When your uncle loses, Democracy and the Rule of Law will still be in place for Him. Thank You for putting your thoughts to paper this evening and will reStack ASAP 🇺🇸
They can lose. Unfortunately not unthinkable. Numbers and turnout is what matters. Please do what you can ( driving neighbors to polls, canvassing, knocking on doors, postcards, phone banking) we MUST get out the vote!
Mary, as you know, Donald has been an extreme racist his whole adult life - at least. It was the 70's when he and his father were cited for racial discrimination against black renters and nothing has changed - if anything it has gotten worse. But also he's pandering to his base. This is what they want, this is why they support him. And like any good snake oil salesman he knows how to cater to his base. But as long as they do, and as long as he seems to be getting away with every damn thing there isn't much we can do about it except to support Kamala and Tim as best we can and see what happens to dear old don after the election when he's still facing all those indictments and trials. And hope that after she wins she sees about dealing with some of the corruption and lack of consequences that is fueling the former Republican, now Trump party.
I fear his minions and handlers have infiltrated too deep. Blackmail, and Russian misinformation. The republicans have been co-opted completely.
Lois, The GOP has gone to POT (Party of Trump).
How about those good old days. My bestie is a relentless Republican and I a staunch Democrat. We all are in it together this time out.
Thanks but you failed to include that his speech is also largely incomprehensible. Always crazy expression but now he is really blathering.
And they listen and repeat the same blather over and over again. Remarkable and incomprehensible.
Didn’t his dad have Alzheimer’s?
Fred Trump did have Alzheimer’s disease in the last years of his life. Donald Trump has deteriorated to the point where he is uttering word salad and using garbled words that to him sound like the actual word he wants to use.
He literally needs to be straight jacketed and a have a literal gag. Or polygraph test. It would blowup.
Lisa, it’s important to remember that the polygraph is not actually a lie detector, and as such it is not admissible in court. What it actually measures is discomfort or anxiety, either anxiety at telling a lie, or even the extra work it takes for a relatively normal person to lie or otherwise deceive. People (e.g., spies) can be trained to defeat a polygraph. And sociopaths or anyone who is sufficiently pathological as to not care or even know when they are lying will not be “caught” by a polygraph. It’s a nice fantasy, though 😎
Hey, thanks for the insight. Appreciate it.
*They're* bringing crime? *They're* rapists? The gall of this convicted felon and adjudicated rapist saying such a thing. As usual he projects. I sincerely hope that someday soon it all catches up to him. I can't wait for November 26th, when Judge Merchan sentences him. Let that be just the first of many events finally holding him accountable.