Trump gives the same speech every time: lies, whining, juvenile name calling of victims, dick measuring over crowd size, waxing poetic about Hannibal Lector, boring stories about his golf game. If he keeps talking, he becomes boring and fumbles. His lies are stale and his crowd cannot be as big as Kamala’s.
On the other hand, the positive feeling is coming from all directions: the campaign’s epic messaging, the charisma of the principals, their warmth and enthusiasm, the polls, the enthusiasm of the Dems…it IS a positive feedback loop, since every element bolsters the other elements.
Harris trends up…...Trump trends down…… Clearly we have momentum!
That's why this "Kamala removes orange stains" t-shirt is perfect for these times 🤣 👇
Harris's joy is helping to drive younger voters to sign up to vote and to volunteer for her campaign. Elections are won by the candidate who expresses optimism of the future not doom and gloom. Harris is a refreshing joyful warrior that's talking about a better future for the nation. Trump's boring old act of whinning and complaining has worn out the majority of voters and people are rejecting his negativity.
I feel like the when Obama first ran, that enthusiasm did not seem to quell. Let’s hope the joy remains until November!
Feel free, I believe I got the name from Adam and Sam’s hilarious news letter on Substack. Mary referred us to them. Their news letter isn’t for those that get offended easily😂 Check it out.
I could never have imagined all this was going to happen these last few weeks. I was ready to give up after the shitty assassanation attempt, but Trump seems to have used up the last of his karma dodging that bullet and its veen all downhill for his campaign from there. God bless Biden, he saved the country by beibg selfless, what a guy.
Yes history should be clear about what a dangerous time these TRUMP years were and how Biden saved the day by winning won in 2020 - got us al thru Covid saved the economy- made the US a world leader in energy production- and managed to pass pass infrastructure bills and so much more without contorting the House and barely having control of the Senate strengthened NATO - Union's in the US helped Ukraine and Israel from being overrun etc and in the midst of being ill wiht Covid and getting hostages freed he he put country first by allowing Harris to replace him so he could continue his full time efforts to keep all the worlds bad Actors from starting wars while here in the US Biden set up this exciting positive movement so the Dems can destroy the MAGA movement and save our Democracy. What accomplishments. How lucky we all are Biden has been our president. How lucky we are that Veep Harris is also a visionary who can lead us all forward and not back into a MAGA Project 2025 past..
I would have to agree-a brilliant stroke by Biden! Perfectly timed to destroy Trump. We can’t let off the gas though. Trump I losing it and now we have the truth in front of us. Kamala is the future Trump is the past. Let’s move to the future!
Joe Biden is a man of great intelligence. He deserves the highest honor & respect one can give this wonderful President. He has done so much for this country in vast, unselfish ways!
Joe Biden worked so hard & for so long, he's tired & 80! What a job running an entire country, while dealing with foreign affairs as well. I don't know if anyone could do that job perfectly for their country & for so long.
Mary, thank you for everything you’ve done to “interpret” and open our eyes to the psychopath that your Uncle truly is. The truth is, he had been in an alternate reality his entire life. He was just a master at dragging other people into his reality. Starting with the gossip columnists he sucked in, and Mayor Ed Koch with Trump Tower, NYC DA Robert Morgenthau , to Kelly Anne “Alternative Reality” Conway, to Lindsey Graham and all the other people eager to romp in his kitschy fever-pitch circus.
Refuses to share ANY of his medical records, except the one that said he was 6' 3" (he's GROWN an inch in his 70s) and weighed 236 pounds. hahahaha. More like 336 pounds.
I hate Trump to but that's going too far. Unless he got somebody who pretended to be the shooter and get himself killed or the fireman who got killed protecting his family. Trump doesn't share any records about anything with anyone. It's below him, or so he thinks. He is a master at deception but a staged assassination attempt? I don't think so. He did milk it for all he could though.
Donniblal Lector is responsible for thousands of covid deaths.........he ramped up executions "like nobody has ever seen before in the history of the world".......women are facing death and doctors face risk in prison........." I was the one who got ride of RoeVWade".....(really Mr accordian hands??)..........so what is single little "loser...I dont like losers" dead fireman to that Orange fastfood fart brain fried diaper claud rapist. Whoever supplied the ketchup should be ashamed.
Oooh, didn't see your reply when I replied with same thing. There's thrive, throve, thriven, like drive, drove, driven - try using throve in conversation, see how far it gets you
That's exactly what I picked up on when I "woke up". So much of our vocabulary is something I don't think about that much, although crossword puzzles are making me do that more and more these days.
It's not God with whom you have to argue. It's British grammarians. It's smite (present tense) and smote (past tense). Like write and wrote. Sorry if you were joshing and I'm therefore being condescending... oops!
We can’t count on you, God. It still will depend on a huge turnout of voters for the Blue candidates and that many non-MAGA Republicans who Donald calls RINOs stay home. If you can’t bring yourself to vote for a Democrat, sit this one out. It’s nothing to be ashamed of.
Trump may be self-immolating, but this is exactly the time the Dems have to be alert, aware and vigilant to the LAST MINUTE! He’s psychotic but his tribe wants him to win for their own benefit, and will provide plenty of tricks to guarantee they can claim success. It’s our job to be one step ahead of them.
So true ST. Trump strikes me as a bit of a hand puppet for the minders. They wheel him out for the fire and brimstone speeches, but behind all of that is a seriously well oiled machine that wants power at all/any cost.
I agree with that. He's got a number of puppet masters because he's such a malignant narcissist grossly obsessed with acquiring money and power. It's been easy for Putin and the Heritage Foundation to pull his strings. All it takes is a compliment or two to get the idiot salivating and ready to chirp whatever they want him to say.
Heritage and the Evangelicals are using him to deflect attention. The real goal for this mess is a right wing conservative hellscape.......Project 2025
A Biden Presidential Act, right? Part of his official duty as defined in his Oath of Office to protect and preserve the USA from all threats... And he now has immunity for official acts.
Yes - What benefits Trump also benefits Biden. Trump ought to be very careful what he wishes for. Biden should do to Trump what Trump proposes to do to him.
100% agreed, remember what the🍊traitor said about NOT needing peoples votes, watch out for the 2024 fake electors scheme & ‘his’ supremes who will be there to safe him🤷🏻♂️unless off course the ‘brilliant 🙄’AG, the DOJ & the FBI is awake to all of his shenanigans🤷♂️🇺🇸🤞FFS AMERICA, WAKE UP @potus @senatedems @housedemocrats @repjeffries @thhsfec, he will try to steal it AGAIN🤞🇺🇸
Yes. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. His base is so brainwashed that they actually believe his lies and exaggerations. They don't bother to fact-check him because that would destroy their narrative of him as being their hero, and they apparently believe everything that he and the rightwing media say.
The left isn't perfect by any means, but they're not the ones peddling hostility and hate, although the right will claim that. What I have heard from the left pales in comparison to the right's rhetoric. It's Trump's ego that has been injured and they're defending it as if it's their own. Trump's "poor me" schtick is getting old with them by now, I imagine. I would hope that they'd want to hear more about his plans for the future, not rehashing the 2020 election lies and bashing the left. It's time to move forward from this disaster and let this country heal and it's going to take cooperation from both parties to make that happen. Time for them to reach across the aisle again to get things done. "United we stand, divided we fall" and fall we will if this continues.
Yes. They know that if he loses, they will fall to the bottom of the GOP heap and have to crawl their way back to some middle rung of the political ladder.
I think it’s time to say Thank You President Biden for turning this, what was a horror show, around. Tremendous thanks to Mary for showing us the personal insight to what the horror and disaster it could have been.
He’s such a sad, little and very old man, he appears to have lost his best friend, but that can’t be true, he doesn’t have friends, never mind a “best friend”.
If I hadn’t have watched him tear up the U S A, I would actually feel sorry for him. Nope, not sorry for him. Karma is such a beyotch!
Most of the Trump supporters I know are outliers and losers, people who have never felt successful, accepted or powerful, and often felt overlooked and scorned. A lot of them were bullied as kids, they're angry and full of hate and they want to make others as miserable as they are. Trump has always said the quiet parts out loud, even bragged about them, so it normalized their anger, racism and misogyny and he made them feel they are part of the "in" crowd that was calling all the shots. They invested money, body and soul in him, destroyed families and friendships over him, broke the law for him and reveled in thumbing their noses at everyone. Now that the cheese is obviously sliding off Trump's cracker and he's looking more and more like a demented loser, like Trump himself, they just can't bring themselves to admit that they were wrong, give up their dream that they'd finally be on the side of the ones wielding the whips and crawl back under their rocks.
Many of his supporters, whom I know, like him based on the myth that he had the greatest economy ever and that Biden's is awful. With their tight social conformity and obedience (Milgram), they won't speak out against Trump among their peers, even though not all of them benefited from his "policies". They have blamed Biden for the horrible economy from day one of his administration when there was absolutely no way he could have had that effect in such a short amount of time. It was explained to me that each incumbent president's policies are those of the previous ones for the first couple of years, until his own policies take effect. So, while Trump INHERITED a stable economy, he left Biden with a mess of his own making with Covid and his tariffs. Given what they were left with, I think Biden's administration did a good job at getting us to a manageable situation, even though they won't admit it. If things continued along the trajectory in which they were headed in the Trump administration's only term, many of us in the lower income brackets, like those of us who are disabled and/or retired without adequate savings., would have been much worse off. The middle class would have disappeared altogether as corporations and the wealthy received all of the tax breaks, and as the cost of everything went up for many reasons, those in the lower income brackets, were the ones who felt it the most. Any of those tax breaks did not result in corporations hiring more people and lowering their prices, as they were intended. The corporations kept their prices high, seeing that people had to find a way to pay them anyway. Yayyy!! He really does "love" us as he said. :/
Here in my red state Southern Baptist family, it's more about putting up with the crudeness and vulgarity for the "greater good", employing well-disguised hypocrisy and hatred.
Mine as well here, in the Northeast. They claim that they don't like him as a person, but that they love his policies. Oh yeah; which ones would those be, I ask? 'Um, uh you know, the economy, trade, the wall, getting a vaccine made in record time, etc., more people working, etc.'
Isn’t it amazing they can’t be specific!!! He isn’t either just a bunch of Rhetoric!! You don’t think many are following just because he’s republican. Well so to speak!!!! He’s not really for a party other than his own LOL
Oh, I know that they are following him simply because he's a republican, but it's because they hate the democrats so much. Little do they realize, perhaps, that he switched from being a democrat to being a republican shortly before tossing his hat into the ring to run as a republican. That's right; he isn't really for a party other than his own. He used us to enrich himself when he refused to divest himself from his business assets as he was supposed to and instead said he would donate his salary to charity because he was so rich. Instead of his $400K/yr presidential salary that we paid for with our tax dollars, he made millions as he held state and international meetings at his hotels/resorts like the one (Mar A Lago) where he showed our top-secret documents. ANNNND we still got to pay for his salary to be donated to charity. We got to pay for it all!! What a guy; eh?
I just wonder about some of the military and highly educated have been and are supporters. We have friends he was a retired high up officer in the Air Force and boy you could not get his to see it. Just sad but he also wouldn’t have taken part in some of those rallies
Yup! They will never admit that they were totally f*cked over by Dump...certain to blame anyone else for being a bunch of niave dipshits. And so they will have to go back to their trailer parks and sulk. Losers.
It’s the same as you say where I’ve. It takes work and motivation to find happiness in life. It also takes critical thinking. Many just gropped along in life until they discovered that they are a miserable person. I can feel pity for them but also, they had a great part in their life path.
He affirms their fears and prejudices about racial, immigration, and economic issues and that's a very powerful motivator. Facts don't really matter much to them as long as their beliefs are affirmed, hence the persistence of some of their conspiracy theories.
Illusions can be Very Powerful & Tempting, for those easily fooled. For the rest of us, who see right through the “smoke & mirrors, it’s like just downright Pathetic! We’ve been hearing & visualizing the whining widdle boy inside the blustery b.s.er all the while! He’s been giving us a non-stop Migraine all Along. Good riddance can’t come soon enough.
One thing I noticed about the Donald is that he has called both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris "nasty." He uses this word exclusively to describe women who are strong and intelligent. He says Harris is "low IQ," which makes absolutely no sense as a descriptor of the former Attorney General for the State of California, a former US senator and the current vice president. He's reduced to such lies and to say she's "crazy" because she laughs like a person who actually has a sense of humor. I have never heard Donald Trump laugh, and have never seen a genuine smile on his face. He is so disconnected from the human race that he cannot figure out how to engage voters except through grievance and resentment. I know it's a close race right now, but I have never been more certain that he will lose, and bigly.
yes, he does use "nasty" a lot to describe women who are smarter and more powerful than him, including journalists...how many times have we heard him say "that's a nasty question" at a presser. His vocabulary is limited but his mean spirit finds enough "nasty" words to fall outta his mouth when he is bellowing at his silly rallies.
Yes; he has the lexicon of a 7th grader at most. His non-fluid sentences are difficult to follow for those who have a keen grasp of English grammar and sentence structure. He zig zags with different thoughts all in one sentence. For someone who has an ivy league education, he must not have learned a thing.
don't forget -- he's also a sexual predator. so calling Harris beautiful isn't exactly a compliment coming from a creep like him. he probably got turned on when he saw the cover, conflated the portrait of Harris with his wife, and then hubba-hubba...
I think that Marla Maples and E. Jean Carroll looked a whole lot more alike than Melania and Kamala. Somebody's comment that I just read pointed out that trump is sexualizing her, another way to take her down. That makes a lot of sense to me.
Way, way back in the day, if a woman was described as "nasty", it meant she smelled down there, either from overuse, infection, or bad hygiene. It's the way men like Trump demeaned women who rejected them or didn't put up with their bullshit.
He's still in that ancient mindset. It's why he likes "dancing" to the Village People. He's still Disco Don. I doubt he realizes what the Village People represented, which makes me laugh. 🤣🌊
He enjoys being a winner, and it doesn't matter to him how he gets there. To him, winning is everything, along with appearance. He'd have to be in touch with reality to understand how bad he is.
He goes through a lot of money. All those attorneys know to receive payment up front. He also needs to win to stay out of jail. His past is catching up with him.
He is a bottomless pit and is completely hollow inside. Anything to make him feel good must come from outside, not from within. To survive, he will always need his toys, embezzled money, and sycophants.
Donald is a morbidly obese, mentally ill, incoherent old man deeply in dementia, whose vaudeville act has lost its punch. Sure, there are still, unfortunately, tens of millions of his converts who will vote for him no matter what. And that’s terrifying. But I believe his power over the “undecided” and the “normal” republicans is waning. At least I pray it’s so.
We are seeing more groups of republicans for Harris, and in some important places like Arizona. I would imagine that the same thing might be happening in PA, because that's how Josh Shapiro got elected.
It always does catch up with narcissists, because of their self-defeating hubris. The trick is to bear witness and stay alive long enough to recount it.
Remember Goebels’ words “Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.” In other words, as has been pointed out elsewhere, every GQP accusation is a confession.
And if someone tells you that, you flat out ask if The Heritage Foundation is a democratic organization! The answer is no. Quote from it - “do you like social security and healthcare? How do you feel about union earned pensions? Do you like oversight for meat, vegetables, and other food? How do you feel about adding $3k to your tax bill?” All in P25 and all valid responses.
Or listens to them a little too much. 'Not at all' would have been better. How did we get to a point where adults are normalizing fantasy and conspiracy, and rejecting fact-checkers?
Rather, I don't think he listens to the "issues" and instead listens to "noise" going on around him. He seems to prefer fantasy (good or bad) over reality. Reality might mean that he has to take responsibility for some of it.
I can’t wait until I never see or hear him again. He’s such an appalling and repulsive human being who incorporates every single bad quality you can think of — outside of alcoholism. Still, he acts like the drug addicted cousin who makes a fool of himself at weddings and other family events.
And I don’t mean to insult drug addicts. They deserve compassion.
Same here. Every time he ran a business into the ground I thought “well, hopefully that’s it and I won’t have to hear from him again”. He’s like a bad stench that never leaves.
Yeah, New Yorkers know all about what a constant douchebag Dump always was, from way back in the 80's onward. I'm sorry, is it 3000, or 4000 lawsuits? How on earth is that even possible? A weekly docket?
The "mechanical issues" on the plane en route to Bozeman, MT, were complete bullshit. Combover Caligula owes the Bozeman-Yellowstone International Airport a ton of money. That's why his plane landed in Billings.
What a worthless sack of shit. And how wonderful to have this platform with like-minded people, where we don't have to plod through idiotic, defensive critiques of what we say.
I saw the answer to that once but I don't recall. Would seem logical, especially closer to the election. Neither Republican is even a half-decent choice, IMO.
I am worried that it will happen...that tRump will not be on the ticket for prez for some reason and they put JD in there...but I DO think that republicans think JD is too weird to win...the energy for Kamala is so strong, it just needs to stick!
I don't see Independents going for Vance, nor Never Trumper Republicans. And frankly even some MAGA may be turned off by Vance, who lacks the charisma & ability to connect with the audience that Trump has. Vance has even less legitimacy as a presidential nominee than Harris has. He's never had any nationwide support as a presidential candidate, & only became a senator because of millions of dollars spent on his campaign by antidemocratic Thiel & other billionaires, & then VP choice from pressure by Thiel, Musk, Sacks & other billionaires as well as Trump Jr. of all people.
Mary, I’ve been a fan for a long time.I always find your insights helpful. Donald is clearly a narcissist - but what’s up with his followers? That he has any, at all, is unnerving. They can’t all be narcissists, can they?
There's something called Dependent Personality Disorder—it's a person who's looking for someone to solve all their problems. I didn't know that many millions had it. But there's so many major problems arising right now (climate crisis, war clouds), that there seems to be a bigger call for saviors.
But with Americans it seems very selective. I think a large number of Americans easily ask this question: “Who are you to tell me what to do?” American parents and teachers tend to hear that a lot.
I think that applies only to people who have never become independent thinkers, possibly due to dumbed down education? There seems to be a major lack of ego strength in such people. IMO.
I’m a scientist (was) and I also am a amateur historian and personality psychologist. I’ve been watching people and analyzing personality traits for 50 years. Yes, it is true the maybe 5% of people would admit to be under a dictatorship at first, but as what happened in Germany, and what’s happened in many other places, dictatorships come with great boons to a good number of people. Decisions and direction of country are made quickly. Hitler turned the German economy around in only a few years. The people loved it. He became a hero even though he was a dictator. There are certain personality types that are a lot more prone to be convinced of the merits of a dictatorship, especially when the country was impoverished for a number of years. Look at the MAGAts. In the US, many thought the Trump was too much in the beginning, but looked what happened! What happened in the US, was basically a rough script how dictators come into power.
People don’t have to be narcissists to follow one.
The MAGA crowd have believed in Trump for a long time and don’t believe any negative stories about him.
The belief is so strong, they don’t even see what’s in front of their own eyes. Hitler’s followers failed to see that he looked nothing like the blond, blue eyed, tall and fit Ayran ideal he was promoting.
Trump’s backers are now stuck between a rock and a hard place. They can’t do the right thing, either because they’re also too blind to see, or are too afraid of the backlash to act.
What happens if, or more likely when, Trump has a complete breakdown is anyone’s guess. Given his physical state, a stroke or heart attack seems quite possible. Then they’ll be left with Vance…
Safe to say they all are, to some degree, idiots. But, upsettingly, I know a couple of highly intelligent people who support him in the name of being "conservative." And they warn me that Kamala is dangerous!
I have read and listened to some that I consider the "true conservatives," and they point out that the odious one is anything but conservative. I look at the two groups and even though I do not belong to that ideology I know which side I believe.
my siblings tell me they hate the democrats, and get all fired up if politics gets dropped into the conversation, ranting about how tRump is treated so unfairly. I don't get it...can't believe we are related! But I am not alone. There are diehard tRumpers in many families who also have Kamala supporters. Sad that we cannot just have a conversation about the candidates.
WHY OH WHY can we not get a damn amendment or whatever it would take to add to the pathetic short list of qualifications required to run for President? It’s ridiculous in the nuclear age to not officially examine candidates as to their psychological makeup and other fitness issues for such an enormous and powerful position in the world. It’s such an obvious need……who the hell is stalling this?
The J6 committee is introducing laws with more stipulation, to run for President. We’ve never had a reason for amendments, we do now. We have to keep the senate, and have majority in the house. I believe after this election there will be less partisanship, and adopt ethics codes for SCOTUS. Bennie Thompson is introducing legislation to take away trumps lifetime secret service protection, and TFG’S pension
Re: either tests, or qualifications (which would inevitably be supported by tests) I can foresee two issues at least. 1) Who decides what material is on the tests? [Wealthy mostly Euro-Americans? Jews? African Americans? Latinas? Asian Americans? A group of the above? Congress? Trained psychologists?] 2) “Little issues” such as, does the second highest person automatically become VP candidate? Is there a threshold for acceptable or a range of scores?
I’m not opposed to standards of some sort but not sanguine about how difficult it might be.
This is a great column. Thanks Mary. My biggest worry now is how the entirely unscrupulous big money folks, counting on DJT for their continued tax breaks, will without the candidate's help create sufficient disinformation and confusion to tilt the faltering race back their way. Otherwise, looks like your clueless dear uncle is becoming crispy political toast.
I’ve read taxes will go up several thousand bucks for the middle class. It would be nice to see some actual projections on that fact if a billionaire tax cut comes to fruition. Those numbers are tangible evidence of the big lie, along with everything else. I would like to see that at a rally in the midwest.
If rich people paid decent wages to their employees that brought them to their wealthy position AND paid their fair share in taxes, lives of millions would be improved and the country would be more firmly anchored to actual values.
Of course you're right but the wealthy have always had to be forced to do the right thing. It was pretty much never voluntary. This isn't new. That they have been getting away with it for decades is new. There has to be a total overhaul of our current system. No more huge conglomerates so that 12 companies are actually running the country. They took apart AT&T and many others. That has to happen again.
That did happen back in the FDR administration. It was called the New Deal. It led to the country’s biggest and strongest middle class ever. Conservatives screamed at FDR then, and have been working ever since Reagan to dismantle it— succeeding greatly. But I think their momentum has stopped, and the pendulum is swinging back to “We, the People,” with the Harris-Walz reset.
I am a tax preparer. Even if Trump wins, taxes on the middle class will go up by several thousand dollars because most of the provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump in 2017 will expire at the end of 2025, and the increased standard deductions and better tax rates the middle class have been enjoying will go back to the way it was so they will have to basically pay it all back. Trump very cleverly made it look like the middle class was getting a nice tax break but only during his first and second terms, then it bounces back up to make the next president appear at fault. Rest assured, though, that the 1% won't be affected because their tax rates will still be very low by comparison. Just another scam by the orange grifter.
i'm middle class, and my taxes went up by about $2000 when the tax law changed in 2017 due to losing all my deductions. and yes he did make it so it would get worse under the next president. hopefully they will deal with that next year.
Lowering taxes for the wealthy has been the Republicans battle cry, since forever. Look at your income taxes, compare them in accordance with which party has the presidency. That sounds like an appropriate solution, than relying on getting disinformation from anything outside a reliable news source
His long awaited smiting is at hand.
Trump gives the same speech every time: lies, whining, juvenile name calling of victims, dick measuring over crowd size, waxing poetic about Hannibal Lector, boring stories about his golf game. If he keeps talking, he becomes boring and fumbles. His lies are stale and his crowd cannot be as big as Kamala’s.
On the other hand, the positive feeling is coming from all directions: the campaign’s epic messaging, the charisma of the principals, their warmth and enthusiasm, the polls, the enthusiasm of the Dems…it IS a positive feedback loop, since every element bolsters the other elements.
Harris trends up…...Trump trends down…… Clearly we have momentum!
That's why this "Kamala removes orange stains" t-shirt is perfect for these times 🤣 👇
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Harris's joy is helping to drive younger voters to sign up to vote and to volunteer for her campaign. Elections are won by the candidate who expresses optimism of the future not doom and gloom. Harris is a refreshing joyful warrior that's talking about a better future for the nation. Trump's boring old act of whinning and complaining has worn out the majority of voters and people are rejecting his negativity.
I feel like the when Obama first ran, that enthusiasm did not seem to quell. Let’s hope the joy remains until November!
I keep saying, the more Con-old and Justa Dickhead talk the better it is for our party. They are both complete idiots.
I like that better than what I have been calling him, don the con. I am going to steal that and start calling him Con-Old
Or as someone else on this thread came up with, "Donnibal Lecter". 😂😂
Omg, that is the best!!!🤣 He is obsessed with Hannibal. I wonder if he eats fava beans and drink a nice Chianti too.
Feel free, I believe I got the name from Adam and Sam’s hilarious news letter on Substack. Mary referred us to them. Their news letter isn’t for those that get offended easily😂 Check it out.
You said it so well! TY.
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I think that smiting began the minute that President Biden nominated V.P. Harris for president.
I could never have imagined all this was going to happen these last few weeks. I was ready to give up after the shitty assassanation attempt, but Trump seems to have used up the last of his karma dodging that bullet and its veen all downhill for his campaign from there. God bless Biden, he saved the country by beibg selfless, what a guy.
Yes history should be clear about what a dangerous time these TRUMP years were and how Biden saved the day by winning won in 2020 - got us al thru Covid saved the economy- made the US a world leader in energy production- and managed to pass pass infrastructure bills and so much more without contorting the House and barely having control of the Senate strengthened NATO - Union's in the US helped Ukraine and Israel from being overrun etc and in the midst of being ill wiht Covid and getting hostages freed he he put country first by allowing Harris to replace him so he could continue his full time efforts to keep all the worlds bad Actors from starting wars while here in the US Biden set up this exciting positive movement so the Dems can destroy the MAGA movement and save our Democracy. What accomplishments. How lucky we all are Biden has been our president. How lucky we are that Veep Harris is also a visionary who can lead us all forward and not back into a MAGA Project 2025 past..
Hallelujah.
I would have to agree-a brilliant stroke by Biden! Perfectly timed to destroy Trump. We can’t let off the gas though. Trump I losing it and now we have the truth in front of us. Kamala is the future Trump is the past. Let’s move to the future!
All gas, no brakes. Harris/Walz 2024!!💙💙💙💙💙💙
Joe Biden is a man of great intelligence. He deserves the highest honor & respect one can give this wonderful President. He has done so much for this country in vast, unselfish ways!
Joe Biden worked so hard & for so long, he's tired & 80! What a job running an entire country, while dealing with foreign affairs as well. I don't know if anyone could do that job perfectly for their country & for so long.
His legacy will shine like a diamond.
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Trump Fatigue. May it be contagious.
Mary, thank you for everything you’ve done to “interpret” and open our eyes to the psychopath that your Uncle truly is. The truth is, he had been in an alternate reality his entire life. He was just a master at dragging other people into his reality. Starting with the gossip columnists he sucked in, and Mayor Ed Koch with Trump Tower, NYC DA Robert Morgenthau , to Kelly Anne “Alternative Reality” Conway, to Lindsey Graham and all the other people eager to romp in his kitschy fever-pitch circus.
It was staged. Trump is still refusing to share his medical records for that red dyed ear.
Refuses to share ANY of his medical records, except the one that said he was 6' 3" (he's GROWN an inch in his 70s) and weighed 236 pounds. hahahaha. More like 336 pounds.
I hate Trump to but that's going too far. Unless he got somebody who pretended to be the shooter and get himself killed or the fireman who got killed protecting his family. Trump doesn't share any records about anything with anyone. It's below him, or so he thinks. He is a master at deception but a staged assassination attempt? I don't think so. He did milk it for all he could though.
Thing that scares me most about him, is that he's sneaky & sly. He is also very unstable.
Donniblal Lector is responsible for thousands of covid deaths.........he ramped up executions "like nobody has ever seen before in the history of the world".......women are facing death and doctors face risk in prison........." I was the one who got ride of RoeVWade".....(really Mr accordian hands??)..........so what is single little "loser...I dont like losers" dead fireman to that Orange fastfood fart brain fried diaper claud rapist. Whoever supplied the ketchup should be ashamed.
💙 "Donnibal Lecter" 💙
conold has a lot of ketchup packs from McDonald's
Omg Motown, Mr. Accordion Hands describes the fat orange idiot’s hand gestures perfectly.
Yep... totally believe it was staged.
People died. While I don't think Trump would give that a 2nd thought, I hope his attorneys would give better counsel.
I thought he'd have made better sense if he'd brushed the blood aside as a "nick". Instead of going full-on victim.
I reckon being a pu$$¥ grabb€r gave the orange man 18 lives! Hahahahahahaha
Definitely
I wish you were really God, and could actually smite Le Grand Orange. What a great night’s sleep I’d finally get…
I am and I am.
Thank you good God above 🙏💙
Good 😏
and you sound a lot like Cenk Uygur
Oh good. I’ve been waiting to see if you’re not really Santa ‘cause’
I'd be happy if He went the route of Antony "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
He will he will.
I always thought it was “smoting”, but hey, I can’t argue with God!
It's a really old Anglo-Saxon verb: smite, smote, smitten. Like: write, wrote, written.
Oooh, didn't see your reply when I replied with same thing. There's thrive, throve, thriven, like drive, drove, driven - try using throve in conversation, see how far it gets you
How about...
Fascists throve during the Trump administration.
Linguistically and factually correct.
😆
Hmmm….
You woke my brain up with 'smitten'. I never before thought about what that word meant. Thank you!
Funnily enough "smitten" is used a bit these days in the context of people falling hard romantically for someone.
That's exactly what I picked up on when I "woke up". So much of our vocabulary is something I don't think about that much, although crossword puzzles are making me do that more and more these days.
I am so glad that that word is still widely used in English. It really has a punch to it! It means someone has been smoted. Ha Ha
As in SMOTE the jabberwocky?
Not smoten?
Nope. Smitten, written, driven. Not smoten wroten droven.
It's not God with whom you have to argue. It's British grammarians. It's smite (present tense) and smote (past tense). Like write and wrote. Sorry if you were joshing and I'm therefore being condescending... oops!
Yes, and my dad told me that one, many decades ago :D
Glad to hear you say that, God
Because he truly sounded like the Sibilance of Satan on that podcast with Melon 🍈 Husk
😖
Antichrist
The Orange Antichrist, as I like to say.
Donnibal Lector
Didn't God give up smoting?
Yes, He quit smoting.
🚫🚫🚫🚬🚬🚬🚫🚫🚫
🤣🤣🤣
Awesome 😂
We can’t count on you, God. It still will depend on a huge turnout of voters for the Blue candidates and that many non-MAGA Republicans who Donald calls RINOs stay home. If you can’t bring yourself to vote for a Democrat, sit this one out. It’s nothing to be ashamed of.
Hazzah! :D
Trump may be self-immolating, but this is exactly the time the Dems have to be alert, aware and vigilant to the LAST MINUTE! He’s psychotic but his tribe wants him to win for their own benefit, and will provide plenty of tricks to guarantee they can claim success. It’s our job to be one step ahead of them.
So true ST. Trump strikes me as a bit of a hand puppet for the minders. They wheel him out for the fire and brimstone speeches, but behind all of that is a seriously well oiled machine that wants power at all/any cost.
I agree with that. He's got a number of puppet masters because he's such a malignant narcissist grossly obsessed with acquiring money and power. It's been easy for Putin and the Heritage Foundation to pull his strings. All it takes is a compliment or two to get the idiot salivating and ready to chirp whatever they want him to say.
You mean Dump has no idea about project wet dream 2025? Noooo!!!
What B.S.!
I 100% agree!! I have seen him as a puppet for quite some time. He is just not smart enough to be in a leadership position.
Heritage and the Evangelicals are using him to deflect attention. The real goal for this mess is a right wing conservative hellscape.......Project 2025
What gave it away?!
What exactly are you wanting to know??
Exactly!
And that’s the electoral vote
The ones that count. Until we dismantle the "electoral college", and do so, sooner than later.
Can Biden dismantle the EC by Exec order?
No
I think it can be done by statute
https://harvardpolitics.com/abolishing-the-electoral-college-might-not-be-as-hard-as-you-think/
But only if Republican obstructionists don't stand in the way
A Biden Presidential Act, right? Part of his official duty as defined in his Oath of Office to protect and preserve the USA from all threats... And he now has immunity for official acts.
Yes - What benefits Trump also benefits Biden. Trump ought to be very careful what he wishes for. Biden should do to Trump what Trump proposes to do to him.
100% agreed, remember what the🍊traitor said about NOT needing peoples votes, watch out for the 2024 fake electors scheme & ‘his’ supremes who will be there to safe him🤷🏻♂️unless off course the ‘brilliant 🙄’AG, the DOJ & the FBI is awake to all of his shenanigans🤷♂️🇺🇸🤞FFS AMERICA, WAKE UP @potus @senatedems @housedemocrats @repjeffries @thhsfec, he will try to steal it AGAIN🤞🇺🇸
Yes. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. His base is so brainwashed that they actually believe his lies and exaggerations. They don't bother to fact-check him because that would destroy their narrative of him as being their hero, and they apparently believe everything that he and the rightwing media say.
The left isn't perfect by any means, but they're not the ones peddling hostility and hate, although the right will claim that. What I have heard from the left pales in comparison to the right's rhetoric. It's Trump's ego that has been injured and they're defending it as if it's their own. Trump's "poor me" schtick is getting old with them by now, I imagine. I would hope that they'd want to hear more about his plans for the future, not rehashing the 2020 election lies and bashing the left. It's time to move forward from this disaster and let this country heal and it's going to take cooperation from both parties to make that happen. Time for them to reach across the aisle again to get things done. "United we stand, divided we fall" and fall we will if this continues.
"Milgram" .... Oh my Sandy; Now that's a dark reference. Satisfyingly descriptive though. Brava ~
Self-immolating like a paper bag filled with dog shit set ablaze on someone's doorstep....😂💩
Said doorstep being the RNC Headquarters. 😆
Although, if the orange Mussolini gets annoyed enough, his over filled diaper might spontaneously combust. 🤣
IL Duchebag is going to prison soon, and he knows it!
Yes. They know that if he loses, they will fall to the bottom of the GOP heap and have to crawl their way back to some middle rung of the political ladder.
Aaron Bushnell literally self-immolated to protest the atrocities being committed by Israeli fiends.
I think it’s time to say Thank You President Biden for turning this, what was a horror show, around. Tremendous thanks to Mary for showing us the personal insight to what the horror and disaster it could have been.
He’s such a sad, little and very old man, he appears to have lost his best friend, but that can’t be true, he doesn’t have friends, never mind a “best friend”.
If I hadn’t have watched him tear up the U S A, I would actually feel sorry for him. Nope, not sorry for him. Karma is such a beyotch!
the fact that his best friend was probably Jeffrey Epstein should have given everyone pause.
Very good point!
I just don’t get why so many of the people following him continue to do so with a vegence
Most of the Trump supporters I know are outliers and losers, people who have never felt successful, accepted or powerful, and often felt overlooked and scorned. A lot of them were bullied as kids, they're angry and full of hate and they want to make others as miserable as they are. Trump has always said the quiet parts out loud, even bragged about them, so it normalized their anger, racism and misogyny and he made them feel they are part of the "in" crowd that was calling all the shots. They invested money, body and soul in him, destroyed families and friendships over him, broke the law for him and reveled in thumbing their noses at everyone. Now that the cheese is obviously sliding off Trump's cracker and he's looking more and more like a demented loser, like Trump himself, they just can't bring themselves to admit that they were wrong, give up their dream that they'd finally be on the side of the ones wielding the whips and crawl back under their rocks.
Many of his supporters, whom I know, like him based on the myth that he had the greatest economy ever and that Biden's is awful. With their tight social conformity and obedience (Milgram), they won't speak out against Trump among their peers, even though not all of them benefited from his "policies". They have blamed Biden for the horrible economy from day one of his administration when there was absolutely no way he could have had that effect in such a short amount of time. It was explained to me that each incumbent president's policies are those of the previous ones for the first couple of years, until his own policies take effect. So, while Trump INHERITED a stable economy, he left Biden with a mess of his own making with Covid and his tariffs. Given what they were left with, I think Biden's administration did a good job at getting us to a manageable situation, even though they won't admit it. If things continued along the trajectory in which they were headed in the Trump administration's only term, many of us in the lower income brackets, like those of us who are disabled and/or retired without adequate savings., would have been much worse off. The middle class would have disappeared altogether as corporations and the wealthy received all of the tax breaks, and as the cost of everything went up for many reasons, those in the lower income brackets, were the ones who felt it the most. Any of those tax breaks did not result in corporations hiring more people and lowering their prices, as they were intended. The corporations kept their prices high, seeing that people had to find a way to pay them anyway. Yayyy!! He really does "love" us as he said. :/
Very insightful.
Here in my red state Southern Baptist family, it's more about putting up with the crudeness and vulgarity for the "greater good", employing well-disguised hypocrisy and hatred.
Mine as well here, in the Northeast. They claim that they don't like him as a person, but that they love his policies. Oh yeah; which ones would those be, I ask? 'Um, uh you know, the economy, trade, the wall, getting a vaccine made in record time, etc., more people working, etc.'
Isn’t it amazing they can’t be specific!!! He isn’t either just a bunch of Rhetoric!! You don’t think many are following just because he’s republican. Well so to speak!!!! He’s not really for a party other than his own LOL
Oh, I know that they are following him simply because he's a republican, but it's because they hate the democrats so much. Little do they realize, perhaps, that he switched from being a democrat to being a republican shortly before tossing his hat into the ring to run as a republican. That's right; he isn't really for a party other than his own. He used us to enrich himself when he refused to divest himself from his business assets as he was supposed to and instead said he would donate his salary to charity because he was so rich. Instead of his $400K/yr presidential salary that we paid for with our tax dollars, he made millions as he held state and international meetings at his hotels/resorts like the one (Mar A Lago) where he showed our top-secret documents. ANNNND we still got to pay for his salary to be donated to charity. We got to pay for it all!! What a guy; eh?
I just wonder about some of the military and highly educated have been and are supporters. We have friends he was a retired high up officer in the Air Force and boy you could not get his to see it. Just sad but he also wouldn’t have taken part in some of those rallies
Yup! They will never admit that they were totally f*cked over by Dump...certain to blame anyone else for being a bunch of niave dipshits. And so they will have to go back to their trailer parks and sulk. Losers.
It’s the same as you say where I’ve. It takes work and motivation to find happiness in life. It also takes critical thinking. Many just gropped along in life until they discovered that they are a miserable person. I can feel pity for them but also, they had a great part in their life path.
VERY well said!
Very well said ! Wow thanks
Yes! Yes! YES!
They are personally invested. Cult time at the zoo
Their egos are invested.
Their future jobs are invested. What other party would employ the people who were mostly “bottom of the barrel” lobbyists and pols? None.
I think they just like getting together at rallies and belonging somewhere where others hear them. Kinda sad
Misery loves company.
Sadly i think you nailed it. Ppl in the cult seem to make it their persona and how embarrassing to be scammed by a conman. So they double down.
I agree; and not one of them is going to do a f*cking thing about it either, simply because they're losers, always have been, always will be.
He has made the irrelevant relevant.
He affirms their fears and prejudices about racial, immigration, and economic issues and that's a very powerful motivator. Facts don't really matter much to them as long as their beliefs are affirmed, hence the persistence of some of their conspiracy theories.
Cult of hate?
Illusions can be Very Powerful & Tempting, for those easily fooled. For the rest of us, who see right through the “smoke & mirrors, it’s like just downright Pathetic! We’ve been hearing & visualizing the whining widdle boy inside the blustery b.s.er all the while! He’s been giving us a non-stop Migraine all Along. Good riddance can’t come soon enough.
Think nazi Germans in late 1944, and you'll get the picture.
At first read I thought you said tear up. I can’t imaging him actually crying. That would require him to actually feel emotions.
I thought the same. 😆
Crocodile tears at most.
Karmala…
One thing I noticed about the Donald is that he has called both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris "nasty." He uses this word exclusively to describe women who are strong and intelligent. He says Harris is "low IQ," which makes absolutely no sense as a descriptor of the former Attorney General for the State of California, a former US senator and the current vice president. He's reduced to such lies and to say she's "crazy" because she laughs like a person who actually has a sense of humor. I have never heard Donald Trump laugh, and have never seen a genuine smile on his face. He is so disconnected from the human race that he cannot figure out how to engage voters except through grievance and resentment. I know it's a close race right now, but I have never been more certain that he will lose, and bigly.
He calls poc low iq. It is a dog whistle to his racist asshole followers.
Projection. He's nasty and his IQ, well, hamberders may be smarter.
With a side of Covfefe.
And a smear of ketchup on the nearest wall.
Lol..
yes, he does use "nasty" a lot to describe women who are smarter and more powerful than him, including journalists...how many times have we heard him say "that's a nasty question" at a presser. His vocabulary is limited but his mean spirit finds enough "nasty" words to fall outta his mouth when he is bellowing at his silly rallies.
Yes; he has the lexicon of a 7th grader at most. His non-fluid sentences are difficult to follow for those who have a keen grasp of English grammar and sentence structure. He zig zags with different thoughts all in one sentence. For someone who has an ivy league education, he must not have learned a thing.
Daddy bought his "education."
5th grader!
It’s usually when the journalist has a spot on zinger.
Yet DumbOld said today that Kamala is beautiful. And how dare such a person call anyone dumb?
don't forget -- he's also a sexual predator. so calling Harris beautiful isn't exactly a compliment coming from a creep like him. he probably got turned on when he saw the cover, conflated the portrait of Harris with his wife, and then hubba-hubba...
I saw that portrait and have no clue how he saw Melania in it.
I couldn't figure out how he thought a picture of E. Jean Carroll was a picture of Marla Maples, either.
I think that Marla Maples and E. Jean Carroll looked a whole lot more alike than Melania and Kamala. Somebody's comment that I just read pointed out that trump is sexualizing her, another way to take her down. That makes a lot of sense to me.
As John Lennon said, "You can't hide, when you're crippled inside."
Maybe Dump can learn to smile and laugh like Ron DeSantis.
Way, way back in the day, if a woman was described as "nasty", it meant she smelled down there, either from overuse, infection, or bad hygiene. It's the way men like Trump demeaned women who rejected them or didn't put up with their bullshit.
He's still in that ancient mindset. It's why he likes "dancing" to the Village People. He's still Disco Don. I doubt he realizes what the Village People represented, which makes me laugh. 🤣🌊
Donald is running for a get out of jail free card. Secondly, to have unlimited access to money and play golf almost everyday.
You meant “to win at all costs” every stinking golf game he “plays”, right? He’s a loser!
But he sure loves driving his big old butt around in that golf cart.
That’s what I don’t get. How does he enjoy golf (or any activity) when he has to cheat at it as he is so bad?
He enjoys being a winner, and it doesn't matter to him how he gets there. To him, winning is everything, along with appearance. He'd have to be in touch with reality to understand how bad he is.
Doesn’t he already have both of those?
He goes through a lot of money. All those attorneys know to receive payment up front. He also needs to win to stay out of jail. His past is catching up with him.
He is a bottomless pit and is completely hollow inside. Anything to make him feel good must come from outside, not from within. To survive, he will always need his toys, embezzled money, and sycophants.
Yeah, unlimited access to our money.
Donald is a morbidly obese, mentally ill, incoherent old man deeply in dementia, whose vaudeville act has lost its punch. Sure, there are still, unfortunately, tens of millions of his converts who will vote for him no matter what. And that’s terrifying. But I believe his power over the “undecided” and the “normal” republicans is waning. At least I pray it’s so.
Yes, I also would like to think the undecided are feeling Trump Fatigue and it becomes contagious.
We are seeing more groups of republicans for Harris, and in some important places like Arizona. I would imagine that the same thing might be happening in PA, because that's how Josh Shapiro got elected.
Despite the Press.
Who knew donald's malignant narcissism would eventually catch up with him?🙋🏼♂️
It always does catch up with narcissists, because of their self-defeating hubris. The trick is to bear witness and stay alive long enough to recount it.
Hubris always gets ‘em. It just takes longer sometimes, but ultimately hubris brings ‘em crashing down. TFG’s crash indeed may be nigh.
Adding to the bear witness to speed up the process is to top secret document their horrible actions & behaviors as future proof to be believed.
Modern day Nebuchadnezzar.
It seems that's a very accurate description of him
Don't you just love kharma?
I guess we're lucky that they are idiot's. Imagine the danger if these people were cunning and strategic. Scary thought.
Project 2025 is terrifying. The playbook for the next republican president, period. We’ve got idiots now, but who knows what the future holds?
I read today that someone claimed Project 2025 is the *Dem* playbook!
Remember Goebels’ words “Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.” In other words, as has been pointed out elsewhere, every GQP accusation is a confession.
They're always projecting Trump's faults and bad behavior onto Biden and the rest of the Democrats.
As in demon?
And if someone tells you that, you flat out ask if The Heritage Foundation is a democratic organization! The answer is no. Quote from it - “do you like social security and healthcare? How do you feel about union earned pensions? Do you like oversight for meat, vegetables, and other food? How do you feel about adding $3k to your tax bill?” All in P25 and all valid responses.
Time will leave them behind.
Couple of the people behind DJT & JD are indeed, scarily, cunning and strategic. Fortunately The Orange One rarely listens to them
Or listens to them a little too much. 'Not at all' would have been better. How did we get to a point where adults are normalizing fantasy and conspiracy, and rejecting fact-checkers?
Actually, good point, Sandy. Listens to the issues, then Don-olds them into his sociopathic fantasy world.
Rather, I don't think he listens to the "issues" and instead listens to "noise" going on around him. He seems to prefer fantasy (good or bad) over reality. Reality might mean that he has to take responsibility for some of it.
Yes, we are VERY Lucky.
He is doing what all narcissists when confronted with rejection. He is hiding and losing a grasp on reality.
I can’t wait until I never see or hear him again. He’s such an appalling and repulsive human being who incorporates every single bad quality you can think of — outside of alcoholism. Still, he acts like the drug addicted cousin who makes a fool of himself at weddings and other family events.
And I don’t mean to insult drug addicts. They deserve compassion.
I was sick of the asshole in the 80's. Imagine how that is now.
Hopefully you've developed an immunity against him by now, but I don't know if that's possible.
Same here. Every time he ran a business into the ground I thought “well, hopefully that’s it and I won’t have to hear from him again”. He’s like a bad stench that never leaves.
Yeah, New Yorkers know all about what a constant douchebag Dump always was, from way back in the 80's onward. I'm sorry, is it 3000, or 4000 lawsuits? How on earth is that even possible? A weekly docket?
He's a menace to society and extremely tiresome.
Psychics and Astrologers are saying he won't make it to the election- something catastrophic, maybe in October, will derail him.
I do note he's had 2 recent close calls- the shooting and then his plane had mechanical difficulty, requiring him to change planes...
The "mechanical issues" on the plane en route to Bozeman, MT, were complete bullshit. Combover Caligula owes the Bozeman-Yellowstone International Airport a ton of money. That's why his plane landed in Billings.
What a worthless sack of shit. And how wonderful to have this platform with like-minded people, where we don't have to plod through idiotic, defensive critiques of what we say.
Oh yes! Fresh air here.
You mean the GOP hasn't paid their bills?
So if he craps out before the election, would Vance step in and run for Pres?
I saw the answer to that once but I don't recall. Would seem logical, especially closer to the election. Neither Republican is even a half-decent choice, IMO.
I am worried that it will happen...that tRump will not be on the ticket for prez for some reason and they put JD in there...but I DO think that republicans think JD is too weird to win...the energy for Kamala is so strong, it just needs to stick!
I think the rest of the republicans really don't like Vance, especially since his cat lady quote and other controversial statements.
I don't see Independents going for Vance, nor Never Trumper Republicans. And frankly even some MAGA may be turned off by Vance, who lacks the charisma & ability to connect with the audience that Trump has. Vance has even less legitimacy as a presidential nominee than Harris has. He's never had any nationwide support as a presidential candidate, & only became a senator because of millions of dollars spent on his campaign by antidemocratic Thiel & other billionaires, & then VP choice from pressure by Thiel, Musk, Sacks & other billionaires as well as Trump Jr. of all people.
I HOPE SO!!!!
Yeah, like choking on a big mac!
Bravo, young Lady.
The distinction is much appreciated.
Keep up the good work, Mary! You’re dead right.
And your Uncle is DEAD WRONG 💙💙
You tell ‘em Mary!!!
Let’s stick with Kamala & Tim: two honest Americans!
They most definitely are my choice. HARRIS & WALZ !!! What a dynamic team!
Mary, I’ve been a fan for a long time.I always find your insights helpful. Donald is clearly a narcissist - but what’s up with his followers? That he has any, at all, is unnerving. They can’t all be narcissists, can they?
There's something called Dependent Personality Disorder—it's a person who's looking for someone to solve all their problems. I didn't know that many millions had it. But there's so many major problems arising right now (climate crisis, war clouds), that there seems to be a bigger call for saviors.
IIRC Goebbels observed that "people want to be told what to do."
But with Americans it seems very selective. I think a large number of Americans easily ask this question: “Who are you to tell me what to do?” American parents and teachers tend to hear that a lot.
I think that applies only to people who have never become independent thinkers, possibly due to dumbed down education? There seems to be a major lack of ego strength in such people. IMO.
Yep, we have a dearth of critical thinkers or independent thinkers in the USA.
Yes, “warning Will Robinson.”
Really? Really!!!
I DON’T THINK SO!!
I'd extend that notion to religious nutjobs too!
BUT Donnie is no savior!!!
VOTE BLUE 💙💙💙
The nazis' philosophy was, "people WANT to be told what to do."
And so they do. And they are.
Sounds like authoritarian parents, saying children want to be spanked.
30% of people in any society actually want a strongman dictator.
Sure, makes life easy, all decisions made for you.
30%? Where did you learn that?
I’m a scientist (was) and I also am a amateur historian and personality psychologist. I’ve been watching people and analyzing personality traits for 50 years. Yes, it is true the maybe 5% of people would admit to be under a dictatorship at first, but as what happened in Germany, and what’s happened in many other places, dictatorships come with great boons to a good number of people. Decisions and direction of country are made quickly. Hitler turned the German economy around in only a few years. The people loved it. He became a hero even though he was a dictator. There are certain personality types that are a lot more prone to be convinced of the merits of a dictatorship, especially when the country was impoverished for a number of years. Look at the MAGAts. In the US, many thought the Trump was too much in the beginning, but looked what happened! What happened in the US, was basically a rough script how dictators come into power.
NO, maybe 5%!!
(NOT 30%)
You make a good point about Donald's followers, Lydia.
Thank you, Mary. 💙
People don’t have to be narcissists to follow one.
The MAGA crowd have believed in Trump for a long time and don’t believe any negative stories about him.
The belief is so strong, they don’t even see what’s in front of their own eyes. Hitler’s followers failed to see that he looked nothing like the blond, blue eyed, tall and fit Ayran ideal he was promoting.
Trump’s backers are now stuck between a rock and a hard place. They can’t do the right thing, either because they’re also too blind to see, or are too afraid of the backlash to act.
What happens if, or more likely when, Trump has a complete breakdown is anyone’s guess. Given his physical state, a stroke or heart attack seems quite possible. Then they’ll be left with Vance…
Safe to say they all are, to some degree, idiots. But, upsettingly, I know a couple of highly intelligent people who support him in the name of being "conservative." And they warn me that Kamala is dangerous!
I have read and listened to some that I consider the "true conservatives," and they point out that the odious one is anything but conservative. I look at the two groups and even though I do not belong to that ideology I know which side I believe.
my siblings tell me they hate the democrats, and get all fired up if politics gets dropped into the conversation, ranting about how tRump is treated so unfairly. I don't get it...can't believe we are related! But I am not alone. There are diehard tRumpers in many families who also have Kamala supporters. Sad that we cannot just have a conversation about the candidates.
I'm lucky there's a smear of blue in my extended red state MAGA family. We find comfort with each other and avoid all the family hoedowns. 🤣
My question as well
They are his flying monkeys.
They are sadists. Some are sadonarcissists like the Orange Caligula, but most are sadomasochists.
WHY OH WHY can we not get a damn amendment or whatever it would take to add to the pathetic short list of qualifications required to run for President? It’s ridiculous in the nuclear age to not officially examine candidates as to their psychological makeup and other fitness issues for such an enormous and powerful position in the world. It’s such an obvious need……who the hell is stalling this?
The J6 committee is introducing laws with more stipulation, to run for President. We’ve never had a reason for amendments, we do now. We have to keep the senate, and have majority in the house. I believe after this election there will be less partisanship, and adopt ethics codes for SCOTUS. Bennie Thompson is introducing legislation to take away trumps lifetime secret service protection, and TFG’S pension
I think anyone who is criminal enough to go to prison should absolutely lose their secret service protection.
Re: either tests, or qualifications (which would inevitably be supported by tests) I can foresee two issues at least. 1) Who decides what material is on the tests? [Wealthy mostly Euro-Americans? Jews? African Americans? Latinas? Asian Americans? A group of the above? Congress? Trained psychologists?] 2) “Little issues” such as, does the second highest person automatically become VP candidate? Is there a threshold for acceptable or a range of scores?
I’m not opposed to standards of some sort but not sanguine about how difficult it might be.
The Republican Congress congress introduce the bills, for the senate to pass, to the president
This is a great column. Thanks Mary. My biggest worry now is how the entirely unscrupulous big money folks, counting on DJT for their continued tax breaks, will without the candidate's help create sufficient disinformation and confusion to tilt the faltering race back their way. Otherwise, looks like your clueless dear uncle is becoming crispy political toast.
I’ve read taxes will go up several thousand bucks for the middle class. It would be nice to see some actual projections on that fact if a billionaire tax cut comes to fruition. Those numbers are tangible evidence of the big lie, along with everything else. I would like to see that at a rally in the midwest.
If rich people paid decent wages to their employees that brought them to their wealthy position AND paid their fair share in taxes, lives of millions would be improved and the country would be more firmly anchored to actual values.
Of course you're right but the wealthy have always had to be forced to do the right thing. It was pretty much never voluntary. This isn't new. That they have been getting away with it for decades is new. There has to be a total overhaul of our current system. No more huge conglomerates so that 12 companies are actually running the country. They took apart AT&T and many others. That has to happen again.
That did happen back in the FDR administration. It was called the New Deal. It led to the country’s biggest and strongest middle class ever. Conservatives screamed at FDR then, and have been working ever since Reagan to dismantle it— succeeding greatly. But I think their momentum has stopped, and the pendulum is swinging back to “We, the People,” with the Harris-Walz reset.
Exactly so. And on top of it, a rich man is often referred to as “self-made”.
I am a tax preparer. Even if Trump wins, taxes on the middle class will go up by several thousand dollars because most of the provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump in 2017 will expire at the end of 2025, and the increased standard deductions and better tax rates the middle class have been enjoying will go back to the way it was so they will have to basically pay it all back. Trump very cleverly made it look like the middle class was getting a nice tax break but only during his first and second terms, then it bounces back up to make the next president appear at fault. Rest assured, though, that the 1% won't be affected because their tax rates will still be very low by comparison. Just another scam by the orange grifter.
i'm middle class, and my taxes went up by about $2000 when the tax law changed in 2017 due to losing all my deductions. and yes he did make it so it would get worse under the next president. hopefully they will deal with that next year.
Lowering taxes for the wealthy has been the Republicans battle cry, since forever. Look at your income taxes, compare them in accordance with which party has the presidency. That sounds like an appropriate solution, than relying on getting disinformation from anything outside a reliable news source