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It's a good time to restate: Trump CANNOT and DOES NOT see beyond himself. He is NOT strategic - he is transactional. He is a walking talking "id."
He only pivots from self-interest, and cannot shut up or stop, even when it serves his interest.
He is a dangerous malignant narcissist, who is returning to power during cognitive decline, OWNED by disorders.
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There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator.
Trump has been gaffing, slurring, and rambling for his entire speech. Whatever he used to take for focus, presumed to be Adderall - no longer works as well. Also, the neuron firings in his brain and his speech center appear to now be ill-timed with one another. As such, he cannot complete a sentence, and oftentimes, can barely complete a thought. You can hear confusion when he's in the large crowd dynamic, but he's still soaking in narcissistic energy. But up close and personal - when there's no narcissistic energy - he's pure malice now.
Rich from Leaving MAGA has his pulse on people in MAGA who are having doubts and thinking of leaving. He tells me there's a TON of them now. The announcement he is making tomorrow is significant, and it's something I am proudly helping him with. Stay tuned!
The Shallow State retweeted
Hey, it’s Rich. Right now, there are more people than ever having doubts and beginning to lean toward leaving MAGA; I think it’s in the millions. I have a plan to help them leave. Please watch this short video and stay tuned.
NOBODY feels fear as acutely as a malignant narcissist facing an unraveling of their false and fraudulent constructs. They suffocate without their grandiosity. Diminishment. Paranoia. Enfeeblement. Mortality.
He's in a narcissistic nightmare now.
** JUST IN ** A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25B today (yes, you heard that number correctly) for deceiving users about its data privacy practices (translation - the f*ckers used the data and lied).
New Mexico had sued Meta in 2021 over the whole Cambridge Analytica scandal, saying the social media company had misled users with its public statements about its data privacy (translation: nothing that they said was private, actually was). After a two-week trial, a jury ruled against Meta, saying the company committed 43M violations of consumer protection laws.
Today, Judge Francis J. Mathew of the State District Court in Santa Fe issued the landmark penalty.
Trump has been so fixated on his health and his cognition lately, that it's hard to believe he didn't recently get bad news or a warning.
When my late father's dementia advanced to Stage 3, he went from being occasionally ornery to a more severe out-of-control seething sort of anger.
When Trump menacingly hissed "Quiet!" to Andrew Feinberg yesterday, I got flashbacks.
Trump basically wants all Americans to know that if Republicans win, everyone becomes healthy and wealthy and gets into heaven. And if Republicans lose, everyone gets sick, poor, dies horribly and goes to hell. And he wants you to know that he means it because he never lies.
Truth is - he can't speak to people anymore. He can only speak AT them.
He can't promise anything anymore, because his promises are never honored.
He can't say he never lies, because it's all he ever does.
His bloviations sound more forced now, and his tone reeks of desperation.
His myth has vaporized. He is a bad cartoon.
He is going to be humiliated. And while he'll never admit to humiliation, he WILL know it and feel it.
Good morning. The news cycle now can get overwhelming. When you're feeling anxiety, outrage, uncertainty, and unease - remember three things:
1. Trump 2.0 wants you to feel that. It's part of the Authoritarian Playbook. They think if you feel it enough, it can morph into apathy or futility. Don't let it!
2. Don't get addicted to your anxiety and outrage. You're a good person. The vast majority of people are, too - really. His anxiety is worse than yours - his numbers have gone from the toilet to the sewer. You can feel his misery - it's ok to revel in that if it helps.
3. Take care of yourself. Life is short. Walk in nature, breathe the air, listen to music, watch sports or comedy, talk to friends, pet your dog or cat or spouse.
A certain amount of anxiety and impatience is unavoidable as human nature. Do NOT let it overcome focus and perspective. I am inspired by what I see - as an American and as a behaviorist. Dems are unified, and there is clarity in the unity. Everybody is primed. We're ready to go.
Buckle up. Stay together. Focus and perspective. Noise is called noise because ... it's just noise.
We will do this - we have power. We ARE the People.
"Yesterday, daddy and I were on a walk. We saw a cat. Only a few feet away. He was a small cat. He saw me too. For a moment, we had a connection. I know he felt it too. It wasn't necessary to do anything - there was no problem. I moved on and went back to sniffing, and looking for a good place to pee." - Copper
Yesterday, Steve Witkoff, acting as "Trump’s special envoy" told Vladimir Putin that he is a humanitarian, and as such, he salutes him and commends him.
Come on now.
Vote these disingenuous grifting sociopathic f*ckers out - ALL of them.
"I'm not sure even the GOP realizes how badly Trump and their party have betrayed their base - it's at a spectacular level." - author Thomas Frank on MS Now
I'd love to see a Dem-leaning billionaire make a loud and public offer to pay Trump $20M for every new rally he adds to his schedule in a place where a race is contested, between now and Election Day. Every media outlet would cover it, and Trump's reaction would be fascinating.
The Shallow State retweeted
Trump is supposed to be speaking at a rally in North Carolina 2 hours from now but there is no sign of him leaving the White House yet. can't say I'm shocked he's running way behind given the state he was in during his Oval Office event this afternoon
Today, at an Oval Office presser, Trump was in rare form, with a rapid-fire assault of falsehoods, hyperboles, and threats.
He said Rep. Omar needed to be jailed, Rep. Slotkin needed to be tried, he insulted Somalians and immigrants in general, and attacked the press multiple times, asking one reporter what is wrong with them, telling another to Shhh! and growling "Quiet!" to another.
Anyone who witnessed this would clearly conclude that the biggest story on Earth, this day and every day, is that the President of the United States is seriously unwell and allowed to continue in office - unfit, untethered, and unchecked.
It is unbelievable, unfathomable, and unacceptable.
Moments ago, Trump snapped at another reporter. He pointed at him menacingly and said: "I don't know who you are, but you better be careful."
In fairness to him, he is a malignant narcissist, with deep underlying insecurities, who is reviled globally, distrusted universally, with multiple illnesses and progressive cognitive decline, below average intelligence, a lifetime of secrets and lies he must protect against exposure, and polls that are so underwater that they threaten turning everything he is, was, or claimed to be - into a titanic, humiliating, and collapsing House of Cards.
So, he's understandably upset.
Some might disagree, but I think it's only fair that all Data Centers should be located directly in the middle of the neighborhoods of billionaires, preferably white tech billionaires.
Now THIS is a powerful ad.
New Talarico ad running statewide:
"Ken Paxton says, I don't have his experience, and he's right.
"I've never been indicted for fraud. I've never been reported to the FBI for bribery. I've never been impeached by my own party, and I've never given a sweetheart deal to a pedophile.
"I have a different kind of experience. I've worked with both parties to cap the cost of insulin and pass the largest property tax cut in Texas history. I'm James Tallarico and I approve this message because we need a different kind of experience in Washington."