I believe that Trump entire modus operandi is nothing more than compensation for an unfulfilled life
His gluttony, vanity, braggadocio, his laziness, his unwillingness to admit fault or ever being wrong, his complete lack of self-awareness... These are all signs of a man who has lived his entire life as a flawed individual. Someone who is still underdeveloped, even as a 71 year old man. But, he's one who has been never been held to account for anything and is a person who is completely ill-equipped to handle the job of "Most Powerful Office In The World."
Needless to say, with this utterly unfit person, singularly holding the keys to the kingdom, we are all in a world of hurt right now.
But what kind of fool is this? It seems pretty obvious, doesn't it?
He strikes me as the least self-actualized person I've ever seen in my entire life. His biggest fear is that he would be discovered as a fraud. He's unable to create real achievements for himself, so he claims the work of others. He's jealous of everyone else, especially people who are loved or admired and who have their own achievements in their own lives.
So, what does he tell us? That his inauguration was the biggest ever. That he's signed more bills into law than any other president. That he hires the best and the brightest. That he's going to go down in history as the best president ever. Absolutely none of this nonsense is true, of course, but you can't tell him any different. Simply because it appears as if he lacks the capacity to recognize whether or not any of his own basic needs have been met, much less anything greater.
Thus he ends up looking as if he's the poorest winner walking the Earth.
Trump is clearly hovering somewhere between the Diet
Coke and Cheeseburger stage and the Chimichanga stage.
The most troubling aspect of this man is that behaves as if he doesn't understand the fact that he won the Electoral College. He can't or won't understand the responsibilities of the office he's holding. He acts if he's still competing with people who have already left the field after he was handed the winner's trophy. I wonder if he knows where he is from moment-to-moment. He's looking more and more senile by the day.
Now, with his apparent onset of degenerative brain disease, his compensatory narcissism, prejudices, fears and self-hatred are coming to the forefront. He's steadily losing his capacity for impulse control. Frankly, it's hard to tell if he believes any of the lies that he tells, which means that he could be losing his tenuous grip on reality.
The jig is up.
The world is paying attention to this train wreck of an individual. The Republicans are finding it harder and harder to justify his behavior and job performance. They can't always depend on him to rubber-stamp their agenda.
I'm sure that those in office who will try to remain, rather than jump ship, are now figuring out what to do with him. Whether it be to allow the Mueller investigation to produce the impetus for his premature removal from office, or to simply abandon him and let nature take its course through his own self-destruction.
Republicans who lend more than a lukewarm defense of Trump are pretty much the worst of the worse. They're opportunists who are trying to line their own pockets in the end by taking advantage of a compromised presidency. Others are nothing more than cult followers, who will defend him no matter the he says or does. The rest of the party would rather be somewhere else whenever Trump's name comes up to them.
It quite clear that the most pressing job for the Democratic Party right now is to do what it can to save our republic. The Republicans can't be trusted to put the country before themselves. Many of them today are abandoning their own basic party principles for the sake of an electoral majority. Thus, it's up to the electorate to recognize this pressing problem and relieve the Republicans of their responsibility to lead and govern. The GOP is too corrupt and incompetent right now to be left in that authoritative position. Too much is a stake.
We are in a crisis right now, a mortal one. The nation hasn't been in this kind of mortal jeopardy in several generations. We have a lot of hard work to do to regain our true national identity, our integrity and our moral authority. We have to go beyond getting Trump out of the Oval Office, we have to take the national lead out of this mess. Otherwise, we will end up with a failed state status and end up making Trump's America our very own "shithole country."
I don't think that "Normay" would want too many of our people trying to immigrate there. Let's do better at home and it all starts in November.
Happy MLK Day, everybody.
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I googled and got Norway. 
is that how shithole spelled it in a tweet or something?
Mahalo, democratisphere
instead of "Norway" comes from. Glad to see you are back for the great battle of 2018 this fall. 
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/10/politics/white-house-transcript-corrected-daca-donald-trump/index.html
shithole had "consensual" on the brain?
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"Trump's Twitter included writing the word "consensual" -- instead of "consequential" -- in a series of tweets quoting conservative columnist Michael Goodwin. It was later deleted and corrected."
"Normay"
Yes! I took a 5 month vacay and now I'm back for the extremely important 2018 Elections. They better be fair.. no fucking Russian interference.
Democraticsphere
Chimichanga stage". 
Excellent post. Clearly the man is underdeveloped in every way. He has never matured in any way other than physically. Basically he is a person with infantile needs in the body of a 71 year old man. It is acceptable in an infant, it is repulsive in an old man. I long for the day when this wreck of a human being no longer plagues this country. He has exhausted all of us.
