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I found this article by accident and am not familiar with the website, but it seems pretty point on IMHO. I get so sick of tv pundits trying to figure out Trumps 'plan' or what his 'strategy' is. There is no plan! No strategy!
This is not complicated, it really is this simple... Trump is a complete dumbass who lies and makes shit up as he staggers and stumbles across the yard, stepping in one pile of shit after another.
Here are four paragraphs, wish I could have posted the entire article here ............
You Can't Get There From Here
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/you-cant-get-there-from-here-1831622949
There was some concern about that speech, because Trump had been doing that Trump thing where he gets bored and flutters his eyelids and then veers psychedelically off-script and begins drawling about some bizarre shit that no one can quite place or even parse. For a while, that meant interrupting himself to explain how smugglers bring women across borders into Texas and California and Arizona with specific types of tape over their mouthshe would list the types of tape that the smugglers used, usually mentioning that it was blue. They get off the road and they drive out into the desert, and they come on, they make a left turn, he told a media gaggle on January 4. Usually its a left, not a right. The Washington Post dutifully attempted to run down where Trump might have been getting this, and mostly failed. It could have been a chopped-and-screwed remix of something a border patrol agent told him, it could have been from the sequel to Sicario, some poreless beige security goblin might have leered it out from within a box next to Lou Dobbs. Joan Collins might have whispered it to him in a dream.
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This is also true, and maybe even especially true, when Trump is obviously lying. Even before he banged his own personal left turn and began his full-tilt drive into the desert of cognitive decline, Trump was not an especially nuanced or strategic person. His mind is not what it was, and at its peak it was more of a Magic 8 Ball than a supercomputer. He cant learn anything because he cant listen to other people if they arent speaking from inside a television; he cant remember what he hears there because he cant really care unless its about him. These deficits are clear when Trump is extemporizing on furloughed workers cutting deals with the milkman or imagining cartoon coyotes piloting sedans full of duct-taped women across the Rio Grande, but they are even clearer when he tells knowing lies. The former tend to be about other people, and so tend to be both lurid and half-assed; he only really ever applies himself when the lies involve himself.
This gives these lies the advantage of being heartfelt, but it also strips them down. The stories he tells about workers gladly giving up their paychecks for his drowsy racist fantasies and the villains working against him are mostly just sounds he makes to keep himself interested; he might have noticed that they drew louder-than-usual hoots from the seething grandparents and dead-ender rubes at his rallies, but he also might not have. His lies, though, are more elemental. They are never anything more than the opposite of truth. If Trump keeps insisting that hes not being investigated for his relationship to Russia in gratuitous and unconvincing ways, its not because hes trying to leverage some advanced placement Dealpoint or exploit some hidden businessmans trick or angle. Its because hes literally fucking being investigated for his relationship with Russia and because he very much wants people to think hes not, and because thats honestly the best he can do because his brain is an old donut bobbing around in a toilet.
Trump is so relentlessly dishonest and so plainly diminished and so sorely overmatched that, at this point, he can only be taken at his word. This isnt to say that you should believe what hes saying, although you surely dont need me to tell you that. It just means that what he does, from here until whenever his helicopter leaves the White House lawn for the last time, will never be anything but what it appears to be.
If he appears to be confronting an emerging truth that makes him look bad with a flailing childish insistence that Actually The Opposite Is True, its because he is. If it looks like hes numbly ventriloquizing the rancid words of one of the aspiring genocidaires tasked with writing his more high-flown addresses, its because he is. If it appears that he is taking some cruel promise made idly at some point in the past and then spinning stupid stories to justify seeing that promise through, its because that is just what hes doing. Trump repeats the same five or six phrases like a defective Teddy Ruxpin not because hes trying to brainwash or brand but because he can only hold like 175 words in his head at one time and is just kind of mushing the button that seems most appropriate for the situation over and over again. There will be no new work done until hes out of this job, not just because the venal and idiotic criminality that has defined his life belatedly appears to be catching up with him but because it simply isnt in him to do new work, and because his current job transparently doesnt matter to him at all. Hell believe that hes getting away with itthat hes winning and commanding and leadinguntil the cuffs close or the lights go out, and he will always act that way. He will spend the rest of his life trying to demonstrate that he was right about whatever it was that he said or did before.
More on the link-
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/you-cant-get-there-from-here-1831622949
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malaise
(268,734 posts)until the cuffs close or the lights go out, and he will always act that way. He will spend the rest of his life trying to demonstrate that he was right.
ITTMF!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)in order for psychiatrists to define him completely, would need to invent some new descriptors to be adequate. He ain't even in the books.
Yet, this is a man whose chain is being yanked by dozens of right-wing actors (that have access such as Miller and Hannity) whose chains are being yanked by hundreds more (billionaires, media CEOs, his property managers, etc.), so it's a wonder he's able to pronounce his own damn name. He's only available for work-time a few hours a day after TV time, if he ever works a lick.
Yet, he's seen by millions of Americans as their lord and savior?
And, this is the man that denigrated a President who is a Constitutional scholar, that really worked all day every day for the people, and then reportedly worked after dinner most every night into the wee hours just to stay ahead of his duties.
But he wore a tan suit.
Man, these truly are some screwed-up times.......
gademocrat7
(10,645 posts)He and his cabal of treasonous bastards need to be removed from office.
True Blue American
(17,981 posts)Like that. My husbnd told me to quit arguing with him. I did that, got up,walked out of the room.
Came back ten minutes later to find him still tying to convince his Father he was right. His Father looked bored. ,taught me a great lesson about people like Trump.
Pelosi knows that, too. He is still trying to convince people he won, or making threats we know will not work.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)All true & serious but funny as hell, like the jokes on MASH.
watoos
(7,142 posts)I'm just an internet doctor, I don't know whether he is senile or whether his syphilis is spreading, but I think we make a mistake if we believe that he is stupid.
From my personal history; I graduated from college and couldn't find a job, so in the interim I took a job in a factory. I found myself using poor English and laughing at their misogynist and racist jokes just so I could fit in. I think that is what Trump is doing when he uses his bad grammar and misspellings and use of capital letters. He is fitting in with his uneducated, misogynist, racist, base.
Trump's base has been out there long before Trump brought them out of the shadows, I saw them, I live among them in central Pa.
Boomer
(4,168 posts)He was never a rocket scientist, but whatever innate intelligence he possessed is now overlaid with advanced narcissism, drug dependencies and dementia. You're giving him way too much credit to think his behavior is some deliberate ploy for long-term goals. In his present state of mind, the next 5 minutes is about long-term as he can get.
KelleyKramer
(8,917 posts)He thinks the f35 fighter jets are invisible... seriously, he thinks that and has said it repeatedly
That has nothing to do with grammar, that is stupidity
He said he spoke on the phone with the president of Puerto Rico
He said he has kept more promises than he has made
Oh, and here is a beautiful combination of a liar, a braggart, and a complete idiot...
"I went to the doctor and all my tests came back positive"
Ok, there is one thing on that last one I will believe.. they tested him for brain damage and it came back positive
Homer Wells
(1,576 posts)anarch
(6,535 posts)I imagine the kremlin has been raucous with laughter for the past couple of years.
Chemisse
(30,805 posts)Pundits STILL attribute various political schemes to Trump's words and actions, when it's really clear that he is only capable of very basic and emotionally-charged thought processes.
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)"Trump repeats the same five or six phrases like a defective Teddy Ruxpin not because hes trying to brainwash or brand but because he can only hold like 175 words in his head at one time and is just kind of mushing the button that seems most appropriate for the situation over and over again."
Truer words were never spoken!