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babylonsister

(171,079 posts)
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 07:09 AM Aug 2019

Rick Wilson: This Isn't the Madman Theory. This Is a Madman President.


This Isn’t the Madman Theory. This Is a Madman President.
In business, Trump could paper over his bankruptcies, flops, asinine remarks, and failed cons. The presidency is different.
Rick Wilson
Published 08.22.19 4:44AM ET

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The recognition that Donald J. Trump—President of the United States, Commander in Chief of the U.S. armed forces, leader of the Republican Party and now King of Israel and Chosen One—is, to use the psychiatric term of art, batshit crazy is dawning even on the slowest members of society. Also, that there’s not a damn thing we can do about it until November of 2020.

The big cons of the first term haven’t just been embarrassing flops but concatenating failures putting our economy and security at existential risk. The tax bill blew out the debt and deficit to unimaginable depths. North Korea’s serial humiliation of Trump proved to Kim Jong Un that he could pants the President of the United States and move the DPRK closer to full nuclear capabilities to threaten our allies and even our own shores.

The cruel nostalgia of Trump’s promises to restore coal, steel, and auto jobs are shattered on the altar of President Bigly Negotiator's moronic shitshow of an unwinnable trade war. The fact that he was spanked by Denmark, a country the size of Delaware, after his absurd “Buy Greenland” campaign was just one more humiliation of a President who clearly likes having his ass handed to him by bijou nations.

The Trump campaign and the early days of his administration were marked by the charming window when most of his supporters—and frankly, much of the mainstream media—believed that the vomitus spraying out of Trump's mouth was part of some clever psychological game, quantum chess to own the libs.

Only idiots and zealots believe that now. The howling vacuum of need within Trump's soul had already distorted every normal human emotion for decades, but now the stress of the presidency and the realities of his lasting failures have pushed him closer to a very public mental breakdown. In business, Trump could paper over his bankruptcies, flops, asinine remarks, and failed cons.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-isnt-playing-madman-theory-hes-a-madman-president?ref=home
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Rick Wilson: This Isn't the Madman Theory. This Is a Madman President. (Original Post) babylonsister Aug 2019 OP
Batshit crazy is right malaise Aug 2019 #1
Cadet Bone Spurs has morphed into Catshit Huff-n-Puff Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2019 #2
I like "fucking goofy"... SidDithers Aug 2019 #19
Goofy is usually harmless malaise Aug 2019 #21
"concatenating failures" Botany Aug 2019 #3
Just read this. True Blue American Aug 2019 #4
Right! When did the Jews Beausoleil Aug 2019 #12
I had to look that up... babylonsister Aug 2019 #5
"concatenating failures" aka a chain of failures that are linked and build on each other Botany Aug 2019 #6
You too? malaise Aug 2019 #7
Yes! Akacia Aug 2019 #9
Concatenate is used to describe string manipulations BootinUp Aug 2019 #18
Thanx Botany Aug 2019 #22
And the reason "there's not a damn thing we can do about it until November of 2020"... JHB Aug 2019 #8
I don't agree with that we cannot do anything until 2020 Perseus Aug 2019 #25
Actually there are a couple damn things we could do about it. tanyev Aug 2019 #10
Hair Shitler is in his bunker. Voltaire2 Aug 2019 #11
Worth the whole read if you enjoy watching republicans eat their own. GoCubsGo Aug 2019 #13
Tried to read it all leftieNanner Aug 2019 #23
Weird. It isn't for me. GoCubsGo Aug 2019 #26
Try this link: WhiskeyWulf Aug 2019 #27
Thank you WW leftieNanner Aug 2019 #28
Thanks x2 for the useful link. yonder Aug 2019 #29
Outline.com is outstanding, thank you AndJusticeForSome Aug 2019 #31
"likes having his ass handed to him by bijou nations" The_jackalope Aug 2019 #14
In the primary I pointed out "his bottomless need for adulation". Rick's words are better. SharonAnn Aug 2019 #15
Soooo On Point Roy Rolling Aug 2019 #16
On that other Earth, Moscow Mitch was born BootinUp Aug 2019 #17
The Guardian has a good article Timmygoat Aug 2019 #20
"Only idiots and zealots believe that now." It was the media trying to justify a childlike behaviour Perseus Aug 2019 #24
"The mighty dollar is going to be the decline of the USA Empire..." yonder Aug 2019 #30

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
19. I like "fucking goofy"...
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 08:50 AM
Aug 2019

‘cause it reminds me of the old joke about Micky and Minnie’s divorce.

“I didn’t say she was insane, your honour, I said she was fucking Goofy”.

Sid

True Blue American

(17,988 posts)
4. Just read this.
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 07:34 AM
Aug 2019

Ironic the Messiah thinks Jews love him for the second coming, when that really is not a big thing with Jews

I give credit to an Englishman for that one!

babylonsister

(171,079 posts)
5. I had to look that up...
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 07:42 AM
Aug 2019

con·cat·e·nate
/kənˈkatnˌāt/

gerund or present participle: concatenating

link (things) together in a chain or series.

Botany

(70,561 posts)
6. "concatenating failures" aka a chain of failures that are linked and build on each other
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 07:53 AM
Aug 2019

Such as Trump/Ryan's tax cut which blew up the deficit, is a hammer to the economy,
didn't create more jobs and or income but instead was used by the CEOs to buy back their
own stock and now we are looking @ an economic crash.


All the job growth from 2018 to 2019 from the US Labor Departmet was false government propaganda

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-created-500000-fewer-jobs-since-2018-than-previously-reported-new-figures-show-2019-08-21
U.S. created 500,000 fewer jobs since 2018 than previously reported, new figures show

Looking for help? Retail stores aren’t hiring a lot of people these days as online rivals eat into sales. The U.S. government on Wednesday said the economy added 501,000 fewer jobs than initially reported.

Turns out hiring wasn’t nearly as strong in 2018 and early 2019 as the government initially reported — by about a half-million jobs.

JHB

(37,161 posts)
8. And the reason "there's not a damn thing we can do about it until November of 2020"...
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 07:59 AM
Aug 2019

...is called "Republicans".

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
25. I don't agree with that we cannot do anything until 2020
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 11:03 AM
Aug 2019

If hard, solid proof is provided I don't think even the Senate will be able to refuse impeachment.

I understand that the rules of impeachment demand the Senate act as a juror and keep political influences out of their deliberations, which the republicans will not do, but nonetheless, if solid proof is provided to the senate and the country where treason, obstruction of justice cannot be debated against, that will put the senate in a precarious situation.

But most important for Democrats it is to prove that crimes and misdemeanors were committed by the creature, that the entire country understands that the creature acted in a treasonous and in bad faith against its citizens, that he committed emolument crimes, that he conspired with the Russians, and I don't see that even republicans could refuse to impeach.

We have seen how hard it has been for Moscow-Mitch with his new alias, and the same should be done to the rest of the republicans.

By the way, as the creature calls Biden, Warren, etc. names, we should too start the "Lying-Donald" meme, I don't know why it hasn't happened already. Instead of calling him "president", Democrats should always refer to him as "Lying-Donald".

tanyev

(42,598 posts)
10. Actually there are a couple damn things we could do about it.
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 08:13 AM
Aug 2019

It's just that nearly the entire Republican party is complicit.

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
13. Worth the whole read if you enjoy watching republicans eat their own.
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 08:21 AM
Aug 2019

Still doesn't make up for the fact that Wilson is part of the reason we are where we are. But, I give credit where credit is due.

AndJusticeForSome

(537 posts)
31. Outline.com is outstanding, thank you
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 02:20 PM
Aug 2019

Now if only I could configure browser to "open link in Outline.com" as a context menu item!

The_jackalope

(1,660 posts)
14. "likes having his ass handed to him by bijou nations"
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 08:22 AM
Aug 2019

"The howling vacuum of need"

Rick has such a lovely way with words!

SharonAnn

(13,778 posts)
15. In the primary I pointed out "his bottomless need for adulation". Rick's words are better.
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 08:32 AM
Aug 2019

“Howling vacuum of need.”

Roy Rolling

(6,928 posts)
16. Soooo On Point
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 08:40 AM
Aug 2019

As a criminal in his private life, he only has to stay one step ahead of the shoeshine.

When he’s an employee of the government, whose job description is to be a servant of the people, he can’t escape supervision.

The president is the shoeshine, and he can never run away from himself.

Timmygoat

(779 posts)
20. The Guardian has a good article
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 08:52 AM
Aug 2019

About Trump's deep envy and fear of Obama, and his worry that the upcoming(already scheduled) visit by Obama to Greenland
would get a better reception than he would.

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
24. "Only idiots and zealots believe that now." It was the media trying to justify a childlike behaviour
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 10:52 AM
Aug 2019

I don't know anyone with some sense who gave any credit to the creature as "a great strategy" against the Democrats. Anyone who can read a book, actually, anyone who can read a full article knew the creature is demented, that now they are starting to accept it because, as expected, things are getting out of hand is another issue.

Same as when people who refuse to accept the inevitable and then BOOM! (It Can't Happen Here!), it hits them and suddenly, but late, realize that the truth was in from of them all the time.

The media must be accounted for a good part of this chaos, they gave the creature the platform for free because they were making money, and they continued to play the game ignoring the treasonous actions they were committing, and continue to do so today. Any time I see Chuck Todd on the TV I want to throw up, I do change the channel immediately to avoid it, but people like that need to be made accountable.

The mighty dollar is going to be the decline of the USA Empire, it is amazing that we don't learn from history. I don't know if in law school, and those careers that prepare students for politics, if they teach about the collapse of the Roman empire, if they don't it should be mandatory reading because the same excesses the Romans committed are being done here. We have grown too big in our heads, the "American Exceptionalism" is a farce, but the citizens have eaten it up because it makes them feel good, it inflates their chests, while failing to understand that it is a complete lie.

I would say "God save the USA" but I don't believe in that, I believe we need to talk to family and friends in a way they can understand, with facts, that as a country we are moving towards a very difficult situation. The Germans had the USA and other countries to help them reconstruct after WW2, I don't see that happening here, we will be left alone, and some countries will rejoice in our decline.

yonder

(9,669 posts)
30. "The mighty dollar is going to be the decline of the USA Empire..."
Thu Aug 22, 2019, 12:27 PM
Aug 2019

You nailed it with your very good post.

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