This is another parallel to Nazi Germany. Hitler was a psychopath. The people around him were smarter than him (yeah, some historians consider Hitler smart, but I just don’t see it from my study of him) who readily supported him not for anything other than finding themselves in positions of power. Himmler, Göring, Goebbels, and others around him were smart, and also psychopaths. The “dark triad” of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism are present in Hitler’s inner circle and in all of the rethuglicans that now kiss TFG’s ring. They all have empty souls that desperately seek to fill themselves with external power and validation.
I think there is a difference. Despite Trump being a psychopath, he is also deteriorating mentally because Hitler was 43 when he became chancellor of Germany, but Trump is older and not aging well. He is lacking lucidity which is seems to be deteriorating rapidly. Perhaps Nikki knows of more physical ailments that Trump has. I think she is waiting to see whether Trump is removed because of his criminal doings from the race, in which case the candidate is the last person standing. That is also true if he has a health issue that affects his capacity. Even if Trump is not removed for his criminal activities or health, she can always position herself as the best person to help him get the nomination as his co-president.
The alt-right Billionaires have spent millions to create this division. They are the Christian White Nationalists. Project 2025 should be on everyone's radar. The Project explains how the rich wiil get richer and the rest of us can go to hell. Agent Orange is their useful idiot to get their policies into law. They spent billions of dollars through the decades to get us here. As in our Supreme Court Radical Right Justices. They want it all. Instead of pointing fingers at their greed and need to turn this countrie's occupants into chattel, they have us tearing our neighbors and families apart. They are running on a platform of hate thy neighbor and they profit from it.
In 2020, Trump campaigned with all the advantages of an incumbent and still lost. He will lose again. These people who kiss the ring don’t possess an ounce of self-respect.
I will try and make this short. The Trump-Russia connection is a terrifying reality. The shadow cast by Putin over the landscape of American democracy and American lives, and his influence and CONTROL over Trump grows larger and darker by the moment. The book called From Democracy to Democrazy reveals, in detail, Putin's carefully hidden plan to the American public. - the facts, the evidence, and the proof.
The Trump followers - a unique modern phenomenon - have been unknowingly engaged in coercive control techniques (aka brainwashing) used daily by Donald Trump. Mass mind manipulation began in totalitarian countries about 100 years ago. It was used in China, Italy, Germany, Austria, and so on. Lo and behold we find the exact same methodologies used in the United States. It is defined as "telling lies over and over until it is perceived as the truth" (wikipedia)- like Trump's big lie about the election being stolen when Biden won by over 8 million votes. Once a person is convinced there may be little to no independent thought. If a lie contains hatred - which is used daily by Trump - it releases a chemical in the human brain to enact violence - what we saw on January 6th. Jim Jones was a cult leader who amassed a following of about 900 persons. He told them all to drink KoolAid laced with poison and they all died. Hitler turned an entire country into mass murderers who slaughtered over 6 million humans. BRAINWASHING WORKS!!!
I was at a book signing event at Barnes and Noble in Tucson, AZ. A middle-0aged woman came up to me and said "I think Putin is a great leader." I opened my mouth to respond, but was so shocked that nothing came out. These were the EXACT same words used by Trump one week prior and right after Putin invaded Ukraine.
I agree with others who think that Trump will not win in 2024 - but what happens if Russia hacking into our election process nudges Trump into office again? MicroSoft has proved that 58% of all cyber attacks into the U.S. come from Russia. This includes: food and supplies, gas and oil, military and security, and they have admitted to the 2016 election interference and said this will continue. Who knows if Americans are receiving correct information?
In 2008, Trump Jr. stated in NY conference (www.businessinsider.ocm) that the Trump organization had received $100 million from Russian banks. Russian banks - who are all controlled by the KGB/FSB - DO NOT loan money to foreigners just to earn interest on the balance. They give money for 2 reasons: (2) launder black cash into a foreign country, and (2) to obligate a foreigner to work for Russia. Trump and his organization was receiving large sums of black cash (the KGB payroll) - for whatever the reason - about 10 years or more before he became the President of the US.
Trump (Trump visited Russia many, many times after 1990) acquired his brainwashing skills from Putin who spent his spy career in East Germany. Putin brought back the methodologies used by Hitler to Russia. In a book written in 1997 called The Foundations of Geopolitics (Putin was assumed to be the ghost writer of this book since it calls out his steps as the 2nd President of Russia), he declares his number one goal as President of Russia is the destruction of the U.S. democracy from within. - he is succeeding. He blames the U.S. for the destruction of the USSR.
Americans do not understand much outside of our four walls (borders). If the Trump followers do not wake up from their cult-like mindless behavior - they will aid Putin in this destruction of our country and hand over the keys to our democracy without even a fight. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
“Not only do we support President Trump, we support his policies,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Monday. “And any Republican that isn't willing to adapt … we are completely eradicating from the party.”
If I were a Republican (God forbid), that would certainly scare the beans out of me! Especially the "completely eradicating" part.....
Trump’s single dynamic is to abase, humiliate, and dominate everyone. On some level everyone recognizes this. His followers cling, to align themselves w that sadistic power and avoid his wrath. The rest of us are revolted.
As it stands, I'm encouraged by the numbers I've seen in polling from both Iowa and NH. A fairly sizeable chunk of Haley voters will not vote for Trump. Sure, there are concerns about Biden, but he looks good to me, and healthy. The paradigm will shift when Haley is out of the race, and Biden needs to be specific, yet not fear-mongering. He needs to accurately define the problem we are facing and get people looking at the liberal-conservative spectrum in a different way, that what we must face together, regardless of party, is illiberalism.
Here's an interesting data point. On Tuesday, Missouri's Republican Senate Pro Tem Caleb Rowden stripped four Republican members of the Freedom Caucus of their committee chairs and declared he was acting against “a small group of swamp creatures.” He did it because these members have been creating chaos and stalling Republican legislation. Republicans keep trying to raise the threshold on voter ballot initiatives because of a movement to get a ballot initiative on abortion rights in November, and the Freedom Caucus has created chaos. MO has a history of using voter ballot initiatives to go around the Republican legislations (expansion of Medicaid, medical and recreational marijuana) and a strong campaign to stop a move to put "right-to-work" into the MO constitution. I'm totally against raising the threshold but found this move in the Senate surprising and it may be an indication that the Freedom Caucus Republicans have worn out their welcome. Let's hope so.
If Trump wins, Republicans will embrace fascism in actions, not just threatening words. If he loses, they’ll support his lies about more election stealing. But some day he will die and when he does, win or lose in November, all these Republican pols will fight each other to assume power and denounce him, just as the Poliburo did after Stalin’s death. MAGAts, however, will hold their mugshot coffee cups and fly their Trump flags and bemoan the loss of The Great Grifter.
“Not only do we support President Trump, we support his policies"
I hate this justification so much. Trump doesn't have "policies" as we normally think of them. He has harebrained ideas (shoot shoplifters on sight! A 1 hour trial for drug dealers and then death! Build a wall that Mexico will pay for!) but never ever any plan or procedure for implementing them...which he demonstrated over 4 years but no one paid attention.
If Nikki Haley indicated she would vote for Trump if he wins the nomination ( if she has not changed her mind lately, as she is an opportunist) it shows where her values are-- strictly partisan. She shows she has *the* qualities we do not need, cravenness, duplicitous and partisan. She is attractive and younger though and perhaps more dangerous because of that.
I will state upfront that I do not believe Trump has any chance of winning the election come November. And I totally agree with many of the comments made here and elsewhere that describe what it is about the man that is so foul, slimy, disgusting, abhorrent, psychopathic...we all get the drift. But what I still cannot wrap my head around, is why. Why do normally halfway human political animals debase themselves to the extent they do, and why are the “people” so ok with it? Does he have dirt on all of them? Really good dirt?
Trump's lists of damning behaviours, everything from outright hateful lies and fabrications (he probably does believe at least half of what he spews), stupid name-calling, run-on Truth Social BSC comments, bizarre word salads and mumblings, and burying his ex-wife in a crappy plot at his golf course for the tax right-off, is all just the usual fare that we have all heard for the past 9 years and New Yorkers have heard for decades and the papers still cover in detail. But why?
Trump is not the first grifter to come along. In his travels since the slide down the brassy escalator, he has been useful to enough people that might explain his being backed for a while. Do they, those that are still standing, think he can do it again? Really? Is there some Machiavellian mastermind behind the curtain pulling the levers? I heard of Lisa59’s Project 2025 a few years ago, though I don’t think they had a name yet. The Christofascists, the Heritage Foundation and others have been working on this since Reagan apparently. Have they been grooming the orange dufus (and maybe a few others) for years slowly building up to critical mass? He had toyed with running a couple of times in the past, once as a Dem and once as an Independent.
All Trump really wants to do is stand up in front of a large group of people several times a week and be applauded. Without that he gets cranky and out of sorts and then he breaks things. Between his rallies, his phone and some fast food he needs little else. And pretty soon he won’t even need those. He’ll need someone to wipe the drool off his chin. It will probably be someone willing to do the work that Americans refuse to do.
Trump is not ageing well, TG! He is stubborn though. But that still doesn’t answer the why of the man. He is a total aberration. Is he the living embodiment of everything wrong in the American political system? I’d say yes. But is anyone going to do anything about it? Can anyone do anything?
This is another parallel to Nazi Germany. Hitler was a psychopath. The people around him were smarter than him (yeah, some historians consider Hitler smart, but I just don’t see it from my study of him) who readily supported him not for anything other than finding themselves in positions of power. Himmler, Göring, Goebbels, and others around him were smart, and also psychopaths. The “dark triad” of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism are present in Hitler’s inner circle and in all of the rethuglicans that now kiss TFG’s ring. They all have empty souls that desperately seek to fill themselves with external power and validation.
I think there is a difference. Despite Trump being a psychopath, he is also deteriorating mentally because Hitler was 43 when he became chancellor of Germany, but Trump is older and not aging well. He is lacking lucidity which is seems to be deteriorating rapidly. Perhaps Nikki knows of more physical ailments that Trump has. I think she is waiting to see whether Trump is removed because of his criminal doings from the race, in which case the candidate is the last person standing. That is also true if he has a health issue that affects his capacity. Even if Trump is not removed for his criminal activities or health, she can always position herself as the best person to help him get the nomination as his co-president.
The alt-right Billionaires have spent millions to create this division. They are the Christian White Nationalists. Project 2025 should be on everyone's radar. The Project explains how the rich wiil get richer and the rest of us can go to hell. Agent Orange is their useful idiot to get their policies into law. They spent billions of dollars through the decades to get us here. As in our Supreme Court Radical Right Justices. They want it all. Instead of pointing fingers at their greed and need to turn this countrie's occupants into chattel, they have us tearing our neighbors and families apart. They are running on a platform of hate thy neighbor and they profit from it.
In 2020, Trump campaigned with all the advantages of an incumbent and still lost. He will lose again. These people who kiss the ring don’t possess an ounce of self-respect.
From your keyboard to God's ear!
....or more accurately, to God's inbox!
I will try and make this short. The Trump-Russia connection is a terrifying reality. The shadow cast by Putin over the landscape of American democracy and American lives, and his influence and CONTROL over Trump grows larger and darker by the moment. The book called From Democracy to Democrazy reveals, in detail, Putin's carefully hidden plan to the American public. - the facts, the evidence, and the proof.
The Trump followers - a unique modern phenomenon - have been unknowingly engaged in coercive control techniques (aka brainwashing) used daily by Donald Trump. Mass mind manipulation began in totalitarian countries about 100 years ago. It was used in China, Italy, Germany, Austria, and so on. Lo and behold we find the exact same methodologies used in the United States. It is defined as "telling lies over and over until it is perceived as the truth" (wikipedia)- like Trump's big lie about the election being stolen when Biden won by over 8 million votes. Once a person is convinced there may be little to no independent thought. If a lie contains hatred - which is used daily by Trump - it releases a chemical in the human brain to enact violence - what we saw on January 6th. Jim Jones was a cult leader who amassed a following of about 900 persons. He told them all to drink KoolAid laced with poison and they all died. Hitler turned an entire country into mass murderers who slaughtered over 6 million humans. BRAINWASHING WORKS!!!
I was at a book signing event at Barnes and Noble in Tucson, AZ. A middle-0aged woman came up to me and said "I think Putin is a great leader." I opened my mouth to respond, but was so shocked that nothing came out. These were the EXACT same words used by Trump one week prior and right after Putin invaded Ukraine.
I agree with others who think that Trump will not win in 2024 - but what happens if Russia hacking into our election process nudges Trump into office again? MicroSoft has proved that 58% of all cyber attacks into the U.S. come from Russia. This includes: food and supplies, gas and oil, military and security, and they have admitted to the 2016 election interference and said this will continue. Who knows if Americans are receiving correct information?
In 2008, Trump Jr. stated in NY conference (www.businessinsider.ocm) that the Trump organization had received $100 million from Russian banks. Russian banks - who are all controlled by the KGB/FSB - DO NOT loan money to foreigners just to earn interest on the balance. They give money for 2 reasons: (2) launder black cash into a foreign country, and (2) to obligate a foreigner to work for Russia. Trump and his organization was receiving large sums of black cash (the KGB payroll) - for whatever the reason - about 10 years or more before he became the President of the US.
Trump (Trump visited Russia many, many times after 1990) acquired his brainwashing skills from Putin who spent his spy career in East Germany. Putin brought back the methodologies used by Hitler to Russia. In a book written in 1997 called The Foundations of Geopolitics (Putin was assumed to be the ghost writer of this book since it calls out his steps as the 2nd President of Russia), he declares his number one goal as President of Russia is the destruction of the U.S. democracy from within. - he is succeeding. He blames the U.S. for the destruction of the USSR.
Americans do not understand much outside of our four walls (borders). If the Trump followers do not wake up from their cult-like mindless behavior - they will aid Putin in this destruction of our country and hand over the keys to our democracy without even a fight. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
“Not only do we support President Trump, we support his policies,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Monday. “And any Republican that isn't willing to adapt … we are completely eradicating from the party.”
If I were a Republican (God forbid), that would certainly scare the beans out of me! Especially the "completely eradicating" part.....
Trump’s single dynamic is to abase, humiliate, and dominate everyone. On some level everyone recognizes this. His followers cling, to align themselves w that sadistic power and avoid his wrath. The rest of us are revolted.
As it stands, I'm encouraged by the numbers I've seen in polling from both Iowa and NH. A fairly sizeable chunk of Haley voters will not vote for Trump. Sure, there are concerns about Biden, but he looks good to me, and healthy. The paradigm will shift when Haley is out of the race, and Biden needs to be specific, yet not fear-mongering. He needs to accurately define the problem we are facing and get people looking at the liberal-conservative spectrum in a different way, that what we must face together, regardless of party, is illiberalism.
Here's an interesting data point. On Tuesday, Missouri's Republican Senate Pro Tem Caleb Rowden stripped four Republican members of the Freedom Caucus of their committee chairs and declared he was acting against “a small group of swamp creatures.” He did it because these members have been creating chaos and stalling Republican legislation. Republicans keep trying to raise the threshold on voter ballot initiatives because of a movement to get a ballot initiative on abortion rights in November, and the Freedom Caucus has created chaos. MO has a history of using voter ballot initiatives to go around the Republican legislations (expansion of Medicaid, medical and recreational marijuana) and a strong campaign to stop a move to put "right-to-work" into the MO constitution. I'm totally against raising the threshold but found this move in the Senate surprising and it may be an indication that the Freedom Caucus Republicans have worn out their welcome. Let's hope so.
If Trump wins, Republicans will embrace fascism in actions, not just threatening words. If he loses, they’ll support his lies about more election stealing. But some day he will die and when he does, win or lose in November, all these Republican pols will fight each other to assume power and denounce him, just as the Poliburo did after Stalin’s death. MAGAts, however, will hold their mugshot coffee cups and fly their Trump flags and bemoan the loss of The Great Grifter.
“Not only do we support President Trump, we support his policies"
I hate this justification so much. Trump doesn't have "policies" as we normally think of them. He has harebrained ideas (shoot shoplifters on sight! A 1 hour trial for drug dealers and then death! Build a wall that Mexico will pay for!) but never ever any plan or procedure for implementing them...which he demonstrated over 4 years but no one paid attention.
If Nikki Haley indicated she would vote for Trump if he wins the nomination ( if she has not changed her mind lately, as she is an opportunist) it shows where her values are-- strictly partisan. She shows she has *the* qualities we do not need, cravenness, duplicitous and partisan. She is attractive and younger though and perhaps more dangerous because of that.
I will state upfront that I do not believe Trump has any chance of winning the election come November. And I totally agree with many of the comments made here and elsewhere that describe what it is about the man that is so foul, slimy, disgusting, abhorrent, psychopathic...we all get the drift. But what I still cannot wrap my head around, is why. Why do normally halfway human political animals debase themselves to the extent they do, and why are the “people” so ok with it? Does he have dirt on all of them? Really good dirt?
Trump's lists of damning behaviours, everything from outright hateful lies and fabrications (he probably does believe at least half of what he spews), stupid name-calling, run-on Truth Social BSC comments, bizarre word salads and mumblings, and burying his ex-wife in a crappy plot at his golf course for the tax right-off, is all just the usual fare that we have all heard for the past 9 years and New Yorkers have heard for decades and the papers still cover in detail. But why?
Trump is not the first grifter to come along. In his travels since the slide down the brassy escalator, he has been useful to enough people that might explain his being backed for a while. Do they, those that are still standing, think he can do it again? Really? Is there some Machiavellian mastermind behind the curtain pulling the levers? I heard of Lisa59’s Project 2025 a few years ago, though I don’t think they had a name yet. The Christofascists, the Heritage Foundation and others have been working on this since Reagan apparently. Have they been grooming the orange dufus (and maybe a few others) for years slowly building up to critical mass? He had toyed with running a couple of times in the past, once as a Dem and once as an Independent.
All Trump really wants to do is stand up in front of a large group of people several times a week and be applauded. Without that he gets cranky and out of sorts and then he breaks things. Between his rallies, his phone and some fast food he needs little else. And pretty soon he won’t even need those. He’ll need someone to wipe the drool off his chin. It will probably be someone willing to do the work that Americans refuse to do.
Trump is not ageing well, TG! He is stubborn though. But that still doesn’t answer the why of the man. He is a total aberration. Is he the living embodiment of everything wrong in the American political system? I’d say yes. But is anyone going to do anything about it? Can anyone do anything?