Here's a dilemma--the intellectual thrill of understanding something, versus the numbing heartbreak that comes with that understanding. But thank you for the insight, heartbreak notwithstanding.
trump is seriously ill with Dementia. I spotted this during the 2016 campaign but at that time he was experiencing what is called 'early-onset' Dementia and he did not realize it and he laughed it off. I continued to dog him during his entire first term. Then 4 years passed. Now he has been in office this term for a year, for a total of 5 years. There is no cure for Dementia the condition merely continues to deteriorate. He is aware now that he is ill. He admitted he did not remember starting the war with Iran, a classic symptom of Dementia. Not all seniors suffer from Dementia but many do. Another strong symptom is the lust for war, ie; Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, and his refusal to end Ukraine and Gaza. All in one year. This past year I have begged America's psychiatrists to make an appearance and/or a post. Finally in February 2026 two have and they concur with my position. At this point it is just cruel for the GOP and the Senate to expect him to continue to work. His condition has progressed to 'full-on' Dementia and he is in desperate need of full time care by a psychiatrist in a sanitarium. Both the GOP and the Senate have an obligation to step up to the plate with a solution.
It's cruel, on their part, indeed. But I think they have become the cruelty that they've bought into in order to stay in the 'graces' of this increasingly, unsatisfiably deranged man. Drawing an incomplete, lay-historical reader's analogy: When did most of Germany come to terms with the fact that the war was lost? When the women who survived were stacking the rubble of what used to be their cities for two cents a brick and a cup of GI soup a day. Trummerfrauen. I'd personally visited with a couple of those war brides and it didn't take long to see that although they knew they'd been completely thrashed, they still 'believed' in the cause they'd bought into. I'm not sanguine as to how this all sorts out.
I find your suggestion that there are enemies too powerful and dangerous to be the target of legal process disturbing.
That isn’t how things are supposed to work in a democracy governed by the rule of law. I also haven’t seen much sign that there is anyone democrats see as too powerful and dangerous to subpoena. This immunity from legal process seems to only work one way.
Gooning is hard work. I think using the original meaning, not the thug one, better captures the feverish, slavering, frantic, even desperate nature of how “hard” one works…and works…and works…toward this führer.
Here's a dilemma--the intellectual thrill of understanding something, versus the numbing heartbreak that comes with that understanding. But thank you for the insight, heartbreak notwithstanding.
Surely it’s “wanking toward the Fuhrer”
trump is seriously ill with Dementia. I spotted this during the 2016 campaign but at that time he was experiencing what is called 'early-onset' Dementia and he did not realize it and he laughed it off. I continued to dog him during his entire first term. Then 4 years passed. Now he has been in office this term for a year, for a total of 5 years. There is no cure for Dementia the condition merely continues to deteriorate. He is aware now that he is ill. He admitted he did not remember starting the war with Iran, a classic symptom of Dementia. Not all seniors suffer from Dementia but many do. Another strong symptom is the lust for war, ie; Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, and his refusal to end Ukraine and Gaza. All in one year. This past year I have begged America's psychiatrists to make an appearance and/or a post. Finally in February 2026 two have and they concur with my position. At this point it is just cruel for the GOP and the Senate to expect him to continue to work. His condition has progressed to 'full-on' Dementia and he is in desperate need of full time care by a psychiatrist in a sanitarium. Both the GOP and the Senate have an obligation to step up to the plate with a solution.
It's cruel, on their part, indeed. But I think they have become the cruelty that they've bought into in order to stay in the 'graces' of this increasingly, unsatisfiably deranged man. Drawing an incomplete, lay-historical reader's analogy: When did most of Germany come to terms with the fact that the war was lost? When the women who survived were stacking the rubble of what used to be their cities for two cents a brick and a cup of GI soup a day. Trummerfrauen. I'd personally visited with a couple of those war brides and it didn't take long to see that although they knew they'd been completely thrashed, they still 'believed' in the cause they'd bought into. I'm not sanguine as to how this all sorts out.
Tim Long, Just Up the Hill from Lock 15
I find your suggestion that there are enemies too powerful and dangerous to be the target of legal process disturbing.
That isn’t how things are supposed to work in a democracy governed by the rule of law. I also haven’t seen much sign that there is anyone democrats see as too powerful and dangerous to subpoena. This immunity from legal process seems to only work one way.
No wonder they don't know what to do with adult women.
Gooning is hard work. I think using the original meaning, not the thug one, better captures the feverish, slavering, frantic, even desperate nature of how “hard” one works…and works…and works…toward this führer.
authoritarian high postmodernism
I suggest a supplemental read: "The Rise and Fall... " for the nouveau nazi readers.
In the middle of Shirer's post-war work. It's nauseatingly prescient.
Tim Long
Yes and should be required reading with a high value grade in order to graduate from any school public or private.
"Both, obviously, were far more monstrous than Trump at his worst..." I don't think we've seen Trumpkopf at his worst yet.