Each step down the path of the Drumpf nightmare extends a little further into darkness. "The election of Donald Trump’s disordered personality—his unhealthy patterns of thinking, functioning, and behaving— his extreme narcissism; his addiction to lying about things large and small, including his finances and bullying and silencing those who could expose them; his detachment from reality,..."--- [Peter Wehner] has launched the world society into a maelstrom of chaos in which the possibility of disaster looms larger than that of a peaceful denouement.
The Dark Age of Drumpf has yet to reach its nadir.
I take the Trump presidency one day at a time, approaching it like a recovering addict approaches life. So I haven’t really grappled with the awful possibility of his re-election. But even between now and the end of his first term it’s not like the thirst for this kind of cruelty from his base, and the apathetic numbness that outrage after outrage has instilled in a lot of other people, is just going to disappear. We are indeed in for the long haul, and I also think it will get worse.
On the anniversary of 9/11 here, I will repeat something I said the day after Trump was elected: This is going to be worse than 9/11. For all the reasons you cite.
On a lighter note, I am pleased to see Skillet, Texas, joining our house atlas. At last the good people of Fritters have a place they can summer.
Absolutely all of this, plus the joy of being punitive to people weaker than you. As Adam Serwer so succinctly put it, the cruelty is the very *point* of this plan, it’s a feature not a regrettable byproduct.
(Nods) Seconding. This is what they were building towards, since at least Nixon--a sociopath with the nuclear codes, and his enablers, who don't think we're dying fast enough for them.
We all know Trump isn't going to spend a dime of federal money on the homeless anywhere -- there are housing appropriations bills languishing in Congress as it is -- Trump certainly isn't going to talk about them. What makes it all much worse is the degree to which Trump is raiding the Treasury for his real payola -- for example, not just the $3.6 Billion diverted from the Pentagon for The Wall, but the $30 Billion slush fund for Farmers of the Heartland™ (Surprise! the top 10% of all recipients get 54% of the payments -- a little Googling reveals that it's all about as corrupt as you can imagine, and then some). Can you imagine the GOP/Libertarian shitstorm if any other president siphoned BILLIONS from taxpayers to dole out to supporters because of their administration's own inept policies?
*For a little perspective, this $30 Billion of direct cash payments is more than ten times the current federal outlay for Homeless Assistance, and ten times the entire cost of subsidies for renewable energy - which are only in the form of tax breaks anyway.
Query what kind of person is so desperate for love as to pander to what one can call the true dregs of American society?
Whatever that dysfunctional POS is, that’s our POTUS. A truly sick fuck.
Not love, attention. Sociopaths don’t experience others’ love, just their own self regard.
Each step down the path of the Drumpf nightmare extends a little further into darkness. "The election of Donald Trump’s disordered personality—his unhealthy patterns of thinking, functioning, and behaving— his extreme narcissism; his addiction to lying about things large and small, including his finances and bullying and silencing those who could expose them; his detachment from reality,..."--- [Peter Wehner] has launched the world society into a maelstrom of chaos in which the possibility of disaster looms larger than that of a peaceful denouement.
The Dark Age of Drumpf has yet to reach its nadir.
I take the Trump presidency one day at a time, approaching it like a recovering addict approaches life. So I haven’t really grappled with the awful possibility of his re-election. But even between now and the end of his first term it’s not like the thirst for this kind of cruelty from his base, and the apathetic numbness that outrage after outrage has instilled in a lot of other people, is just going to disappear. We are indeed in for the long haul, and I also think it will get worse.
This, and also fuck Biden’s idea that Republicans will get better post Trump.
Yeah. Since they've been able to get away with so much for so long, it'll take a while to rein them in (assuming that's possible).
P.S. Brilliant (and horrifying) column, Roy. You should make it public.
On the anniversary of 9/11 here, I will repeat something I said the day after Trump was elected: This is going to be worse than 9/11. For all the reasons you cite.
On a lighter note, I am pleased to see Skillet, Texas, joining our house atlas. At last the good people of Fritters have a place they can summer.
I’m afraid you’re right.
Absolutely all of this, plus the joy of being punitive to people weaker than you. As Adam Serwer so succinctly put it, the cruelty is the very *point* of this plan, it’s a feature not a regrettable byproduct.
(Nods) Seconding. This is what they were building towards, since at least Nixon--a sociopath with the nuclear codes, and his enablers, who don't think we're dying fast enough for them.
We all know Trump isn't going to spend a dime of federal money on the homeless anywhere -- there are housing appropriations bills languishing in Congress as it is -- Trump certainly isn't going to talk about them. What makes it all much worse is the degree to which Trump is raiding the Treasury for his real payola -- for example, not just the $3.6 Billion diverted from the Pentagon for The Wall, but the $30 Billion slush fund for Farmers of the Heartland™ (Surprise! the top 10% of all recipients get 54% of the payments -- a little Googling reveals that it's all about as corrupt as you can imagine, and then some). Can you imagine the GOP/Libertarian shitstorm if any other president siphoned BILLIONS from taxpayers to dole out to supporters because of their administration's own inept policies?
*For a little perspective, this $30 Billion of direct cash payments is more than ten times the current federal outlay for Homeless Assistance, and ten times the entire cost of subsidies for renewable energy - which are only in the form of tax breaks anyway.