Trump is declining and getting worse

 Trump’s aberrant behavior is getting worse. Why are Americans ignoring his decline?

In evaluating his public and private behavior, America’s leading mental health professionals have concluded that Donald Trump is mentally unwell, and likely a sociopath — if not a psychopath. In even more direct terms, Trump has shown himself to apparently have a diseased mind, which in turn amplifies his already corrupt morality and ethics, attraction to violence, and overall capacity for evil. Ultimately, if he were to become president again, such an outcome would be a disaster for both the United States and the world.

He said it himself. Because people will support him no matter what. Why is this even still a question?

His cult base won't budge but that's nothing new, rest of us are willing to call it out though

The dude once spelled “coffee” wrong and everyone, including him, acted like it was some sort of secret code. It’s built into his fanatical following that anything weird he does is some kind of meaningful message. It’s a useful feature of the insanity surrounding him.

Too many people’s heads are so far up their asses they’d disappear if they jumped. He is an existential threat to the US and even potentially the world. Call anyone in your personal orbit out harshly. Don’t wait until it is too late.

Donald Trump Speech Gaffe Sparks Avalanche of Jokes, Memes 

Former President Donald Trump became the subject of jokes and memes after his gaffe about waging all-out war on American democracy, which he later corrected, went viral.

Trump, who has made several gaffes on the campaign trail, inadvertently made the comment as he continued his attacks on the 2020 election results during a campaign stop in Iowa on Saturday, December 2.

"In 2016, you voted to stand up to those liars, looters, losers, crooks, and creeps. You elected an outsider as your president and it was about America first.

"we've been waging an all-out war on American democracy"

He tells the truth for once and everybody calls it a gaffe. 

That wasn't a gaffe. It was the entire Republican party platform.

Honestly though. What has he ever said that made u think "fuck, he's brilliant!"

Trump Backpedals, Says He Was ‘Joking’ About Dictator Calls

Donald Trump lashed out at the New York Times on Monday over coverage of his controversial comments about whether he'd be a "dictator" on the first day of his new administration if he wins next year.

At a Fox News townhall with Sean Hannity, the former president said he'd be a dictator for just one day so he could finish the border wall and drill for oil.

The comment faced a wave of condemnations, including from the White House.

The controversy followed Trump riling up his critics by promising to root out left-wing "vermin" with a second term in the White House.

Republicans turning a blind eye at every turn to clearly questionable actions, comments & willfully ignoring true criminal behavior & activity has been beyond the pale … law n order? Really?

Because who running for President doesn’t joke about becoming a dictator?

Another lie. Trump has many times in the past said he doesn’t joke.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-kid-aides-argue-joking-slowing-coronavirus-testing/story?id=71404943

 

GOP finally seeing the way of Trump

 Sen. Mitt Romney Says He Would Vote For ‘Virtually’ Anybody Other Than Trump or Ramaswamy

Romney, smiling, said that he would also be "happy" to support a "number of" the Democrats who have entered the 2024 presidential race, though did not name names.

Romney has his positive points...which are outweighed by his negative points. Still, he's probably about the best you're going to get out of the treasonous, anti-American Republicans these days.

When a true conservative like Romney says you should vote for a Dem if Trump is the GOP choice, it means the death of the GOP.

That would be great if most of the Republican Party didn’t see his stance as an endorsement of their disgusting views. Modern Republicanism is a disgusting excuse for a political stance. Anyone who believes in it should be ashamed of their views, and understand that they are a weight on our societal advancement, and the shit that prevents us from making advancements as a species. Conservatism is a cancer, and people who still believe in its merits are stunted intellectually. If you’re a conservative, know that you can be better. You should be better if you care at all for our advancement as a species.

Donations to GOP drop as worries mount about the party’s finances

The Republican Party’s finances are increasingly worrisome to party members, advisers to former president Donald Trump, and other operatives involved in the 2024 election effort, according to 10 people familiar with the matter.

This is proof sanctions on Russia are working.

It’s becoming more and more obvious to long time republicans that MAGA doesn’t represent them. It’s a divide party. Why support the crazies

Republicans Trip Over Their Own Assholes Trying to Take Down Hunter Biden

If you’re a person living in the year 2023, you very likely know that Republicans have long been obsessed with the idea that the Biden family comprise a vast criminal enterprise—and that Joe Biden, as the conspiracy holds, is at the very top. They’ve desperately attempted to make this idea stick ever since Donald Trump tried and failed to get Ukraine to smear Biden and his son in exchange for military aid. Naturally, this thirst to prove that the president is a criminal mastermind—and somehow, as they claim, mentally incapacitated—has only grown since the GOP won its razor-thin majority in the House. But unsurprisingly, their push to impeach him has thus far uncovered nothing in the way of actual evidence, as Republicans in both the House and Senate will tell you. Also? Hunter Biden appears to have called them on their bluff. 

Because they don't actually want to take down Hunter Biden, they just want to drag this out until the 2024 elections so they can keep using it as political ammo against his dad.

Also calling out the absurdity of the situation was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who wrote on X: “The reason GOP don’t want a public hearing on Hunter Biden is because @OversightDems have hoisted them by their own petards in every public hearing this year. They’re scared of getting humiliated for not having an actual case (again), so they need to hide.” 

 

Free speech doesn't get you out of consequence of your speech

 Donald Trump's Lawyers Say That False Statements Are Free Speech

Former President Donald Trump had a constitutional right to make false statements about the 2020 election, his lawyers have claimed in court.

In a written submission on Wednesday, they said that the federal election interference case against Trump is based on his alleged "lies" and that lies and false statements are protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution.

That isn't the basis of the case, though. Not one charge was brought on the basis of Trump's lies. Rather, Trump was charged because he took specific actions designed to result in January 6th, knowingly and with intent.

He can lie about it all he wants. Smith is very clear about that in the original indictment. That isn't what he's being charged over. 

No matter how desperately Trump wants to frame it to the contrary, his charges have nothing to do with "free speech" nor is he being "politically persecuted" as he loves to claim.

This from the man that has just sued MSNBC, Reuters and 18 other news orgs for misreporting $73 Million Truth Social Losses (remember the losses are apparently only $31m).

Trump has sued people and organisations for defamation. A real free speech warrior over here.

Guilty verdicts are free speech too.

Trump struggles to get into holiday spirit with scathing Thanksgiving post

Donald Trump appears to be struggling to get into the holiday spirit and is far from feeling thankful – that’s if his latest Truth Social rants are anything to go by.

In the early hours of Thanksgiving morning, the former president took to his social media platform to launch the latest in a growing number of attacks on the judge and court clerk in his New York civil fraud trial.

I don't understand how people can keep up with all this bullshit and negativity.

Oh look it's your annual reminder to put crazy racist grandpa at the far end of the table.

How can someone read that and say to himself "I want that guy to be the president of my country"? 

Donald Trump Rages at His Enemies in Furious Thanksgiving Message

Donald Trump went after his political enemies in a Thanksgiving message posted on Truth Social on Thursday.

The frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination is facing a civil fraud trial brought against him by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The $250 million lawsuit alleges Trump and executives at his company fraudulently inflated his wealth on his financial statements, which were used to secure loans and insurance. Judge Arthur Engoron is overseeing the trial and has already ruled the defendants had committed fraud. Allison Greenfield is Engoron's law clerk.

 What a soft, steaming turd of a man.

Proud to say I am his enemy!

Just remember that if he gets back into the Presidency, project 2025 will be stripping out all of the institutional guard rails so they can weaponize the entire government and intelligence apparatus against their “domestic enemies”.

They will pass laws requiring social media companies to share everything they have with the NSA, FBI, and CIA so they can identify people like you as targets for arrest, to be sent to the gigantic prison camps they’re building.

Anyone who says, “Oh but those prison camps are just going to be used to put migrant families until they’re all deported, then those prison camps will be shut down” hasn’t done much digging into every other authoritarian dictatorship throughout history.

People need to vote like their lives depend on it, because if Trump gets back in, he’s telling us there won’t be a democracy anymore.

Trump admits lying on the stand

 On The Stand, Trump Admits To Adjusting Property Valuations

“Did you ever think that the values were off in your statement of financial condition?” Assistant Attorney General Kevin Wallace asked the former president.

“Yes, on occasion,” Trump responded. “Both high and low.”

The pathological liar told the truth on the stand and incriminated himself. What a world. 

I'm amazed that this guy still has supporters. A LOT of them.

is it just me, or is all the "I trusted the accountants" bullshit completely blown out of the water when you point out the time line of valuations, like:

1) you signed and approved that it was worth 15 million.

2) 6 months later, you signed and approved it was worth 50 million.

3) 3 months later, you signed and approved it was worth 15 million.

4) 5 months later, you signed and approved it was worth 50 million.

Each time to their advantage. Then it is utterly impossible to claim that they "didn't know" or they "trusted accountants".

Yes, I know the liability is already determined, Trump did commit fraud is an accepted fact by him and his lawyers. But it just seems that every time any Trump utters those "I didn't know" it seems the immediate response would be to prove that they did.

    “Just for the record,” Wallace replied, “you weren’t president in 2021?”

    “No, I wasn’t,” Trump acknowledged.

"Damning": Legal experts say NY AG got Trump to make "critical admission" in fraud testimony 

ormer President Donald Trump appeared to confirm that the property valuations that his company submitted to banks and insurers were meant to "induce" loans from lenders while being questioned by prosecutors from the New York attorney general's office, legal experts say.

Counsel for the New York attorney general's office on Monday showed Trump a Deutsche Bank term loan agreement from the early 2010s that Trump had verified and signed. The prosecutor then asked Trump if the intentions to submit values of businesses and the properties of the Trump Organization were "in order to induce lending," Inner City Press' Matt Russell reported. 

He was already found guilty though, this part of the trial is figuring out just how much money he has to pay.

I think the biggest realization from all of this is that the business deals Trump has engaged in have always been bullshit, but despite that admission, he publicly flaunts how successful he is in business. He's a dangerous sociopath.

Here's the house of cards he built in case anyone is confused:

Trump needs partners or a loan for a new project.

Banks or business partners demand evidence of total wealth and access to cash in case the deal goes south while in progress.

Trump creates dodgy assessment and financial data used as due diligence to justify the loan or partnership.

Banks or other businesses assume that Trump is telling the truth and don't demand more detail. Who would lie when the stakes are this high?

The deal is signed based on knowingly fraudulent information, Trump specifically stated that these documents have a notification that their accuracy is not guaranteed.

Trump uses these business deals to build more legitimacy, and uses that as a reference for future deals. 

Trumpist Mike Johnson ladies and gentlemen

 New House Speaker Blamed School Shootings on Teaching Evolution and Abortion

NEWLY ELECTED HOUSE Speaker Mike Johnson is a hardcore Christian nationalist who has a history of spouting extreme right-wing views — including on mass shootings. The Louisiana Republican’s record on guns has come under scrutiny in the wake of a shooter killing at least 18 people in Maine on Wednesday, and in addition to opposing gun control legislation, the man who is now second in line for the presidency has blamed mass shootings on both teaching evolution and abortion.

Vile and ignorant. Frighteningly depraved people believe there must be a deity to deal out rewards and punishments in order for there to be "right and wrong."

EMPATHY doesn't come from religion and is vacant in right-wing policies. 

If you only choose not to murder people because you believe an invisible sky daddy will send you to eternal fires, then you are a terrible person. As an atheist, this line of argument from Christians pisses me off. I do not kill people because I KNOW that killing another person is simply wrong. Lacking belief in a deity puts me in the position of knowing that another sentient life is the highest form that I encounter, therefore, the impact I leave on other humans matters. I don't commit murder, rape, theft, etc. because they're wrong and have horrible impacts on other people. I don't need the threat of potential punishment to be the reason why I don't do these things. If that is all that's stopping him, then we should be terrified of people like him.

Then again, most horrible acts of violence are committed by people of faith.

‘I’ve prayed for each of you': How Mike Johnson led a campaign of election denial

One day before a mob bludgeoned its way into the Capitol, Rep. Mike Johnson huddled with colleagues in a closed-door meeting about Congress’ task on Jan. 6, 2021.

A relatively junior House Republican at the time, Johnson was nevertheless the leading voice in support of a fateful position: that the GOP should rally around Donald Trump and object to counting electoral votes submitted by at least a handful of states won by Joe Biden.

Is it just me, or when someone says “I’ll pray for you.” Is that not the most condescending shit you’ve ever heard?

Like they say “ ain’t no hate like Christian love”

Johnson is one of those types that truly believes every single thing that happens in his life is ordained by God and part of some grand plan. Someone like Jordan you can tell it is at least in their mantra, even if they don't profess it on a daily basis.

But this philosophy is so engrained with him that he invokes it publicly in virtually everything he does. He is gone in his own beliefs.

“I believe that Scripture, the Bible, is very clear: that God is the one who raises up those in authority,” Johnson said in his first speech after being elected speaker in a 220-209 vote. “He raised up each of you. All of us.”

He said this in 2022:

“The founders wanted to protect the church from an encroaching state, not the other way around,”

When he was actively trying to overturn the election, he based it on "God's discernment." I could go on for pages of alarming examples.

All of this has largely gone under the radar for the past several years, and that needs to end.

Reporters need to ask him every. single. day. why he led the efforts into the objection of electors on the morning of Jan. 7, and why he led efforts to support the Texas lawsuit and amicus brief.

Why did he tirelessly try to disenfranchise 81,000,000 voters, protect a serial criminal and sexual abuser, and end Democracy in America?

Let him give all the divine evangelical justifications he wants. But keep asking him over and over again. 

Trumpist Mike Johnson is the US House speaker. There’s plenty to fear

It’s Mike Johnson of Louisiana who, as one example of his profound unsuitability, brags that he doesn’t believe that human beings cause the climate crisis, though his home state has been ravaged by it. He is against abortion, voted against aid to Ukraine and stridently opposes LGBTQ+ rights.

Perhaps most notably, Johnson had a leading role in trying to overturn he 2020 election.

That means that the official second in line to the presidency “violated his oath to the constitution and tried to disenfranchise four states”, as the writer Marcy Wheeler neatly put it.

So abortion is so serious because this guy says we don't have enough people to work in our economy, but then he says we have a "border crisis" where people are coming here to work and they're stealing our jobs

Which is it? 

DeSantis plunder continues

‘That decision cost lives’: Covid data case further deflates Ron DeSantis’s campaign

A courtroom settlement over withheld Covid-19 data that critics say cost thousands of lives has deflated Ron DeSantis’s campaign trail persona as a courageous freedom warrior who kept his state open during a deadly peak of the pandemic.

It comes at a pivotal time for the Florida governor, whose teetering run for the Republican presidential nomination is mired in financial difficulties and collapsing poll numbers in early primary states.

State Surgeon General of Florida should be charged for altering covid reports that cause hundreds of preventable deaths.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/florida-surgeon-general-covid-vaccine-00093510 

Remember that this man was appointed to his position solely because he didn’t think people should do anything to prevent getting COVID.

And he refused to wear a mask when a state lawmaker he was meeting with asked him to due to the fact that she had breast cancer... and people with cancer have a significantly higher risk of getting seriously ill from covid.

Data supports it, more unvaccinated (Republicans?) died and continue to die from COVID every year. We have seen more COVID than flu cases this season. And the only ones that end up dying are the unvaccinated ones that refused to get the first round.

We're not even surprised anymore, just kind of shake our heads and find a room in the corner they can die in. Been lucky enough to get a few home with hospice. That opens their rooms for real patients who need to get better.

Conservative caused about 300k extra dead Americans through their support of the pandemic. They should be in jail.

It really is worse than that.

Trump and his team saw that COVID was going to hit the cities first...and hard.

They were hoping to have 20 million less Democrats to deny voting rights to.

Unfortunately for them, red area rates of sickness and death are FAR higher due to COVID after the first few months of the pandemic. It took a while for the bug to get out to rural America...but while urbanites masked up and distanced and washed hands, the red meat MAGA crowd had COVID PARTIES.

MAGA is too stupid to live...Evolution is going to eventually take its course.

Deranged Donald is Doxxing and admitting Obama was born in US

 Trump Shares Article Doxxing NY AG’s Address, May Violate Gag Order

Donald Trump shared a Substack article from far-right political activist and internet personality Laura Loomer on Truth Social Monday night that lobbed unverified accusations at New York Attorney General Letitia James, asserting that there was a connection between James and “Christian J. French, The Trump hating COO and heir to the Anti-Trump ‘Regional News Network.’” According to Meidas Touch, Loomer posted a New York City Buildings violation document and a loan modification form that listed what appears to be James’ home address in Brooklyn. This may violate Judge Arthur Engoron’s gag order, which prohibits Trump from attacking court staffers involved in his New York financial fraud case. While James is not a staffer, she is central to the indictment. James has been the target of Trump’s swipes before, mentioning in August that she received death threats during her prosecution against the former president.

It’s amazing how Trump’s right to terrorize anyone in his way outweighs the safety of every other person on the planet, time after time.

“Okay, we could lock him up.. or we could pay for 24/7 police presence to protect her from the supporters he riled up to harm her… let’s go with the protection detail. Somebody might get offended if we treat him like a criminal.”

In what possible way is this anything other than a call to assassinate James?

Didn't he JUST pull this bullshit with Obama's address, and some idiot with a gun got arrested driving around his neighborhood while livestreaming or some shit?

July 6, 2023 After Trump posted what he said was Obama’s address, an armed man was arrested there, prosecutors say 

Look, just like everyone else I've been fed up with Trump doing stupid illegal shit and getting away with it. Being president for most of that time afforded him a shield that he wouldn't have had otherwise, granted. But of course we're all tired of it.

But he's never done anything quite like this before. The other shit was heinous and illegal and flagrant, yes (and some of it he's on trial for), but when you go after the AG... the AG has the power to fucking end you.

Maybe if he were the President of the USA still he could maybe get away with it in some way, but as an average citizen? No. Doxxing the AG as a private citizen after being told not to by a court of law is not like any other crime he's committed... and he's going to regret it.

Trump’s New Conspiracy Theory: Obama Is Still President

Donald Trump is a man who knows the value of playing the hits. Sometimes that means spinning “Y.M.C.A.” and other Village People songs during his DJ sets at Mar-a-Lago. Other times he shows his respect for the classics less literally, as when he uses the slogan “Make America Great Again, Again,” dresses like it’s still the ’80s, and keeps repeating the unhinged conspiracy theories that got him where he is today.

To Trump’s credit, he has recognized that questioning whether Barack Obama was really born in the United States won’t get the base going the way it did over a decade ago. Instead, he has found a fresher way to stoke MAGA voters’ Obama-related fears: claiming the two-term former president still actively controls the White House.

Conspiracy theory or did his addled brain forget Obama isn’t in office. I mean didn’t he say once that he beat Obama in an election? And didn’t he also confuse Obama and Biden whilst saying one or the other is leading us to world war 2? I don’t think he’s conspiracy theory crazy, I think he’s nursing home crazy.

There's something about Obama that drives conservatives crazy... I just can't put my finger on it...