Today my X feed is overflowing with actual medical breakthroughs:
Mexican scientists eliminated HPV Spanish researchers cured prostate cancer in mice Japan restored motor function in paralyzed patients via regenerative medicine Korean scientists report reversing colon cancer Vietnamese clinicians show blood cancer can be completely treated
Biomedical science is advancing at an unprecedented, accelerating pace.
A genuinely great day for medicine.
It can be dangerous to believe things just because you want them to be true. - Sagan
Cynicism is acceptance
Federal records show prosecutors never searched Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch — despite evidence he planned to use it to impregnate women and “spread his DNA.”
Let that sink in.
A suspected trafficking site. A documented eugenics scheme. Zero federal search.
It can be dangerous to believe things just because you want them to be true. - Sagan
Cynicism is acceptance
I believe, more than ever, that Trump needs to be chided, insulted, and laughed at. His ability to let things go, is nil. He's making mistake after mistake. He has zero filters and zero self-control. He is narcissistically battered over his piss-poor polling. He's also - and this is key - increasingly paranoid.
His paranoia is on multiple levels. He's paranoid there's a bubbling discontent among his GOP support bases. He's paranoid he's being hurt by incompetent staff. He's paranoid of losing the midterms and undergoing Congressional oversight with subpoena power, and of course, impeachment. He's paranoid of losing his acuity due to age and illness and running out of time. But more than anything else, he's paranoid of humiliation.
Humiliation is the primary underlying fear of any malignant narcissist. He can't attend the Olympics because he'd be globally jeered. He can't attend the Super Bowl because he'll risk a "hostile reception." The Melania movie has a 5% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, and a huge portion of those who worked on the film, have asked NOT to receive a credit for their work. His attempt at high-end legitimacy through his foray into the Kennedy Center has been disastrous, with artist after artist canceling, yielding so much humiliation, he chose to shut the whole thing down for two years. His other attempt at high-end legitimacy - winning a Nobel Prize - failed and he knows he's being chided over the fake FIFA Peace Award and accepting possession of a Nobel Prize he didn't win.
He's flailing so badly over Epstein that it's been disconcerting even to his base, and if accountability begins in any form beyond the Royals, he fears someone somewhere will release some truth he cannot easily defend - and on this issue, make no mistake - he's trapped.
He's compromised by his ineffectiveness on the world stage, and was humiliated on an open mike in Davos, and by Carney. He's crazed by bad economic indicators at home. He's filled with rage, fear and impulsiveness inherent to his aberrant psychopathology, physically weakened by disease, unable to sleep, and prone to lashing out in an optically poor way, like he did with the Obama meme.
His boisterous and hyperbolic posts are now eye-rolling and laughably false. His massive energy swings portend to increased medication to treat neurological diminishment. His oratory skills are compromised, and his math is 6th grade level - one grade above his vocabulary.
MAGA influencers are more defensive than ever - a sure sign they see the problems. Their response to Vance getting booed in his stead at the Olympics is ... it didn't happen. Their response to him not attending the Super bowl out of fear, is ... the Halftime Show is wrong, so the NFL is to be boycotted. (Good luck with that.)
His myth is now being sustained only by gaslighting and puffery, and there are cracks getting larger.
He has always been terrified of humiliation - but it's generally been "at the prospect of" humiliation. Now it's different because he's now terrified "of the next" humiliation.
It's our collective obligation - Dems, Ind's, the media, business leaders, sane people - to challenge him more, chide him, call for him to step down, and otherwise drive him crazy - force him into distractions and even into more authoritarian moves.
Do it right, do it smart, point out every lie, make fun of him along the way, and then watch him further humiliate himself.
It can be dangerous to believe things just because you want them to be true. - Sagan
Cynicism is acceptance
Mexican scientists eliminated HPV
Spanish researchers cured prostate cancer in mice
Japan restored motor function in paralyzed patients via regenerative medicine
Korean scientists report reversing colon cancer
Vietnamese clinicians show blood cancer can be completely treated
