The Titanic thread

[Dr Strangelove]

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.

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Mona Juul, Norway’s former ambassador to Jordan who resigned on Sunday after it was revealed she had significant financial links to convicted sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and her husband Terje Rød-Larse, were charged Monday with gross corruption as well as aiding and abetting by the Norwegian economic crimes unit, Økokrim, citing their inclusion in the Epstein Files.

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Trump's Justice Department has just moved to dismiss Steve Bannon's 2 criminal Convictions.

Remember this is the same Steve Bannon who was incredibly close to Jeffrey Epstein.

It's almost as if Trump is afraid of what Bannon may say about him and Epstein if he doesn't do this.

The corruption and coverup are insane.

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