Just some fun things from last night:
This is queued up to 15:23 when the Dave Bautista bit starts, but you can also rewind and watch the entire monologue.
This is the writer of the bit enjoying the moment:
I wrote this cause it’s what I always wanted to say about Trump pretending to be a tough guy. But we got the amazing @DaveBautista to say it SO much better. Thanks Dave. #TrumpIsAWeakLittleBabyBitch pic.twitter.com/Mo4ZMpOPVH
— Jesse Joyce (@jessejoyce) October 17, 2024
It’s like the more Trump is seen, the worse it gets for him.
Trump did a Univision town hall last night. It did not go well:
Not sure we’ve ever seen anything like this before. The audience at Trump’s Univision town hall is visibly showing their disgust over and over for Trump as he lies about January 6.
— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.bsky.social) October 16, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Voter: I am a Republican that’s no longer registered. Your inaction during your presidency was a little disturbing to me. What happened during January 6th and the fact that you waited so long to take action while your supporters were attacking the Capitol. Coronavirus, I thought… pic.twitter.com/Z6JFVUouZX
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 17, 2024
Q: Could you explain your gun control policy to the parents of the victims of school shootings?
Trump: I could. You need guns. You need them for entertainment, for sport, and other things pic.twitter.com/azFYENbdAP
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 17, 2024
Q: Given the amount of the mounting evidence of climate change, do you still believe it’s a hoax?
Trump: I get awards environmental awards for the way I build it for the water, the way I use the water, the sand, the mixing of the sand and the water, I mean, many different, but… pic.twitter.com/CPEBBdxXFl
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 17, 2024
Voter: Why did you use your influence to tell Republicans to kill the bipartisan border security bill?
Trump: *refuses to answer* pic.twitter.com/0yUf22nNrN
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 17, 2024
There is no way I could watch this, but I’m going to leave it here, because this is a full-service blog
Open thread
craigie
I think in general that the more people see of Trump the less they like him; meanwhile, for Harris I think it’s the opposite – the more people see her, the better she does.
Yarrow
Thanks for posting the Kimmel clip. I just posted it in comments downstairs because I was surprised no one had posted it before. Is it not getting any buzz? It’s SO good. I hope it goes viral.
UncleEbeneezer
Oh, I assumed based on the title, this post was about Sinwar, lol.
Yes, I’m laughing at his death because f*ck Sinwar, Hamas, and anyone who has ever held them up as some sort of principled “resistance” group.
KatKapCC
That gun control answer makes me want to scream.
Steve LaBonne
I hope a lot of Florida Cubans and Venezuelans were watching and reacting Ike the folks in that room.
dlwchico
I hate Trump as much as the next person but this Bautista video seems like the worst sort of toxic masculinity and body shaming.
SatanicPanic
Bautista isn’t a guy I would have assumed would be a liberal but it’s pretty damn cool that he is.
CaseyL
@dlwchico:
You have to hit Trump-leaning voters where they live and speak language they understand.
They understand toxic masculinity. They love toxic masculinity.
clay
@craigie: I definitely noticed this in 2016 and 2020. Trump would disappear from the campaign trail for a little while and his polling would go up. Then he would start making public appearances again and the reverse would happen.
The people “undecided” on Trump — the ones who are neither his cult members nor the “opposition” — they seem to like the version of Trump they have in their heads, but when they actually see him, they realize that what’s in their head doesn’t match the reality of the person.
Spc123
Like the “Groper Cleveland” line – but it only works if he wins and let’s hope it carries no meaning next month.
The Audacity of Krope
That’s how I feel when I hear more or less any Republican speak on immigration or trans folk. There is a part deep in my soul that I have managed to quell so far that gets stabby upon hearing the word “open border” as though it were a real thing.
Raoul Paste
I think the Dave Bautista thing might be counterproductive — it’s a bit too much. To Trump voters it might simply reinforce their belief that Democrats are awful people.
Ms Paste has been in Trump homes doing healthcare, and has heard some remark “ Why are they so mean to that nice man?”
I think Harris is proceeding in the best possible way.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@SatanicPanic: Like the saying goes, he’s not actually a
doctorrabid misogynist meathead, he just plays one on TV (or in his case, the movies).Betty Cracker
Loved the incredulous reactions from the Univision audience (and the Tampa construction worker who asked the question) when Trump was babbling nonsense about Jan. 6th.
The Audacity of Krope
And we, one and all, are trained as a society to hold any random Democratic voter to a higher standard than Republican politicians.
lowtechcyclist
Open thread: just got the email saying my ballot had been counted. Harris/Walz, Alsobrooks, and locally, three school board candidates who are against banning books.
SatanicPanic
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: I was more thinking of his past in the WWE during the Attitude Era. But Mick Foley’s a liberal too so maybe I’m stereotyping them all as Steve Austin or Undertaker.
Belafon
@clay: Which I think is also why Harris is going everywhere that will invite her, such as on Fox. When she shows up on TV, Trump’s lizard brain knows he has to be on as well, which is not what his handlers want.
Shalimar
@Raoul Paste: If this reinforces their belief that Democrats are awful people, then they were never voting for a Democrat.
More likely, it doesn’t have any effect at all on voting. Maybe 1 in 100 get angry enough at Bautista to vote when they wouldn’t have before, but it seems unlikely they will follow through 2+ weeks from now. Maybe 1 in 100 has their eyes open to what Trump is really like, but they’re more likely to go from Trump voter to not voting than to voting for Harris.
The Audacity of Krope
Likewise I frequently see John Cena speaking up for the side of respect and decency.
UncleEbeneezer
Finished my postcards for Nevada. Just ordered stamps. Let’s go!!
The Audacity of Krope
My voter registration at my new address was just confirmed, only took two days. Next steps, request a mail in and get my sporadic voters on board.
matt
Q: Given the amount of the mounting evidence of climate change, do you still believe it’s a hoax? Trump: I get awards environmental awards for the way I build it for the water, the way I use the water, the sand, the mixing of the sand and the water, I mean, many different, but I’ve had many awards over the years for environmental, the way I’ve built because you know about building, that’s what you do. It’s very important to me… The real global warming that we have to worry about is nuclear. The water is coming up an eighth of an inch over 300 years, the ocean is gonna rise and, you know, nobody knows if that’s true or not, but they’re worried about the ocean rising an eighth of an inch or a quarter of an inch in 300 years
Gloria DryGarden
The guardian, on the Harris interview on faux
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/17/fox-news-harris-interview
Steve LaBonne
@matt: FTFNYT: Trump presents fresh thinking on climate change.
The Audacity of Krope
The nonsensical nature of his rambling aside, Trump really does not have a firm grip on which form of a word to use for the correct part of speech. It’s like Republicans’ refusal to refer to Democrats using the accepted adjective form of their name coalesced into an entire pathology in one person.
clay
@The Audacity of Krope: John Cena seems like a good dude, does a LOT of charity work, treats people well.
But he will stridently avoid taking any sort of position on anything remotely controversial. Doesn’t fit his brand.
Marmot
@matt: Were the mafia-connected concrete companies he hired just really environmentally conscious?
matt
@Marmot: the mixing of the sand and water and Jimmy Hoffa.
clay
@matt: Gonna need Sarah Cooper for this one. Sheesh!
Geminid
@The Audacity of Krope: Are you in a new House district?
The Audacity of Krope
I do recall an ad he did promoting respect for various individual communities and respecting differences. This did include queer folk. So, at a minimum, he will brush up against a controversial opinion if, and only if, the controversy is stupid.
Marmot
@The Audacity of Krope: Remember like yesterday when he rambled about how he was really going to do something about “grocery”?
My pet hypothesis is that he believes it sounds like insider, expert jargon. I’m sure his followers think so.
Anoniminous
There’s another massive meat recall over Listeria—and it’s a doozy
This is, of course Unpossible, since companies in the FREE! MARKET!!!! will ensure their products are 100%ly safe for their customers.
SatanicPanic
@The Audacity of Krope: Cena’s a decent man, true. Maybe not an open liberal but he seems to lean that way.
The Audacity of Krope
I am. I traded one slate of Democrats with no Republican challengers for another. Ballot initiatives are the only things up for grabs here.
Still, at some level I am glad to be represented by Katherine Clark instead of Stephen Lynch for the time being.
Marmot
@matt: Perhaps it was the mafia who gave him the award for that environmental.
TBone
I am in so much love with this post I might marry it.
The Audacity of Krope
Maybe he is counting on people who are good at the cyber to clean up his speech in post.
Jinchi
In that case, I think he was using the correct form of speech, he just couldn’t figure out the word to put after the adjective. This is not a mistake that would be made by someone who had actually gotten many awards for ‘environmental …..?’
But yeah, the man talks like a third grader writes. He’s incapable of speaking coherently even about the events of his own life.
TBone
@Yarrow: I’ll be sending it out over the wires! Thank you for sharing!
TS
@The Audacity of Krope:
Everyone, including the media attacked Sarah Palin for her word salad answers when interviewed. This is so much worse & it seems the media rewrites the nonsense because they cannot call him out. Weird is only the start of it
Ceci n est pas mon nym
The rants against editing interviews are especially laughable coming from a guy whose reputation as a businessman came from creative editing of his insanity on “The Apprentice”.
Jinchi
@Marmot: As someone who is often around a family member who is losing words on a weekly basis, I recognize the signs whenever Trump speaks.
It’s not a strategy or an affect. He just literally can’t complete the thoughts in his head.
The Audacity of Krope
I regrettably watched this show with my parents for years. I remember people in the production discussing how they would edit the challenges to make Trump’s seemingly random firings make sense. I didn’t think much of it at the time, save for some very minor upset, but there were at least a few instances where there was no sufficient amount of cover that creative editing could provide.
Geminid
@The Audacity of Krope: You oughta be glad Katherine Clark is your new Representative. She’s a member of the Cranberry Caucus!
KatKapCC
@Anoniminous: Yes, and it affects a ton of brands. So you meat-eaters, be sure to check your fridge and freezer and ditch any prepared foods with chicken or turkey in them.
The Audacity of Krope
I hadn’t heard of this. I was prepared for it to be literally as described but slightly disappointed it wasn’t a breakfast club with matching berets or something to that effect.
She’s also on the D caucus leadership team, which is pretty cool.
Housing goals once my lease is up include finding affordable housing in my old district, though. If I were to ever run for office, 98 percent of places I’ve called home were there.
New Deal democrat
In the hoopla over the Univision audience’s reaction to Trump, the fact that he made a very important admission, that Jack Smith will almost certainly want to introduce into evidence if his Jan 6 case makes it to trial, has been overlooked so far:
”***WE*** didn’t have guns. The ***other side*** did; ***WE*** didn’t.”
(my emphasis added)
This is an admission directly by Trump that the takeover of the Capitol building was intended by him (and thus attempting to prevent the certification of the election.
Hungry Joe
Although Trump’s actions and, when appropriate, inaction as the next President would result in lurch toward — and perhaps into — fascism, I don’t think it’s accurate to call him a fascist. Mussolini defined fascism as the merging of corporate and state power, which, though incomplete, is pretty close. But Trump has no ideology; he believes in nothing but the magnificence of his own perfect self.
In conversation I call him a fascist anyway, because that’s where he’d take the country. Maybe he’s a de facto fascist? An unwitting fascist? (But then, he’s an unwitting whole lot o’ things.)
The Audacity of Krope
Just generally unwitting, overall.
JPL
trump canceled his NRA event in Savannah next week. hmmm
The former president was to deliver the keynote speech at what the NRA titled a “Defend the 2nd” event, a reference to the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution that protects the right of Americans to own firearms. A Trump campaign official said the event was canceled due to a scheduling conflict.
prostratedragon
@New Deal democrat: Devastating. Or at least should be. Hope it gets amped above all the other noise.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Gloria DryGarden:
That’s all Faux “News” actually is. Expecting political journalism out of them is one reason why the rest of the corporate media has it’s collective head up it’s collective ass: they still defend what is a propaganda outfit.
Ksmiami
@The Audacity of Krope: reminding me to make my cranberry, orange, pecan bread and soon…. Mmmm esp w Orange glaze
HumboldtBlue
The Audacity of Krope
The amount of anger Fox elicits from my father, even during their purported comedy show, is astounding. He loves every minute, watches most episodes of their big late-night “entertainment” shows at least twice.
KatKapCC
@Ksmiami: Heyyyyy if you wanna share that recipe, that’d be great :D
The Audacity of Krope
Sounds super tasty. Versions I’ve had of this tasted too strongly of orange zest to me, but I feel like pecans would be a good way to even that out.
Marmot
@Jinchi: Nah. He’s done it as long as I’ve been subjected to him. In particular, I remember one of his minions talking on the teevee about how “we need wall.” Ezra Klein or somesuch was saying how odd it was how they’d drop the article.
They think it’s jargon-y.
Ksmiami
@KatKapCC: ok!!! It’s the one from Natasha’s kitchen but I add 1/2 c of powdered sugar and 2 cups of pecans and sometimes 1/2 c of shredded sweet coconut
Jeffro
Like most morons, he never misses an opportunity to try and *sound* smart.
frosty
@JPL: Scheduling conflict? But he’s not doing anything? Did it conflict with his morning bathroom schedule??
Jeffro
Wow.
Also, they have a comedy show??!?
Fox should change its slogan from “We Report, You Decide” to “Whatever’ll Get Ya Screeching Mad, All Day Long”
The Audacity of Krope
I’m feeling charitable; so, yes, I will describe it that way. Gutfeld! is the title. It is more out-group insults than comedy, but occasionally they attempt something that is technically structured as a joke.
JPL
@frosty: yup listened to his answers on the latest podcast.
They are going to lock him up
Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
Raoul Paste
@The Audacity of Krope: Maybe so, but the point is to win. And my point was that Harris’ approach is superior with respect to winning.
K-Mo
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Interesting concept about a “Google strategy.” I kinda thought this type of thing is directed not at Fox viewers but at people who are vaguely aware of Fox and will wind up hearing that KH went on their channel, suffered through a bunch of slanted questions, and held up admirably. The actual Fox viewers are unpersuadable but the mushy middle people might see these clips and feel a bad vibe about Baier. And see KH being very controlled and appealing.
Trump does this type of thing but usually winds up insulting the hosts, a la the NABJ interview. I think he may have fallen back on muscle memory when insulting the Wall St Journal though. He’s off the hook.
KatKapCC
@Ksmiami: I will look it up!
Wapiti
@Jinchi: In Trump’s case, I hope he understands that it is happening.
Marmot
@Hungry Joe:
Couple things:
Ya can’t trust Mussolini to ever give you a straight answer. He was a liar, like all fascists.
Political scientists still disagree about the definition of fascism. One popular definition, until recently, focused on propaganda: rebirth of the country to restore its former greatness (palingenetic ultranationalism). Other definitions are a bit loosey-goosey, but often focus on what such ultranationalist, right-wing populist movements have in common—endless lies, lament for the loss of “masculinity,” an attempt to physically seize power, armed right-wing gangs, harassing opponents, a colorful, clownish demagogue (as opponents perceive him), scapegoating, xenophobia, anti-socialism, anti-intellectualism. Corporatism was the form of government Mussolini imposed—organizing sectors of society to be incorporated into it. It’s not required, in my opinion.
Fuck that fascist.
The Audacity of Krope
It may be and that is why I’m glad to have her, the actual candidate, using this approach. My point is simply we spend too much time worrying about the Bautistas of the world embarrassing us or even just random unnamed blue haired young women wailing in anguish.
zhena gogolia
Okay, haven’t read the thread, I’m sure I will offend someone, but I love the Bautista video.
Hungry Joe
@Marmot: After reading your comment several times (just to make sure) I feel comfortable saying that I agree with every word. Excellent … okay, brilliant explication of my casually tossed-out — and not that carefully thought-out — idea.
Oh, and I should add: Fuck that fascist.
Jeffro
@The Audacity of Krope: oh geez, that one? LOL, I got ya now.
frosty
@zhena gogolia: I loved it too and I don’t really care how effective it would be or who the audience is or if it might be a negative. Bautista was fun to watch.
Plus. I’m so glad I don’t have to do any of the exercise stuff he’s doing. What a lot of work!
Soprano2
@Jinchi: Until recently I was not on the “TCFG has dementia” train, but after the past month I’m there now. I started listening to “Shrinking Trump”, and they talk about how often he doesn’t say the right word. They notice things most of us might not notice. It’s getting so bad that even people who haven’t been around anyone with dementia should realize something about him isn’t right.
zhena gogolia
@frosty: Yeah — those things he’s doing are hella hard.
RSA
The “weave” is a great example of this.
“Let me draw more attention to my cognitive deficiency by giving it a name.”
gene108
@dlwchico:
Trump’s extremely vain. He’s more thin skinned about his looks than he is about almost anything else.
Throwing the sort of bullying Trump and his supporters try to pass off as manly back at him is perfect.
As far as body shaming goes, it’s hitting Yrump back with his own brand of bullying.
The idea of Trump as a fat feeble old man needs to be played up.
Also, to tie into some comments from the morning thread about people objecting “when they go low, we go high”, Batista’s bit is an example of blowing that thinking off and meeting the loud mouthed bully in language that’ll hurt his feelings.
The Audacity of Krope
To me, the issue of dementia is aside from the point. The half-baked ideas he expresses are dangerous and clearly flow from a place of hatred and feeling superior to others. It doesn’t matter to me whether this is a product of his brain working at 100 percent efficiency or his head is as full of porridge as his public appearances suggest, he needs to be stopped either way.
Besides, I’m becoming increasingly offended by any attempt at community diagnosis over the internet as opposed to in a personal visit with a trained clinician. For anyone.
Layer8Problem
@frosty:
“My colonoscopy appointment, you know how it is, they want you to schedule these things months in advance and it just slips your mind.”
I take that back, he probably couldn’t think that deeply even in the infinitesmally small possibility that it was true.
theturtlemoves
@SatanicPanic: His mom is a lesbian and he’s gotten in very… spirited discussions with homophobic wrestling fans in the past.
Ruckus
@dlwchico:
Have you ever listened to djt?
Yes, it is a bit of body shaming. But for all his bravado and fake manliness, shitforbrains deserves all of it. HE thinks he’s a tough guy, that he could beat that man speaking in that clip. But no matter what age he is, he was never even close to being the tough guy in the room. He acts and talks like he is perfection and while few (including me!) are even close, he is nearly as far away from it as possible – and has been his entire life. His money belt can’t even protect him. The person you see today in djt is just an older version of who he has always been. I’m an old man, only 3 yrs younger than shitforbrains and live in a seniors apartment complex and most of the men here are retired and are in far better shape than shitforbrains. If you took away his ego he’d weigh 98 lbs. And he’s rapidly aging out, and has nothing human going for him, other than being a rather shitty example of one.
Was he an even half good president? No.
Is he actually smart? No
Does he even take care of himself? No
Other than money does he have anything to show for his entire life? No
His money got him elected because he’s got nothing else to show for himself. And money doesn’t buy actual humanity – as he proves regularly.
CaseyL
@Hungry Joe:
Trump is the spearpoint. He is not the spear.
Trump has no ideology, only egoism. But the people who DO want a fascist US – the people who have been working toward a fascist US for 50+ years – are all lined up behind him.
They will be the ones making policy.
He’ll be the carnival barker keeping his cult happy.
Ruckus
@Raoul Paste:
Kamala Harris is proceeding in a very good way. And mainly because she is a dramatically better human being than shitforbrains. But then so are most people. He had a rather crappy example to learn from in his father but he has gone far worse in his lifetime as a human being. His father liked money, he worships it and thinks that having it makes him great. But what has he ever done to actually earn any of it? I’ll wait for an actual answer but I’m not holding my breath.
HeleninEire
@zhena gogolia: Me too, and I haven’t a clue who he is.
Ruckus
@Jinchi:
shitforbrains is aging out. As one does this everything starts to work less effectively that it use to. Speaking coherently, acting coherently. If a person aging out is used to speaking in public they will likely continue because they can’t see they are aging out. And yes everyone can age out at a different pace and manner, and he is aging out at a somewhat advanced rate and in a manner in keeping with his personality. A crude way to say it is that he is, and always has been, a pompous, arrogant ass in love with money, because he thinks it makes him a great, no, the best human. And he has always worked at proving that is anything but one. His siblings seem to have been normal humans, working, living like millions of other humans at normal jobs, not looking for the spotlight or the bags of money.
NotMax
@Helenin Eire
A favorite Bautista scene.
“You see that badge? That means I’m a healthcare professional.”
Roberto el oso
I’ve been a fan of Dave Bautista for a long time, and so it’s been really nice to see him get more prestigious roles after years of paying his dues. The thing about body-shaming is that Trump has brought all the ridicule on himself. He deserves every bit of mockery he gets when it comes to his childish, clownish behavior and the outlandish claims he makes regarding his intellect and physique. And let’s not forget his own cruelty and coarseness when it comes to the looks of others — giving him a taste of his own medicine is long overdue. The Dems are truly the big tent party, and Bautista represents a distinct demographic just as much as does Taylor Swift or Jon Bon Jovi et al.
Spanky
Am I the only one that noticed that was Bryan Cranston as his boxing partner?
Ruckus
@Soprano2:
I’m an old, was the youngest in my family and now I’m the oldest (and only one left) and I’ve seen plenty of aging out in both my and my extended families, in which I’m now also the oldest and starting the process myself. Hopefully it is a slow process….
My point is, dementia is not abnormal in the aging process, but the level and speed can be. Each one of us who gets to the process can do it differently but the process has only one wide road to travel on. There are fast lanes and slow lanes and all of us fit in one of them.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
He has an unbreakable commitment to work the deep fryer at McDonald’s that day.
cckids
@Raoul Paste:
Any person who watches/follows Trump at all knows he is in no way “nice man”. They like that he’s a nasty, mean asshole.
zhena gogolia
@Spanky: I missed that!
zhena gogolia
@HeleninEire: I only know him from the Glass Onion movie.
Another Scott
@Soprano2: Anyone can (and has) say/said the wrong word. Obama, when talking last week about the hurricanes, said that the “southwest” was decimated (when he obviously meant the southeast). Biden gets tangled up in his speeches when he talks very fast and wants to throw in anecdotes. That doesn’t mean their brains are sick. They can speak in complete, complex, sentences that have a logical flow.
One doesn’t have to be an MD and do a sit-down interview with TCFFG to see that he has gone way down hill in the last 25 years. Compare (repost) this interview with him from September 2001 (4:38) with anything he does now. You can see flashes of his narcissism there, caring more about the buildings than the people, but he could speak in complex sentences that answered the questions. And everything wasn’t about him and his beautiful, fragile, ego. He can’t do that now.
Whether it would be diagnosed as dementia, dunno. It doesn’t really matter. His brain is broken, he has monsters around him, and his policies are abhorrent. He’s got no business having political power, and we need to stop him and his enablers.
Cheers,
Scott.
Citizen Alan
@gene108: My immediate thought is that the practical effect of Bautista’s bit might be to cause men who really do suffer from toxic masculinity to see being associated with Shitgibbon as a mark against their own masculinity. Might make a few stay home, if nothing else.
The Audacity of Krope
@zhena gogolia: Bautista was also in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
Roberto el oso
@The Audacity of Krope: As well as playing ‘The Beast’ Raban in the latest ‘Dune’ movies. He also has a very moving role early on in ‘Blade Runner 2049’, playing a replicant who just wants to be left alone
He also starred in ‘Wrong Side of Town’, which features a cameo appearance by none other than Stormy Daniels.
The Audacity of Krope
@Roberto el oso: He also has a very moving role early on in ‘Blade Runner 2049’, playing a replicant who just wants to be left alone
Funny, I think I didn’t know who he was when this movie came out. Add him to the long list of performers I failed to notice until years later then blow my mind when I see them in earlier, usually smaller, roles.
Ruckus
@Gloria DryGarden:
It might make a difference for some, a few. And yes every little bit helps.
But.
Many conservatives are not going to vote for Kamala Harris. No matter that she is VP. No matter that their guy is a deranged senior delving in idiotic bullshit, who has aged out of normal, and has zero idea of what any of them need or even want. And he couldn’t care less about them, he’s in this for one person and one person only – him. The only thing they know is that he is on their side therefore he must be their guy. Most people are followers. It’s far easier than leading.
Ruckus
@Jinchi:
He’s incapable of speaking coherently even about the events of his own life.
He speaks in a fairy tale language because he’s the bad guy in any fairy tale. He just really never learned the proper use of the language. He thinks his world is the one everyone else doesn’t belong in because he’s above everyone else. He ran for president to prove that he was. And getting elected gave him that proof. Possibly a couple decades of mental counseling might get him to the truth, but as a past mental health counselor, I very seriously doubt it. Especially as he very likely doesn’t have 2 decades left.
dnfree
@Hungry Joe: Read Madeleine Albright’s book, aptly called “Fascism”.
https://www.vox.com/world/2019/2/14/18221913/fascism-warning-madeleine-albright-book-trump