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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGetting REALLY sick of the "Something is wrong with Trump and it's a cause for concern" stories
They are all over Raw Story today. Scarborough and Deutsch talking about how they've known him for years but they have "never seen him like this."
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/morning-joe-panel-agrees-presidency-has-twisted-trump-and-theyre-truly-terrified-of-whats-next/
"Longtime allies" worried about his "erratic behavior.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/something-wrong-even-longtime-trump-allies-starting-freak-erratic-behavior/
This shit didn't just happen, it's not the result of his having a "bad day." This is Trump every frigging day. And no one is doing anything about it. We have Articles of Impeachment and the 25th Amendment ready and waiting if the Republicans grow a spine, or if Democrats take the House and Senate in November.
But the "thoughts and prayers" for Trump's mental health are nothing more than a Republican circle jerk.
hlthe2b
(102,294 posts)Admittedly, were it not for my precious doggy girl and 4-8 miles walking/day, I'd be among them.
spanone
(135,844 posts)he would have killed all five of those innocent men....KILLED THEM..AND STILL INSISTS HE WAS RIGHT
C Moon
(12,213 posts)GWC58
(2,678 posts)That they shouldve been executed, or still rotting in a New York prison. And the settlement? Oh boy, was be angry about that! But, no, hes not a racist! Sorry I have to on that one.
ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)Hes a creep and an asshole. Hes always been erratic.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)and more theatrical. Videos of Trump when he was younger, show a more soft spoken man, who could speak in complete sentences, but he was still a self-absorbed asshole. The theatrics might have been a result of his many years on television.
yonder
(9,667 posts)PatSeg
(47,501 posts)Rather a perfect storm.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)"We're worried, we're worried, we're worried." Well, no shit. Your worries don't get anything done. We're all worried, and we EXPECT Congressional leaders to act. But there's no action. Ever. So... "We're worried." Meanwhile, Trumpy's amphetamine-addled brain (with an hourly bath in caffeine from Diet Cokes) makes a mess of everything, and it gets worse by the day while Congressional GOPers finger their buttholes for hemorrhoids.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)Trump may have "changed" and it is definitely for the worse.
The fact is, though, he has always been the Jumbo-sized asshole he's been since he rode down that escalator.
dameatball
(7,398 posts)I have a buddy from Brooklyn that says he is the stereotypical New York blowhard. I first saw him on some talk show many years ago, way before Apprentice. He was an arrogant ass even in those days.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Insiders are just covering their butts with the media by leaking so they can say "I told you so" when the whole calamity comes falling down
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)On the phone with every executive, phone line after phone line, saying "Not my fault! Not my fault! Not my fault! Not my fault!"
Upthevibe
(8,053 posts)funny movie...
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts). . .from start to finish. And many big names.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts). . .Poland!
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)Rick with the blood pressure cuff, pumping away... "I LOVE THIS JOB".
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)He dies, Danny Davito dies, the guy with cancer has people already scouting out his parking place, Eddie Albert actually stops chewing thinking about having an employee shot. . . .
That movie is great.
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)The part where Eddie Albert "takes the time to connect with the common man" by picking a customer who is behind in their phone service payment to disconnect.
It was a statement about the immense power of corporations in the high power 1980's, but it is just as salient today.
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)I have to go home and watch that movie tonight now! I've got the DVD! So, nyah!
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Our idiot media have the memory of goldfish on the most important stories.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)quartz007
(1,216 posts)I swear American voters have been dumbed down.
Volaris
(10,272 posts)That doesn't make your second sentence wrong, however...
quartz007
(1,216 posts)and living in the White House, he must have won.
Volaris
(10,272 posts)He didn't win (by any legitimate means).
besides some dumb voters 45 received help, lot of help!
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Something has always been wrong and a cause for concern with Trump. It's not like this is a recent development.
gordianot
(15,242 posts)Who in their right mind would want to work for or with him? He is poison and the few pundits that still support him are either bat shit crazy, perverts or traitors.
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Covering their own asses.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)they all know something is wrong but no one wants to be the one in the spot light that calls out the problem.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)CanonRay
(14,104 posts)fucking Ben Carson? Pruitt? They're as nuts as he is.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)askyagerz
(776 posts)Since I first saw him ranting in the 80s. I was a little kid and understood what he was all about.
It's not a secret. If he wouldn't be spouting the hate the assholes want to hear then no one would be giving him the time of day.
yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)Republicans can under cut and undermine our Democracy.
solara
(3,836 posts)" the "thoughts and prayers" for Trump's mental health are nothing more than a Republican circle jerk."
The entire first year of PINO trump's so-called "administration" has mostly been a circle jerk, however, donald, the onanistic master, doesn't really need to have anyone else around to accomplish the same thing.
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hueymahl
(2,497 posts)barbtries
(28,799 posts)"Why do you think he's doing this? so unpresidential" blah blah blah
he's a sick man. i recognized this watching him go down the fucking escalator. he cannot change, he will not change, and he has not changed.
i think this willful blindness to the fact is a symptom of an illness gripping the nation.
Girard442
(6,077 posts)We all know that's rankest bullshit, and they know it too, but they're hoping they can sell it to the rubes and keep their jobs.
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)President in the Senate without GOP cooperation.
rainin
(3,011 posts)and start calling out republicans who enable him. Before the general, we could have targeted the republican candidates who told the truth about how dangerous he was and then pledged loyalty to trump. We could have targeted every member of the MSM who were making everything equal. Clinton and trump are not equal. Anyone with a brain knows that.
The problem is that the MSM know that they can be very hard on democratic candidates without consequence. If they challenge a republican they will get death threats. They know this!!! That's why the coverage is soooooo unequal!
We have to be as focused as the deplorables are. Pressure works. Focus on Republicans to stop enabling him and focus on the MSM to stop treating him like he is normal. Take a page from the Parkland kids.
Exotica
(1,461 posts)Wednesdays
(17,380 posts)Once the spin is established that Rump has been "not himself" and "something has been seriously wrong with him," the sympathy factor will kick in and he won't see a day in even the cushiest cell in Club Fed. 'Cause, who's gonna prosecute a doddering old fool?