Has Trump's cheese finally slid off his cracker?

[babylonsister]

Jonah Goldberg??

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-26/president-donald-trump-behavior-mueller-powell

Column: Has Trump’s cheese finally slid off his cracker?
By Jonah GoldbergColumnist
Aug. 27, 2019
3 AM


Last week there was a sharp uptick in speculation that President Trump is a few fries shy of a Happy Meal.

Obviously, this is not the first time the idea has popped up that the commander-in-chief’s cheese might have slid off his cracker. Early in his presidency, and again in 2018, there was a lot of chatter that Trump should be removed via the 25th Amendment. Through it all, the president responded by insisting he was a “very stable genius.”

But after what has seemed like a personal best in whackadoodle statements over the last few weeks, cable news networks and prominent Twitterati are ratcheting up the talk that the president’s wheel might still be turning, but the hamster’s dead.

Whether it was his tweet declaring that American companies “are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative” to doing business in China or his decision to cancel a trip to Denmark because the Danish prime minister didn’t have a “nice” reaction to his desire to buy Greenland, or his suggestion that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell might be a greater enemy than China’s premier-for-life, it did seem like the West Wing’s nurse might have accidentally switched his meds for M&Ms.

“This is not normal. And I don’t mean that as in, ‘Trump is violating the shibboleths of the Washington establishment,’” wrote the Washington Post’s Megan McArdle. “I mean that as in, ‘This is not normal for a functioning adult.’”

CNN’s in-house media critic (who often seems to define “media” as Fox News) said over the weekend: “He’s getting worse. We can see it. It’s happening in public but it’s still a very hard, very sensitive story to cover. I’m talking of course about President Trump, about his behavior, about his instability.”

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Whether or not he’s a stable genius, the Trump on display now is the same one we’ve always seen. What’s changed are the circumstances. Like an unsteady man long held upright by pushing on a locked door, he’s tumbling now that the path is suddenly open. He needs some new enemy to brace against, and he’s flailing around in search of one. That makes him appear wobblier than before, but he’s exactly as unbalanced as he’s always been.

[Dirty Socialist]

1. L.O.L.

Jonah Goldberg(!) hits one out of the park!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. has Pence been seen measuring the Oval Office for redecorating?

[keithbvadu2]

14. Who would benefit if Trump was ousted by 25th Amendment?

Who would benefit if Trump was ousted by 25th Amendment?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. Thanks! knew there was one out there

[FirstLight]

3. I like the writing...who is this guy and why are you guys shocked he wrote this?

I'm not to clued-in to the LA Times


ETA:
Ohhhhh, just read his bio at the end...I get it now...

[babylonsister]

6. From wiki...

Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969) is an American conservative syndicated columnist,[1] author, political analyst, and commentator. Formerly a senior editor at National Review (1998–May 2019),[2] Goldberg writes a weekly column about politics and culture for the Los Angeles Times.[3][4] Holding a fellowship at the National Review Institute, during the summer of 2019 Goldberg is slated to become founding editor at a competing online opinion and news entity.[5][6][7] Goldberg is the author of Liberal Fascism, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller shortly after its release in January 2008,[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Goldberg

[bobbieinok]

11. He's the son of Lucianne Goldberg, who helped put Monica in place, 'advised' her

[OMGWTF]

17. The "friend" who told Monica to not get the famous blue dress cleaned. Bitch!

[56miSSie]

32. Linda Tripp is the friend

who told Monica not to clean the dress.

[gldstwmn]

10. Mommy is Lucianne Goldberg.

[spanone]

13. wingnut

trump is losing the base of his base

[Hermit-The-Prog]

21. trying to salvage the remnants of conservatives from Russiapublicans

William F Buckley is gone; Nazis, white supremacists, and Russia took over the Republican party while conservatives drooled over possibility of owning SCOTUS.

Never Trumpers are still all for feeding the greedy and starving the needy, but they don't want foreign help.

[Blue Owl]

4. Putin's on his Ritz...

n/t

[gordianot]

5. I suggest a new enemy; people who make fun of spray tans.

They are discriminating against the orange elderly.

[eShirl]

7. We need to have a talk about taking the nuclear codes away from Grandpa.

He's not going to like it, but it's for his own good.
(Not to mention, the good of the country and the world.)

[Evolve Dammit]

25. This is a HUGE problem. Who's left that has any sway at all?? He's got the black briefcase.

[bobbieinok]

8. Ie, has the light bulb on his front porch finally burnt out? Heard this1 time yrs ago

[gldstwmn]

9. I think he does this shit on purpose.

[SammyWinstonJack]

31. Probably so.

[saidsimplesimon]

12. This headline made my day.

Thank you, Mr. Goldberg.

Still laughing, "the cheese fell off the cracker". Reminded me of my roots in Detroit

[keithbvadu2]

15. Also in the movie - The Green Mile

[hatrack]

16. Hmmm - is Jonah the Doughy Pantload wishing to extend his "career"?

That would explain his sudden . . . "revelation" on display here.

[ThreeDimensional]

18. "...not normal for a functioning adult."

[Politicub]

20. Probably. And mar a lago has bedbugs.

And the biggest bedbug of them all is Trump. President bedbug.

Spread it far and wide.

[jmowreader]

22. Trump's cheese was never on his cracker in the first place

He's always been this way. If anything, he's just gotten meaner.

[warmfeet]

23. The royal asshole, umhmm, I mean trump,

never had any cheese.

He is, however, a cracker.

We need him to be removed, by any means.

The safety of this world supersedes, well, anything else.

[struggle4progress]

24. Goldberg's standard POV is: "It's Obama's fault we got crazy Trump"

[Kurt V.]

26. +1

[Proud Liberal Dem]

28. What is the "logic" behind THAT?!

And it's not even just right wingers whom parrot that line.

[soldierant]

33. I believe the theory is that

Obama's blackness terrified all the then-muted white supremacists and brought them out of hiding. If there's anything to it, then all of his competence, dignity, class, and grace must have made it worse - much worse. It's not easy to wrap a sane head around, but I can just see that the success - even, or maybe especially the well-deserved success - of someone in a group which you have believed for your entire life is less that you could be painful and scary.

[struggle4progress]

37. Goldberg won't criticize a conservative without saying liberals are worse

There's no "logic" here: it's just the usual rightwing psy-ops warfare that has been constant since the Gingrich era

[Kurt V.]

27. Serious question. how can you tell if you're a few fries short.? :)

[soldierant]

34. You can't of course. Only others can tell.

That's the basis of the Dunning-Kruger effect. I believe there's also a short video in which John Cleese describes it in his own way. Some examples of it are very funny indeed, but the truth of it really isn't funny at all.

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. It wouldn't be a very hard, a very sensitive story to cover if it were a Democratic President whose

Cheese had slid off his cracker. It would be 24/7 news with feigned concern.

[sprinkleeninow]

30. His blender doesn't go all the way to

purée.

[soldierant]

35. Or it might be stuck on pure and won't do anything else

[Thomas Hurt]

36. He seems to be behaving exactly like a paranoiac malignant narcissist should...

[struggle4progress]

38. His water-closet is plugged

[KY_EnviroGuy]

39. If tRump had any cheese it would be Limburger for maximum offense.

(apologies to Limburger with Heineken fans).

KY.....

[Wednesdays]

40. I've said this before

This is tRump's get out of jail free card.

Right wingers are now selling the "Trump's a lunatic" meme. Watch for that to ramp up in the coming weeks and months, especially as stuff like the Deutsche Bank information unfolds.

The strategy is clear: the news will report sympathetically about that poor, poor man losing his faculties, and therefore who would dare convict a crazy old dotard?

[babylonsister]

41. Wow. We already know he's a nut job; I wish

they'd employ that strategy now.