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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a51584/trump-manic-behavior/We Haven't Even Seen the Worst of Trump's Manic Behavior
The consequences will be vast.
By Charles P. Pierce
Dec 15, 2016
As the faint strains of balalaika music grow louder in the background of his embryonic administration, El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago took a break from his busy schedule of ignoring intelligence briefings and hiring well-tailored rapists of the landscape to settle the hash of one of the country's most serious longtime enemies.
Graydon Carter.
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Eight o'clock in the morning, a month before he becomes President of the United States, and the first thing he thinks of is to set his stubby lil' fingers firing away in pursuit of a petty feud that began almost 30 years ago. This is manic behavior of the worst sort. Or, more precisely, of a worse sort, because I fear we haven't come close yet to seeing what the worst sort of manic behavior out of this guy would be. For example, can you imagine what his reaction will be if some murderous gang of idiots makes a try at one of the properties bearing his name? We could lose a damn hemisphere.
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Anyone who's attended any of the president-elect's apparently never-ending series of public circle jer er rallies has grown familiar with the shady presence of one Stephen Miller, who served as the warm-up act in many of them. A man of no apparent accomplishments or career, Miller functioned mainly as a means to get the rubes fired up in anticipation of the candidate's extensive strings of sentence-like objects.
The story by Ioffe, a gifted reporter who was canned by Tiger Beat On The Potomac for something she'd tweeted about the creepy relationship between Donald and Ivanka (not to worryIoffe's hired on at The Atlantic), is chockfull of details about Miller's baroquely dark view of American politics. He's a complete critter of the conservative Id; he evolved in a unique way entirely in a distinct section of the wingnut fever swamp world.
Like the platypus in Australia, Miller is a product of evolution in isolation. From TBOTP:
He was Trump without the filter. And now, according to New York, he's going to be in the White House, advising on domestic policy in a seniorly capacity. With him there, and with Jefferson Beauregard Sessions as AG, and with god-alone-knows who as Deputy AG for civil rights, assuming they don't do away with that position entirely, I'm sure that John Roberts's Day of Jubilee will continue to bring glory to our nation's founding principles.
Speaking of which, there is a damn good political reason for the electors next Monday to fulfill the function laid out for them by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 68. If the president-elect should be denied the 270 electoral votes necessary for his election to become official, the job of determining things will fall to Speaker Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver, and the rest of the House of Representatives. This finally could be the way to force Ryan and the rest of the Republicans to own the entirety of the disaster.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)control the press, not entirely but in many ways he will be able to stop them from telling us what he is really doing and acting like as many in the media will kowtow to his demands.
I think when that happens we can say goodbye to any pretense of a democracy.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)they will be willingly licking his ass. Media in this country is a joke.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)and he used to tell me about one of his bipolar patients who would run for office when he had a manic episode. It makes you think.
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)On Fifth Avenue...somewhere in the vicinity of Trump Tower perhaps?
Not asking for you to disclose any confidentiality...just blink twice if the answer is yes, ok?
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)Would Trump ever voluntarily seek help from a therapist (serious question)?
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Great timing, perfect.
Cha
(297,323 posts)he hasn't even been rigged in as hpos yet.
mcar
(42,334 posts)mountain grammy
(26,624 posts)Devoid of anything beautiful or sensitive. 62 million Anne Coulters.. I don't belong here.
narnian60
(3,510 posts)Efilroft Sul
(3,579 posts)Girard442
(6,075 posts)"I can drive that route in half the time. I'm not slow like those other loser drivers. I don't listen to weather forecasts because I'm really smart. I settled that DUI charge without admitting any guilt. Anyone who said I was drunk and speeding is a liar! Some of those girls on the buses are really hot! I'm the bus driver, I can do anything I want."
treestar
(82,383 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)DK504
(3,847 posts)is right on the mark and exposes the infection and puss filled plague that is the Rethuglican party and Hair Twitter's inner circle that will actualy be running our country into the ground.
Paladin
(28,264 posts)Kudos to Charlie for the "Camp Runamuck" terminology---that one ought to be widely used.
Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)Or, to put it another way, we've only begun to feel the tip of Trump's dick.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,435 posts)guessing what the full extent of the tragedy to come might be.....
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)so up yours Donald.
malaise
(269,054 posts)Rec