One hopes, at some point, the people supporting this fool notice, that everything he does, without exception, makes matters worse, for him, and especially, for us. Amusingly, in a grim sort of way, his personal history COULD have been instructive here, well in advance of his FIRST disasterous term. Take it from one who's been watching him since 1987, he is very much a prisoner to his pathologies, his every move is dictated by them, he cannot escape them anymore than he could swear off breathing.
At the center is the narcissism, it's self preservation, and self immolation at the same time, the ego, his ID, must be protected at all times, this is the perfect example. Although this is going to do the opposite of its stated intention, he HAS to do it, his ego demands that he look "strong", and with him, it's always zero sum, soft power is not a concept that falls within donny's purview. Might makes right", so it's all, "look how strong I am", with no thought whatsoever for what he's ACTUALLY doing, which is driving the cost of oil even higher.
Like I said, he has ALWAYS been this way, it's how every single business venture failed, it's how he managed to bankrupt multiple casinos, he is incapable of taking a short term loss, to reap a long term benefit, he HAS to be the smartest person in the room, so rather than take a beat, to learn how eg, a casino works, or listen to those with experience, he bulls right ahead, and fucks up AGAIN, spectacularly.
It really is quite something to watch, just, over and over and over. It's how I know, unequivocally, even though I am in no way qualified, that even I could do a better job as president, cause I'd have the sense to see I was in way over my head, and seek wiser councel.
I think you're going to enjoy today's piece, and it's still in the works, but just for a taste, here's the abstract.
SUBJECT: (U) NO IDEOLOGY — That’s Not Trump’s Weakness. That’s His Weapon.
The absence of ideology in Donald Trump is not an analytical gap — it is the central mechanism. This assessment argues that a supply-driven pathological system, operating without ideological constraint at presidential scale, has produced the full diagnostic output of fascism without a fascist: without doctrine, without program, and without intent. Where every prior analysis has searched for a belief system and found none, the NSD framework treats that absence as the primary variable — the connective tissue that makes the system illegible, the outputs indistinguishable from fascism, and every standard analytical tool useless.
Drawing on clinical psychology, political personality profiling, comparative fascism research, and intelligence tradecraft, this assessment constructs a five-level architecture — pathological engine, tactical symptom presentation, domestic structural destruction (sovercide), international realignment (transactomacy), and fascist convergence — to account for what no single discipline has been able to explain. The framework is predictive, not merely descriptive: it anticipated the Iran war, the alliance fracture, the systematic institutional dismantling, the intelligence vulnerability, and the genocide threat.
The republic was designed to resist tyrants. It was not designed to resist a disease
Well I think you nailed it, all the way ‘round, and yep, the unpredictability of the end game’s the scary part. I’m not sure even the people around him truly grasp what they’re watching, clearly the Kremlin does, though they’re probably short on predicting how this ends too. I know he’ll destroy the world to save his own skin, this is also confirmed by Dr Lee as well. Personally, I’m kinda of the opinion that the fact that he’s never paid a single consequence in his life, might actually be the one thing that’s saving the world from that fate, 80 years of getting away with shit has gotta make the possibility of suffering an actual consequence seem pretty remote, so it might be working in our favor….🤔
One hopes, at some point, the people supporting this fool notice, that everything he does, without exception, makes matters worse, for him, and especially, for us. Amusingly, in a grim sort of way, his personal history COULD have been instructive here, well in advance of his FIRST disasterous term. Take it from one who's been watching him since 1987, he is very much a prisoner to his pathologies, his every move is dictated by them, he cannot escape them anymore than he could swear off breathing.
At the center is the narcissism, it's self preservation, and self immolation at the same time, the ego, his ID, must be protected at all times, this is the perfect example. Although this is going to do the opposite of its stated intention, he HAS to do it, his ego demands that he look "strong", and with him, it's always zero sum, soft power is not a concept that falls within donny's purview. Might makes right", so it's all, "look how strong I am", with no thought whatsoever for what he's ACTUALLY doing, which is driving the cost of oil even higher.
Like I said, he has ALWAYS been this way, it's how every single business venture failed, it's how he managed to bankrupt multiple casinos, he is incapable of taking a short term loss, to reap a long term benefit, he HAS to be the smartest person in the room, so rather than take a beat, to learn how eg, a casino works, or listen to those with experience, he bulls right ahead, and fucks up AGAIN, spectacularly.
It really is quite something to watch, just, over and over and over. It's how I know, unequivocally, even though I am in no way qualified, that even I could do a better job as president, cause I'd have the sense to see I was in way over my head, and seek wiser councel.
I think you're going to enjoy today's piece, and it's still in the works, but just for a taste, here's the abstract.
SUBJECT: (U) NO IDEOLOGY — That’s Not Trump’s Weakness. That’s His Weapon.
The absence of ideology in Donald Trump is not an analytical gap — it is the central mechanism. This assessment argues that a supply-driven pathological system, operating without ideological constraint at presidential scale, has produced the full diagnostic output of fascism without a fascist: without doctrine, without program, and without intent. Where every prior analysis has searched for a belief system and found none, the NSD framework treats that absence as the primary variable — the connective tissue that makes the system illegible, the outputs indistinguishable from fascism, and every standard analytical tool useless.
Drawing on clinical psychology, political personality profiling, comparative fascism research, and intelligence tradecraft, this assessment constructs a five-level architecture — pathological engine, tactical symptom presentation, domestic structural destruction (sovercide), international realignment (transactomacy), and fascist convergence — to account for what no single discipline has been able to explain. The framework is predictive, not merely descriptive: it anticipated the Iran war, the alliance fracture, the systematic institutional dismantling, the intelligence vulnerability, and the genocide threat.
The republic was designed to resist tyrants. It was not designed to resist a disease
Cool! Something to read when I get home from work… if you publish today anyway. 🙂
you can listen to the podcast on the commute.. its a solid one .. but Im doing so much editing that it might be your trip tomorrow
Well I think you nailed it, all the way ‘round, and yep, the unpredictability of the end game’s the scary part. I’m not sure even the people around him truly grasp what they’re watching, clearly the Kremlin does, though they’re probably short on predicting how this ends too. I know he’ll destroy the world to save his own skin, this is also confirmed by Dr Lee as well. Personally, I’m kinda of the opinion that the fact that he’s never paid a single consequence in his life, might actually be the one thing that’s saving the world from that fate, 80 years of getting away with shit has gotta make the possibility of suffering an actual consequence seem pretty remote, so it might be working in our favor….🤔