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I keep reminding everyone that wants to have this debate .... Trump is already a known idiot
The insane ones are the American government and it's people who just passively accept all this and a good percentage even join in on it.
Trump is indeed insane ... but he is only the fine tip of a nation of insane people.
Don’t characterize him as insane. Characterize him and his ilk as calculated psychopaths. Do not let them get away with an insanity defense at the next Nuremberg Trials.
Specifically, is a narcissist and a a psychopath.
I keep seeing opinion pieces like this, but I remain unconvinced. Sure, if his sincerely held intention was to do anything at all positive for the US and its allies, his actions would read as insane. But if he actively, deliberately desires to harm and destabilize both, then he's going about it the right way. Screw Hanlon's razor: stupidity is inadequate to explain any of this.
If he just wanted to destroy the US, he'd be more subtle about it. I'm not saying he doesn't want to do that, but he's simply incapable of doing anything well. He's as comically unqualified for the job as it's possible to be. Literally any person, animal or inanimate object could do a better job than him.
Maybe I’m going on a rant today; but a big problem too is that many of his critics still somewhat normalize him, because of his office and unconscious respect given to that.
I understand his followers and the billionaire controlled press do pretend this is all too sane and normal. And they have their reasons for that.
But to treat him as anything else but a dangerous, perhaps lethal, clown is a horrible mistake that maybe cannot be undone later.
People often speak of former governments being supported by those who obey authority too much; and this is yet another example, even by many of the critics of such governance. Who will still legitimatize this in some way. No good will happen is such criticism does not change
No way.
he’s “boiling the frog” too quickly, which will lead to Vance using the 25th to “restore normalcy” allowing MAGA to continue destroying the country, just a little more quietly.
Nope, no one in the Republican party has the balls to do it and why would they when Trump is giving them everything they want? There's no going back now, he broke rules that weren't made to be broken. Also in case you forgot NOTHING a Alzheimer's president does is illegal now. We have lost any sort of way of getting rod of him because our entire country is spineless.
Dementia, not alzheimers. And there's definitely still a way to get rid of him.
There's no normal, and there never was.
Trump is doing exactly what the people who put him there want him to do. Imagine you wanted to rob a bank, and you managed to acheive the ability to unlease Godzilla on the city. He'll knock the bank building down, opening the vault for you to plunder, and keep emergency services too busy to stop you. You could loot the entire city, and when it's over, buy the decimated land for cheap and get the government to pay you to rebuild it. There's literally no downside to you, because all the harm is done to other people.