Website Booman poses a serious question and here are a sampling of 23 comments for your consideration.
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by BooMan
Sat Dec 8th, 2018
Any one else feel like the president is taking his insanity to a new level?Comments follow:
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Worse? I figure it's only a matter of time until they're having this conversation in the White House:
"I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed Mr. President, but I am saying that our studies indicate no more than 10 to 20 million killed! Tops! Depending on the breaks." -- Dr. Strangelove
He might be clinically more deranged since Mueller tipped the goods to the SDNY which just named him as an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal felony to violate the federal election laws.
But we're well down the rabbit hole and not in Kansas any more by this point no matter what. Things are starting to go significantly pear-shaped in Trumpistan and neither Trump nor his adoring fans are at all equipped to deal with it. We don't know what any of them will do. But, nothing good.
I honestly don't know that the Dr. Strangelove quote I cite above is really any more insane than what we've already endured.
President Merkin Muckly in that film was a LOT saner than Trump. He at least had the common sense to tell his subordinates: "Sit down General. I think we've heard more than enough from you."
Nobody can imagine Trump managing any sort of crisis. He's already totally unglued and ready for anything. He says' "then it will be war" if Democrats dare to investigate him. And he means it. There will be many investigations, and Trump will go more out of control over each one. If you think he's unhinged now, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
For him, having to leave the White House in shame is worse than death. He'd a lot rather die than be dragged out and hustled back onto a helicopter on his way into exile, like Richard Nixon.
I honestly don't know it isn't a bad thing that Congress will never convict him in any impeachment trial. He very well could consider blowing up the entire planet in a thermonuclear war a less bad scenario than being forcibly removed from office by his enemies.
He has his hands on the nuclear codes, and I don't see any safe way to pry them off. I suppose it's rather like trying to get a child away from a live hand-grenade in the middle of a crowd. If you just try and grab the child and startle him, he'll probably drop the grenade killing a lot of people including yourself. But, at the same time you can't just let the child wander about with a live grenade either, you have to get it away from him somehow.
It's a ticklish situation and I don't honestly know the solution.
by Cugel on Sat Dec 8th, 2018
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Hopefully just the inexorable progression through Dante's Inferno.
Very troubling that a deeply deranged egomaniac ignoramus is the prez of the US, but Trumper's psychological maladies and manifest deficiencies were quite apparent (even to a moron) by July 2016, yet the incompetent white electorate simply had to have him. They just don't give a shit anymore. Anything to Own The Libs.
Trumper's toadies & courtiers best remember Nuremberg and the demise of the "following [criminal] orders" defense....especially applicable to generals, Messrs Kelly and Mattis.
by euzoius on Sat Dec 8th, 2018
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I posted a link the other day of countries that don't extradite to the US. That's one option for his future plans.
Even his own arrogance is no longer an escape for him and his bizarre tweet the other day of if I wasn't so unpopular I'd be popular is telling that he is not capable of accepting reality.
I've heard that narcissists aren't capable of violence to themselves, they're not suicide risks but just like Betty Broderick showed us they're sure capable of violence against those close, and in Trump's case that probably means we're all in danger.
If Senate members turn on him in January he will make all of us pay. Everything that reaches his desk will be vetoed. He'll be uncontrollable. Govt shutdown...you name it, he will just stop functioning.
by mainsailset on Sat Dec 8th, 2018
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A) People with mental health issues decompensate when subjected to stress.
B) Aberrant behavior can develop associated with progression of senile dementias - do not know if this is happening but it is a possibility.
by charon on Sat Dec 8th, 2018
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taking his insanity to a new level?
"Taking" implies a conscious act or strategy. I don't think there is any restraint on him, certainly not internal, and so long as the GOP ignores his mounting madness there will be no external constraint on him either. He will sink lower, and lower, and lower, till he's barking at the moon, and even then the corrupt GOP will do nothing.
In this context, the idea of a "new level" doesn't work. It suggests something upward. but he's in freefall, and there is no bottom.
by Redhand on Sat Dec 8th, 2018
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