Donald Trump

How soon will Article 25 be invoked to remove Trump?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “How soon do you think that the masterminds behind Project 2025 will invoke Article 25 to remove Trump? By now there must be many of the less insane MAGAs who see that his actions are irrational before even taking office.”

How soon do you think that the masterminds behind Project 2025 will invoke Article 25 to remove Trump? By now there must be many of the less insane MAGAs who see that his actions are irrational before even taking office.

I recently thought Trump was going to experience an epiphany where he realizes he’s being treated like the drunk uncle at the family barbeque. He may already be thinking about challenges to his power with Musk in the picture, as Elon has been hogging the limelight that belongs to him.

He needed Musk’s endorsements and money while he was campaigning. Now, he’s only tolerating him while getting some laughs at Musk’s expense to keep him in line.

Since Musk is arguably as much of a narcissist as Trump, this is when he began plotting his revenge against Trump. Musk is also more intelligent than Trump, which means he’ll keep a low enough profile to minimize pissing off Trump until he can devastate him with one punch.

However, Trump can’t be underestimated because his paranoia runs deep from a lifetime more experience fighting dirty than Musk has amassed. He may very well already have plans to shut Musk up for good. It’s hard to tell right now, but their conflict will grow. That’s as inevitable as day following night.

There could very well be a moment of realization by Trump where he begins to see himself being manipulated by the people around him who need him as a populist figurehead for entertaining the sheep but are squeezing him out of the decision-making process.

He may not care much about many of the decisions being made in his sphere of influence. He could mindlessly endorse many because they appeal to his superficiality and deep biases, but he always keeps his finger on the pulse of public optics.

He quickly distanced himself from Project 2025 before momentum against it and his campaign, by extension, could grow. He promptly removed his version of it from his website and his platform and denied knowledge of the endeavour while selecting a key figure from it as his running mate.

He may endorse all or most of it, but he won’t endorse the public backlash, and that’s going to create anxiety for him to crank up his natural paranoia and push his limits. I expect to see more fracturing within his inner circle as he realizes those around him are playing him a fool. He can tolerate that from Putin because he has no choice, but that only means his tolerance for dissent within his ranks diminishes.

He has a lot of clout they would fear because he would not hesitate to throw them under the bus to save his skin.

If he were to view Musk and Vance developing ties, for example, that would be enough for him to show signs of cracking and his paranoia would leak through his polished veneer of dismissive disinterest in things he should be concerned about.

For example, whenever he is asked to walk back comments he’s made that were proven demonstrably false, he doesn’t admit error. He displays disinterest, and he deflects responsibility away from himself.

In a case where Musk is being viewed as collaborating more closely with Vance than he wants, he’ll start driving wedges between them. His nature cannot permit open collusion against him without him taking action against it.

Trump will also find himself increasingly isolated from his staff, partly because he’s pissed them off enough to want to avoid his company altogether but also partly because they will have made enough progress on their agenda to be more comfortable in marginalizing him. It will be a delicate balance for his associates to keep him focused on the attention he craves while keeping him away from the decisions they make to forward the Project 2025 agenda. Much of their success or failure is contingent upon Trump’s ability to maintain optics over what will appear like his decisions.

They will also have to work fast to cement some of their early objectives to secure long-term goals. Trump will likely fail to maintain the integrity of the illusion he needs to satisfy his MAGAt base with his performance. His tariff strategy, for example, will hit them hard in their pocketbooks. The job market will tank, and the economy will shrink while Musk will become the scapegoat for MAGAt dissatisfaction if he receives an official appointment and makes the cuts he indicates he wants to make.

It may be for this reason that Trump tolerates Musk’s attention-whoring antics within his crowd. He will likely rely on favours from Putin to help keep Musk reigned in and set up to take the public anger hit. When the feces begin flying, Trump will do what he has excelled at doing: dodge accountability and redirect it elsewhere. This strategy could work with Musk or backfire if Musk is astute enough to anticipate the inevitable betrayal.

In any case, Musk is setting himself up to be the next Mike Pence in Trump’s administration… and I doubt Vance could be happier about that.

Musk is new and ostentatious money, while the Heritage Foundation is supported by old money. They would not be entirely happy with Musk’s overt, reckless flaunting of his wealth. It’s in bad taste and reflects poorly on all of them.

Musk has been teaching the world to hate wealth through his public antics, which poses a risk to them because they prefer to achieve their agendas through subversive actions, not overt displays of disdain toward the little people. Leona Helmsley is an excellent cautionary tale from recent history that shows how the little people can quickly rally against that kind of condescending disdain from the wealthy.

Trump, by contrast, may indulge in grotesque displays of performative wealth to keep up his appearance of wealth. He at least knows when to keep his mouth shut or where the line is drawn between igniting passions among his base and against those he’s desperate to be perceived as an insider with.

Trump’s view of his tribe was cultivated from a young age by being exposed to old-world wealth that essentially keeps itself out of the public eye, while Musk is a new breed of instant wealth bolstered by his birth lottery. He was born on third base and has behaved like he got a home run. Old wealth has lived on home base for generations, and they know how to stay there and how much more critical being incognito is to gaining widespread public attention. Trump, in this regard, is their sacrificial lamb.

In contrast, Bezos — also new wealth — is much more astute about the importance of reserved public optics than Musk.

If the nation collapses and if chaos arises, Trump will take all the blame. Those funding the Heritage Foundation will slink back into the shadows to begin working on the next phase of class warfare they’ve been waging since the dawn of the industrial age.

I don’t think the Heritage Foundation will move to eliminate Trump until they’ve secured the next election cycle because of his value to them as a pawn. Much of their success with Trump will depend on how well he plays along with them. Meanwhile, Musk, who is viewed as a more chaotic and potentially destructive element in their plans, will be the focus on who needs to be eliminated in the short term.

The MAGAts, for now, are entirely oblivious to the implications of Trump’s cabinet appointments, and many even endorse them. The anti-vaxxers among them, for example, are pleased with RFK’s positions on vaccines and agree with his superficial assessments of food quality. They won’t even blame him after going through a few rounds of food-related fatalities due to his policies.

Another reason why they won’t and can’t remove Trump in the short term is that there is no one else who can achieve a religious-like stature among the little people. My guess is that they would want Musk handled first. Then, once they’ve set up their succession process, they may try to secure their power by turning Trump into an actual martyr because they’ve already run the scenario through theatrics they’ve already tested.

Their succession process is also problematic because Vance is easily despised, even though his presentation is pretty slick. The public will reject him unless they’ve been coaxed to be more accepting of a couch fornicator… which, sadly, is entirely possible because it’s not as bad as being a pedophile.

If they move too soon with Vance, they’ll lose everything. Trump has four years to prove his value and make a graceful exit, which will depend entirely on how secure the transition to the next generation will be. If it appears shaky, his retirement will be made permanent to secure the Republican majority that Karl Rove championed over two decades ago.

All of this is, of course, wild speculation that no one should interpret as gospel.
Take my caveat as you will.

What are the key reasons people voted for Trump in the 2024 election?

This post is a response to a question initially posed on Quora, and can also be accessed via “https://donewiththebullshit.quora.com/What-are-the-key-reasons-people-voted-for-Trump-in-the-2024-election-2“

Unfocused rage is likely the most encompassing sound-bite answer to this question.

MAGAts hate struggling in their lives — like everyone does. These days, during our historic levels of income inequality and minimal tax burdens on the wealthy, as they plunder our world into extinction, everyone but the top is struggling.

MAGAts have had their emotions leveraged against them, though, by a steady diet of hatred toward anyone and everyone not responsible for their hardship.

They’ve been taught to hate liberals because the left is a threat to the oligarchs.

They’ve been taught to hate immigrants because they’re an easy target to blame for their misfortunes. It’s a form of manipulated displacement.

They’ve been taught to hate minorities because they have been conditioned to believe minorities, like trans people, are assaulting their way of life simply by existing.

They’ve been taught to hate women because women are easier to victimize when they can be called “baby killers.”

They’re afraid of how quickly the world is changing and feel left behind, and they hate that.

They’re afraid of being unable to keep up and are insecure about their future. Meanwhile, the groups they’ve been taught to hate appear to weather the storm better than they do, and they hate that, too.

They hate a status quo that seems deaf to their pleas, and Trump is a disruptive element in society that echoes their hate. His perceived political outsider status and natural personality of overt indulgence in hatred convince them that he represents their interests.

He validates their hate fantasies and permits them to indulge openly in their hatred while manifesting it in physical reality. They don’t realize how much other people struggle with similar emotions or that they acknowledge how a significant reason why fantasies should remain fantasies is not all fantasies should be acted out because they are too destructive to be made manifest. They are fantasies that should remain fantasies because they function as forms of therapy. Making them real necessitates entirely new levels of treatment.

MAGAts have lived a lie through their belief systems that blur the distinction between fantasy and reality, and that has convinced them to blur distinctions even more, to justify coping with all the pent-up hatred.

They can’t grasp long-term strategies or how distant a consequence can be from an action.

For example, a complaint they expressed was the cost of living, and because their narrow view of the highest authority in the land means that person dictates how everything works, it was easy for them to blame Biden. They didn’t learn to understand how the corporations that feed the media empires with profits would not risk losing those profits by demonizing the price-gouging corporations who butter their bread through advertising revenue.

The Republicans have been leveraging the naivety of their undereducated constituents for decades. States like Kentucky can sink into poverty while their leader overtly grows their wealth and blatantly betrays the entire nation, and they still can’t connect the dots.

All of this is a recipe for wallowing in the kind of hatred that can only escalate dramatically further as the fiscal incompetence of Republicans catches up to them. Their economic mismanagement has now run out of room to blame the Democrats. Trump’s strategy for tariffs and utilizing Elon Musk to be the voice of cutbacks in the trillions while gearing up to make the public accept enduring another round of austerity will begin to crack their support.

His appointments to senior administration roles are already horrifying as an overt pedophile has been appointed Attorney General, his Health and Human Services Secretary is an overt mental health case, and his Secretary of Defense is a television talking head. These three are already a toxic enough recipe for disaster, while the list of notables merely adds orders of magnitude to the levels of concern these already register.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/trump-cabinet-administration-maga-extremism

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/trump-cabinet-administration-maga-extremism

Anything innocuous and unpredictable can become the match that sets the entire edifice of plutocrat manipulation over the last half-century into flames. This administration seems poised to ignite public backlash as Trump pushes an economy-killing tariff agenda and insiders like Elon Musk warn of impending cuts at impossibly surreal levels and public adjusting to another round of austerity.

The MAGAt argument, on its surface level of concern for the cost of living, appears rational. However, its sincerity will be tested in ways that challenge national stability at previously unseen familial levels. The cracks in the social contract will dramatically grow at the level of fundamental building blocks for society. 

Once we’ve breached the final veneer of tolerance and the MAGAts realize they’ve been played for fools while hating the wrong people, they will harness all their unfocused rage into a tight focus to enact destruction on orders of magnitude well beyond what they have achieved thus far in society.

Once they reach rock bottom and have their come to Jesus moment, the plutocrats responsible for dividing the people and ripping us all off will have hell to pay.

How did the US fall so far?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “How did the US fall so far? This isn’t an Anti-Trump question. I really want to know how it became okay to hate someone or even attack them because of who they voted for. At what point did things go so wrong? See comments for further context.”

RE: “I sincerely want to know how it became okay to hate someone or even attack them because of who they voted for.”

If you sincerely want to know, you must go further than this recent election.

This didn’t happen overnight, and it didn’t happen over just one election.

This is an entirely predictable outcome of over 50 years of demonization of the left by the right.

Things have been going wrong for a long time, and they went overboard when the right began treating their “honourable opposition” as enemy combatants.

The demonization has just been getting worse over time, and electing Trump was the final straw.

You must understand that the hatred isn’t about “who they voted for” as much as the values they voted for.

They voted for an evil monster — convicted of 34 felony counts, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American citizens, has caused the wanton destruction of countless lives throughout his entire life, and he gloats about doing that. He laughs at the people who worked for them and has refused to pay them for their work. He’s caused people to go bankrupt because of that, and he cares less about that than about the hamburger he ate last month. He’s an admitted sexual predator — he bragged about it, and he’s been accused of rape. He was a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein, who trafficked in underage sex slaves. He’s a pedophile who has openly lusted after his daughter.

He’s an overt racist who tried to have five innocent men killed to satisfy his murderous lust. The man is so much scum of the Earth that the entire state he called home and has done business in most of his life has run him out of it. He instigated a treasonous coup against the nation when he lost the last election.

People aren’t so much pissed at him but at the state of affairs where millions of people chose his brand of hatred to define the nation they love.

People are dying right now because of their hatred.

Children were hauled away from their families in cages and sold for a profit the last time he was president.

That’s what people hate.

More of that evil is returning, and millions don’t care.

That’s why families are being torn apart.

That’s why people are shutting the door on people who welcome that evil back into an acceptable standard of living for the nation.

School kids have been dying from unhinged freaks with guns on an almost daily basis throughout the nation, and instead of wanting to do something to save lives, those people voted for more of that.

That kind of evil cannot be tolerated without giving up something important about one’s integrity and self-respect.

The U.S. fell because it’s been falling at the behest of the misanthropic plutocrats who regard average citizens as disposable chattels.

The U.S. has been falling for decades, and it got worse, beginning with Ronald Reagan’s demonization of government, betrayal of unions, tossing out mental health patients onto the streets, massive upward wealth transfers to impoverish the working class and sowing distrust between citizens.

Eliminating the protections ensuring the citizens were informed correctly by the Fourth Estate opened the door for a corrupt monster like Rupert Murdoch to steadily drip hatred into uncritical minds who got ever more desperate with rising costs and vanishing incomes to arrive at a state of general insanity.

We are here today because of a visible mental health pandemic affecting one in five citizens.

We are here today, repeating history from 100 years ago to almost the day when the Nazis threatened global domination under their jackbooted heel.

They’re back again, which means everyone who supported a return to an evil regime dominating humanity is an enemy of decent society, whether they are blood relatives or not.

This is the beginning of the next major war the world is facing, and people need to wake TF up because it will only get uglier now and result in chaos until people realize we need each other to survive our challenges as a species.

That means all the people who want to demonize and hate those who are unlike them are enemies of humanity.

That’s why families are fracturing into warring pieces.

They chose hatred, and that just can’t be tolerated any longer because hatred is a fire that will consume everyone and everything we value.

Fifty years of this means they finally got what they wanted.

Who were the big winners and losers in the 2024 presidential election?

This post is a response to a question initially posed on Quora, and can also be accessed via “https://donewiththebullshit.quora.com/Who-were-the-big-winners-and-losers-in-the-2024-presidential-election-3“

The biggest losers are the MAGAts.

They don’t see it yet.

By the second year of his term, they’ll start to wonder what’s going on.

By the time the next election rolls around, they’ll begin seeing it’s no longer “business as usual.”

They will begin to realize that he meant what he said when he said no one would have to worry about elections any longer.

That’s when the fear will creep into them… the last of them because many will have already undergone harsh awakenings when discovering that prices have skyrocketed while employment protections have vanished. They will freak out when they find out they cannot count on retirement as they struggle with minimal incomes to survive on bare minimums. The entire nation will plunge into a recession that could very well become a depression due to environmental and regulatory mismanagement that will make the Bush housing crisis and the “Great Recession” pale by comparison.

Drug prices will skyrocket, as will medical bankruptcies. Millions will lose their healthcare as employers will cut back on employee expenses, and nothing will prevent them from converting the entire working class into a slavery system worse than it is now. The economy will radically shrink through their isolationist approach to international politics, and whoever remains will fight their neighbours for scraps.

That’s not the worst thing for them to lose, though.

No.

The worst and most profound loss they will experience is the compassion of their fellow citizens who warned them.

When they begin crying foul, they’ll find no sympathy.

There will be no quarter for them. No sympathetic shoulder will await them when they realize they’ve hit rock bottom.

They will finally get the disdain they’ve consistently demonstrated toward their fellow citizens for decades.

They will find their hatreds finally reciprocated in the harshest of terms with a simple “we told you so.”

They will find doors of sympathy slamming shut on them because they won’t be the only ones suffering from their hateful motivations. The entire nation will learn to hate MAGAts on such a visceral level that an escalation of antagonism will become the norm for the following unpredictable number of years — possibly the entire next century.

They’re going to learn how the fabricated hatred they’ve been displaying toward their fellow citizens is nothing like genuinely earned hatred.

When they finally realize the profundity of what they have lost, it will be experienced as a prolonged moment of debilitating horror that transfixes them. They will mourn the loss of a nation they professed to love. They will be overcome by paralyzing guilt accompanying the realization that they killed it by their ignorant and envious “stick-it-to-the-libs” attitudes, their hateful projections, and their self-fulfilling prophecies of doom they feared were to be caused by their fellow citizens.

They will have only themselves to blame. They will become this century’s brownshirts in the aftermath of the destruction they wrought against their people, neighbours, and fellow citizens. The entire world will regard them like drug addicts who have hit rock bottom and can’t be trusted ever again.

When they finally achieve their moment of harrowing clarity, it will be too late to turn back the clock and regain the stature of world power they enjoyed. The entire world will have marginalized the nation while permanently considering it a threat to global peace and security instead of its protector.

They will discover such a profound degree of shame accompanying a sense of loneliness and being lost and adrift in a massive ocean surrounded by the enemies they made of their fellow citizens that many will turn to suicide… and worse, no one will care if that’s what they choose for themselves. Many will feel the same relief they did when Rush Limbaugh finally stopped polluting this Earth with his hateful noise.

It will take all of the rest of this century for Americans to recover their dignity.

Can Kamala Harris prove she worked at McDonalds?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “https://www.quora.com/As-Donald-Trump-can-not-prove-his-accusation-that-Kamala-Harris-lied-about-working-at-McDonald-s-can-she-prove-she-has-and-should-she/answer/Antonio-Amaral-1”

Out of curiosity, do you not find it odd that Donald Trump is focused on this issue?

He is someone who has become well-known for breaking records for lying about so many things, ranging from relatively benign self-aggrandizement to malignant acts of manslaughter during a pandemic while encouraging people to dismiss the severity of a virus that killed millions worldwide.

His lies while in office killed hundreds of thousands of people, while his continued lies threaten even more lives.

Stack all of this up with one statement Kamala Harris has made about her experience as a teenager — a widespread experience for teenagers everywhere. A LOT of teenagers enter the world of work through the fast food industry. (Full disclosure — I worked for two years in a McDonalds restaurant from 15–16.)

It’s beyond a common experience and is the kind of experience that contributes absolutely nothing political toward one’s future beyond whatever one learns from the experience and money one earns. It may open some doors to other employment as a youth or young adult, but it contributes almost nothing tangible toward a long-term professional career — much less to politics.

Her claim is a one-off comment that shows how she can connect with average people living average lives. That’s about the extent of the impact that claim has.

“I’m normal. I’m like almost everyone else. I’m not weird like some people are.”

That’s the extent of the impact of her statement.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump tries to capitalize on his doubt that she had a “normal upbringing” without the privilege he’s benefited from his birth lottery. Nothing about her somewhat average background is a mystery to the public. Still, somehow, she’s being challenged, not only by Trump on this claim but also by his army of supporters who somehow believe this invalidates her candidacy.

Meanwhile, he tries to pass off a lie that he cares about ordinary, working-class people while selling cheap running shoes at horribly inflated prices or $100,000.00 watches that his contract says he has no obligation to deliver on. How exactly does that serve ordinary, working-class people? It doesn’t. It’s a money laundering scheme in which his buddy Vladimir can dump millions into his campaign war chest without tracing his collusion back to an enemy nation.

How exactly does the claim by Kamala Harris, even if it were a lie, stack up with lies told by a lifelong grifter hated by so many people worldwide for his destructive behaviour that he has stacked up a record number of lawsuits against him?

He brags about ripping people off, and somehow, people want to believe that Kamala Harris’ claim of working at McDonald’s as a teenager is enough to disqualify her as a candidate for a job in which the current administration she has been a part of has shown itself beyond capable of fixing the mess that Donald Trump left behind that will take decades to repair.

Ask yourself why people would care even if she did lie. It isn’t because such a lie is something they can’t tolerate because they tolerate life-destroying lies, so why would a benign lie like this matter in the least to people?

The problem here has nothing to do with Kamala Harris and everything to do with people who pretend to be patriots while behaving in the most treasonously hateful manner toward their fellow citizens every day.

Kamala Harris does not need to “prove” anything because she has already proven herself well beyond more capable than a lying grifter who has been deemed the worst president in American history.

What should be happening right now, if Americans have any self-respect and pride in their history and their status on the world stage, is for Donald Trump to be laughed off every stage he stands on instead of being entertained like drunk, old Uncle Fogarty. This embarrassing idiot decides, at a town hall, to play multiple versions of Ava Maria for 40 minutes instead of answering questions.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/wWwD5WBnqbwdvLeN/https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-music-town-hall-1.7352277

After all of this, how can whatever job Kamala Harris did or did not do as a kid matter to anyone in the least?

The truth is that it doesn’t matter to anyone. They have to make a stink about something because the corrupt nature of politics today is that although it’s supposed to be about solving common problems, a significant proportion of the population treats politics as a war game against one’s fellow citizens.

Until (some) people learn to work together with their fellow citizens (as diverse and different from themselves as they may be) instead of demonizing their “honourable opposition,” the only direction the nation will head toward is another civil war.

I’m sure even these guys don’t want to be in a literal war with their fellow citizens.

Can Trump-haters admit that his multi-million dollar donation to hurricane relief efforts is a good thing?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Question for all you Trump-haters — Can you at least admit that Donald Trump’s multi-million dollar personal donation to hurricane relief efforts, and the $7 million raised through his and Jason Aldean’s joint effort, are a good thing?”

I have a better question.
How can you possibly believe anything he claims?

  • He taught his kids how to steal money from kids dying from cancer.
  • He claimed to forgo his salary as President and spent over $100 million of taxpayer dollars on golfing. The annual wage of a US president is $400 thousand. He spent more than four times the salary he allegedly claimed to reject in four years.
  • He profited from charging taxpayers for the residency of Secret Service at Mara Lago because he refused to stay in the Whitehouse to the tune of $2 million taxpayer dollars. He insisted they stay at his residence and charged them for being there to protect him. Taxpayers paid not only for their salaries but for the profits he made, which constitute the total amount of the four years his salary as POTUS cost taxpayers.
  • He claims to be a billionaire when trying to impress people but sells over-priced junk products to the poor people he claims to be in support of.
  • He’s a convicted felon in a world where charges alone are enough for most people to convict the recipient of charges who automatically believe everything they say is a lie. People still believe Johnny Depp lied and Amber Heard was an innocent waif — even after learning she defecated on his bed. He was convicted on 34 counts and should be rotting behind bars right now, and you believe his words at face value.
  • The Washington Post has a 3-year-old article on Trump making 30,573 false or misleading claims during his tenure in office. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/ I understand how easy it might be for you to wave your hand and call it fake news as if they pulled that number out of a hat, but that’s not the case at all. Those incidents are verified by various fact-checking organizations that have taken the time to tally all his lies. Anyone like Trump can lie as often as he wants but never backs up those lies with evidence. Meanwhile, evidence of over 30 thousand statements by Trump has been presented.
  • With such a horrendous tally of lies, I could go on for hours regurgitating examples of Trump’s lies, but that would be pointless. The fact that you can overlook all this publicly available information and then come on here and declare another lie is proof positive that there is no reason to hate someone responsible for more American deaths than Osama Bin Laden is proof on its own that you have serious mental health issues to deal with. You’re even giving Trump credit for an effort that was mostly Aldean’s work.

Do you have even the slightest clue what that kind of thinking indicates?

Here’s a photo of what your question represents:

One of those bodies is you.

That’s what you represent.

A cult member who insists the drinks being served will bring everyone closer to God.

The sad thing is that you’re telling the truth while your Reverend lies his ass off and is planning his escape like Jim Jones tried to, while your body lies rotting on the ground.

Which brings me back to my original question as a response to your question:
How can you believe anything he says, even worse, without asking for a receipt to verify he did what he said he would do?

Before you answer that question, here’s another:
Did you accept or reject the proof of Obama’s birth in both his short and long-form birth certificates?
If not, then why not?

Why would you accept the word of someone who breaks records for lying (and is motivated to lie to you because if he doesn’t, he’ll end up in prison) and reject the proof of Obama’s birth?

Do you not see a double standard in all of this?

You can’t be that disconnected from reality, can you?

You know you need help but are too afraid to do the right thing.

Cowards always are.

Do the right thing for a change before you regret getting what you’re asking for.

Be brave and vote for a woman.

What percentage of Kamala’s voters are actually just “anti-Trump” voters?

This post is a response to a question initially posed on Quora, and can also be accessed via “https://donewiththebullshit.quora.com/What-percentage-of-Kamalas-voters-are-actually-just-anti-Trump-voters-17” (complete with typos because the space it was posted in doesn’t permit edits — dang — and the reason I chose to “upgrade” this answer to a broader audience).

So, you’re trying to separate “anti-Trump” voters from “pro-Harris” voters as if that bears any relevance to this election.

You’re doing that because it’s easier for you to write off people with your go-to dismissal of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

Do you recall how conservatives did the same thing with Bush when he lied to the American people and the world at large to justify invading Iraq and embroiling the nation in two costly wars?

“Bush Derangement Syndrome” was your go-to dismissal then.

That’s what conservatives do: invent a fake disease and accuse people of suffering from that “disease” to avoid having to deal with the very valid criticisms they have over the leaders you bend over backwards to protect. You don’t care in the least about examining, much less acknowledging, how utterly corrupt the actions or how incompetent the people you defend are.

For you, loyalty is everything… and you’re proud of your loyalty to such a degree you cannot fathom, much less accept how it’s precisely that sentiment being played against you.

You’ve been conditioned since childhood to value loyalty above all else and beyond reason.

This is not to say that your loyalty isn’t a precious sentiment. It is. It’s an essential ingredient for maintaining community cohesion. It isn’t, however, anything but a tool for people like this.

They don’t respect your loyalty or value it beyond how they can use it to benefit themselves.

The worst thing is that you don’t directly view your loyalty as loyalty to a convicted felon. You have convinced yourself to believe your loyalty is to your country. Why do you think he indulges in performative kisses of the flag if not to tweak your loyalty and use it against you?

The sad thing about your unwavering loyalty to this disloyal monster is that you’re the girlfriend in the stereotypical scenario played out by millions of teens throughout the decades.

You’re the girlfriend who’s being lied to so that he can get in your pants.

Once he’s done with you and decides there’s nothing more he can extract from you, then you’re his ex, and he treats you like he treats the memory of his ex-wife and mother of his children.

This is what you mean to him, yet you have convinced yourself that he won’t do the same thing to you. Do you know how many teenage girls follow that rationale to learn a powerful lesson in regret? Countless.

You’re so loyal that you’re willing to overlook the deaths of your fellow citizens while he generously shares equipment that would save American lives with the leader of an enemy nation.

… and while overlooking this betrayal of the American people, you still want to think of yourself as a loyal patriot of the nation you love.

You’re so lost in your team spirit haze that you want to believe the only reason he might lose the election is because your fellow citizens are suffering from an imaginary mental condition.

You have to think that way because the alternative is frightening.

If you can’t believe that “Trump Derangement Syndrome” is real, then you have to admit to yourself that you’ve been wrong about this monster for years.

You fell into a trap in which you liked what he had to say because he hates the same people you have struggled with that piss you off every day. After all, they don’t seem to respect what’s important to you.

The trouble is that they do, but they do so equally for everyone, not just the insiders or fellow team members. That’s what makes you struggle with being loyal to your team. You can’t ignore all your many reasons for doubting this man’s integrity. It nags at you from the back of your mind like a splinter.

He’s just given you too many reasons to wonder if maybe… just maybe, he doesn’t intend to deliver an America that serves your needs. He intends to deliver you like a pig on a roast to the nation’s enemies and destroy the Republic you believe yourself a patriot of.

You know what the truth is.

Everyone voting for Kamala is anti-Trump. It doesn’t matter if that’s the only reason to support her because that’s enough of a reason for millions of people who also think of themselves as patriots. You know they think of themselves as loyal patriots, too… right? Except they’re not loyal to a person but a country, a constitution, and the spirit upon which the nation was founded. Your brand of loyalty is called a “cult of personality.”

If your suspicions are correct, someone besides Trump would mean fewer votes for Kamala and a better chance for your team to win. Those anti-Trump people who can switch sides based on the quality of character representing the candidates are more loyal patriots than you are because they are patriots loyal to the country and not the personality.

Your loyalty is a fraud. It’s the same type of “loyalty” a teenage girl who is desperate to be loved will show the people they hope will love them back. Like you, she’s willing to believe anything a charming young boy with promise for a future will tell her.

Ask yourself this question: If Trump could return your loyalty, why has he done nothing to help the people who are in prison today on his behalf? Why did he not do something for the family of the supporter who was shot and killed during his first assassination attempt? Why did he not even contact the family to pass on his condolences if their loyalty meant anything to him?

The sad reality is that you’re just a box of Kleenex to him.

Once he’s done wiping himself with your sacrifice, then you’re just garbage.

Is your loyalty worth that little?

Do you know who gets a greater reward for that kind of sacrifice?

Saddam Rewards Suicide Bombers’ Families

That’s right… Islamic suicide bombers get better treatment for their sacrifice than Trump’s loyal supporters.

Are you okay with being treated with less respect than an Islamic suicide bomber?

Is your sacrifice worth the cost of destroying the nation you want to think of yourself as a patriot of?

Here’s another thought: The loyal patriots who hated what the Republicans did to embroil the U.S. in two pointless wars weren’t just temporarily reacting for the sake of team performance. They weren’t suffering from some temporary mania called “Bush Derangement Syndrome.” They believed strongly then and still believe those who sent the nation into that hellscape should be held accountable for their actions — even if they switch sides and cheer for the same team. They’re not let off the hook for the damage they did to the nation. To them, being loyal to principles matters more than team loyalty.

Loyalty to a country means holding monsters accountable for their actions, no matter how they switch gears later.

Dick Cheney announces support for Kamal Harris

That’s the difference between genuinely patriotic loyalty to a country and misguided loyalty to someone who’s using you like a teenage boy eager to get in your pants.

Why do MAGA come off as spoiled rotten, whiny and ungrateful babies?

This question as it was originally posted on Quora in its complete form is: Why do so many MAGA elitists come off as spoiled rotten, whiny and ungrateful babies who are in desperate need of a diaper change?

Donald Trump is a malignant narcissist, and his success at achieving such a high degree of public awareness and top of mind bolstered by all the corporate media driving him to the Whitehouse with their tacit support for his return to power is like a Midas Touch inspiring narcissists everywhere.

That’s why Elon Musk, owner of the world’s most enormous megaphone, fawns over the grifter in chief.

Donald Trump appears to naturally have what Elon had to pay $44 billion to have and with less fawning attention as he’s finding his audience of worshippers dwindling instead of doubling down in their support of him as a saviour equal to Trump. (That must also not be very pleasant for him because he is naturally much more intelligent than Trump.)

He’s like catnip for ego masturbators everywhere, and every single one of them is characterized by the image of a spoiled rotten, whiny, and ungrateful child. Anyone who has had any direct experience with a malignant narcissist, and chances are that it’s more than most realize because many still don’t get what that implies, will see the pattern in his behaviour and understand it for the malignancy that it is.

Powerless narcissists everywhere see him as the embodiment of their dreams of power for themselves, even on the smallest of levels, by permitting them the ability to act locally on their toxic impulses. It’s why hate crimes escalated while he was in office. His presence there was a license for every narcissist, malignant and covert, to feel justified in every destructive action they took against those they deem their enemies.

When we say a leader leads by example or when a role model sets the stage for all the performers to play similar roles, this is what is meant. Humans emulate acceptable behaviour. This is how we learn to socialize.

When long-repressed behaviours are allowed to let loose, they do precisely that. We saw that in spades on January 6th. — narcissists like the Q-Anon Shaman dood (Jacob Chansley), through to their flying monkeys, got into the acting out stage of rage against the system of their oppression.

Jacob even requested a special diet of organic food for him during his 41 months of incarceration, which was granted to him for “religious and health” reasons.

“Because of his “shamanic belief system and way of life,” eating food that isn’t organic or has “unnatural chemicals” would cause the client, Jacob Chansley, “systemic responses that are not simply discomforting, but debilitating and, notably, dehydrating,” attorney Albert Watkins wrote in a filing on Wednesday. Chansley had lost more than 20 pounds, and his condition was “declining,” Watkins wrote”

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/03/qanon-shaman-organic-food-465563

Narcissists don’t much care for anything that doesn’t cater to their self-centred sensibilities, and having a malignant narcissist at the top of the power hierarchy meant they were and are entitled to their entitlements.

A narcissist will expect the world to conform to them, and any form of compromise they are expected to make is perceived as an assault against them. Living in society is already a condition of oppression they must conform to if they wish to survive and succeed in life. They don’t want to conform to a world that does not cater to them, but they learn to do precisely that to get what they want.

MAGAts don’t care about anything beyond whatever serves their ego, and that’s why you can hit them with a mountain of facts and evidence. They’ll keep coming back with yet another fiction they can present to avoid the admission of defeat and score what they can conceive of as a win. Their egos will permit them nothing less because that risks a full-blown narcissistic collapse.

They would rather die than face that hit to their ego.

Their incapacity to admit error or publicly acknowledge a weakness is what makes these freaks a severe threat to democracies everywhere. This is how and why they destroy families everywhere.

They are psychological children trapped in adult bodies as a consequence of having their emotional maturity halted at a young age due to severe trauma.

There is no cure for them beyond addressing the cause, and that cause is a horrendous problem statistically represented by a whopping majority (70%-80%) of families being dysfunctional. That also spills out to statistics involving a mental health pandemic visibly affecting a minimum of one in five people today.

We must prioritize mental health in society to have any hope of solving our common problems and preventing another Drumpf catastrophe. Our only other choice is to wait for the next Drumpf to capture public attention, while the media will be much more prepared to ensure the oligarchs win complete control over the nation.

Source:https://www.hrmorning.com/articles/mental-health-in-the-workplace/