What Will It Take To Derail The Trump Train?

It’s 2023 and I had thought that Ye Olde Blogge would be done psysplaining the Ol’ Pussy Grabber by now. I had thought I’d written my last about the national asshat, but the human caricature defies expectations, does he not?

Since being expunged from government service, he has been busy. Last year we were treated to a fun game of hide the salami when he grabbed the White House by its top secret documents. Hrmph! I distinctly remember being told that when you’re a celebrity, they let you get away with it.

Trump’s 2023 So Far

He’s been doing the old legal in and out with multiple criminal investigations taking place in several jurisdictions all of which he has managed to escape from, but 2023 promises to be different. Just read through this list!

• INDICATED: He’s been indicted by DA Alvin Bragg in NYC in a court of real live American justice of law.
• LIABLE: He’s been found liable for sex crimes and defamation against E. Jean Carroll to the tune of five million buckaroos. Like he’s actually going to pay that, but still.
• FINED: After his company was fined $1.6 million dollars after its CFO Allen Weisselberg was took the fall for their tax avoidance scheme.
• TOSSED: He paid a million smackers for the privilege of being laughed out of court when he tried to sue Clinton for lying about his collusion with Russia to cover her court costs. Schadenfreude and karma rolled into one.
• DISMISSED: The New York State Supreme Court tossed his ridiculous case against NYT for publishing his tax documents.
• GOING TO TRIAL: The New York State case against him for fraudulent business practices is going to trial in October. He also dropped his case against the AG immediately after his case against Clinton cost him a million. Once burned, twice shy, amiright?
• GRIFTING: He’s cranked up Ye Olde Machine de Grift and running again.
• CONVICTIONS: His seditious allies have been found guilty guilty guilty.
• INSURRECTIONISTS: The folks who stormed the capitol for him on 6 January have tried all manor of defenses and none of them have worked. They’re all going to jail. I’m sure the choir members will have their sentences extended for that crime against humanity.
• THE SPECIAL COUNSEL: Jack Smith seems to be wrapping up the investigative portion of his assignment after interviewing Mike “High-Breasted Queen” Pence for five hours — either they asked A LOT of questions that Pence took the fifth on or he sang like an eight year old in a boys Catholic choir.
• RIDING HIGH: In the Repube primary polls, he’s riding pretty darn high and he’s strutting like he’s cock o’ the walk or sumpthin’.

Other than the grifting machine, things have not been looking good for the Ol’ Pussy Grabber. Luckily, Ron DerNazis has shat him a solid and agreed to run against him in the primary. It’s Trump’s strongest look, stamping out the burning sack of shit on his stoop while shouting spittle inflected impotent threats at the fleeing kids… only, Trump can bring real harm, so theirs that.

The CNN Gift to Trump

Which brings us to the real reason for this post, the CNN infomercial for Trump’s brand that has all the punditing punditeers stamping their wee little feet and shaking their wee little fists in outraged punditry about. Friend o’ Ye Olde Blogge, Tengrain, summarizes it all with extra heaping helpings of snarky, sarcasticky, profaney commentary:

UPDATED: About Last Night… | Mock Paper Scissors

I did not watch CNN’s “town hall” last night, I did not expect it to be anything other than an in-kind donation to Lord Damp Nut’s third run for the presidency. It was a bad decision to put a documented liar and certified sexual predator on live teevee.

Turns out, it was even worse than I could have expected: the live audience —BY DESIGN— were Maine New Hampshire Republican primary voters, who to a person were supporters of the 4th Reich and so they laughed at Hair Füror’s jokes and cheered him on. From what I can tell from this mornings reporting and hot takes last night, the crowd cheered when he:

• defended the Capitol riots —they applauded when he said that he would pardon the Capitol rioters
• smeared E. Jean Carroll
• endorsed defaulting on the debt
• refused to support Ukraine

UPDATED: About Last Night… | Mock Paper Scissors

Trump’s Diagnosis

After identifying and explaining all three parts of the Ol’ Pussy Grabber’s diagnoses: unproductive malignant narcissist.

• Unproductive: He has very poor executive functioning. Executive function includes such things as planning, executing plans, emotional control, and  impulse control. It should be amply evident by now that the Ol’ Pussy Grabber has virtually zero skills in any of these domains.
• Malignant: This term reflects the addition of anti-social personality disorder or psychopathy symptoms to the predominant personality disorder, in this case, narcissism. Given his penchant for revenge, vindictiveness, cruelty, sadism, and obvious remorselessness, I’d say this is clear as well.
• Narcissistic personality disorder: Well, it speaks for itself. He is the textbook case of narcissism, but for a review of the symptoms please see, The Narcissism of Donald J. Trump [sic].

There has been rampant speculation among the chittering inhabitants of our screens that having been found liable for sexual abuse and defamation, meaning he’s a rapist, the Repube politicians and the base might could abandon him. You can stop laughing now. They did. They said they thought that. Okay. I’ll wait till you can get up off the floor.

The lengthy infomercial that CNN colluded with him to provide demonstrated otherwise. The hooting and howling gibbonous attendees proved otherwise. Every seditionist, misogynist, debt-defaulting, Putin-supporting, anti-American statement he made was received with derisive laughter and a sound quite similar to hogs at a feeding trough.

Ain’t no one abandoning no Pussy Grabber, no way no how. We may have pared the base down to only the die hard true believers.

Trump’s Narcissism

We should be reminded of the fundamentals of narcissism:

DELUSION OF PERFECTION: The narcissist must preserve their delusion of perfection, the facade of flawlessness they flaunt to the world at all costs. It insulates the core of self-hatred and doubt from being directly experienced.

NARCISSISTIC WOUND: When the thin skin of the narcissist is pricked, they must patch the puncture by destroying anyone or anything that dared point out an imperfection in the narcissist. When we say destroy, we mean quite literally destroy. Trump was trying to destroy our democracy when he was in office by weakening its institutions and guardrails. On his way out of office, he made a frontal assault upon it. Now, he’s back for another try by running again.

Now, this is the important part: he won’t stop trying to destroy our country until he succeeds or he dies. Literally. It is why he took the secret documents. He wanted to or did use them to damage our country. Luckily, he doesn’t have sufficient executive functioning to carry out such a plan on his own, and he’s rendered himself so disreputable that only people of Rudy Giuliani’s and Boris Dipshit Epshteyn’s caliber will work for him, so they aren’t likely to be able to pull it off, either.

NARCISSISTIC COLLAPSE: Collapse occurs when the hubristic overreach of the narcissist fail and there is absolutely no hope of keeping the facade inflated. Once the narcissist is flaccid, they can only stare into the abyss of their own souls. Destructive suicide becomes the only option.

Derailing the Trump Train

The closer to the undeniable end the megalomaniacal narcissist gets, the more likely they are to go nuclear and try to destroy the world and themselves. Luckily for us, Trump won’t see the end coming. It’s not like Hitler watching the Allies literally encircling the Eagle’s Nest. He’ll believe to his soul that if he goes to jail — ankle-monitor in Merde-a-Lardo with easily justified reasons to leave — he will still be able to prevail.

Mass psychosis has so twisted the MAGA crowd that they will believe to their souls that he is the victim of the proverbial witch hunt and is the only person who can deliver them to the white supremacist nirvana predicted of in legends of old.

The closer we get to trial and conviction, though, the more shrill and bombastic Trump will become and more violent MAGA will become. His one weapon is stochastic terrorism.

We only thought he was being hyperbolic when he said, he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and get away with it. He wasn’t. He was being prescient.

There is no derailing the Trump train until he is utterly humiliated by electoral defeat and rejected by the MAGA crowd. He will continue shouting at clouds until the day he dies and there will always be at least one or two MAGAs standing on his lawn egging him on.

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