The past couple of weeks have seen some of the clearest examples of how far removed the Trump and his sycophants are from reality. Without rehashing all of the details or linking to supporting news articles, let’s review a few of the more alarming departures:
- The $600 billion that the European Union GIFTED him with to spend however he wants. What? That’s just crazy talk and that’s before you check to see what the deal with EU entails. Reality is that EU businesses are expected to continue investing in the US, and at the rate of investment, the total is expected to reach $600 billion over the next however many years.
- Trump is promising to send the National Guard to Chicago, San Francisco, New York City, and Baltimore to do for them what they’ve done for Los Angles and Washington DC. He’s using crime as an excuse, but in every one of those cities, the crime rates are way down. This isn’t about crime. But, it is a tremendous waste of taxpayer money pursuing a goal that doesn’t exist.
- Trump claims his approval ratings are as high as 60% or 70%.
- On dictators: He doesn’t like a dictator. He’s not a dictator, but many people are saying that they want a dictator. He stops crime.
- Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been detained and is facing deportation to Uganda even though he has not broken any laws and his deportation to El Salvador was a mistake. Luckily, a court has blocked his deportation for now.
- The mishegas around his peace deal making for Ukraine. .
Worse is that the rest of the GOP is in on the act hoping to appease the would-be dictator-in-chief:
- The House is now investigating the manipulation of crime data in DC.
- The DoJ is investigating the investigators, including Letitia James and Jack Smith, as well as other Trump enemies.
- And Go-Suck and Boof-K have both warned lower courts to abide by the présidence set my the emergency docket cases the court has taken, you now the one that Alito said didn’t set precedent during Biden’s term because it only counts if it favors Republicans. The emergency or shadow docket that they don’t issue reasoning for so lower courts don’t know how to apply that reasoning other similar cases. You know those cases should be used as precedent.
There is no sign or semblance of reality in anything Trump or his cronies have done this week. All of it wasting time, energy, and money, chasing the vanity projects of Trump’s ego that could be better spent addressing the real world problems of Americans and the rest of the world.
We all know what we call someone who isn’t dealing with reality, crazy. And, we all know what happens when you don’t deal with reality, it bites you in the ass.
I’d love to hear what you think of Trump’s crazy out-of-touch governance. What mishegas have I missed in my list? What outrages you the most?
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The Psy of Life 
Let’s face it, he’s closing in on 80 years and wondering how his bullying tactics and lies will help him in the afterlife.
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Howdy James!
Most people in his situation would be thinking about the afterlife. I know I am, and he’s got me by fifteen years. But, Trump is a narcissist. I think, he believes god will make an exception for him, and he will not die. I think I’ve read that he is as terrified of death as he is of germs, so there’s that.
Huzzah!
Jack
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He’s well justified to do so given he’s going straight to hell.
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Donny has more excuses than I have hair on my butt to challenge the Constitution….this government is what you get when incompetency is more important than experience. This many is melting down and it cannot come soon enough for me. chuq
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Howdy Chuq!
People don’t change until they’re in enough pain to change is a truism that may apply to MAGA. The pain factor is quickly ratcheting up for them. We’ll see how long it is before they start demanding a change. Don’t hold your breath, though, these are the same people who are causing the reduction of American life expectancy by drinking, drugging, and shooting themselves to death and continuing to elect the same politicians that keep them living in such miserable living conditions.
Huzzah!
Jack
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Jack it seems to get worse every year or every election….I still say the movie “Idiocracy” was very prophetic when it cam out. chuq
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Howdy Chuq!
Yes, the movie Idiocracy was prophetic. God help us.
MAGA continues to be the proving ground for the frightening and amazing effectiveness of cognitive dissonance. The ability of these people to ignore what is plainly obvious to the most casual observer defies all reason and understanding.
While it is one of the traits that made us great, it is also a trait that has destroyed nations. The Black Death and the Witch Hysteria and treating syphilis with mercury are examples of entire societies not dealing with reality — largely because there was an important segment of reality hidden from us at the time — but persisting in their ineffective response anyway. I continue to point out that the Medieval Witch Hysteria took five hundred years to run its course. We’ve got a lot of stupid to go through, brother.
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Jack
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That is a terrifying thought…..chuq
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Off topic……Jack I hope I am not being a pain in the butt with all these articles….
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/autistic-brain-neurodiverse-scientists-de-montfort-university-b2815274.html
https://www.gbnews.com/health/autism-research-vitamin-deficiency-breakthrough
https://www.psypost.org/autisms-odd-gait-autistic-movement-differences-linked-to-brain-development/
https://theconversation.com/im-autistic-and-dont-speak-heres-what-i-want-you-to-know-262198
I know a lot to take in but I want someone with more knowledge to see them and hopefully they will help with some better understanding. chuq
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Howdy Chuq!
I love all the autism articles you send my way. Some of them I may have seen, but most of them I haven’t. For example, the article about brain differences showing a different organization to the brain of autistics also said that autism remedies like herbal treatments, vitamins, and probiotics are ineffective. Just fascinating stuff.
I recently discovered dyspraxia is a thing. Dyspraxia is clumsy or difficulty coordinating movement similar to dyslexia (difficulty reading), dysgraphia (difficulty writing), and dyscalculia (difficulty with math). While the article doesn’t mention dyspraxia specifically, it does describe difficulty with motor control in general and, of course, gait issues would qualify as coordinating movement.
So, please, do not fear, keep sending those articles. I read them all and enjoy them immensely.
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Jack
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I am pleased that they are met with interest….I will also look for anything on Dyspraxia….chuq
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Dyspraxia is harder to find because it has only recently become of interest to researchers, but it will be appreciated. It has become something of an obsession of mine. I’ve started paying a lot more attention to the gait of the people around me as we shop in the mega stores and centers and on campus.
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Jack
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The would be king is mad, and almost certainly demented too. His lackeys are incompetent, and some of them are mad as well, and servile. And all of them are corrupt. Those who are not lying, don’t know or care what is true. When what those with power choose to believe (or, just say, whether they believe or not) is what they wish to be true rather than what is real, disaster cannot be far away.
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Howdy Bob!
Somebody published some predictions about rural hospitals closures coming from the pending Medicaid cuts, and I realized that that is the quintessential not dealing with-reality-and-it-biting-you-in-the-butt situation. RFK, Jr. reminded folks that they have a $10 billion fund earmarked for rural hospitals (serving rural white communities, he didn’t say, but it probably true), which sounds like a lot of money until you realize that they are cutting nearly a trillion dollars out of Medicaid funding.
That rural white America is drinking, drugging, and shooting it’s way to deaths so early that they are shortening their life expectancy is very discouraging. They are not likely to realize the connection between their votes, politics, bigoted beliefs, and their declining healthcare any more than they are to connect it to the conditions causing them to drink, drug, and shoot themselves to death.
I should turn this into a post.
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Jack
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And Mississippi just (finally) declared a health care emergency over it’s highest in the country infant mortality rate. Of course, a lot of those babies are Black, but the poor white folks aren’t that much better off.
I think you will turn that into a post. 🙂
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Howdy Bob!
Enfant mortality actually got high enough to move the Mississippi legislature to do something about it. Hunh. Maybe hell has frozen over. Oh, wait. It was probably the Department of Health. Okay. Hell is safe. The wonder is that the director hasn’t been fired yet. And, probably, the funds, if the move actually results in any increase in funds will either go to Brett Farve’s pet athletic project or to white communities long before any Black child benefits from it.
Huzzah!
Jack
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We an be reasonably sure that even if they had honorable intentions, they would still screw it up for the Black folks.
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It’s the only part of reality that they are dealing with: how to make it worst and first for Black folks.
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Many large cities in Red states have much higher crime rates than any of the cities he’s threatening martial law in, and the national guard in DC have been relegated to litter duty in the parks; this would have been done by National Park employees, buy DOGE fired a lot of them.
Uganda has issued a statement that they have no agreement in place to take non-Ugandan deportees from the US
As Paul Krugman noted today in his Substack every day now starts with finding out what The Crazy is doing today.
We’re finding our what it’s like living in an accelerated descent into cruel Idiocracy.
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Howdy Bruce!
A descent into cruel idiocracy is quite an accurate descriptor. What I find most frightening and sober of all, though, is the appetite among the average citizenry for it. I have decent usually moral and reliable friends and relatives who are saying things like, “Trump is terrible, but he’s done a couple of things that really needed to get done,” by which they mean putting vulnerable populations in their place.
The closing of rural hospitals is probably the quintessential reality denying bite in the ass that I wish I had remembered when I wrote the post. It will happen, but it will be so far removed from the causes — the hideous tax cut for the rich and spend anyway bill and their votes for the politicians who are supporting it — that the people most adversely affected won’t be able to connect the dots. They’ll hear RFK, Jr. say that they have a $10 billion dollar fund for rural hospitals and think that that sounds like a lot of money not realizing that it is dwarfed by $800 billion or so dollars pulled from Medicaid and won’t keep their hospitals open. Of course, the hospital closures will prioritize marginal communities.
Of course, even if they could connect the dots, I don’t know that it would matter. These are the same people who closed public swimming pools rather than swim with Black people when integration happened. And, they’re the same people who are drinking, drugging, and shooting themselves to early deaths, so much so that the average life expectancy for a rural white middle class person is getting shorter.
But it is all worth it if it affects marginalized communities worse and first.
Huzzah!
Jack
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The Medicaid cuts aren’t scheduled to start until after the 2026 midterms, who if the Democrats make large gains and retake control of the House and senate…they wil get the blame for the closings.
The bill was designed that way deliberately.
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