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What do Putin, Kim Jong Un, Saudi Royal MBS, and Xi Jinping all have in common? They are all brutal strongmen and dictators who demand respect, obedience, loyalty, and want their followers to willingly believe and do anything they tell them. This is exactly why Trump has a sick and demented admiration for these tyrants. He sees himself as one of them.
Trump: â Kim Jong Un speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.â Trump later said anyone who doesnât cheer for anything he says is a traitor committing treason.
It doesnât matter to Trump cultists that he chooses to side with Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia over America, because all Trump has to do is hold a rally, hug the American flag, while telling the crowd to shout, âU-S-A!â And then all of a sudden, that warm and fuzzy feeling of counterfeit patriotism washes over them.
At a rally held by Steve Bannon this past March, an angry and hostile woman took the mic and said, âNever in my life did I think I would like to see a dictator, but if thereâs gonna be one, I want it to be Trump!â which was met with loud cheers and applause from Bannon and the crowd of cultists. It goes without saying that any American who would cheer for that, doesn't believe in liberty, freedom, or the Constitution. Anyone American that cheers for that clearly supports fascism and dictatorships. Trump's cultists don't want an elected official to govern on behalf of the people, they want an authoritarian dictator who will force his will on the nation, and punish anyone who doesn't submit to dogmatic obedience.
Trump cultists like to talk about how much theylove and support our troops and veterans, then continue to worship a man who steps on the military every chance he gets. Trump promised he would donate to military charities, then didnât, then lied about it. He attacked John McCain during the campaign for no reason, attacked him throughout his term, and continues to attack McCain after his passing. He even made the Navy cover-up the name of the USS John McCain during his trip to Pearl Harbor. That was pretty low even for Trump.
When Republican Congressman and war veteran Dan Crenshaw, who lost his eye in combat serving this country, tweeted to Trump, âSeriously stop talking about Senator John McCain,â Trump supporters turned on veteran Crenshaw and harassed, threatened and insulted him on twitter. They defended a known coward and draft dodger, and attacked Crenshaw, a wounded war veteran who served this country honorably. Let that sink in for a moment.
At a rally in August 2016, a war veteran presented his Purple Heart medal to Trump, and he took it and said, âI always wanted one of these, this way is much easier.â Utterly disgusting.
No other politician, Republican or Democrat, would have EVER accepted that from a veteran.
Semper Fi..
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This goes much deeper than Trump's ego. According to Trump, every life lost will be worth it if he can win reelection. The thing we must all remember, is that Trump is a narcissist, and a sociopath.
A sociopathic narcissist like Trump is a person on a quest for power and control, who uses the love and admiration of others as a tool to dominate and manipulate, and who goes about all of this thinking that it is his right and that he is justified. There will be no guilt, no apologies, and no remorse coming from the narcissistic sociopath.
Trump pretty much checks every box for the diagnostic criterion of a sociopathic narcissist.
Manipulative and Conning:
They never recognize the rights of others, and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They seek out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired.
Shallow Emotions:
When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would usually upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.Â
Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt:
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, he has victims, and accomplices, who will also end up as victims. ( Cohen, Manafort, Stone, Flynn) The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.Â
Callousness/Lack of Empathy:
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.Â
Pathological Lying:
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities.
Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature:
Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.Â
Irresponsibility/Unreliability:
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.
Some of the problems a sociopathic narcissist like Trump will face include: Trouble handling criticism, easily becoming impatient or angry if they don't think they are being treated correctly. They feel easily slighted. They try to belittle others or react with rage to make themselves seem superior. They have trouble adapting to change and dealing with stress. They secretly feel insecure, vulnerable, and humiliated, and have a very fragile self-esteem.
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Rand Paul isn't even qualified to speak to Dr. Fauci without permission. Especially when you realize that Rand Paul isn't even a real doctor himself.
Dr. Anthony Fauci was appointed Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in1984. He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis and malaria as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika.
Dr. Fauci has advised six Presidents on HIV/AIDS and many other domestic and global health issues. He was one of the principal architects of the Presidentâs Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that has saved millions of lives throughout the developing world.
Dr. Fauci also is the longtime chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation. He has made many contributions to basic and clinical research on the pathogenesis and treatment of immune-mediated and infectious diseases. He helped pioneer the field of human immunoregulation by making important basic scientific observations that underpin the current understanding of the regulation of the human immune response.
Dr. Fauci is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and has received numerous awards, including the National Medal of Science, the Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has been awarded 38 honorary doctoral degrees and is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than 1,200 scientific publications, including several major textbooks.
In a 2019 analysis of Google Scholar citations, Dr. Fauci ranked as the 41st most highly cited researcher of ALL TIME. According to the Web of Science, he ranked 8th out of more than 2.2 million authors in the field of immunology by total citation count between 1980 and January 2019. Today, countless people around the world owe their very lives to Dr. Fauci, and the work he has done..
Now, who is this Randy Paul again?
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Trump said that COVID-19 âcame out of nowhereâ and âblindsided the world.â His comments left scientists, doctors, and national security experts in a state of disbelief. Experts had been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized Trumpâs decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House, charged with preparing for WHEN, NOT if, another pandemic would hit the nation.
Trumpâs elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see or comprehend the threat of pandemics.
âOne year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,â Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed. She said the directorate was set up to be the âsmoke alarmâ and get ahead of emergencies and sound a warning at the earliest sign of fire â âall with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm fire.â
Public-health experts have stated that Trump's early efforts to downplay the threat of the virus robbed the US of valuable time needed to prepare for what is now a pandemic â potentially costing thousands of lives.
Trump spent "two months of completely ignoring every bit of scientific advice," Dr. Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute stated in mid-March. "We've wasted two months. And this is not a disease where you're allowed to waste two months."
Jha, who received his doctorate in medicine from Harvard Medical school, criticized Trump for telling Americans that everything was "under control" when it was very clear to anybody paying attention that it was not under control."
"I don't use these words lightly, and it's incredibly painful for me to say it," he said, adding: "The cost of all of this is that tens of thousands of Americans are going to die unnecessarily." He went on to say: "It was wholly preventable, and not just preventable in hindsight â it was preventable in foresight. Everybody said this is how it was going to play out if they didn't act."
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Trump will be remembered as the greatest most "tremendous" American traitor that ever lived. Move over Benedict Arnold.
Lets face it, when Trump has to choose between America and Russia, America doesn't stand a chance. His track record has proven that he will choose Russia everytime. Trump proved this to be true in Helsinki.
So Putin invades the sovereign country of Ukraine, engages in nerve agent attacks against our ally in England, shoots down a commercial airliner over Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers, including 80 children, he interferes in our presidential elections, and now we've learned that he has placed a bounty on the heads of our troops in Afghanistan. In 2019, John Bolton told colleagues that he briefed Trump on the matter in March 2019.
Trump had access to the information earlier, in February. It appeared in the presidentâs daily brief on Feb. 27. The investigation has homed in on a car bombing in April 2019 that k!lled three Marines. That attack occurred the month after Bolton reportedly briefed Trump about the bounties..
Felicia Arculeo, whose son Cpl. Robert Hendriks, 25, died in the attack, told CNBC that she wanted an investigation into the claims that the victims were targeted by Taliban fighters who were offered bounties by Russian military intelligence agents. Sgt. Benjamin Hines, 31, and Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman, 43, were the other Marines k!lled in the attack, which came days before they were due to return home from Afghanistan.
And now after all of that, Trump wants to reward Putin's tyrannical and hostile behavior, by lifting sanctions on Russia, and bringing it back into the G-7. And since Trump received the first briefing about the Russain bounties in Feb, he has been laughing it up with Putin in multiple phone calls on Mar 30, April 9, 10, 12, 25, May 7, and June 1. And even NOW, Trump has never uttered one word of condemnation towards Putin. Not......one.
Let all of that sink in for a minute. Take your time.
Semper Fi...
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The seeds for corruption, incompetence, and the failure of Trump's presidency were planted before Trump was even sworn in, and he planted them himself. With his own hands, Trump sowed the seeds of ineptitude, indifference, and criminal incompetence, that have now defined his presidency...
From The Guardian:
Chris Christie volunteered himself for the job of running Trump's presidential transition team. But when he went to see Trump about it, Trump said he didnât want a presidential transition team. Why did anyone need to plan anything before he actually became president? Itâs legally required, said Christie. Trump asked where the money was going to come from to pay for the transition team. Christie explained that Trump could either pay for it himself or take it out of campaign funds. Trump didnât want to pay for it himself. He didnât want to take it out of campaign funds, either, but he agreed, grudgingly, that Christie should go ahead and raise a separate fund to pay for his transition team. âBut not too much!â he said.
The transition team now moved into an office in downtown Washington DC, and went looking for people to occupy the top 500 jobs in the federal government. They needed to fill all the cabinet positions, of course, but also a whole bunch of others that no one in the Trump campaign even knew existed.
The first time Trump paid attention to any of this was when he read about it in the newspaper. The story revealed that Trumpâs very own transition team had raised several million dollars to pay the staff. The moment he saw it, Trump called Steve Bannon from his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower, and told him to come immediately to his residence, many floors above. Bannon stepped off the elevator to find Christie seated on a sofa, being hollered at. Trump was apoplectic, yelling:Â Youâre stealing my money! Youâre stealing my phucking money! What the phuck is this?
Seeing Bannon, Trump turned on him and screamed: Why are you letting him steal my phucking money? Bannon and Christie together set out to explain federal law to man-baby. Months before the election, the law said, the nominees of the two major parties were expected to prepare to take control of the government. The government supplied them with office space in downtown DC, along with computers and rubbish bins and so on, but the campaigns paid their people. To which Trump, the now "law & order president " replied: "phuck the law. I donât give a phuck about the law. I want my phucking money!!" Bannon and Christie tried to explain that Trump couldnât have both his money and a transition.
Shut it down, said Trump. Shut down the transition. Bannon was finally able to convince man-baby why he needed a transition team. So Christie went back to preparing for a Trump administration. He tried to stay out of the news, but that proved difficult. From time to time, Trump would see something in the paper about Christieâs fundraising and become upset all over again. The money that people donated to his campaign Trump considered, effectively, his own money.
Christie would eventually be fired by Jared Kushner. Kushnerâs role in his sacking was confirmed to him by Steve Bannon. But it wasnât just Christie who would be fired. It was the entire transition team â although no one ever told them so directly. As Nancy Cook reported in Politico, Bannon visited the transition headquarters a few days after he had given Christie the news, and made a show of tossing the work the people there had done for Trump into the bin. Trump was going to handle the transition more or less by himself. Not even Bannon thought this was a good idea. âI was phucking nervous as sh*t,â Bannon later told friends. âI go, âHoly phuck, this guy Trump doesnât know anything. And he doesnât give a sh*t.ââ
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Twitter has shut down multiple accounts that it says were operated by a white supremacist group posing as liberal groups encouraging violence.
A white supremacist group created a fake Twitter account, posed as the Antifa movement and called for violence during the ongoing protests sweeping the nation, Twitter said.
âTonightâs the night comrades," the group tweeted on Sunday. âTonight we say âf--k the cityâ and we move into residential areas... the white hoods... and we take whatâs ours.â
Twitter said the white supremacist group Identity Evropa used one fake account, @Antifa_US, to call for violence in majority white suburbs, in the name of the Black Lives Matter movement.
"This account violated our platform manipulation and spam policy, specifically the creation of fake accounts. We took action after the account sent a Tweet inciting violence and broke the Twitter Rules" the company said.
Twitter said it has also targeted other fake accounts run by Identity Evropa. The company said the accounts posted hateful tweets targeting race, religion and sexual orientation.
Twitter has seen a wave of fake accounts spreading false information about the ongoing protests in recent days.
Trump and his supporters have claimed, without evidence, that Antifa is behind the violence seen in some of the protests nationwide.
In an internal FBI situation report, the FBIâs Washington Field Office found no intel evidence indicating Antifa involvement or presence in the violence that occurred on May 31 during the D.C.-area protests. That same day, Trump announced on Twitter that he would designate âAntifaâ a terrorist organization, even though antifa is not an organized group.
But not surprisingly, the report did warn that individuals from a far-right social media group had called for far-right provocateurs to attack federal agents, and use automatic weapons against protesters. A Department of Homeland Security intelligence note warned law-enforcement officials that a white supremacist channel on the encrypted messaging app Telegram encouraged its followers to incite violence to start a race war during the protests.
Antifa, short for anti-facist, poses a threat to a devout fascist like Trump, so it only makes sense that Trump would want to go after them. Adolf did the same thing to opponents of his fascist regime. It's only natural that a fascist would view any anti-facist group has his enemy.
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âTHESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
â Thomas Paine, The Crisis
At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked a question as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation. In the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Marylandâs delegates to the Convention, a lady asked Dr. Franklin: âWell Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
Benjamin Franklin replied:Â âA republic....if you can keep it.â
Trump and the Republican party are telling us that we can no longer keep it. They are telling us that the "idea" that is America, is over.
This election will determine whether or not we keep our 244 year old democratic republic, or see it replaced with a tyrant and his despotic monarchy. Make no mistake, America is in a fight for it's very survival, because Trump and his henchmen have made it abundantly clear that this country isn't big enough for him and our democratic republic, so therefore one of them MUST GO!!!
So you see, the choices are simple. On Nov 3rd, make a decision. America vs Trump. Democracy vs tyranny. Who's side are you on?
âIf there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.âÂ
â G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
âThe actions of government, we are told, bear down only on imprudent souls who provoke them. The man who resigns himself and keeps silent is always safe. Reassured by this worthless and specious argument, we do not protest against the oppressors. Instead we find fault with the victims. Nobody knows how to be brave even prudentially. Everyone stays silent, keeping his head low in the self-deceiving hope of disarming the powers that be by his silence. People give despotism free access, flattering themselves they will be treated with consideration. Eyes to the ground, each person walks in silence the narrow path leading him safely to the tomb.âÂ
â Benjamin Constant, Principles of Politics Applicable to All Government
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Adam Schiff has been the MVP of the trial so far. Trump's defense team has no answer or real defense for anything that Schiff has laid out before the American people. And this isn't Adam Schiff's first rodeo. He has a history of prosecuting traitors to this country. In the late 80s and early 90s as a District Attorney in Cali, Adam Schiff successfully prosecuted the case of a Russian spy named Svetlana Ogorodonikov, and an FBI agent named Richard W. Miller, who was seduced by Svetlana Ogorodnikov, and agreed to sell classified information to the Soviet government. Eventually, this manâRichard W. Miller, a 47-year-old Los Angeles-based counterintelligence agent on the Bureauâs Soviet squadâwould become the first FBI agent ever convicted of espionage.
Agent Miller would eventually agree to turnover highly classified information to the Russians for large sums of money. It took Schiff 3 trails, and 6 years, but he eventually won the conviction against Agent Miller and the Russian spy, and they were both sent to prison.
During those years, Schiff stated that he learned a lot about Russian tradecraft, and how the Russians operate, who they target, and the vulnerabilities they look for. During his work on the case, Schiff was also in frequent contact with FBI agents investigating Millerâgiving the future congressman an intimate look at, and respect for, the Bureauâs counterintelligence mission against threats from from Russia, and it's mission of protecting the national security of this nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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In the newly released audio, Trumpâs sister Maryanne Trump Barry is critical about Donald, saying she did his homework for him and that he is, among other things, unprepared, a brat, and cruel.Â
âItâs the phoniness of it all. Itâs the phoniness and this cruelty. Donald is cruel,â Barry told her niece.
âAll he wants to do is appeal to his base,â Barry said. âHe has no principles. None. None. And his base, I mean my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people. Not do this.âÂ
Trump's sister was aghast at how he operated as president. âHis gawd@mned tweet and lying, oh my God,â she said. âIâm talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy s*t. What theyâre doing with kids at the border."
Trump's sister also explained how she tried to help Trump academically, noting that âhe was a brat,â and that, âI did his homework for himâ and âdrove him around NYC to try to get him into college.â She said she didnât know of anything Donald had ever accomplished on his own, but noted that âhe has five bankruptciesâ which he achieved all by himself." đ âYou CAN'T trust him,â she added.
She also made it clear that she was still upset by how Trump chose to celebrate himself at their fatherâs funeral in 1999.
"During that ceremony, Donald spoke more about his own accomplishments than his fatherâs life," Maryanne said.
âDonald was the only one who didnât speak about Dad,â she said. She told Mary that âI donât want any of my siblings to speak at my funeral. And thatâs all about Donald and what he did at Dadâs funeral. I donât know. It was all about him.â
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The notion that Trump was actually concerned about corruption in Ukraine, or corruption in general, is laughable. He even had the audacity to call himself the "law & order" president.
Trump is not only the most corrupt president in American history, he's the most corrupt president imaginable. If someone had told me years ago that we would ever have a president this immoral, unethical, deceitful, and sociopathic, I would have laughed. Well....I'm not laughing now. đ Nixon's ghost can finally rest in peace, because Nixon is no longer the most corrupt president in American history.
November of last year, Trump was ordered by a judge to pay $2 m in damages for illegally using funds intended for charity to boost his 2016 presidential election campaign.
Trump had to admit to personally misusing the money, according to the New Yorkâs attorney general office, despite having previously denied any wrongdoing. The fine adds to several other investigations into allegations that he is using public office for self-enrichment.
The lawsuit last year states that Trump, and his three money grubbing useless children - Don Jr, Ivanka and Eric - broke campaign finance laws in 2016 by using Trump Foundationâs tax-exempt status âas little more than a checkbook to serve Trumpâs business and political interests.
Trump and his talentless children, had violated their fiduciary duties as officers and directors of the now-shuttered Trump Foundation. As a result of that failure, charitable dollars â consistently and over many years â often benefited Trump rather than the causes he repeatedly claimed he supports.
There was âa shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation â including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more,â the suit claimed.
In the agreements, Trump admitted to misusing funds from the foundation, which he dissolved last year, including to pay for a portrait himself that cost $10,000. He also agreed to pay back $11,525 he spent on sports memorabilia and champagne at a charity gala.
Trump also directed the foundation to use money for charity to buy a Tim Tebow helmet for himself, and to settle a couple of lawsuits.
Trump also admitted in the agreements to directing that $100,000 in foundation money be used to settle legal claims over an 80-foot flagpole he had built at his Mar-a-Lago resort, instead of paying the expense out of his own pocket..
In addition, the charity foundation paid $158,000 to resolve a lawsuit over a prize for a hole-in-one contest at a Trump-owned golf course, and $5,000 for ads promoting Trumpâs hotels in the programs for charitable events. Trump admitted these transactions were also improper.
But let's be honest, what Trump did wasn't just improper, it was downright criminal and reprehensible..
Jan, 2016
Trump: "My whole life Iâve been greedy, greedy, greedy. Iâve grabbed all the money I could get. Iâm so greedy."
Jan 9, 2016
"Now, Iâll tell you, Iâm good at that â so, you know, Iâve always taken in money,â he said at a rally in Iowa. âI like money. Iâm very greedy. Iâm a greedy person. I shouldnât tell you that, Iâm a greedy â Iâve always been greedy. I love money, right?
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Trump: "So here's the good news: The virus is a hoax, this will all disappear like magic, this virus is no different than the flu, I'm doing a great job, my uncle went to MIT, and we're not going to let the cure be worse than the problem. I'm going to open up the country soon. My authority is total."
COVID-19: "So here's the bad news. I am immune to Trump's lies and gaslighting, I can't read a calendar, so I don't know when May 1 is, I can't be defeated with magic, because I am real, and magic is not. I can only be defeated with science, facts, and common sense, and your so called president is a criminally incompetent sociopath who doesn't believe in science, facts, or common sense. I am not religious, but that won't stop me from going to places of worship.
I'm nothing like the flu, but the flu is a fan of mine, and it wants to be like me when it grows up. There is no cure for me, and that's the problem. I singlehandedly shutdown MIT. No one wants Trump to prematurely open up the country, and end social distancing more than me. I don't recognize anyone's authority."
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A narcissistic sociopath like Trump is a person that only cares about power, control, and self-adulation. There will be no guilt, no apologies, and no sense of remorse coming from a narcissistic sociopath.
Trump pretty much checks every box for the diagnostic criterion of a sociopathic narcissist.
~Manipulative and Conning:
They never recognize the rights of others, and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They seek out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired.
~Shallow Emotions:
When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion, it is more feigned than experienced, and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would usually upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises..
~Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt:
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, he has victims, and accomplices, who will also end up as victims. ( Cohen, Manafort, Stone, Flynn) The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way...
~Callousness/Lack of Empathy:
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.Â
~Pathological Lying:
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities..
~Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature:
Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.Â
~Irresponsibility/Unreliability:
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.
Some of the problems a sociopathic narcissist like Trump will face include: Trouble handling criticism, easily becoming impatient or angry if they don't think they are being treated correctly. They feel easily slighted. They try to belittle others or react with rage to make themselves seem superior. They have trouble adapting to change and dealing with stress. They secretly feel insecure, vulnerable, and humiliated, and have a very fragile self-esteem.
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Romney stayed true to his oath of office, and for that, he should be applauded. No Senator or Congressman swears an oath to the president. They swear an oath to the Constitution, and to the people of this country. However Trump, being the megalomaniac that he is, believes that everyone should swear an oath to him. And anyone who doesn't, should be called a "never Trumper." As if being a never Trumper comes with some sort of negative connotation. Being called a never Trumper is like having a badge honor bestowed upon you. It simply means that you put your country, and the Constitution before an undeserving and illegitimate con-man.
Being a never Trumper is something we should all aspire to be. For there is nothing more righteous, than being a never Trumper. I salute Romney, Schiff, and all of his colleagues, for having the courage and the integrity to remain true to their oaths, and for standing up for our Constitution, the country, and the American people.
 "The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you, would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked, but only that they be spineless.âÂ
â James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
âIn a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.âÂ
â Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
This pretty much sums up the loathsome state of the Republican party today
We are currently facing a Constitution crisis, and our democracy as we know it, is on the line.
The true character of a person will always be revealed when they are faced with a crisis or adversity. And the eternal question will always be, when it truly mattered, did he do the right thing? So far, republicans have failed..
âTHESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
â Thomas Paine, The Crisis
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It's almost as if the Founders were clairvoyant when they placed articles of impeachment into the Constitution. They clearly had envisioned someone like Trump in America's future. Someone who would say that as president, he can do whatever he wants. The articles of impeachment were tailor made for a wannabe dictator like Trump..
âWe the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.âÂ
â Abraham Lincoln
âWhatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it mayâÂ
â Daniel Webste
âTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.â
â Theodore Roosevelt
If what Trump has done isn't wrong, then that means that nothing is wrong. if Trump isn't impeachable, then that means that no president will ever be impeachable, no matter what they do. And that will spell the end of our democracy, our Constitution, and our republic. We will be back to where we were before the Declaration of Independence was signed. It will be as if we never fought and won a war of independence against a King..
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Today,, our constitution, and our democracy won, and an insecure, thin skinned wannabe dictator lost. Congratulations America!!!đ
And as for Trump, take this "L" and wear it around your neck. It looks good on you.
June 15 2018, Trump praises Kim Jung Un's control over his people.
"He's the head of the country," Trump said of Kim Friday during a Fox interview.
"And I mean he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different."
"He speaks and his people sit up at attention,"Â Trump added. "I want my people to do the same."
Sept 30 2018, Trump confesses the love he has for his muse, Kim Jung Un, during a rally.
"I like him, he likes me. I guess thatâs okay. Am I allowed to say that?â Trump said.
 âAnd then we fell in love, okayâ he said. âNo really. He wrote me beautiful letters, and theyâre great letters. We fell in love.â
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Trump's presidency will be remembered as "The Great Oppression."Â And he will be remembered as "The Great Pretender." Trump is, and has always been, a fraud. Therefore his failure as a leader and as a president was inevitable.
Trump was always going to fail, and he was always going to blame his failures on someone else, or something else.
In her new book, Trump's niece says Trump was scarred by his father and developed habits of lying and self-deception that shadowed him into the White House.
"This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism," Mary Trump writes in her book. "Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be."
"In Donald's mind, even acknowledging an inevitable threat would indicate weakness. Taking responsibility would open him up to blame. Being a hero â being good â is impossible for him," she writes in the book.
"The people with access to him are weaker than Donald is, more craven, but just as desperate. Their futures are directly dependent on his success and favor," she said. "Although more powerful people put Donald into the institutions that have shielded him since the very beginning, it's people weaker than he is who are keeping him there."
"His pathologies have rendered him so simple-minded that it takes nothing more than repeating to him the things he says to and about himself dozens of times a day â he's the smartest, the greatest, the best â to get him to do whatever they want, whether it's imprisoning children in concentration camps, betraying allies, implementing economy-crushing tax cuts, or degrading every institution that's contributed to the United States' rise and the flourishing of liberal democracy."
Trump's initial response to the coronavirus "underscores his need to minimize negativity at all costs," Mary Trump writes.
She points to Gov. Cuomo's response to his state's outbreak of COVID-19 cases as an example of "real leadership," further revealing the president as a "petty, pathetic little man â ignorant, incapable, out of his depth, and lost to his own delusional spin."
At the end, Mary Trump writes "Donald isn't really the problem after all" â it is his enablers, from his father to the celebrity media to the congressional Republicans who acquitted him of impeachment.
"This is the end result of Donald's having continually been given a pass and rewarded not just for his failures but for his transgressions â against tradition, against decency, against the law, and against fellow human beings," she writes.
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Ryan Zinke, another one of Trump's " very best people" who is facing an ethics probe over land dealings, insisted a month ago that he still has Trumpâs full support.
While Zinke was in CA touring the deadly Camp Fire damage in Paradise with Gov. Brown, He told The Sacramento Bee he has no recollection of meeting in 2017 with wealthy Sacramento land baron Angelo Tsakopoulos, as first reported by the Washington Post.
Zinke is being investigated on multiple fronts. In what is considered the most serious matter, the Interior Departmentâs acting inspector general has referred to the DoJ, an investigation into whether Zinke acted improperly in connection with a land deal in Whitefish, Mont., with the head of oil-services conglomerate HALLIBURTON. As secretary, Zinke oversees oil and gas drilling operations on federal lands.
In the interview with The Sacramento Bee, Zinke said: "I talk to the president, he understands. These are vicious attacks.â Zinke said the president backs him â100 percent.â
The main probe, centers on Zinkeâs involvement with a Montana land deal backed by David Lesar, the chair of Halliburton, an oil field services company. A foundation established by Zinke and run by his wife, Lolita Zinke, owns land in Zinkeâs hometown of Whitefish, Montana. Lesarâs developer is planning to build on some of the land, Politico reported this summer. The proposed hotel and retail stores that the developer wants to build in Whitefish also stand to boost property values in a nearby parcel of land owned by the Zinkes.
As an oil field service firm, Halliburton has direct and indirect business involving the Interior Department, which manages mining and drilling rights on federal lands.
Zinke remained involved with his foundation even after he took office as secretary of the interior, violating an ethics pledge he signed in Jan 2017. Emails showed that he was still coordinating the land deal as late as August 2017. The investigation, now in the hands of the DoJ, could result in criminal charges.
BUT WAIT...THERE'S MORE!!! The IG is also investigating whether Zinke improperly used agency funds to pay for travel for his wife. There are several other probes into Zinkeâs conduct by other government oversight groups, including the US Office of Special Counsel and the House Oversight Committee. In total, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington tallied 17 federal investigations around Zinke. It puts him on par with Scott Pruitt, who was forced to resign after a tsunami of scandals caught up with him.
Even Zinkeâs aboveboard actions are just as alarming. Zinke has presided over the largest rollback of federal land protections in US history, approved new development in wilderness areas, and opened up NEARLY ALL, US coastal waters to offshore drilling.
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