Unfit To Lead

What the ever-living f*ck is this congealed mound of sidewalk-melted circus peanut talking about? https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1266116590908706816 REPORTER: “Are you worried about the situation on the border between India and China …?” TRUMP: “Ah, India. He loves India so much,...

The redoubtable Gabe Sherman has another missive from the bottomless bowl of Kooky Krunch that is the White House. As you probably guessed, Donald Trump thinks the coronavirus that’s circled the globe and killed 100,000...

If you didn't know better, you could easily have concluded that Donald Trump spent the week campaigning for his presumptive Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden. For most Americans, it was a heart-rending week...

So much for the military deployment and takeover of these hear Yerknighted Steaks by the syphilitic Cheeto: Daily Beast: Pentagon officials say it was the White House, not the Defense Department, pushing for military might in...

Donald Trump is not happy unless he’s running the show and the past few months, let alone the past few days, have not been good for that scenario. The pandemic is nowhere under control, tens of millions of Americans are out of work, Minneapolis is in flames, Colorado is the new Charlottesville, he had a lovers’ spat with his beloved Twitter, and a protester in D.C. began scaling the wall of a building so he could paint, “Fuck Trump” on the wall in red Friday night. On these facts, Trump doesn’t appear to be on top of events, rather events appear to be crushing him, or at the very least minimizing him — and for him, that’s death. He has to rule the roost at all times. Tony Schwartz, Medium: The third trait that most characterizes Trump is his need for dominance, and the evident pleasure he takes in exercising it. “I love getting even when I get screwed by someone,” he explains in his book Think Big and Kick Ass. “Always get even. When you are in business you need to get even with people who screw you. You need to screw them back 15 times harder.” In the absence of a conscience to shape and limit his behavior, Trump defaults to a more primitive and predatory impulse. Life for him is a zero-sum game. He either wins or he loses, dominates or submits. This explains why Trump felt no compunction about lashing out this week at a frequent critic, Joe Scarborough, by falsely accusing him of murder, even in the absence of a shred of evidence to support his claim. Cruelty is second nature to Trump. Tony Schwartz doesn’t see things changing as we get closer to the election, except to get worse. He uses the word “Armegeddon” because Trump, it goes without saying, is going to lie about everything, and attempt to muscle everything to go in his favor, up until the bitter end. We’ve seen that already. He’s not going to change his spots, they’re only going to begin to glow in neon. In the end, Trump does what he does because he is who he is, immutably. The research now strongly suggests that the absence of conscience has a strong hereditary basis, even as it may also be activated by adverse childhood experiences. The genetic abnormality itself manifests in the limbic system, the set of brain structures involved in the processing of emotions. People without a conscience, it turns out, often have an undersized or under-active amygdala and less gray matter in the limbic area of the brain. For four years, along with millions of other Trump critics, I have wrestled with the best way to respond to a president who is incapable of shame or empathy and cares only about his self-interest. There is no effective treatment for a person with these traits, and Trump wouldn’t seek one if there was, because he genuinely doesn’t believe there is anything wrong with him. The horrifying truth is that it’s precisely what he’s missing that gives him a permanent advantage over the vast majority of us who are guided by a conscience and concern for others. Trump revels in attention, domination, and cruelty. “The sociopath wants to manipulate and control you,” explains Martha Stout, “and so you are rewarding and encouraging him each and […]

“In many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized and driven by anarchic and left extremist groups -- far-left extremist groups -- using Antifa-like tactics.” Nope, there are many opportunists taking the weekend to...

As if the man is truly on a quest to be the most malevolent sack of crap in America, it turns out Donald Trump’s gaudy “walk” to a burned church next to the White...

Sen. John Cornyn of Texas shared a masked photo of himself on Instagram Monday. “We all have to do our part. Maintain social distancing but if you can’t, do this,” wrote Cornyn, who's up...

The fight for the suburbs continues, and Trump continues to try to scare them. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268037166946553856 All kinds of spinning and historical revision have emerged. Secretary Esper seems to not have known he was going to be...

Remember this horrible, horrible pig-feces-lagoon of a tweet from three days ago in which the actual president of the United States suggested protesters should be shot by the police and/or the government because, unlike the...