Everything he does makes sense if he’s a Russian asset intent on destroying the US.
Calling him insane absolves him of responsibility. He’s a narcissistic, cruel, racist, sexist, abuser, and bully, to name a few. Everything he’s doing, he’s doing simply because he can, because he’s greedy and uncaring, and because people were mean to him or weren’t obsequious enough to him.
He’s also a traitor.
Came here to say this. He’s totally sane, that’s part of the fucking problem. He’s just a monster and yet he’s worshipped by so many. Working for him must be horrible even at distance.
All those things are insane acts to do as a rational person, rather.
He is an agent of chaos, driven by greed.
I thought his name was Vladimir.
If we stop thinking about what what he is doing from a “he thinks this good for the country” viewpoint and start thinking about it from a “he thinks this is good for Donald Trump” viewpoint it all makes sense.
My particular flavor of that is he realizes he was going to prison or worse based on all the legal proceedings against him. The only way to prevent that was to become president and redirect the DOJ. He was desperate.
Now, his goal is to remain president because if he loses office, he’ll be prosecuted again, at least at the state level where he can’t self-pardon. Therefore he will do literally anything to remain in the presidency until he dies. I think that’s his plan and nothing else really matters to him.
What follows from that is he needs enough people around him to support the plan until he can disarm any part of the government that would remove him from office. He’s willing to do anything Musk wants because Musk demonstrated that Musk will dump a practically unlimited amount of money into any political race as needed, and Trump needs that to hold Congressional seats and eventually governorships and state legislatures.
The rest of it is Trump playing out his vindictive nature, the side effect being the fewer people in government, the more likely they’re able to maintain control, perhaps by suspended elections, martial law, etc.
There’s going to be plenty of unemployed people in DC with time on their hands. We’ll see if that turns into a situation like the Bonus Army.
It isn’t even that. He is just going senile and is surrounded by a bunch opportunists and basically just repeats whatever the last person said to him. The increasing simple (it was Always simple but seems to be getting worse) language he uses sounds like someone with dementia if you have ever encountered someone with it.
He reminds me of my great-great-aunt when she was towards the end. I wonder when he’ll fall off his bed and start flat lining?
Nah he’s a Russian agent. Ask what a Russian agent who became president would do differently then what he’s done so far this time around. He got the get out of jail free card from scotus… Now it’s a free for all to see how much damage he can do
Don’t characterize him as insane. Characterize him and his ilk as calculated psychopaths. Do not let them get away with an insanity defense at the next Nuremberg Trials.
Dementia, insanity and morally devoid are not mutually exclusive you can indeed be a demented psychopath who happens to be devoid of morality and potentially insane.
Insane? I don’t think so. I’d call him a dangerously self-centered narcissist. (The redundancy is intentional to stress the extreme amplitude of his self-serving attitude and behaviors)
btw trump doesn’t come up with these ideas himself; he has thinktanks and conservative thought leaders giving him ideas and suggestions.
Fuck off with this shit! Trump isn’t insane; he’s dangerous and we will lose and die if we keep underestimating him!
It’s possible to be insane and also very dangerous. Consider Stalin or Hitler.
Being insane and dangerous aren’t mutually exclusive.
The complete absence of accountability and the power he has makes his insanity more dangerous, not less.
Nothing he says or does makes any sense and he has millions of enablers.
Nah he’s a cunt
I keep seeing opinion pieces like this, but I remain unconvinced. Sure, if his sincerely held intention was to do anything at all positive for the US and its allies, his actions would read as insane. But if he actively, deliberately desires to harm and destabilize both, then he’s going about it the right way. Screw Hanlon’s razor: stupidity is inadequate to explain any of this.
I couldn’t give a shit about his motivations. I want him held accountable for the damage he’s done.
I’m too stupid to get in trouble needs to stop being a get out jail free card.
If he just wanted to destroy the US, he’d be more subtle about it. I’m not saying he doesn’t want to do that, but he’s simply incapable of doing anything well. He’s as comically unqualified for the job as it’s possible to be. Literally any person, animal or inanimate object could do a better job than him.
If he just wanted to destroy the US, he’d be more subtle about it.
(Emphasis mine)
Like hell! That fucker is literally incapable of being subtle!!
No. Fuck no, in fact. He’s not calling the shots. Whether he’s suffering from dementia or not, he’s a fucking idiot. His craven levels of stupidity also happen to reinforce his malignant narcissism, but that’s a whole other thing.
No, he’s intentionally not being subtle to run our faces in it, even though it’s extremely doubtful he even understands that there’s a master plan. In fact, he’s probably at least dimly aware that Daddy Putin has a plan, but he doesn’t care cause now he gets to be king.
Point is, he’s both malicious and dumber than a bag of rocks.
If he just wanted to destroy the US, he’d be more subtle about it.
Why should he bother being subtle? Fucking look around! Do you really think his current strategy isn’t working well enough?!
No, he’s following orders from Putin
Putin actually struggles to predict the actions of Trump’s administration, which complicates ties.
Trump approved of two major arms sales to Ukraine during his last presidency. The latter sale in spring 2018 even included Javelin anti-tank missiles. Even Obama refused to conduct such action against Putin. The Trump administration even trained Ukrainian troops.
Putin doesn’t control Trump.
Or to quote someone else,
“He’s arrogant, he won’t listen to anyone, he doesn’t know how to make a deal, and tries to cover up his shortcomings and insecurities by lying about everything. He’s a petulant ten year old.
The Russians have know this for years. They’ve known about him ever since the Brighton Beach crowd started going to Atlantic City to launder their money in his casinos, where they saw how dependent Trump was on their business.”
they [The Russians] saw how dependent Trump was on their business
Exactly.
He’s doing exactly what Putin wants.
And Putin wants chaos in the West.
I keep reminding everyone that wants to have this debate … Trump is already a known idiot
The insane ones are the American government and it’s people who just passively accept all this and a good percentage even join in on it.
Trump is indeed insane … but he is only the fine tip of a nation of insane people.
Microplastics making everyone dumber I bet.
