Does everyone agree that Trump is nuts?

[Mowk]

So yeah, if Trump is nuts, I am too. More then plausible. He has no corner on that market. For every yard I extend to myself he has a yard. His is bigger in certain respects and smaller in others. You do the math. But be certain your equations balance, at least try. And maybe try as you will you might just succeed. Cause that’s the way math seems to work at this scale. The really big and the really small don’t appear all that concerned.
OP, are you listening?

[Arcturus_Descending]

@Silhouette

@FreeSpirit1983

@Silhouette

People who wish they were like that would disagree.

addendum: (there’s a lot of them! - some post here, prepare for the deluge of apologism)

What.

Didn’t that make sense to you? It still seems fine to me upon re-reading, but to clarify:

It seems to me as though some people actually admire the characteristics you describe, and that many even wish those characteristics fit themselves more than they already do.

Like so many people, he is beneath the intellectual and psychological game that those in politics are all trying to bend to their advantage - like a special needs kid who got into a chess tournament somehow, moves all the pieces around however he wants, switches them in plain view and denies it all - and all the people who could never compete at chess marvel at his genius in breaking all the rules and playing a different game to the mainstream. Another analogy might be modern art turning into taking a dump, and raking in the receipts through brand recognition and other base-level superficiality that cons fools into thinking they “get” art now. It’s a spectacle, in fitting with his background in reality TV and paranoidly managed public perception of success.

The irony is that politics already devolved into meaningless emptiness, such that when it’s juxta posed with open meaningless and emptiness it reveals it for all to see: the emperor’s new clothes. The kid isn’t doing anything clever, and isn’t meaning to expose anything, they’re just being a kid in public view - unintentionally serving as what was needed. Rulers who kept a fool were smarter - comedy has long been intentionally subverting politics, to the point where an unintentional fool can now simply “be there” and the whole thing falls apart.

He’s very obviously winging it. The idea that it’s intentional or even intelligent is wishful thinking - someone making stuff up on the spot and simply “saying things” looks exactly like what he’s doing. There isn’t even a hint of hidden competence underneath. It entertains, and fits the the dim view of “winning” in the eyes of those who know only petty cattiness. And the system is so far up its own ass it doesn’t know what to do with it. He’s highly pathological and obviously narcissistic, and has the lack of conscience characteristic of a psychopath - not necessarily making him one, but insofar as this makes him “nuts”, the point is that he’s an idiot in charge. The ones celebrating this for some emotional reason think they’re being clever, and attribute anything that can be seen as positive specifically to their figurehead’s intention through confirmation bias - it’s embarrassing seeing the vulnerable get conned.

I agree with all of this.

I do not really see him as being “nuts” as "nuts’ goes per se but at times I can also see him as a runaway train about ready to derail. There is only so long you can hang onto a weak limb. Is it possible that he is BP?

[Meno2 (Meno_)]

Maybe it’s not Trump that’s crazy, maybe it’s the Dems?

Trump said today, at the NATO summit:

“The Democrats have gone nuts, they’re crazy. And it is very bad for our country,”

Should Congress vote to censure Trump, it would make him only the second president in history to be explicitly reprimanded. In 1834, President Andrew Jackson was censured by the Senate in a fight over the survival of the Bank of the United States.

In Washington on Tuesday, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee plan to release their findings in their impeachment probe before turning it over to the Judiciary Committee, which is holding its first hearing on Wednesday"