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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1473381
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1473381
So staying with the theme, a losing hand means no Trump card?
Or even the President card, thank goodness.
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black hole … has roughly the same mass as all the stars in that galaxy combined.
Yet less mass than tRump’s ass.
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The fraudster/former president has been winning so much that he is tired of winning.
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The Biggest Loser.
Sorry, the Biggliest Loser.
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I have a lot of trouble wrapping my head around the fact that all this happened 13.2 billion light years ago.
What’s going on there now?
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Alternatively, it is all part of his evil plan. His Sun Tzu approach is to make us think that he is losing all of his cases it’s only then that he will catch the country by surprise and win them all! Bwhahaha
Yeah. No.
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Certainly not Frist.
Picture of European wild cat:
Story about how these cats have become less finicky:
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It’s a losing man’s bet to gamble that instead of winning in court you’re going to win at the polls on Election Day and make this all go away.
He’s the not so Lonesome but definitely Loser.
It is indeed quite the gamble to push all your chips to the center of the table holding little more than a pair of deuces, while needing a royal flush. His only hope, other than Cannon, to avoid losing multiple cases and subsequent jail time, is to win back the presidency for all the protections it offers. That’s in a nutshell his only strategy, and I believe it’s a losing one. As Mr. Kurtz points out, it would be far from his first time.
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It all played out in open court yesterday in the civil fraud trial in New York. And yet … the media fascination with Trump’s bombast, with the pissing matches he sets up and then participates in, and with his transgressive behavior sidesteps what a loser he is.
Even the Beeb. Sigh. The sports metaphors are getting trite, cliché and in trump’s case, for a 77 yoa, decaying, reprobate, inappropriate.
Lucifer Hummingbird (I think. I don’t photograph birds much.).
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No Labels is still trying to find a candidate: the latest trial balloon:
New Hogan Ad Signals Possible “No Labels” WH Bid
Axios reports:
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) takes aim at Democrats and Republicans in a new ad on foreign policy — a signal that Hogan, a co-chair of the No Labels organization, is moving toward a third-party presidential bid.
As polls suggest voters want an alternative to a likely Biden-Trump rematch in 2024, No Labels is laying the groundwork for a bipartisan presidential ticket and has secured ballot access in 12 states so far.
Hogan’s new ad — funded by his PAC, An America United — casts him as a Reagan Republican who promises to stand up for America’s allies and promote “peace through strength,” a Reagan mantra.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/07/hogan-ad-third-party-president
Given the kerfuffle over non binary sexuality: the desire for non binary politics from is just weird, in comparison.
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I stopped listening to the Eastman clip after he told three lies in rapid succession, about three minutes in.
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“”“A group of anti-Trump conservative lawyers is launching a new project called the Society for Rule of Law.”""
From my conversations with them I doubt 5% of the American people can define Rule of Law.
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The “Betrugssturmführer”.
The fraudstorm leader
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Maybe they should have gone with Generic Labels?
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Yeah, so exhausted and bored of winning that he’s decided to go all in on a mixed suited 2-3-4-5-7 (the worst possible poker hand).
h/t @pshah
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I rather like how this observation ends.
More Observations On Trump’s Psychic State
This is Dr. Justin Frank, a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center, offering his insights into the state of mind of the Malignant Loser as he faces escalating legal problems and the loss of his Potemkin business empire:
There is an often-neglected component of narcissism that ends up directed against the narcissist himself. Don’t forget that Narcissus drowned after he became weak because he was unable to look away from his reflection in the water. Trump’s power is weakening for the same reason. He is unable to look away from fantasies of his own great beauty - his reflection in the lake - long enough to keep himself from weakness before he fell in and died. While specifics are different, the myth persists. Now I think Trump can’t look away from his paranoid anxiety, including his impending dementia, and will drown in jail.
He is willing to go to jail because it is a continuation of the psychotic part of his narcissism - he is so special and powerful and compelling that others will keep looking at him, while he doesn’t realize that few people are as narcissistic as he is. It will be the next part of his downfall because of that very myth, now projecting his own eyes of his greatness onto his followers, but not Into Them.
As for his kids, pathological narcissists see kids as extensions of themselves. So, if they stop functioning as extensions when they turn on him, he will cut them loose. His not showing up for their testimony is a case in point. It will be interesting to see if he will show up for Ivanka’s on Wednesday.
All of this is about assumptions of undying love like his undying self-love.
Trump is so secure in being loved that he is unable to think clearly. What this means is that he assumes that people love him so much he can still shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, and he can still lie to federal agents, and they will love him still as he goes to jail. That is not true, because, following the myth of narcissus to its end, he is nearing the level of complete self-destruction.
There are several other experts quoted in the linked article offering other opinions, but all with the well- traveled common denominator that this is a deeply wounded sociopathic narcissist capable of much destructive behavior, both to those around him and to himself. We posted an observation to the same effect yesterday from reporter Jon Karl on the Malignant Loser’s mental decline and detachment from reality. Of course, to many of us – including you reading this – this hasn’t been a revelation. You don’t need to be a psychiatrist to recognize the Malignant Loser’s mental problems. His narcissism was inborn and on display his entire life to this point, only getting worse as he gained the power of presidential office. His mental decline is far, far worse than any ascribed to President Biden. His foundational ignorance on most matters isn’t equaled by anyone else who held the Presidency in the past hundred years. And yet … his cult follows.
Frank posits that the Malignant Loser is " nearing the level of complete self-destruction " and that at the next level of his downfall – convictions and jail time – his cult members will begin to disconnect. We’re not at all sure about that, but regardless, he will get his first ego- deflating comeuppance in New York soon. It almost doesn’t matter how his cult reacts at this point. We just want the downfall to begin cascading.
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Just like when he went to Russia!
A recap probably isn’t needed for TPMers, but I haven’t seen a story outline it like this:
Chump yesterday tacitly acknowledged his loss in NY trial was capped at 250 million. But it WILL be a loss. Prob. the death penalty for his NY companies, and 250 million judgement. Since there was no jury to spoil, cajole, threaten…he decided to get his money’s worth and bank credit with his horrible puke voters by showing he isn’t constrained by the laws, courts, and judges of the nation and hoping like hell that Engoron would do something appeal-able. Painful for everyone involved but that is all Chump has to offer to the nation…pain.
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