He will go away someday, but what he will leave behind will be the decimation of all that made our country different than the rest. The loss is irreparable.
Tyrants have been around since the beginning of time. They die, go to jail or go into exile. Dying is where Trump is heading.
Two things over the weekend were in my thoughts.
First, he usually golfs at Bedminster which requires him to fly. Those with heart issues or heart failure are recommended not to fly. Why VA that's a short car drive? Hmm...
Second, if you see the family all of the sudden showing up at the WH for no apparent reason could be a sign his health is declining.
Janet ; Are you sure that we heart attack survivors should not fly ? I had my first and biggest heart event in 2009 ,then didn't fly till 2011. Had no problems . ??
Glad you survived your heart attack. May you continue in good health and enjoy your travels.
Just a thought from what I have read about heart issues. He's old, not in good health and with all the drugs he's on, his heart must be taking a toll. Remember we don't really know what his health issues are. Only the minimal of what is released by them.
Aircraft cabins are pressurized, but oxygen levels remain lower than at sea level. This can affect those with reduced cardiac function or circulation issues. Some people may need in-flight oxygen, which can be arranged through the airline with prior notice.
The true dictators holding hands and enjoying a parade without the faux dictator should add to his deterioration. The wicked witch disintegrated with water. His hold over the under thinkers of the world will loosen as we use our brains to figure out what broke us.
I feel like the dumb kid in the back of the classroom suppresssing an urgent question: Is there a setting when it’s appropriate to refer to QAnon / Magalonians as dumb fucking bastards? 37f’ing% of Americans! BTW underthinkers is prime derogation. In current context, derogation applies to law and their fixation of projecting social disrespect for anyone or any form of communication that doesn’t boost their death cult mission. Their obsession and willingness to be hyper-manipulated by their corporte overlords is most likely a pathway to making fast paradigm shifting impact among enough of them and more importantly, the connected fringe population that is in cognitive dissonance and regretting voting for the fascist mafia fake reality teevee star, if it’s corretly framed and sufficiently promoted. The disillusioned fringes of Trumpworld are the folks with standing to influence enough deluded to wake up (that horror word - Woke, so it must not be used) and join in transforming R state legislatures, essentially threaten them to stop supporting fascist hegomny or be yanked out of action by recall voting. Fed level politicians are not subject to recall voting. Just starting a wave or awareness in red so-called Republican states about how bad;y they are being abused will destabilize the P2025 agenda and their mercenary force.
What an outstanding piece! You've said it so well and hit every note. You go, girl! Wish I had the funds to contribute to you, but.... I'm forwarding this to every progressive friend I have--they will love it, not just for your writing skills but for the profound truth you've laid out and that we are all facing.
Actually Chinese peasant women kept their natural feet, and Mongolian women needed feet for stirrups when riding horses. It was upper-class Chinese women who had their feet bound.
Trump thrives on piss and vinegar. Horrible things that would kill the average man of half his age only make him stronger. What would kill him? Maybe charm school.
Just look up any images of Kenneth McMillan's portrayal of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in the 1984 David Lynch version of Dune. Those oozing pustules are frighteningly Trump-like.
Nina…. Loved the hoodie on 850…and seeing you and others, as I told Greg, it feels like good friends. This is the extended community we’ve been working for. 😊
Rightfully, you have turned Trump into a metaphor. His excess and cruelty have turned him, both figuratively and literally, into a bloated excrescence. In nature, when trees die, their decaying corpses provide material for succeeding generations of trees. My dream is that when this giant topples he brings down decades of corruption and malfeasance with him - ushering in a second age for America. Having witnessed the suffering that corruption causes the US can rewrite their flawed constitution and laws, make reconciliation with indigenous, African-origin peoples and females and rebuild their shining city with sturdier foundations.
I'm Canadian and recognize that a collapsed state will damage us as well.
Thanks for mentioning the great David Cronenberg. However, this is over the top on a few levels.
The idea of a “brain trust” on the right that “openly advocates” for dictatorship or monarchy is an oxymoron. There is no such “overt” advocacy, and while “covert” advocacy is impossible to disprove, you haven’t identified the “brain trust”at its core. MAGA is a vague “nostalgic” movement harking back to an unspecified era in the history of the United States, an era people “feel” but can’t pinpoint. MAGA’s vagueness is its power. It does not advocate for monarchy or dictatorship.
APHA and the (heavily Pharma-financed) Guardian newspaper are not credible arbiters of public health in America. A look around the world (living in other countries helps) gives one a powerful sense of how hypochondriacal and addicted to junk Pharma and useless “jabs” Americans are relative to other nations. The only country with direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising in almost every commercial break on TV, we are sick nationally not just in a cultural sense, as you regularly highlight, but also physically. It is worth pondering how much the Trump era you despise for its cultural sickness is as much a symptom as a cause. The tragedy of American culture is a corollary to its physical decay.
Nina here gives us a most accurate portrayal of our diseased king and the way he daily infects our nation. People here and elsewhere debate over whether or how we will ever recover, but it seems to me that we are speeding into an unknowable future. There have been other countries who suffered the depredations of dreadful leadership, but none in the modern technological age.
All we can do is try our damnedest to undo the damage, once the proximal cause has been removed. It will certainly be interesting to watch as his enablers try to wriggle out from under what they've done. Let's raise a glass to the hopeful eventuality of accountability.
Trump is abrasive and divisive, yes -- but Biden was the most divisive person in the White House ever, by assaulting our basic body autonomy and weaponizing lies and demonizing truth tellers.
Retired CVICU, CCU, ICU. ER RN here. I believe he has rt sided heart failure. He was recently having a presser in the Oval office & was wearing an open necked golf casual shirt. He had obvious JVD (Jugular Vein Distension) - a quick and dirty indicator of rt sided heart failure! You shouldn't see ANY! Worse yet he had it while STANDING - a very bad sign. Normally we chk for JVD lying in bed at a 45 angle degree - and if it shows up at that angle it's a bad sign of CHF or fluid overload.. But seeing it at even higher elevations is even worse... and if its apparent when standing it requires emergency treatment. It also causes peripheral edema in the feet, legs and can even cause puffy eyes. They're trying to write off his swollen ankles as localized Peripheral Vascular Disease - which can also cause ankle/foot swelling - but this is way worse and is due to a systemic rt sided heart failure! I posted this and more in a comment on a recent video about it on Kyle Kulinski's YT channel and was shadow banned!
Addendum...he also had something called Kussmaul's sign. With inspiration, the JVD should go down.... but instead of the JVD goes up higher, that's a bad sign of rt sided heart failure and is called a "positive Kussmaul's sign".
He will go away someday, but what he will leave behind will be the decimation of all that made our country different than the rest. The loss is irreparable.
Tyrants have been around since the beginning of time. They die, go to jail or go into exile. Dying is where Trump is heading.
Two things over the weekend were in my thoughts.
First, he usually golfs at Bedminster which requires him to fly. Those with heart issues or heart failure are recommended not to fly. Why VA that's a short car drive? Hmm...
Second, if you see the family all of the sudden showing up at the WH for no apparent reason could be a sign his health is declining.
Janet ; Are you sure that we heart attack survivors should not fly ? I had my first and biggest heart event in 2009 ,then didn't fly till 2011. Had no problems . ??
Glad you survived your heart attack. May you continue in good health and enjoy your travels.
Just a thought from what I have read about heart issues. He's old, not in good health and with all the drugs he's on, his heart must be taking a toll. Remember we don't really know what his health issues are. Only the minimal of what is released by them.
Aircraft cabins are pressurized, but oxygen levels remain lower than at sea level. This can affect those with reduced cardiac function or circulation issues. Some people may need in-flight oxygen, which can be arranged through the airline with prior notice.
The true dictators holding hands and enjoying a parade without the faux dictator should add to his deterioration. The wicked witch disintegrated with water. His hold over the under thinkers of the world will loosen as we use our brains to figure out what broke us.
I feel like the dumb kid in the back of the classroom suppresssing an urgent question: Is there a setting when it’s appropriate to refer to QAnon / Magalonians as dumb fucking bastards? 37f’ing% of Americans! BTW underthinkers is prime derogation. In current context, derogation applies to law and their fixation of projecting social disrespect for anyone or any form of communication that doesn’t boost their death cult mission. Their obsession and willingness to be hyper-manipulated by their corporte overlords is most likely a pathway to making fast paradigm shifting impact among enough of them and more importantly, the connected fringe population that is in cognitive dissonance and regretting voting for the fascist mafia fake reality teevee star, if it’s corretly framed and sufficiently promoted. The disillusioned fringes of Trumpworld are the folks with standing to influence enough deluded to wake up (that horror word - Woke, so it must not be used) and join in transforming R state legislatures, essentially threaten them to stop supporting fascist hegomny or be yanked out of action by recall voting. Fed level politicians are not subject to recall voting. Just starting a wave or awareness in red so-called Republican states about how bad;y they are being abused will destabilize the P2025 agenda and their mercenary force.
What an outstanding piece! You've said it so well and hit every note. You go, girl! Wish I had the funds to contribute to you, but.... I'm forwarding this to every progressive friend I have--they will love it, not just for your writing skills but for the profound truth you've laid out and that we are all facing.
thank you
This is brilliant. Thank you for writing & sharing it!
thank you!
Actually Chinese peasant women kept their natural feet, and Mongolian women needed feet for stirrups when riding horses. It was upper-class Chinese women who had their feet bound.
Thank you for clarifying that!
People died for that earlobe whatever went on there. People died. His mother is waiting for him and she is super pissed.
Trump thrives on piss and vinegar. Horrible things that would kill the average man of half his age only make him stronger. What would kill him? Maybe charm school.
The whole fascist mafia state oligarchy is a death cult that is too hard to pass off as normal to anyone not fully damaged by their psych warfare.
Just look up any images of Kenneth McMillan's portrayal of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in the 1984 David Lynch version of Dune. Those oozing pustules are frighteningly Trump-like.
Nina…. Loved the hoodie on 850…and seeing you and others, as I told Greg, it feels like good friends. This is the extended community we’ve been working for. 😊
Rightfully, you have turned Trump into a metaphor. His excess and cruelty have turned him, both figuratively and literally, into a bloated excrescence. In nature, when trees die, their decaying corpses provide material for succeeding generations of trees. My dream is that when this giant topples he brings down decades of corruption and malfeasance with him - ushering in a second age for America. Having witnessed the suffering that corruption causes the US can rewrite their flawed constitution and laws, make reconciliation with indigenous, African-origin peoples and females and rebuild their shining city with sturdier foundations.
I'm Canadian and recognize that a collapsed state will damage us as well.
Thanks for mentioning the great David Cronenberg. However, this is over the top on a few levels.
The idea of a “brain trust” on the right that “openly advocates” for dictatorship or monarchy is an oxymoron. There is no such “overt” advocacy, and while “covert” advocacy is impossible to disprove, you haven’t identified the “brain trust”at its core. MAGA is a vague “nostalgic” movement harking back to an unspecified era in the history of the United States, an era people “feel” but can’t pinpoint. MAGA’s vagueness is its power. It does not advocate for monarchy or dictatorship.
APHA and the (heavily Pharma-financed) Guardian newspaper are not credible arbiters of public health in America. A look around the world (living in other countries helps) gives one a powerful sense of how hypochondriacal and addicted to junk Pharma and useless “jabs” Americans are relative to other nations. The only country with direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising in almost every commercial break on TV, we are sick nationally not just in a cultural sense, as you regularly highlight, but also physically. It is worth pondering how much the Trump era you despise for its cultural sickness is as much a symptom as a cause. The tragedy of American culture is a corollary to its physical decay.
Nina here gives us a most accurate portrayal of our diseased king and the way he daily infects our nation. People here and elsewhere debate over whether or how we will ever recover, but it seems to me that we are speeding into an unknowable future. There have been other countries who suffered the depredations of dreadful leadership, but none in the modern technological age.
All we can do is try our damnedest to undo the damage, once the proximal cause has been removed. It will certainly be interesting to watch as his enablers try to wriggle out from under what they've done. Let's raise a glass to the hopeful eventuality of accountability.
Trump is abrasive and divisive, yes -- but Biden was the most divisive person in the White House ever, by assaulting our basic body autonomy and weaponizing lies and demonizing truth tellers.
Have you considered he caught covid?
Not really, I think he's just old and has something seriously wrong. But I don't know, totally guessing.
Retired CVICU, CCU, ICU. ER RN here. I believe he has rt sided heart failure. He was recently having a presser in the Oval office & was wearing an open necked golf casual shirt. He had obvious JVD (Jugular Vein Distension) - a quick and dirty indicator of rt sided heart failure! You shouldn't see ANY! Worse yet he had it while STANDING - a very bad sign. Normally we chk for JVD lying in bed at a 45 angle degree - and if it shows up at that angle it's a bad sign of CHF or fluid overload.. But seeing it at even higher elevations is even worse... and if its apparent when standing it requires emergency treatment. It also causes peripheral edema in the feet, legs and can even cause puffy eyes. They're trying to write off his swollen ankles as localized Peripheral Vascular Disease - which can also cause ankle/foot swelling - but this is way worse and is due to a systemic rt sided heart failure! I posted this and more in a comment on a recent video about it on Kyle Kulinski's YT channel and was shadow banned!
Addendum...he also had something called Kussmaul's sign. With inspiration, the JVD should go down.... but instead of the JVD goes up higher, that's a bad sign of rt sided heart failure and is called a "positive Kussmaul's sign".
Trump also had weird puffy looking eyes that day everyone was commenting about...also potential sign of Rt sided heart failure. He looked awful!