It isn't simply that the re-run of the 2020 election pits two aging white men, the same aging white men who faced off against each other the last time around. It is that one of them is not only mentally ill but possibly brain damaged.
In 2017 a book was published entitled “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess A President”. (1) This is a seminal diagnostic work plumbing the depths of the Mental Illnesses of our former President. Unfortunately it was published after the 2016 election and the swine was already ensconced upon the throne. It does, however, for the first time detail just how dangerous the man is.
That he has been diagnosed as a malignant narcissist is now common knowledge. He also suffers from delusions of grandeur combined with a severe persecution complex meeting the textbook definitions of severe paranoia. These are not the qualities one would want in a man holding the nuclear 'football'. In the words of Psychoanalyst Dr. Leonard Glass:
“To put it another way, operationally and day to day, we don't know and can't tell if Mr. Trump
knows that what he is saying is demonstrably not true. What we do know is that he can't be
relied upon to recognize having been wrong; nor does he seem able to learn from experience
such that he could avoid repeating the same untruth or another the next day, possessed as he
appears to be of the same absolute conviction that characterized his previous error” (2)
These columns are replete with examples of his narcissistic behavior. Everything is seen through the eyes of 'me', from his response to the pandemic seen as a 'Democratic Plot' to threaten his presidency, to his announcement upon arriving in El Paso Texas to 'comfort' the grieving survivors of a mass shooting that his crowd was bigger than that of Beto O'Rourke (a Democratic Candidate who challenged Ted Cruz for his Senate Seat); to his withholding emergency relief to jurisdictions that didn't vote for him, Caesar Disgustus is simply unable to see beyond himself.
That this has played havoc with the government's response to crises is clear enough but, unfortunately, there are more serious problems. Imagine, if you will, had he been in charge during any one of the nuclear false alarms that have occurred over the decades, or during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
“Returning to our historical examples of nuclear emergencies, is there anyone who could
possibly believe DT would have shown Brzezinski's grace under pressure had he himself
received that 3:00 a.m. Call? If, indeed, Trump harbors grandiose and paranoid delusions
(for which there is mounting evidence), he would have launched missiles faster than he
fires off paranoid tweets on a Saturday morning.
“Given the thirteen days of excruciating tension during the very real nuclear threat of
the Cuban Missile Crisis, is there anyone who possibly believes that DT could have
demonstrated JFK's composure, wisdom and judgment, especially in the face of unanimous
pressure from his military advisers? (3)
Indeed, it was Kennedy's ability to see through the eyes of the 'other', that saved the world from the catastrophe of a nuclear Holocaust during the Cuban Missile Crisis.(4) Can anyone seriously contend that tRUMP would have navigated safely through such an event?
Moreover, he is showing signs of dementia. The inability to pronounce certain common words like 'Origin'. The inability to pronounce names that were once common to him, like Biden. The confusion of time and place as in his contention that he defeated Obama in the last election, or that he is running against either Obama or Hillary depending on the moment. His inability to express a simple cogent thought, the rambling, the non-sequiturs, the 'word salad' explanations.
All of this has been apparent for some time now, going back at least well into his administration four or more years ago.
But there is another alarming development which the media refuses to confront. Late in his term tRUMP was whisked away from the White House and rushed to Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington to be given a cognitive test which he evidently passed. But, then again, we have only his word for it. The records remain sealed and there has been no testimony from attending physicians as to the nature of the suspected problem, the severity nor evidence of recovery.
He brags that he 'aced' the test, as if it were some kind of IQ or intelligence test. It is not. This is a test given to patients who are either hopelessly demented or have suffer some kind of medical 'event' involving 'cognition', as in a brain naturism or a stroke. These are the kinds of examinations that involve determining basic orientation, as in do you know where or who you are? Do you know what day it is? Do you know what time it is? When my mother in law couldn't answer these questions and held that her husband, who had been dead for two years, was home with the kids, who were approaching retirement, it was off to the nursing home.
Caesar Disgustus says he passed these tests with 'flying colors', and consistently cites the experience as evidence of his 'genius'. And, of course, the Maggots eat this shit up.
But that is not how we should respond to these events.
Disgustus tells us now that he has been given the tests at least twice now, which should invoke further alarm. What transpired to initiate these procedures? How serious were they? How many times have they occurred and what, if any, measurable damage has occurred?
The nation needs to know, but Disgustus, as with his taxes, his academic record, his financial holdings and virtually everything else remains hidden behind his outlandish facade.
We cannot let this stand.
Imprison the Bastard.
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Lee, Bandy X, et.al. The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. Copyright 2017 by Bandy X. Lee. St. Martin's Press, New York. 340 pages.
Ibid. Page 158
Ibid. Page 124. Brzezinski was President Carter's National Security Advisor who didn't panic
during a false alarm in effect handling the crisis of an alleged Soviet missile strike before
there was time to alert the president.
4. Ibid. Pages 322-323.
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