Maybe related to Trump being alone: Today, Pompeo and McConnell are floating to the press a story that McConnell is trying to talk Pompeo into quitting as Secretary of State so he can run for a Senate seat in Kansas opening up in 2020.
The timing of these stories on the same day as the Cohen story is breaking suggests that maybe Pompeo is looking for an excuse to get out of the Trump White House before the FULL crapola hits the fan in order to preserve his political career.
Coyote, I very much admire both your dream and your reflections. Your (inadvertent?) wall pun--underscoring the absurdness of a vanity wall and the direct connection to the escalating absurdness of his behavior--made me laugh: "But I don't think Trump is unaffected. His behavior has gotten even more off the wall in the past year as trusted aides depart/turn on him and investigators "circle the wagons."
As for the sizzling--such a creepy, super-sensory sound to experience in a dream--I think you are spot on: "I kind of like to think that the sizzling egg/meat is actually the sound of his limited intellect melting down as he tries to grasp how he got himself in this situation." What also just came to mind is the '87 anti-narcotics campaign commercial depicting a brain on drugs as a frying egg. I feel certain Trump takes some kind(s) of drugs. And in addition, there's his longstanding dependence on/addiction to unchecked delusional hubris that's like a habitual drug for him. But now, as he's feeling trapped by the presidency (self inflicted), while, as you said, trying to project confidence and strength to his base, the flimsiness of his hubris is becoming exposed for the non-productive, toxic, self destructive, brain-sizzling "drug" that it is. He's fast becoming inner-resourceless.
Again, spending time thinking about and then writing about such dark behavior is so not in my comfort zone. Today (and every day!), I'd much rather focus on the kinds of Light- and nature- based truths and reflections found in Mary Oliver's poetry. Yesterday, she passed away. But her work continues on as a source of joy and guidance and inspiration.
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver
Tragically, Trump's choice of how to use the gift of his "one wild and precious life" is negatively, even cruelly, impacting a growing number lives.
Why thank you, CDeanne for your response. There's lots of light on display in the way many restaurants and food pantries are opening their doors to out-of-work government employees. I think acts like these point the way to how communities will be the major problem solvers in the years to come.
(Also, let's not forget the Canadian air traffic controllers who ordered free pizzas for their American colleagues. You can always count on a Canuck for some light.)
When I read about the sound of sizzling the statement "his goose is cooked" resonated in my thoughts.
So many things you all are saying are resonating with me.
Villager, that bank vault vision has haunted me, along with another vision I had around the same time of a boarded up closet in one of the Trump Towers that had secret documents in it. That vision too was marked as a hit when a New York Times reporter overheard one of Trump's top two lawyers saying he had withheld documents locked in a vault that Mueller wanted.
Alec's vision of Trump locked in a vault and saying, "That's all folks," and meat sizzling does bring to mind his brain frying. I had a vision this week of Trump with arms folded and body stiff being carried sideways out the door, as if he were one of those cardboard people posters. He's become rigid.
MAS your mention of Perry returning and Trump immediately declassifying the FBI surveillance information reminds me that from the beginning I have felt strongly that Trump gets his playbook directly from Putin for how to manipulate this country.
Putin tells him what to do. Putin controls the puppet strings. Putin knows much more about how to distract the public and the press, how to sideline opponents, how to get some of the more ignorant public to adore him. When Jared was caught on tape early on trying to get the Russian ambassador to set up a back-channel line of communication with the Kremlin, I kept wonderful if it was possible for Trump to have a back channel somewhere.
I think the answer is yes Jeanne. I just read your post and this popped into my head, all at one time: The intelligence services of the US and other countries know it because they've picked up on the conversations through whatever means they usually employ. We may not even know the magnitude of it for years to come since it could remain classified, even by subsequent presidents.
I hope Pelosi hangs tough, otherwise, Trump will continue to take hostages for the next two years. I don't know how this will end, but when I think about Pelosi I get a very solid, clean feeling. She's genuine and firm, but not callous in any way.
I agree with lynn; Pelosi will not cave. She proved her mettle as an expert stateswomen when she first held the speaker's gavel 2007-11, and then again this past month when she overcame the "never Pelosi" faction of freshman Democrats and regained the speakership. She has literally an entire lifetime of experience in politics behind her, and she won't give in to a temper tantrum.