Sorry about the last post, guys. I feel like it was overly unkind. I must not have completely disconnected from the subject before writing it. I will try to do better in the future and will now do a light cleansing exercise to chase the negativity out.
I have to say -- I try to avoid listening to orange toad's narcissistic lie-speak myself, but last night they were playing a whole series of clips of him speaking at the prayer breakfast, and I was fascinated by what I sensed as a new level of negativity that he was exuding, like he was relentlessly bombarding his audience with negativity after negativity. Maybe that's how he is typically and I just haven't heard him speak enough, but it seems to be a deeper negativity in response to the impeachment. When acquittal on an impeachment would presumably be cause for less negativity and more celebration, the narcissist reveals his evil self even more.
By they way, I have a hard time believing that he is declining due to Alzheimers or dementia. He seems to have his full faculties, knows what he is doing and saying, and is driving his malicious administration with intention and narcissistic skill. All his wicked words and actions are done with conscious awareness, and rather than explaining them away as some kind of mental illness, he needs to be held accountable for them.
@yofisofi His mental faltering occurs when his ego is threatened. When he is giving his rallies, or right after a victory, he fills up with that insatiable need for adoration, feeding him like spinach to Popeye. When he feels people are against him, he starts falling apart, decompensating into fragments, confused, poor memory, nonsensical rants.
T's decline (partly in my opinion due to dementia) is a mixture of physiological things. I look back to when my father started to decline. It was way before I actually noticed the obvious symptoms of dementia, about 3-4 years before he died at the age of 90. He probably had beginning brain fog before that, but more prominent 3-4 years prior. He also had much more going on in his body like congestive heart, kidney, diabetes and manic 1. The heart and kidney, was not diagnosed until he started showing the more obvious symptoms. He suffered from swelling in his feet etc.
T's diet is an abomination. It's a miracle he's even alive at his age with his diet. Had he eaten a healthy diet all these years, who knows, he could end up to be quite old. My father's diet had been on the decline for many years prior to his death because older folks try to make what's easy for them which is not always healthy.
I think he has multiple issues going on, and since he reminds me a little bit of my dad I'm also assuming he doesn't listen to any doctor who tells him what he doesn't want to hear. He does what he wants when he wants, which contributed to my own father's decline. My father's ego contributed to his need to do things that also brought him much trouble in his life, yet he skated away from the usual consequences until much later in life. We used to say he had a legion of Angels picking him up and setting him free. Ultimately, bad choices do catch up with you, but for some reason some later than others.
Not wishing him death or harm, however, hopefully with T he must face consequences of his actions sooner rather than later for all our sakes.
@triciact I completely agree. It's also important to distinguish Alzheimers from Frontotemporal dementia - and I do believe the orange one has the latter as a few others on here have mentioned.....these are *just* the behavioral features associated with FTD (speech/language issues are also quite common):
- Increasingly inappropriate social behavior
- Loss of empathy and other interpersonal skills, such as having sensitivity to another's feelings
- Lack of judgment
- Loss of inhibition
- Lack of interest (apathy), which can be mistaken for depression
- Repetitive compulsive behavior, such as tapping, clapping or smacking lips
- A decline in personal hygiene
- Changes in eating habits, usually overeating or developing a preference for sweets and carbohydrates
- Eating inedible objects
- Compulsively wanting to put things in the mouth
@baba, you are always such a kind, thoughtful, and insightful soul. Thank you for considering our feelings. I'm absolutely fine with what you wrote.
@triciact Agreed. And adding in his alleged drug abuse since the 80's, combined with all the rest is an explosive combination.
@jeanne-mayell, it's interesting that you addressed T's "insatiable need for adoration, feeding him like Popeye." I was thinking of that very thing last night, as I was watching Lawrence O'Donnell's show. LO was talking about T's behavior at the prayer breakfast, specifically focusing on T's complete lack of understanding of what love is. What was particularly chilling is what T. said after a Harvard conservative social scientist and Wash Post opinion writer, Arthur Brooks, spoke about how to communicate with people who you disagree with politically -- you do it through love.
To emphasis his point Lawrence did show a few short segments from the breakfast, which was difficult for me to watch since I don't listen to or look at T. But I'm glad that I did watch it. As Brooks was speaking, T was sitting close by at a long table -- either looking away, or head down. And certainly not clapping. I guess none of us are surprised by any of that. But I also saw something else: T getting smaller and smaller, diminishing in energy, as Brooks was speaking that universal truth. It just made me incredibly sad to watch; not sorry for him, but sad. T. was getting smaller because he is so hollow inside. And because, even though T physically turned away, that universal truth wasn't going anywhere. It is that power of love, both giving and receiving, that sustains us. Without love, we are nothing.
For those of you who can access MSNBC and want to watch Lawrence's segment from last night, I am attaching it here:
I read this morning that multiple sources within the DOJ are saying that William Barr shut down at least half a dozen investigations into Twitler, and prevented two new ones.
Barr is Lord North to Mad King Donnie, the hellhound protector to the head vampire. Ugh.
On the same day that T was acquitted, a DOJ memo was released stating that the FBI and all other divisions under the department’s purview must get BillyB's approval before investigating any of the 2020 presidential candidates.
The memo claims that the DOJ has a duty to ensure that elections are “free from improper activity or influences.”
I wish I were making this up.