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It's a good time to restate: Trump CANNOT and DOES NOT see beyond himself. He is NOT strategic - he is transactional. He is a walking talking "id."
He only pivots from self-interest, and cannot shut up or stop, even when it serves his interest.
He is a dangerous malignant narcissist, who is returning to power during cognitive decline, OWNED by disorders.
Republicans are stuck. They're so necessarily playing to a pathology that is so aberrant, that they're literally stuck - unable to pivot. Secretly, they hope he face-plants for good, becomes a martyr, so they'll be free.
But until and unless, they are chained to his insanity.
NBC and others have CALLED the Mississippi Senate Race. Democrat Scott Colom WINS over the incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, who therefore loses.
Colom makes history with this win, and he deserves it. So do the people of Mississippi.
Just think - the guy who knows more than anyone in the world about inflation, jobs, money, drones, energy, taxes, debt, social media, banking, trade, the military, infrastructure, and making deals got the ever-loving shit kicked out of him this past election.
I'm no fan of Nixon. But there is a distinguishment between narcissism and malignant narcissism. Nixon had narcissistic personality disorder and as things worsened, his paranoia heightened - borne of fear. But Trump is paranoid, sadistic, and vengeful even in his sunniest moments.
How can you tell the difference between a narcissist and a malignant narcissist?
Trump just lost a major election because of corruption, and his response was to be more corrupt.
Trump just lost a major election because of indecency, and his response was to be more indecent.
Trump just lost a major election because of untruthfulness, and his response was to be more untruthful.
Trump just lost a major election because of untrustworthiness, and his response was to be more untrustworthy.
That's how you tell. Malignancy and defiance rules.
Maybe the Dems who didn't show up for yesterday's Hegseth impeachment should be contrite about it first, before posting today about honoring the courage and sacrifice of our heroes in uniform.
A couple of House elections have now been called, and Democrats have hit a whopping 260 seats. Wow.
The Mississippi and Alaska Senate seats remain uncalled. Alaska might take a bit, but Scott Colom seems a lock to win in MS - which makes me happy because he's a great candidate.
I'm calling it now. After 2028, Dems will control the Presidency, 320 seats in the House, 65 seats in the Senate, Florida will be Blue, and by 2029, America WILL be great.
Lisa McClain is the latest GOP Rep to claim with bluster and bravado that when Dems are pursuing oversight, her Party is going to be focused on improving lives.
WHAT A CROCK!
When Dems are pursuing oversight, she and her fellow GOP Reps are going to be singularly focused on propping up Trump, the disordered, narcissistically famished mental case, and feeding him North Korea-like praise to keep him from decaying further. At this stage of his decline, that's a full-time gig.
They won't have time to improve lives. Trump didn't improve lives for two years, and didn't even talk about improving lives in rallies, leading up to getting creamed.
The GOP needs to leave "improving lives" to those who want to, whose oath is to the country and constitution.
IN COMEDY NEWS TODAY - Alina Habba was fired by the company that gave her a $50M contract that coincided with Trump granting a pardon to the family’s patriarch. Concord Partners terminated her for “failure to perform duties.” The firing came days after an angry outburst from Trump, who called the deal “totally obnoxious and outrageous” and urged the Herrera family not to pay her.
Source: NYT
I understand impeaching Hegseth for war crimes, human rights and constitutional violations, and I understand impeachment is limited to crimes and misdemeanors. But what about pure stupidity? Lack of strategy? Lack of transparency? Excessive religiosity? Racism? Bluster? Lying? Obfuscation? Annoyingness?
Let's just be rid of him.
Dems firmly control the "sane" voter coalition. And they really can't compete for the "delusional" or "bonkers" coalitions. But with the appointments of Miller and Jordan, I believe they've picked up ground with several coalitions in between.
Jim Jordan has defeated Steve Scalise to become the next House Minority Leader. It's not a surprising result. Scalise had a very distinct disadvantage in today's GOP, as he has never been alleged to have committed or enabled sexual abuse.
Lauren Boebert is insisting the election is not over and there is no result and that ballots are still being counted and the fat lady hasn't sung and people need to slow down and chill. But nobody seems to be listening to her.
I think she rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.
NARCISSISTIC MORTIFICATION: It's not surprising that in his recent 60 Minutes interview, Trump again began speaking about "getting into heaven" versus the alternative. I've had a week to observe his behavior following the nationwide beatdown of him during the midterms. I believe he is officially undergoing Narcissistic Mortification.
Narcissistic Mortification is when a narcissist like Trump crosses over to a place where he sees visions of his own demise (thus 'getting into heaven'). Age and ill health play a role, but it's deeper than that. It's what happens after extreme fear morphs into dread and dread morphs into terror - LOSING - and humiliation.
As Trump's polling kept tanking leading up to the midterms, his fears became extreme and then "dread." And the results were as bad as they could be for him. It's not just that the GOP lost, it's that HE was so clearly responsible. HE was at fault. HE told people to vote as if he is on the ballot, and they did. It led to a terrible reality FOR HIM, one that was forced UPON HIM, not of HIS making. He can't have that!
For a malignant narcissist, THE most extreme fear of all is ultimate irrevocable humiliation - borne of one's faults.
In more psychological terms, narcissistic mortification is when one with a rigidly grandiose pathology sees his sense of self as exposed, defective or inferior. It was coined by Freud in his book Moses and Monotheism. It's described there as deep injuries to ego/self, triggered by ONE'S OWN compulsiveness (aka insisting on Paxton as a candidate) and ONE'S OWN weaknesses (being insensitive to voter issues during rallies).
THIS is where I think he is. He's become his own worst enemy, and this squarely conflicts with his pathology of being unable to admit fault. It's a very severe and very dissonant conflict.
Because ... malignant narcissists NEED their grandiosity. For them to become exposed and weakened, is narcissistic injury - that happens. BUT - for them to become SO weakened to the extent of being able to visualize their own demise and know it's partly due to their own frailties - frailties they spend a lifetime avoiding and denying - this is irreconcilable. For a malignant narcissist like Trump, it's hell.
It causes him to become even more sensitized ("that was a stupid question"), more defensive (like he is about "crowd size" - now the symbol of his fading grandiosity), and more defiant (hiring Miller as COS). It has made him physically haggard (he looks gaunt and hunched, with swollen eyes and stiff facial muscles).
Trump lives in such a bubble, it's hard to predict how he processes things. Freud suggested that narcissistic mortification can be a precursor to panic or to narcissistic collapse.
fyi: There actually IS a wiki page for narcissistic mortification (which surprised me) and here's an interesting sentence from it, that I thought I'd echo here: Narcissistic Mortification is "the primitive terror of self-dissolution, triggered by the sudden exposure of one's sense of a defective self ... to a narcissist, it is death by embarrassment."
One observation I'd add is that Trump now is increasingly brittle, self-absorbed, and transactional. Stephen Miller, conversely, is a fanatic and an ideolog but not a textbook case of a narcissistic sociopath owned by his disorders. Accordingly, he has strategies and is capable of reacting to transpiring events based on a plan. Trump, on the other hand, is guided purely by self. This is an incredibly abnormal and dangerous combo, especially if the GOP remains sidelined by cowardice and cravenness.
There are some interesting post-midterm variables playing into the Hegseth impeachment effort in the House.
Since many GOP are now lame ducks, does that make them more likely to do the right thing and join Massie?
Prediction: No. With very few exceptions, they are too distanced from their oaths. And they know conviction in the Senate is not plausible.
Since many GOP are now lame ducks, does that mean there are more GOP not likely to be in attendance, thus shifting the vote more toward Massie?
Prediction: Yes. This is particularly interesting.
- The guy was polling at 32% -- for months.
- His "strong approval" was 13%.
- His disapproval was way above 60%.
- He did daily rallies where he talked about his ballroom, the $ he was making, and male ass.
- He said affordability was a hoax.
- He said prices were down and the Iran War was over.
- He backed Putin over Ukraine and de-sanctioned him.
- In the final weeks before the election, polls showed that rampant corruption in HIS government became the #1 voter issue.
MAGA influencers are now trying to drum up their usual cocktail of dumbness and dopamine and peddle the notion that 98% of districts shifting bluer is surprising and suspicious.
They're right. How can it NOT have been 100%?
We need to investigate Florida!!