Thursday, November 30, 2017

The New York Daily News - Trump is Barking Mad




The gloves are off at New York's Daily News paper. Donald Trump is a madman. He's off his rocker.


After his latest spasm of deranged tweets, only those completely under his spell can deny what growing numbers of Americans have long suspected: The President of the United States is profoundly unstable. He is mad. He is, by any honest layman’s definition, mentally unwell and viciously lashing out.

Some might say we are just suffering through the umpteenth canny, calculated presidential eruption designed to distract the nation from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, or perhaps from unpopular legislation working its way through Congress.

Quite possible. But Occam’s razor, and the sheer strangeness of Trump’s behavior, leads us to conclude that we are witnessing signs of mania.


The editorial is as much a lament as it is a rebuke of this pathetic, deranged figure. It might even be a tragedy if Trump had somehow stumbled and fallen from some loftier, noble place only he's never been far from the bottom of the birdcage even before his mental mainspring snapped.


7 comments:

Toby said...

If you are a poor nutter your mental illness is easily diagnosed. If you are a rich nutter you are eccentric.

Yes, Trump is barking mad. From what I've read about him he has been nuts for a very long time. At this point he probably has galloping dementia as well.

If the Democrats had taken a serious look at themselves and chosen a leader on a better basis than it's Hillary's turn they would have swept the election. If the Republicans had their act together a person with such glaring problems would never have been on the slate. As it is, the world is saddled with a lunatic who has the nuclear codes.

Anonymous said...

Is Trump barking mad or are his barking-mad detractors? My money is on the hysterical people!

(The leaders of the "Resistance" are crazy like a fox: they offer insanity in place of an alternative. The pod people, unfortunately, are dumber than a bag of rocks: no one ever told them corporations can lie! They're like an army of the dead in pussy hats!)

The Mound of Sound said...

Anon, you're profoundly fucking stupid. Instead of going for knee-jerk attempts at absolving your guy, try listening to him. If your sister or your uncle or your dad spoke that way and you didn't intervene to get them help you would be a damn poor relation.

I leave your comments up but only because you're sufficiently civil. That you choose to rally to a self-admitted sexual predator reflects on you as much as on him. He's so blatantly racist and xenophobic and I again assume that in defending him you share those values.\

Perhaps I have the advantage of you. I studied Wiemar. Have you?

Anonymous said...

Comrade Anon 8:10 needs to read this:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/30/theresamay-trump-twitter-tirade

As the lady from Bognor, Sussex noted, " It's amazing to think that the world's most powerful man managed to press the wrong button." Signs of a genius in Comrade Anon's eyes.

mr perfect

Anonymous said...

Hitler came to power because of Deep State corruption. First punitive WW1 reparations, which JM Keynes argued against at the time. Caused a vicious cycle. The German government would have to print more money to make payments which eroded the currency which triggered hyperinflation. Hitler rose to prominence promising to end the war reparations devastating the economy.

After they reset the economy on loans from America, further economic corruption occurred. (First Robber Barons deployed a stock market manipulation scheme to loot the wealth from the middle class which crashed in 1929 – same as the 2000s housing/derivatives Bust Out that crashed in 2008.) This time monetary policy corruption. The "liquidationists" at the US Fed attempted to deflate the economy to prosperity. Raise real wealth. Raise real debt. Pulled a Chernobyl. Caused the American banking system to collapse. They call in loans from Germany, and its economy collapses in DEFLATIONARY death spiral.

Hitler came to power in 1933 on 44% of the vote, blamed the Jews for all the corruption, turned the economy around on a dime using Keynesian mixed-market economics. Became a hero. In 1939 he invades Poland. "Final Solution" policies begin in 1941.

The moral of the story: when the economy collapses, civilization collapses. What comes next, no one knows. (So typically a good thing to avoid, as JM Keynes pointed out.)

When the establishment is rife with corruption – looting and gouging all the wealth out of the economy – the people are FORCED to look for alternatives: a beta revolution ensues. (Which has a nomadic counterpart.)

Three beta revolutions defined the 20th century: communist, fascist and Keynesian social democratic (which created the post-war economic boom – on rising real incomes, not raising little bastards: i.e., corrupt "Baby boom" myth.)

Trump is half-Keynesian half-neocon. He is actually saving the world – as ridiculous as that might sound. Turns out there is a finite amount of wealth that the upper-crust can leech from the Body Economic. Free trade globalization - marking Western wages to global markets - was the equivalent of lampreys tearing away at the economy.

So Trump is a mixed bag. But at least there's SOMETHING in the bag. With the bribe-takers, like the Clintons and Obama, nothing but destruction in the bag. The TPP, free trade with China, hemispheric open borders, immigration anarchy - plus a Cold War revival with Russia (the military industrial complex having finished gorging on the Middle East was looking for fresh meat: nuclear arms race!)

That's why the Fake News media is gas-lighting the public: Trump is getting in the way of Deep State profits. Like FDR, he's saving them from themselves. (Of course, this is just the beginning of what must be done to stop civilization from collapsing into world war. Global warming, at this point in time, is wishful thinking.)

The Mound of Sound said...


I will give you this, Anon. You've got all the buzz words and you spin just a wonderful fantasy image of Donald Trump. It's obviously good enough to convince you and, I suppose, that's what matters, isn't it?

Just what half of Trump do you find Keynesian? Half-Keynesian/half neo-con. To me that conjures up images of white phosphorus and gasoline. Or utter madness I suppose. And what world do you imagine he is saving because it's not this one.

Anonymous said...

Western Europeans use the Keynesian mixed-market system to implement social democracy. I know many progs are actual commies and oppose the entirety of the market system. But this is really a naive position to take.

People should aim for what they got in Germany and Scandinavia before saying that's not good enough. Germany was leading the way on developing a green economy before the Iron Nanny came to power. Killed nukes for coal! How stupid is that?

The Keynesian mixed-market system does not have any biases against regulations, unlike the Friedmanian neoclassical economic system you neoliberals voted in to replace the Keynesian system. And it has been a colossal disaster for both the economy and the environment!