Saturday, February 2, 2019

"The Question Was About Chinese Tariffs"


Stephen Colbert looked at mentally unstable sociopath Donald "Rump" Trump's incoherent and disturbing interview in the New York Times and gives him some well-deserved, first class mockery.




Colbert's humor helps to raise the issue of Rump's stability to the general public. Keeping an eye on Rump's mental state under stress is becoming a serious issue, however. Yale psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee thinks we're entering a dangerous period as he feels cornered:
"His anxieties are palpable, as he resorts to more and more extreme measures and unreal justifications for building a wall. We had the extended shutdown that put us at real security risk, according to the FBI, and declaring a national emergency is a very real possibility.

He needs to maintain his shrinking base as well as to give himself a sense of victory, and he will go to all lengths to achieve it."
Rethugs won't provide the guardrails (or straitjacket) needed; only firm and persistent resistance by Dems, our Constitutional institutions, and the public will.