QOTD -- Trump Breaks The Numbness Barrier

 

"It is a singular if highly dubious distinction of Donald Trump’s pungent contribution to the political discourse to have essentially bankrupted the English language’s capacity for outrage.

"So unremitting and extreme have been the avalanche of affronts since Trump descended the golden escalator in Trump Tower in 2015 to declare his presidential candidacy that even his most ardent critics have become desensitized, leading to a level of shock fatigue.

"Yet Trump’s highly racist and offensive late-night Truth Social post depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes broke through the numbness barrier to register on the political Richter scale at a level few of his many previous insults ever achieved.

"That Trump succeeded in surpassing his own previous levels of debased standards was only emphasized by the decision, taken under fire, to delete the post hours after the White House had initially defended it.

"That rare climbdown and the attempts to pin the blame on an anonymous White House staffer are unlikely to prevent the episode from illuminating a topic that much of the media has seemed reluctant to confront head on; that Trump’s behavior, online and in public, has been growing more reckless and raises serious questions about his mental acuity and his fitness for office..." -- Robert Tait, The Guardian, reflecting on the Malignant Fascist's post on his failing social media platform of ugly, racist depictions of President Obama and Michelle Obama -- two people who are infinitely superior to him in every way.  Of course, the MF's lifelong racism is known to anyone with a memory and/or Google.   His racism has often been broadcast in dog whistles, signaling white nationalist sentiments to his racist base while claiming innocence.  But he's recently been broadcasting via bullhorn, less concerned about appearances, so one can assume what Tait does -- that his mental acuity is fading fast.  We also believe that he feels, as the tyrant he is, that he never has to face the electorate again, so he can drop every mask (except the one covering his Epstein depravities).  We have to see if breaking this post's breaking of the "numbness barrier" is a tipping point.