If you don't want to see the leader of the free world have an alarming meltdown in real time, I suggest you unfollow President Trump on Twitter. Then again, the President's Twitter account is valuable because it's a reliable, unfiltered window into his thinking.
For almost a year, we've been subjected to the absolute gobsmacking insanity of this administration. The ineptitude. The clinical narcissism. The greed. The mendacity. The bigotry. The divisiveness.
For almost a year, we've been subjected to the absolute gobsmacking insanity of this administration. The ineptitude. The clinical narcissism. The greed. The mendacity. The bigotry. The divisiveness.
In that time, it's become increasingly difficult--and therefore increasingly important--to remain alert, awake, and aware of exactly what is happening around us. This, of course, is much easier said than done.
The constant bombardment of noise and disinformation is difficult to take in. Separating fact from fiction feels impossible when everyone is calling everyone else a liar. The propaganda and the gaslighting is epic, and you're forced to ask yourself every day: Is this normal? Is this true? Is this a lie? What's real? What's fake? Where do I go for real information? What do I believe? WHO do I believe? Am I crazy? What is even happening right now?
It's enough to make any engaged citizen feel totally unmoored and disoriented in a vain search for "truth" and "facts."
That's why I continue to go right to the source for information about this administration. And although the world on balance would be better off without Twitter, much less Donald Trump on Twitter, his Twitter account is sort of a gift.
The constant bombardment of noise and disinformation is difficult to take in. Separating fact from fiction feels impossible when everyone is calling everyone else a liar. The propaganda and the gaslighting is epic, and you're forced to ask yourself every day: Is this normal? Is this true? Is this a lie? What's real? What's fake? Where do I go for real information? What do I believe? WHO do I believe? Am I crazy? What is even happening right now?
It's enough to make any engaged citizen feel totally unmoored and disoriented in a vain search for "truth" and "facts."
That's why I continue to go right to the source for information about this administration. And although the world on balance would be better off without Twitter, much less Donald Trump on Twitter, his Twitter account is sort of a gift.
Look at this. The man is having a full-on public meltdown, clearly linked to the fact that the circle is tightening around him with forthcoming indictments. And like any cornered animal, he’s lashing out.
I have no idea who will be indicted on Monday, and in some ways it doesn't matter, because the thing we all need to prepare for is this: Trump is unburdened by any sense of civic responsibility, character, or empathy. He doesn't care about you, me, the country, the tripartite system of government, or anyone or anything else.
He is 100% ego driven. He will stop at nothing to salvage whatever he can of his “legacy” and enrich himself as he goes down swinging. It won't matter who he takes with him, who gets hurt, or what impact his words and actions have. He will burn the world down if he has to, either through relentless propaganda or, God forbid, something worse.
His plea to no one in particular to DO SOMETHING is more bone-chilling than anything you're likely to see out trick or treating this Halloween.
It is not hyperbole to say this: we are in a very precarious moment for American constitutional democracy. An abusive, possibly senile lunatic and his yes-men have their boot on the country's neck.
We cannot afford to be divided amongst ourselves. We cannot afford to look at our neighbor and malign them for having voted for this. I hold nothing against people who voted for Trump, because we are all his victims now, and if he divides us amongst ourselves, he alone wins and constitutional democracy loses.
So yes, Trump is right.
It's time for Congress to DO SOMETHING. Call your representatives and light up their phones. Take to the streets in peaceful, constitutionally-protected protest of an administration whose disregard for the basic precepts of governance threatens to blow up 240 years of the American experiment.
I have no idea who will be indicted on Monday, and in some ways it doesn't matter, because the thing we all need to prepare for is this: Trump is unburdened by any sense of civic responsibility, character, or empathy. He doesn't care about you, me, the country, the tripartite system of government, or anyone or anything else.
He is 100% ego driven. He will stop at nothing to salvage whatever he can of his “legacy” and enrich himself as he goes down swinging. It won't matter who he takes with him, who gets hurt, or what impact his words and actions have. He will burn the world down if he has to, either through relentless propaganda or, God forbid, something worse.
His plea to no one in particular to DO SOMETHING is more bone-chilling than anything you're likely to see out trick or treating this Halloween.
It is not hyperbole to say this: we are in a very precarious moment for American constitutional democracy. An abusive, possibly senile lunatic and his yes-men have their boot on the country's neck.
We cannot afford to be divided amongst ourselves. We cannot afford to look at our neighbor and malign them for having voted for this. I hold nothing against people who voted for Trump, because we are all his victims now, and if he divides us amongst ourselves, he alone wins and constitutional democracy loses.
So yes, Trump is right.
It's time for Congress to DO SOMETHING. Call your representatives and light up their phones. Take to the streets in peaceful, constitutionally-protected protest of an administration whose disregard for the basic precepts of governance threatens to blow up 240 years of the American experiment.
Insist on accountability and answers in the confirmed foreign influence and propaganda campaign that installed Trump in office and brought us to the precipice of a cliff whose edge seems to move ever further out into the void.
Yes, please. "DO SOMETHING." This is not a drill.
Yes, please. "DO SOMETHING." This is not a drill.
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