The smaller the issue, the more it reveals

[struggle4progress]

By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
September 6 at 11:30 AM

For some people, it took a hurricane map to do what Robert S. Mueller III’s 448-page report could not: Bring home how seriously unfit and perhaps unwell is the president.

The Mueller report was long, dense and complicated for those who had not followed the twists and turns in the saga of President Trump’s willing receipt of Russian help in the 2016 election and his furious efforts to impede the investigation into his conduct. By contrast, the hurricane map with the lame Sharpie addition is visual, simple and utterly mockable.

The Mueller report has been spun, distorted and misrepresented by the White House, attorney general, Republican members of Congress and the right-wing echo chamber; the map is unspinnable, despite the cringe-inducing statement from a Coast Guard rear admiral pressed into offering vague cover for an obsessive president ...

Now Trump is the source of ridicule, the kryptonite of all narcissists. It’s not simply that he is wrong, but pathetically laughable. He can see the reaction; and his followers can see that the little man behind the curtain no longer can dazzle us with illusions. So Trump struggles, entwining himself further in the web of ridiculous lies and needy tweets. He cannot let go, and he thereby feeds the media, which in turn infuriate him ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/06/smaller-issue-bigger-revelation/

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R...for visibility...nt

[proud patriot]

2. a good summation

[42bambi]

3. Trump can't let go of anything that he

very clearly sees in his mind, even as it is happening he's aware that something is not normal in his thinking. It's possible that he knows he will lose control of his life and surroundings once he accepts his mental condition.

[irisblue]

4. And Republican Senators will do nothing, nothing at all.

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. You know why, right?

Because they know the conservative political ideology is a minority public opinion. They simply can not win in a fair fight, and they absolutely can not win a national election without cheating and/or rigging.

So they keep him in place to pack the courts. THAT is the main reason , the way I see it. If Trumpy wasn't a rubber stamp for every judge the Heritage Foundation and the rest of them put up, he would have been gone inside 18 months.

If Trumpy had begun to show his true colors - that he was a lifelong, pro-choice, New York Democrat (albeit a giant horses ass of one, but I digress) , the Repubs would have shown him the door long ago.

But he is doing exactly what the Powers That Be want; Stacking the courts with young, evangelical asshole judges who will be there for decades and legislate from the bench and reducing or removing regulations on industry.

He is exactly what the asshole Grover Norquist said they wanted - someone that can hold a pen and sign off on bills.

[irisblue]

8. Yep

And tax cuts

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. Forgot that one!

Yes...and tax cuts!

"Let's get him to cut taxes"

"ummmm...that didn't do anything the last time we did that but make the rich richer and balloon the deficit."

"And your point is?"

"The deficit and the national debt be damned, we are gonna make this trickle down bullshit work if it kills us....er....the rest of humanity!"

"And then when it all goes south and the economy tanks, we just blame it on the Democrats?"

"By Jove, I think you've got it!"


There's a damned good reason why things are the way they are and Trump even got CLOSE to the White House;

Because this isn't a democracy and the opinion of the people doesn't fucking matter.

[Cartaphelius]

12. Trump...

The Spawn of Grover.

Explains why he's been so quiet.... Doesn't wanna "grow" a Trump moniker.

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. There's so many of those assholes that deserve a hatchet in the forehead....

and Norquist is right at the top of the list.

Fuck that asshole. I hope he dies in a fire.

[House of Roberts]

5. '...the little man behind the curtain no longer can dazzle us with illusions...'

Those of us on the left were never 'dazzled' in the first place. However, he has in my opinion managed to exceed anything I could imagine him being capable of.

There...is...no...bottom, for Trump.

[BigmanPigman]

7. Can I change the channel and get a different POTUS please?

I am sick of this TV actor playing POTUS. When is this shit show going to be canceled?

[dchill]

9. Good column. I really hope he sees it.

Oh, and reads it, of course. If that's even a thing.

[soldierant]

13. Someone could read it to him.

[dchill]

16. Hoping for that.

[UniteFightBack]

10. Well my deplorable co worker thinks this whole incident is pretty pathetic for dotard rump. nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. but Baby Donnie LOVES his magic Sharpie!

Y'all stop that laughing. Baby gonna cry.

[tblue37]

17. Unfortunately, the NOAA just pulled a Bill Barr & and gave Trump cover on Sharpiegate. nt