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Katinfl

(772 posts)
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 06:28 PM 5 hrs ago

I feel like this is just like the beginning phases of Covid.

He keeps telling us things will be OK and over soon. We don’t hear from anyone else. And we all know how that ended.

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bmichaelh

(1,147 posts)
3. Magical Thinking
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 07:14 PM
4 hrs ago

This is Trump's magical thinking.

It may have its roots in his childhood minister, Norman Vincent Peale and his "positive theology".

Trump often rages when things do not go his way.

PatSeg

(53,136 posts)
10. Yes, he thinks he can say something
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 07:48 PM
4 hrs ago

and it magically becomes true. I don't think this is what Norman Vincent Peale had in mind, but we all know what kind of student he was.

calimary

(89,773 posts)
16. We HAVE a chimpanzee to whom to ask questions.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 09:32 PM
2 hrs ago

He never bothers with us, though. He has Karoline Leavett to “handle” it for him. It could be it’s own sitcom: “Leave it to Leavett.”

Efilroft Sul

(4,404 posts)
5. Interesting take Kat. To make it more worrisome, the March 2026 calendar mirrors the March 2020 calendar.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 07:24 PM
4 hrs ago

And on Friday the 13th six years ago, at least around where I live, that's the day the bottom dropped out. What followed was school closings, lockdowns, death counts, and the beginning what of came to be known as doomscrolling. So I'm staring at my calendar now and wondering, "What the hell's going to happen this time?"

Katinfl

(772 posts)
8. Interesting. Don't know what will happen this year but I am sure it won't be good. We are in tough times.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 07:35 PM
4 hrs ago

EuterpeThelo

(301 posts)
6. Yeah
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 07:27 PM
4 hrs ago

I'm reminded of how COVID ended every time I have to go to Forest Lawn to visit an urn that used to be my soulmate.

LymphocyteLover

(9,733 posts)
14. I think he is basically TACOing because the stock market was falling so badly this morning
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 08:49 PM
2 hrs ago

He's juyst putting out a lot of BS to cover his ass plus the great expenditure and losses... and of course the war is not really over and Iran has some surprises for us, I'm sure

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