Allow me to recommend a book about that!

The title is The Worst of Times, and the author is Patricia G. Miller. It was published in 1993 and has been out of print for a while now, but there are still used copies floating around that can easily be found online wherever used books are sold. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about what abortion was like in this country pre-Roe.

This book is not for the faint of heart; there are stories in it that will curl your hair. But this information has never been more vitally important than it is now.

From the jacket blurb:

Dr. John Gartner makes a terrifying prediction 😵‍💫

My heart sank when I read that the victim was a trans woman.

Trans women, especially black trans women, are more likely to be the targets of violence than any other group in this country. Some cis males just can't tolerate the idea of anyone wanting to leave their "superior" ranks and will use any excuse to "punish" anyone who does so.

Trans women are the real targets of the bogus war on trans people that the right is currently waging. Bullies always go after the most vulnerable. It makes me sick.

AOC Is Running for President and No Establishment Can Stop Her

What do y'all think? I think Riverboat Jack made some really good points here.

Good grief.

I knew he was obsessed with Obama, but this is insane. If I counted correctly, Obama is attacked (singly or jointly with others) in 11 of these tweets, more than anyone else. That's exactly 20% or 1 out of 5!

The second most mentioned person is Hillary Clinton. Her name comes up in 6 tweets, 3 of which also mention Obama.

Check it out:

1. Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016
2. Says Obama worked with CIA to overthrow Trump
3. Reposts tweet saying Obama is a “traitor” and that he should be arrested
4. Accuses Obama of personally making $120 million from Obamacare (wtf? Is right)
5. Posts fake JFK Jr account that says Obama wiretapped Trump Tower (Note: JFK Jr died in 1999, when Obama was a nobody serving his first term in the Illinois state senate. He didn't become even semi nationally known until he gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. These pieces do not fit together lol.)
6. Accuses Obama, Clinton, and Comey of treason
7. Reposts a tweet from a MAGA account saying they have secret intel proving Clinton and Obama committed crimes
8. Accuses Obama, John Brennan, and Clinton of sedition and treason again
9. Calls Obama the “most DEMONIC FORCE” in American politics
10. Reposts a fake Charlie Kirk account that claimed Obama blocked Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted
11. Claims Obama was part of Hillary Clinton’s emails in some way

In addition to all of the obvious projection, I think each of these late night tweeting sessions is a snapshot of Trump's current insecurities and fears and who he is blaming his problems on. Since he is incapable of ever admitting the slightest mistake, he has to blame everything that goes wrong on an ever shifting cast of recurring characters. He chooses these based on who he thinks has "done him wrong" as well as who he most resents for the unconscious surges of insecurity certain people trigger in him.

I suspect Obama triggers more of those surges than anyone else, because imo, Trump feels more inferior, inadequate, and deficient iin comparison to Obama than to just about anyone else. Barack is all the things Donald will never be: whip smart, charming, witty, respected, admired, accomplished, articulate, athletic, handsome, deeply loved by his wife and children, 100% self made in the way Trump pretends to be - the list goes on and on. Obama is also black, which may be the worst part for someone as deeply racist as the Orange One. Trump will happily cozy up to white men he admires, like Vlad and Bibi, but a black man? Perish the thought! How DARE a black man be superior to him in ANY way? That's how racists like Trump think, but most of them don't put it on public display the way T does.

Last night's tweeting session, like all the others, is ample demonstration of just how unwell a man he is.

Yes,

Tori Amos said it well,also:

In menacing times
Stripped of rights
And diabolical crimes
You know all about it
We've been trapped in darkness
But you know all about it
I said purgatory
That's just the start of the story

But stronger together

We found we could tackle it
And we could talk about it
And we could cry about it

And we could and we did
And we could together
And we could and we did

He's not faking.

That's one thing we don't need to worry about, imnsho. Nobody could convincingly fake ALL of this. Furthermore, I don't think he's ever really been faking, in either of his presidential terms. (Before that, or at least before he started that nonsense over Obama's birth certificate, the dude was not on my radar, so I have nothing to base an opinion on there.)

During his first term, I can remember many times when people were trying to make sense of his words and actions and theorizing that he was playing some kind of 3 dimensional chess, that he had some kind of master plan underlying all his actions. I said that was horsefeathers at the time, and I still stand by that.

It's true that he was not as dangerously incompetent in 2017 as he is now, but he has always exhibited very obvious symptoms of having at least a couple of severe personality disorders (narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder) in addition to not being exceptionally bright (to put it as gently as possible, lol). Imo, there was nothing he did during the first term that could not be explained by those factors, which had already led him to make a lot of bad decisions, mistreat others, etc., since long before he was president. Once he was potus, all of that was on full public display and subject to media scrutiny in ways it never had been before. A lot of eyebrows were raised on many occasions, but he was still glib enough and mentally agile enough to keep the wool pulled over the eyes of his base. Even after J6, he still had many diehard supporters who continued to believe he could do no wrong.

During the 4 years he was out of the WH, he exhibited more and more signs that aging was taking a toll (such as repeatedly falling asleep during his trial for paying hush money to Stormy Daniels), but he wasn't in the spotlight nearly to the extent he was as potus, so he...got by.

Once he took office and was back in the full glare of the spotlight, he began to exhibit problematic behavior that many people refused or chose not to take seriously. The signs of dementia gradually began to take hold in a way that noticeably pointed to the fact that he wasn't just getting older but was losing his cognitive abilities in a way that was very concerning.

Those who did not want to recognize those signs continued to deny them, but reality does not dance to the tune of those who want to ignore it. He has continued to get worse and worse and will continue to do so, because that's how dementia works. To paraphrase Dr. John Gartner, the Trump you see before you right now is the best one you will ever see, because he will, inexorably, continue to decline. We're already seeing what can happen when you combine the grandiosity of NPD and the sadism and lack of scruples of APD with the disinhibition and increasing childishness of dementia, and it's pretty damned terrifying. The guy is not faking anything. He is genuinely confused, disoriented, and irrational.

I am grateful to these doctors for issuing that statement and hope and pray it will have some impact. I don't yet know if there as been any response whatsoever, as I didn't get online until this afternoon, and I'm not holding my breath. But I am going to hope, at least a little bit, because that's the only thing I have left.

Sorry, this has gotten so long. I know I tend to be verbose at times and hope I haven't put anyone to sleep.

Is Trump suffering from severe cognitive decline? / with Dr. John Gartner

This video popped up in my feed on YouTube, and I'm going to share it because I think Gartner said some very important things. The interviewer did not impress me, and his flailing attempts to find some alternative explanation for Trump's behavior other than his obvious mental deterioration frankly got on my nerves. But as some of you probably know, I'm a huge fan of Gartner, and I found him worth watching as usual, despite the other distractions, lol. I hope some of you will find this worthwhile as well,

I knew that tattoo of Platner's sounded familiar.

Not the specific tattoo, but the whole scenario of getting a tattoo that doesn't convey what you thought it would convey. And I was right; it's not just a tattoo, it's a whole trope.

Psychologist reveals Trump's ACTUAL condition

Dr. Frank George, who runs The Gaslight Report on Substack, joins David Pakman to discuss recent examples of Trump's cognitive decline.