November 6, 2024

Which Trump will America get? Will it be the forgiving benevolent Trump or the revenge fueled monster? By Hal M. Brown, MSW

 

Perchance Photo AI can give us images of who Trump will turn out to be, but it can't predict. 

No ifs, ands, or buts, and no what's ifs, we have entered the era of Trump trumpified. That word isn't in the regular dictionary but has several definitions in The Urban Dictionary. I mean it to say he will be more Trump than he ever was, as if he took the pill Alice took which made her huge.

 Now it is wait and see just how much of a revenge bent fascist he turns out to be.

First thing this morning I took my Wonder Woman for President comic book poster off the refrigerator door. I couldn't help but noticing that Wonder Woman, while she had the brunette hair of Kamala Harris, also was White. Don't go there, Hal. There's no sense rehashing President Biden's decision to ordain her as his heir apparent. There's no way to determine whether a Josh Shapiro or Gavin Newsom might have won this squeaker of an election. 

Onto another topic:

It is possible that now that he's won Trump will bask in his glory and not be hellbent on excacting revenge and retribution on everyone who ended up on his enemies list. This would mean he's had a partial symptomatic remission of his malignant narcissim. This is unlikely but I suppose possible if the narcissist in him may mediate the sadistic psychopathic part of his psychopathology by telling him it's a good look to come across as the kindly and forgiving Uncle Trump.

Who knows, it's even possible Melania or Ivanka to might appeal to a kinder gentler side of him? Even Barron might try to do this. Nah! Won't happen.  Even they aren't total sociopaths out for themselves, human doesn't and forgivenss doen't exist in a man incapable of empathy. He might find it is in his best interest to fake it.,, nah, I doubt that too.

Short blog today because of lack of sleep and being shellshocked. Previous blogs are here.



November 5, 2024

The Trump shark was an election morning nightmare, by Hal M. Brown, MSW

Trump has a thing, one might say a phobia, about sharks as his story about choosing electrocution over being eaten by sharks attests. Here's a quote from an article in The Week:

Trump is "obsessed with sharks, terrified of sharks," Stormy Daniels said in 2018. "He was like, 'I donate to all these charities, and I would never donate to any charity that helps sharks. I hope all the sharks die.'"

This may be what led to my dream.

I woke from the dream at 4:30. I was at a beach standing on a boardwalk and saw a large shark starting to swim towards several bathers who didn't see it. I tried to yell to warn them but they didn't hear me. 


There were some folding metal chairs on the boardwalk and I threw them into the water to alert the people but I still couldn't get their attention.

Then, still not seeing the shark, they came out of the water and walked onto the beach, but the shark became a land shark and followed them onto the beach. Then there was a dog on the beach who did see the shark and was almost nose to nose barking at it. Still the people were oblivious. 

I threw some more chairs and was able to hit the shark on the back but the shark didn't respond. All the while I'd been shouting as loud as I could but nobody heard me.

I managed to get down to the beach. Under the boardwalk I met some security guards. They happened to be the same red shirted unarmed security team members we have at the continuing care retirement community where I live.  They had also seen the shark. The bathers were ignoring them too. Being unarmed they didn't know what to do.

We stood there together feeling helpless.

I couldn't fall back asleep so I got up, made some coffee, turned on "Morning Joe" and fired up my laptop and checked to the the lead stories on HUFFPOST and saw this:

Nate Silver: Harris Wins 40,012 Of 80,000 Vote Simulations

Statistician Nate Silver published his final Silver Bulletin just after midnight on Tuesday, and the results were stunningly close.

The FiveThirtyEight founder ran 80,000 simulations of the upcoming election: In them, Harris won just over 50% of the time. Trump won just under 50%. And the simulations found an exact Electoral College tie 270 of those times.

On RawStory the lead was:

When polling places close across the United States tonight, in the event that Donald Trump appears to be losing, it’s not hard to predict what he and his allies will do overturn the result between now and Jan. 20.

The early outlines of the MAGA strategy for overturning a potential loss look remarkably similar to what unfolded after the Nov. 3, 2020 election.

This was on the main page of The New York Times.

If only the land shark, which obviously symbolizes Donald Trump in my dream, was a comedic device like the land shark featured in nine episodes of Saturday Night Live .

Here's the compilation of various episodes with different characters opening the door for the land shark who claimed to be delivering, among other things a candygram. It has a proclivity for attacking single women.... nuff said about that.


Trump isn't the amusing land shark in the SNL skits. Nobody had their head really bitten off. He's more like the great white shark from Jaws. He's the great in his own mind White candidate. In fact just yesterday he bragged about having white skin. Oddly, he also talked about going to the beach although I can't recall ever seeing a photo of him at a beach (see article).

‘Absolutely, but I could’ve been on the best beaches in the world. I own the best beaches in the world.'”

The former president then bragged about having “beautiful white skin” and griped that the presidential race has prevented him from getting a proper tan:

I could’ve been at the great Turnberry in Scotland. I could’ve been anywhere I wanted to be. I could’ve had those waves smacking me in the face. That white, beautiful white skin that I have would be nice and tan. I got the whitest skin ’cause I never have time to go out in the sun. But I have that beautiful white, and you know what? It could’ve been beautiful, tanned, beautiful.

Unlike the shark in "Jaws" who is just a shark being a shark who has an appetite for people, Trump will wreak havoc on American democracy the way the giant bloodthirsty predatory fish did in the surf in Amity (filmed on Martha's Vineyard).



It's like we've been at sea hunting the Trump shark and realized how big it has become with half the country about to vote it into the White House. We realized that we were going to need a bigger boat to stop this from happening. President Biden couldn't do it. Now we have a damn big boat with Kamala Harris at the helm, but we don't know if it will be big enough (see clip).


No blog about Trump being a dangerous shark using pop culture examples can be complete without a reference to Bobby Darin's hit "Mack the Knife." While the song has mellow and cool sound, it is actually about a murderous rapist named Macheath from The Threepenny Opera. The song tells of a knife-wielding criminal of the London underworld from the musical named Macheath, the "Mack the Knife" of the title.   (reference).

Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
And he shows them pearly white
Just a jackknife has old Macheath, babe
And he keeps it out of sight


You know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves, though, wears old Macheath, babe
So there's never, never a trace of red


Now on the sidewalk, ooh, sunny morning, uh-huh
Lies a body just oozin' life
Eek, and someone's sneakin' 'round the corner
Could that someone be Mack the Knife?


There's a tugboat down by the river, don't ya know
Where a cement bag's just a-droopin' on down
Oh, that cement is just, it's there for the weight, dear
Five'll get ya ten, old Macky's back in town


Now d'ya hear about Louie Miller? He disappeared, babe
After drawin' out all his hard-earned cash
And now Macheath spends just like a sailor
Could it be our boy's done something rash? 


Now Jenny Diver, ho, ho, yeah, Sukey Tawdry 
Ooh, Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown
Oh, the line forms on the right, babe
Now that Macky's back in town


I said Jenny Diver, whoa, Sukey Tawdry
Look out to Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown
Yes, that line forms on the right, babe
Now that Macky's back in town


Look out ol' Macky's back

Let's hope that Kamala will vanquish Mack the Knife.

Hopefully Trump the shark can end up in a metaphorical museum. This is the home of Bruce the mechanical shark from Jaws.


Some people want to see Trump in prison. If he loses the election I don't care where he resides. He's never been known to go swimming even though Mar-a-Lago has a pool or even visit a nearby Florida beach where, in fact, there are sharks. I want to make sure that in time his cult will abandon him and realize that they better not go swimming on the beach of facism again.


By tomorrow I hope I can rest easy knowing that Kamala proved that Trump wasn't that great a white shark as he and his cult think he is.


None-photo illustrations are made by Perchance Photo AI.


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November 4, 2024

If Trump wins be ready for the scariest clown of all time using a cast of other scary clowns to implement his horror circus, by Hal M. Brown, MSW

 


When I was a kid I was lucky enough to see the world famous Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus at Madison Square Garden a few times. Yes, that Madison Square Garden, the site of the 1939 Nazi rally and the Donald Trump malevolent tour de force.

I got to see Emmett Kelley as Weary Willy do his solo act. It was the only solo act in the entire show. With a big broom he crisscrossed the entire arena trying to sweep a spotlight into a dust bin.

I saw all the other clowns including the dozen or so getting out of a tiny car. 

I grew up watching Clarabell the Clown squirting Buffalo Bob with seltzer on Howdy Doody. None of these clowns scared me.

If Trump is elected he'll be a scarier clown running a country than the bemedaled Idi Ami (AI image on top of page). 

Trump will have a cast of scary clowns to help him. These won't be normal people putting on clown clothes and makeup. They will be, to varying degrees, psychopathic, ignorant, and delusional people wearing ordinary outfits.

He will have some or all of the following in his cast of clowns:

Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, Stephen Miller, RFK Jr., Aileen Cannon (as Attorney General), Corey Lewandowski, Steve Cheung, Tucker Carlson, Boris Epshteyn, Jason Miller, Dan Scavino, Tulsi Gabbard, Herschell Walker, and the faceless people who crafted Project 2025 would be given their portfolios to wreak havoc on American democracy. He might forgive Laura Loomer for her plastic surgery and give her a job, and of course he'll have the spawn of his loins, Donald Jr. and Eric, who could end up on his Cabinet. He might make Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock co-chairs of the National Endowment for the  Arts.

This is an incomplete list of those who could get top jobs where they'd be able fire thousands of disloyal department members and replace them with Trumper. For more job candidates look at this list of those who spoke at the MSG rally and at the GOP losers in every election for the past 10 or so years. 

If the Republicans win the House he will have his lickspittle Mike Johnson as one of his most powerful henchmen. If the GOP wins the Senate we'd probably have Mitch McConnell as majority leader again unless Trump is so pissed off at him for not being loyal enough that he makes sure Jim Jordan becomes speaker. A runner up for that job if he manages to win his election could be Ted Cruz.

Trump, if he succeeds in becoming the Hitlerian leader he aspires to be, will not only have all the resources of law enforcement to do his bidding but he'll have the entire US military. Consider what will happen if he appoints General Michael Flynn as Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or Defense Secretary. If Trump really wants to stop migration across the southern border and doesn't care about being labeled as a war criminal by The World Court or being condemned by The United Nations be could order the Army to patrol the Rio Grande with helicopter gunships with orders to open fire on anyone who dares to dip a toe into the river.


Some of these people look scary enough without modifing their photos. For example, there was really no need to use BeFunky software to change how Stephen Milller looks.


Rather than make a collage of their faces and run them through a progam to make them look scary I asked Perchance Photo AI to make some scary clowns. Don't click on the image below to enlarge it if it will make you anxious.


Clowns can be funny, sad, scary, even terrfying, or just wierd looking. Fear of clowns is a real phobia called coulrophobia. The clowns who will be implementing his reign of revenge and terror will lead to justifed anxiety. Being afraid of them won't be a phobia. It will be a reality based fear.



Here's an excerpt related to what Trump could do as president:

Whether it is thousands or millions, we know there are numerous supporters who are ready to follow his marching orders if he loses.

If he wins they may join the new Trump SS (see illustration on the top of the blog) to hunt down, detain, and deport or imprison those he has been demonizing ever since he rode down that infamous golden escalator.

Others might join Trump's version of the Gestapo, the secret police who didn't wear uniforms when they did their dirty work.


He might also have his version of the SA, sometimes referred to as Storm Troopers or Brownshirts.  This was the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, whose violent tactics played a huge role in Hitler’s rise to power in Germany. Before establishing the SA as a paramilitary wing, it was known as a ‘sports division’ in the party to avoid suspicion. (Reference)

Recommended reading on Salon:

Dr. John Gartner on how Harris hit Trump's weak spot: He "is now using a very limited vocabulary"

"Trump had poor judgment and impulse control even before his mind appeared to be degrading and decompensating"


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November 3, 2024

Just that there's a threat of widespread violence if Trump loses is a good enough reason not to vote for him, by Hal M. Brown, MSW

 

Win or lose, how many Americans would fight for Trump wearing this version of the SS hat insignia?


A Google News search (here) for "Threats of widespread violence if Trump loses" comes up with numerous articles about this. These articles go back to April and May. This, for example, was in Reuters:


In April Trump said  'it depends' if there will be violence if he loses 2024 election to Biden (article).

The mere fact that there is a prevalent belief that if Trump loses his supporters will resort to violence, and that Trump when asked about it says "it depends" should be enough of a reason that any still undecided voter should vote for Kamala Harris.

They can put aside all of the other reasons not to vote for him and make their decision based on this one fact. 

If he loses and there are indications that a large number of his supporters are even considering acting violently shows that they have a fascist mindset. If, as is being reported, the race is a dead heat, this means that the country is poised to vote for someone who if elected will have a large number of followers who were willing to engage in violence had he not won. 

These aren't people willing to take up arms like the Patroits did during the War for Independence to defend American democracy. These people fought, risked, and lost their lives to defend an ideal. The people who say they will resort to violence if Trump losing are saying they will fight out of loyalty to a person rather than to an ideal. 

When you listen to many ordinary Trump supporters at rallies or on TV panels when asked why they are planning to vote for Trump it stands out how many of them admire him as a kind of strongman. They may not use this word, although I've heard some laud him for being strong, but it seems clear they see him as he sees himself. They don't see the outlandish cartoon figure we observe in the depictions from his digital trading cards as ridiculous. They imagine him as the figure in the frequently flown flag with Trump as a Rambo.

They see him as a kind of Captain America  (oddly standing in a wrestling rink) who has supernatural strength which is shown in the digital trading card below.

This is the fascistic blueprint employed by all despots who rose to power and stayed in power by portraying themselves as the one and only person who, through the exercise of unique power and abilities only they possess, can save the nation.

They see him as the kung fu master I used Perchance Photo AI to depict in yesterday's blog "Trump is a delusional unhinged sadist living in a phallocentric manosphere."

Of course they don't see him as the elderly obsese man dishing out fries at a McDonald's.
They don't see the man who claims to be a great golfer looking like this:

They don't see how pathetic he looked when he tried to heave himself into a garbage truck. (Fashion note: the orange vest with the horizontal line makes him look even fatter.)
I wonder if he stayed in physical shape the way Putin, who has dabbled in the martial arts (how good he is remains controversial) seems to have done if he'd be less inclined to overcompensate with his bellicose language and promoting wishful thinking images of himself.

Like Trump, many of his supporters, almost all of them male, live in his phallocentric manosphere. They have both his permission and his encouragement to join violent protests.  Trump wants them to know they have the ability to join with others of their ilk to overthrow a free election should he lose. Jan. 6th was a failed rehearsal. This time he has plans in place, including those involving Mike Johnson, to effect a coup.

Whether it is thousands or millions, we know there are numerous supporters who are ready to follow his marching orders if he loses. If he wins they may join the new Trump SS (see illustration on the top of the blog) to hunt down, detain, and deport or imprison those he has been demonizing ever since he rode down that infamous golden escalator.

Others might join Trump's version of the Gestapo, the secret police who didn't wear uniforms when they did their dirty work.


He might also have his version of the SA, sometimes referred to as Storm Troopers or Brownshirts.  This was the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, whose violent tactics played a huge role in Hitler’s rise to power in Germany. Before establishing the SA as a paramilitary wing, it was known as a ‘sports division’ in the party to avoid suspicion. (Reference)

Anyone thinking of voting for Trump who wants to  prevent America from turning into a fascist county needs to understand all of this.

Update: I really should have to comment on this.

At a rally in Pennsylvania, the former president pointed out the spots where he was protected by bulletproof glass before adding that reporters ––whom he referred to as the "fake news" –– were in the line of fire if an assassin took a shot at him.

He told his MAGA fans, "And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news, and I don't mind that so much. I don't mind, I don't mind that."

November 2, 2024

Trump is a delusional unhinged sadist living in a phallocentric manosphere, by Hal M. Brown, MSW

 


A few days Trump said he wants to, choose one: 1) put Liz Cheney in front a firing squad or 2) have her go into battle with one rifle facing nine gun barrels. Even if you accept that the second is what he meant, unless you're Donald "Rambo" Trump going into batttle against those odds this is a death sentence. 

Here's what he said:

“She’s a radical war hawk,” Trump said of Cheney, following a tangent about his pardon in 2018 of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, her father. “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

It really doesn't matter whether he was calling for her to be executed by a nine man firing squad or, as he claimed, that he was trying to say she doesn't know what it's like go to war against nine rifle wielding soldiers, what he said was a violent sadistic proposal. When someone says things like this it means they are thinking things like this, and when they think things like this they generally have a fantasy to go along with it.

Who the hell enjoys violent fantasies like this? The answer is simple. These people are called sadists. They don't have to act on the thoughts and fantasies to be sadists. They may never inflict pain on others, but they enjoy seeing pain inflicted on others. Of course Trump has inflicted pain on others. Consider, for example, his having children put in cages and torn from their families.

Today we have another story which provides insight into who Trump is. This was top of the page on HUFFPOST:


The article describes what he said:

Former President Donald Trump used apparent technical issues during a Friday rally to toy with the idea of attacking people working the event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“You’ve got to be kidding. Do you want to see me knock the hell out of people backstage?”

Who knows what Trump imagines he is capable of doing. Perhaps he's seen lots of movies when the hero takes down a dozen thugs with deadly kung fo moves.

Perchance Photo AI


The HUFFPOST article also reminds us of the following

Trump has a history of using such rhetoric at his rallies. He suggested that a protester could “get the hell knocked out of her” at an event in California last month.

In 2016, he told supporters in Iowa to “knock the crap” out of hecklers. Trump separately told a crowd in Nevada that year that he’d like to punch a protester “in the face.”

“You know what they used to do to a guy like that in a place like this?” he said. “They’d be carried out on a stretcher, folks.”

The guy pictured below thinks he is going backstage to single-hangedly knock the hell out of people backstage. Ask yourself whether this is merely a fantasy or delusional.

I think this is as delusional as the fantasies he has that he actually looks like the characters depicted on the digital images he sold. It is downright nutso that people actually paid for images which they could see and print at home for free. Why they did this is a subject which may well be studied by psychologists in the future.

I've been writing about Trump's psychopathology and his dangerous malignant narcissism since 2017. By now most readers of this blog know that this is a "psychological syndrome comprising a mix of narcissismantisocial behaviorsadism, and a paranoid outlook on life. Malignant narcissists are grandiose and always ready to raise hostility levels, which undermines the families and organizations in which they are involved, and dehumanizes the people with whom they associate."

Only in the past few weeks have I thought about Trump in more sociological terms. I have concluded that Trump resides in a phallocentric (see Wikipedia) manosphhere (see Wikipedia).

His obsession with Arnold Palmer's equipment is an example of his being phallocentric, but his talking about it in public shows he is unhinged. Consider the lack of judgement demonstrated by his telling this story. Any rational (not unhinged) politician would know would lead to negative blowback like articles like these.

It earned him this rebuke from Arnold Palmer's daughter:

Arnold Palmer’s daughter says Donald Trump disrespected her late father’s memory by fawning over the size of the champion golfer’s penis at a campaign rally over the weekend.

“Hackneyed anecdotes from the locker room … seemed disrespectful and inappropriate to me,” Peg Palmer Wears told ABC News on Monday, two days after the former president publicly suggested her father was well endowed. (from The Guardian)


Consider the title of this Poltico article.

It is mind-boggling to me that women not only would vote for this man but that some would wear t-shirts like this:


Going back to my title, I wish I could ask undecided voters considering voting for Trump whether they want a delusional unhinged sadist who is living in a phallocentric manosphere to be their president.

Afterthought:

As regular readers know I always write my blogs with MSNBC on and sometimes end up adding what is being said on a show into a blog. Just now on Ali Velshi's show they were talking about Trump being a bully. I'm worn out, I'm hungry and haven't had breakfast yet. I just want to put this online so I'll just add that in addition to everything else I wrote today, Trump is also a bully.

Update:

HUFFPOST now has a top of website new story  (in red) which again demonstrates his unhinged poor judgment:

Trump Mocks Black Greek Basketball Player Giannis Antetokounmpo's Heritage

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Which Trump will America get? Will it be the forgiving benevolent Trump or the revenge fueled monster? By Hal M. Brown, MSW

  Perchance Photo AI can give us images of who Trump will turn out to be, but it can't predict.  No ifs, ands, or buts, and no what'...