September 21, 2024

Cluck, cluck, cluck: Trump has to suffer the consequences of his refusal to debate Harris a second time by Hal M. Brown, MSW

 Update:

I wrote about this yesterday but then this morning read this article in RawStory:

This is what he said about his first debate with Kamala Harris:


"Well, I thought that she had a debate which was interesting, because she wasn't answering any questions," Trump said. "And I thought it was a great debate for me. I thought it was one of my best debates that I've ever had. And some people disagreed, but I felt it was the strongest debate I ever had."

Objective armchair psychologists will say that this is further proof that Trump is delusional. In fact one person quoted in RawStory hit the nail on the head saying this:

Geographer Linda Stevens replied, "Narcissists are delusional. They make up alternate realities to fit their warped views of themselves."

"They have to if they don’t, they collapse," she added Saturday.  

I am not sure Trump is clinically delusional. He says things that suggest that he is but this can juts be an expression of his grandiose narcissism and denial. It is quite possible that Trump is aware that he not only blew the debate but that he is not capable of winning a second debate especially when moderators will have new questions that will put him on the spot. For example they would be likely ask him about his and Vance's lies about Haitians eating pets but will also  nail him on his support for Mark Robinson and the denaturalization process and mass deportations of both undocumented immigrants, those here legally, and even of naturalized American citizens his pal Steve Miller is saying Trump "turbocharge" on if he's reelected.

Trump may be well aware that he just can't dodge these questions the way he dodged the draft, recently dodged a bullet, and got away with one grift and lie after another for his entire adult life. 

 
Click to read above article from Tines of India.

Above: This was on Amazon from before he decided to debate her the first time.

I don't know if these 2017 balloons are still available. I hope they are.
I propose combining the chicken balloon with the famous baby balloon.


This was posted before he changed his mind and decided to debate Harris the first time:

When I heard that Kamala Harris accepted CNN's offer to host another debate I wondered if Trump would accept it in the belief that he destroyed her in the first debate and wanted to do an even better job again.

It didn't take more than a few hours for him so say there was no need to debate her again.




I expect more cartoonists will be drawing Trump as a chicken again, but the t-shirt makers and at least one balloon maker already had shown him as plump poultry.

If I was a cartoonist I'd draw him as a chicken in a diaper with bone spurs although this sticker is already available from Amazon:






September 20, 2024

Ethnonational fascism or Nazism, Trump and Vance have made it clear this is the America they want and many are hatefully happy about this , by Hal M. Brown, MSW


Trump and Vance and many Americans want to have Haitians and other immigrants hunted down, rounded up, bused to airports, and deported. I made the images above with Perchance Photo AI. I wasn't able to have the AI program show these people surrounded by armed soldiers, some in Humvees with machine guns, so you will have to imagine this.

I just read the following in RawStory: 

Inside Trump's new front in the Haitian hysteria push: Charleroi

Excertps:

Donald Trump doubled down on his false claims that Haitians are stealing and eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio.

Then, he tossed another small Rust Belt community into the national spotlight.

“Likewise, a small 4,000-person town, Charleroi, Pennsylvania,” Trump said. “Have you ever heard of it? Charleroi. What a beautiful name. But it’s not beautiful now. It’s experienced a 2,000 percent increase in the population of Haitian migrants under Kamala Harris.

“So, Pennsylvania: Remember this when you have to go to vote,” Trump added. 

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The language (is) in the X post by the nonprofit America 2100 is markedly similar to what Trump would say at his campaign rally the following day.

“It isn’t just Springfield; it’s happening everywhere,” the post reads. “In Charleroi, Pennsylvania — a low-income town of just 4,000 — the immigrant population has increased by 2,000% over the past two years. It’s almost all Haitians.”

The America 2100 post was boosted when Donald Trump Jr. re-posted it only 10 minutes later.

This led me to look up the post referred to in the article.

 If you want to know how our country has decended into a hellhole of hate where armed enforcers hunt down and deport human beings just read this posts on this thread in X. The X account is from America2100.org.


This is what their website says:


Consider what another country could have had as their "about us" description.


Here are two of the posts. Clicking will not go to X. It will only only enlarge the images.



Here are three posts by people who no doubt say they are Christian. They are a representative sample of other posts on the various replies on this X account.

1) Yep ,they need to go home .. Voodoo and animal sacrifices are a big part of their heritage.

It could be the answer to missing pets .๐Ÿค”๐Ÿคซ

America has very different beliefs .

2) Wait until our corrupt, Marxist leaders arm them and tell them to turn on us. This IS not going to end well on so many levels. Defend your home and family.๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

3) So treat it like rampaging bands of Cherokee in the 1800s and annihilate them

Let's take a somewhat deep dive into what ethnic nationalism or enthnonationalism is (from Wikipedia).

Ethnic nationalism, also known as ethnonationalism, is a form of nationalism wherein the nation and nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity,[2][3] with emphasis on an ethnocentric (and in some cases an ethnocratic) approach to various political issues related to national affirmation of a particular ethnic group.

The central tenet of ethnic nationalists is that "nations are defined by a shared heritage, which usually includes a common language, a common faith, and a common ethnic ancestry". Those of other ethnicities may be classified as second-class citizens.

The study of ethnonationalism emerged in the early 20th century in the interwar period between World War I and World War II, with the "redrawing of the political map of Europe in part along ethnic and national lines according to a proclaimed “right of peoples” to self-determinationand the rise of fascist ethnocentric ideologies (including Nazism)

Increased international migration as a function of contemporary globalization has also given rise to "ethno-national" movements, including reactionary "nativist" groups focused on exclusionary identity politics. In the developed world, such trends have often taken on an explicitly xenophobic and racist character, as seen in the example of "white nationalism" in the United States.

Below with my bold: 

In 2018, Tendayi Achiume, a UN Special Rapporteur on racism, released a UN Human Rights Council report which states that "more than 75% of the world's known stateless populations belong to minority groups" and highlights the role of ethnonationalism in the international deprivation of citizenship rights. In the report, Achiume re-stated that international human rights law prohibits citizens from discriminating against non-citizens on the basis of their race, descent, national or ethnic origin and she also stated that citizenship, nationality, and immigration laws which discriminate against non-citizens are violations of international law. She also noted the role of laws restricting marriage rights with respect to certain national, religious, ethnic or racial groups, which she said were "often deployed by states to preserve notions of national, ethnic and racial "purity"." Achiume called ethnonationalist politics the "most obvious driver of racial discrimination in citizenship and immigration laws" and driven by populist leaders defining nations "in terms of assumed blood ties and ethnicity".

United States 

(My bold) Since the 2016 US presidential election, ethnonationalism has been pushed to the fore of the American political consciousness by the identity politics of Donald Trump surrounding what it means to be a "true" American, which has resulted in ethnocentric ideals becoming "a robust predictor of vote choice for Trump" among white Americans.

Data from the 2016 American National Election Studies (ANES) has revealed a positive association between ethnonationalism and anti-immigrant attitudes among white Americans, whose opposition to immigration is "often grounded in fears of the threat that immigration poses to the robustness of America's national identity" that is shaped by the belief set concerning the traits of "true" Americans. 

This is the Nazified America many people want. So much for America as the melting pot that democracy loving Americans cherish.

The image of the United States as a melting pot was popularized by the 1908 play The Melting Pot. This is from the play:

David, the hero, proclaims:

There she lies, the great Melting Pot—listen! Can't you hear the roaring and the bubbling? There gapes her mouth [He points east]—the harbour where a thousand mammoth feeders come from the ends of the world to pour in their human freight. Ah, what a stirring and a seething! Celt and Latin, Slav and Teuton, Greek and Syrian,—black and yellow—

VERA: Jew and Gentile—

DAVID: Yes, East and West, and North and South, the palm and the pine, the pole and the equator, the crescent and the cross—how the great Alchemist melts and fuses them with his purging flame! Here shall they all unite to build the Republic of Man and the Kingdom of God. Ah, Vera, what is the glory of Rome and Jerusalem where all nations and races come to worship and look back, compared with the glory of America, where all races and nations come to labour and look forward!


It makes me think that a large minority of the country wants the people going into the melting pot are melted to death.

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September 19, 2024

Trump and his Elvis obsession shows he is delusional and possibly demented, by Hal M. Brown, MSW

 

Image of fat Trump made by Perchance Photo AI


Trump is doing it again. He's revealing his delusional obsession with Elvis. This goes way back.

Trump doesn't "merely" reveal an obsession with Elvis in his delusional rants. Added to how he goes off on tangents, spouts word salad, and confuses places like he did the other day (read article) he demonstrates that he is becoming demented. More about that later.

Back to Elvis:

In reality Trump is like the cat that looks in the mirror and sees a lion. 

Above is the drawing used to illustrate the Wiki article about grandiose delusions.

Here's an article I came across looking for images of Trump and Elvis.


Like his preoccupation crowd size, Trump can't let go of his Elvis delusion. Just yesterday this is what he said at his rally in Long Island:

“Nobody can draw crowds like me... I’m the greatest of all time. Maybe greater even than Elvis. Elvis had a guitar, I don’t have a guitar. I don’t have the privilege of a guitar.”

Not to nitpick, but having a guitar isn't a privilege. It takes a lot of talent to play the guitar well. Experts say Elvis wasn't a great guitarist but could play adequately. Later in his career he stopped playing it during performances and on recordings. The best guitarist who played with Elvis was James Burton.

Guitars aside, it is particularly worth reminding people that Elvis was not a drafter dodger (see Wikipedia).


Trump also said: 

“I call up my wife and say, ‘Baby, who can draw crowds… nobody can draw crowds like me, not even close’.”

If I said something like this to my partner she'd say "Hal, get over yourself."




Think of it. If you met someone who you might consider becoming friends with and they told you they were the greatest of all time regarding anything about themselves would you want to spend time with them again?

Trump has also bragged that the audience at the debate "went crazy" for him. He must have been hallucinating since there was no audience for the debate unless you count the television crew.

Click above to read article

While pundits on MSNBC and elsewhere and mental health experts keep pointing to evidence that Trump has a cogntive disorder this isn't sinking in with Trump supporters. Read my recent blogs about this:


and

I'm not the only mental health professional who says that Trump needs a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness

The horror of having an unhinged dictator running the country is only surpassed by having a sane dictator. This could happen if Trump is elected and deteriorates to the point that it is possible to remove him permanently through the 25th Amendment.


I wrote about this here: 

Consider sane malignant narcissist J.D. Vance as president


When President Biden's age and possible cognitive disorder was an issue after his debate with Trump the mainstream press was unrelenting in suggesting he had dementia.  Now the number one undercovered story as far as the media goes is that Trump also shows many signs of dementia. 


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September 18, 2024

Sarah Huckabee Sanders vying with Vance for publicity in stand against childless cat ladies, by Hal M. Brown, MSW


Above: Image from Perchance Photo AI

This seemed like a non-story even though it stood out when I looked at HuffPost this morning and saw the story above. She bragged that her kids keep her humble and accused Kamala Harris of not having anything that keeps her humble. By this I assume she means Harris is conceited, egotistical, and pretentious.

Huckabee Sanders says her kids keep her humble. Humble? Really? Okay, still not much of a story worth spending a couple of hours of my morning on to write about.

Then I looked at RawStory and noticed they also covered the story:

This is the speech the articles are referring to:


This was still pretty much a a non-story to me until Joe and Mika spent time talking about it and noted how Huckabee Sanders, like Trump himself and other Trumpers, deliberately mispronunce Kamala. There's just something so obnoxious and nastily juvenile about trying to diminish someone by refusing to pronounce their name properly.

Damnit, this woman who fancies herself to be relevant has just shoehorned her way into a news cycle. I expect she's also auditioning to be a member of Trump's Cabinet if we have the horror of his becoming president. 


It would be better to ignore her, but the issue she brings up and the way she does it needs to be addressed. She is not just trying to promote a regressive view of women, but she is using nonsense as a propaganda tool which leads to people shrugging of the need to engage in critical thinking. Put another way:


This was, of course, her job when she was Trump's press secretary.

I suppose we can be thankful that at least she didn't mention childless cat ladies. Perhaps she didn't want to piss J.D. Vance off by stealing his now infamous line.


While on the subject of household pets....

There have been other elections where household pets played a role. For example, we had Richard Nixon's famous Checkers Speech and we had the Mitt Romney dog incident.



Currently cats have been added to dogs in the political news. We have the grim fairytale of Haitian migrants eating both dogs and cats, and we have the most famous childless cat lady in the world making the news (read article):

If Americans came to their senses, the unfounded demonization of legal Haitian immigrants and the disparaging attacks against married women who don't have children would decide the election in favor of Kamala Harris. If the majority of voters saw the candidates clearly and cared about character and integrity, if Donald Trump was a fish he'd be feeding off the bottom of the ocean looking for votes.


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September 17, 2024

A lesson fron Sean (formerly Puff Daddy and P. Diddy) Combs: Be wary of people wearing giant diamond encrusted crosses, by Hal Brown, MSW

 


Until the other day I never heard of Latin superstar singer Nicky Jam who Trump made even more famous by calling him "she" and saying "she's hot" at a rally, but like most Americans I've heard of Sean (formerly Puff Daddy and P. Diddy) Combs. I knew he was a rapper but not about him being a major music mogul who won three Grammy awards. He has quite an impressive resume in the music industry.

Until I read his Wiki profile I didn't know he was born in Harlem and raised in Mount Vernon, New York which is where I grew up. I knew very well that this town bordering on the Bronx was home to lots of famous people. Speaking of music, Dick Clark was raised in the Mt. Vernon went to the same high school I did. In addtion to Clark and Combs these other notable celerbities were from Mt. Vernon.

Writers E. B. White and Linda Fairstein; the actors Art Carney, Denzel Washington, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and Sidney Poitier; the musician Heavy D; and the athletes Ralph Branca, Ben Gordon and Floyd Patterson. NY Times.

If you've been watching the news about his arrest you probably saw photos of him, includng the one above, and you may have thought what I did about the diamond encrusted cross and necklace he was wearing.

Wearing a cross whether an ostentatious one or a more modest one says nothing about one's character or morality. I some instances someone may wear a giant cross to hide their true self. 

 Here's another photo with what seems to be the same or a similar cross on a more modest necklace.:

Apparently he never got this message from the Pope:


During a 2018 speech at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, Pope Francis criticized those who wear crucifixes as fashion items. The pontiff labeled the practice as an "abuse" and added that the religious symbol should be "contemplated and understood" rather than commercialized as a trendy accessory. As reported in the UK's Independent newspaper, Pope Francis reminded his audience that "the crucifix is not an ornamental object or a clothing accessory," and explained how the cross should be perceived as more than just an aesthetic object. Reference

Obvously there are many people who want to show their devotion by spending a lot of money on flashy diamond crosses:

You don't have to spend a lot for a giant cross. Ths stainless steel and wood one from Innovative Design costs only $44.


As Sean Combs demonstrates, using a cross as a fashion accessory doesn't always mean someone follows the example of Christ in how they live their lives, just like using the Bible as a prop doesn't mean someone is living a Christlike life.


I posted two very different blogs today. This one is about Trump and why some young voters support him:

"On the initiative of the vice president" should be on the top of the page story today, by Hal M. Brown, MSW

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