There are people who read posts like the one Trump wrote about Chris Christie (shown above) and don’t see the irony of what he says about no one being above the law. They live in a delusional wonderland where up is down and down is up, farts smell like flowers and flowers smell like farts.
These people may not be testably stupid, but they are dumb in the way that they lack the critical thinking skills which would prevent them from being gullible.
Trump wants them to be this way. Otherwise he wouldnt have embraced his new hat. Sure, he’s a grandiose narcissist, but he’s also crafty and he’s a performer who knows his audience.
At some level he knows it’s a joke, but there’s a part of him that believes it.
What would a reasonable person think of someone who wore a hat that said “I AM ALWAYS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING?”
How can anyone with a functioning brain think that a man who wears a hat that says he’s always right about everything, underline that…
… could ever be a leader of anything, let alone the president of the United States?
There is a sickness in America. You can call it the swallowing sickness. Millions of people have succumbed to it. You can even see them wearing the hat:
People don’t swallow fishing tackle. The most injuries sustained by this are incured by dogs who accidentally swallow fishing hooks (reference). Dogs are pretty smart, in some instances they appear to be smarter than some people. But accidents do happen.
Fish aren’t particularly smart. This is why they are attracted to the shiny lures or wiggly worms and end up hooked and reeled in for a fishemans’s trophy or for your dinner.
The people who swallow the biggest Trump lie, the lie bigger than the lie about winning the 2024 election, bigger than any of the other lies he’s told, is encompassed in the words on that hat since nobody can ever be right about everything. If they believe that, they belong in an institution, and I don’t mean this one:
People like him belong in another kind of institution. In fact there’s one not far from the White House. John Hinckley, Jr., after he attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was sent there. A sliver of Mussolini’s brain was also studied there.
The biggest Trump lie people believe is that he’s fit to be president.
Scroll down to read me of my reaction to what Trump said in his Oval Office remarks today. This stood out:
Excerpt:
Reacting to criticism from lawmakers across the country who don’t want a federal invasion of their major cities, the president claimed that there are those who feel the U.S. would be better off with a dictator.
“I think the Democrats better get smart and, you know, politically, I hope they don't,” the president told the silent reporters. “But actually, in terms of love for the country, I hope they do, because it would be good to work together. So I'm thinking about, you know, when I have some slob like [Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B.] Pritzker criticizing us before we even go there. I made the statement that next should be Chicago because, as you all know, Chicago is a killing field right now, and they don't acknowledge it.”
“And they say we don't need them – ‘freedom, freedom, he's a dictator, he's a dictator,” he claimed. “A lot of people are saying, maybe we'd like a dictator. I don't like a dictator, I'm not a dictator. I'm a man with great common sense and a smart person, and when I see what's happening to our cities, and then you send in troops instead of being praised, they're saying you're trying to take over the republic. These people are sick. But I'm really saying, and I say this to all of you in a certain way, we shouldn’t wait to be asked because they have cities that are so under control, you know, out of control, so we go in and fix it.”
Related to hats with self-aggrandizing sayings on them, note that at $35.95 these are already sold out:
I was just watching Trump doing what he calls the weave, but to me as a retired psychotherapist I see as bordering on having clincially significant loose associations, i.e., referring to a thought disorder where ideas are poorly connected or unrelated. In the extreme this leads to disorganized speech that can be confusing to others. This phenomenon is often seen in mental health conditions like schizophrenia. He holds up his signed bill and brags about his signature saying “who can write like that” and then goes off on a diatribe about Biden and the auto-pen. Then he continues attacking Biden saying “he was never very sharp.” Then on flag burning saying all over the country they are burning flags. This is a lie. There have been no reports about this. People who are critical thinkers should be appalled when they watch this. No we have a totally unnecessary executive order about a problem, rampant flag burning, which does not exist.
He talked about paid agitators, another outright lie. He brags about being called “the presdient of Europe.” Who, pray tell, is calling him this?
How fucken gullible can people be not to see through the performance Trump put on today? Icing on the cake perhaps was the head of the US Marshall Service not only giving Trump a badge, but a handcuff key representing his unlocking law enforcement.
Going back to this subject of this Substack, this person is thought to be fit to be president?
