tRUMP's Strong Shit Odor! America's Demented Fuehrer Epstein-tRUMP IS SUNDOWNING!

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It's Sundowning in America
A presidential mind is a dangerous thing to lose
Paul Krugman
Jan 20

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A short post. Today doesn't seem like a day for charts and number-
crunching.

I had never heard the term "sundowning" before it happened to my own 
father, yet it's a fairly common syndrome. In his last few months my father 
remained lucid and rational — remained himself — during daylight hours. 
Once the sun went down he deteriorated, becoming confused, paranoid and 
aggressive.

It's terrible to watch sundowning in someone you love. But that's a 
personal tragedy – not a national or global one. It's an entirely different 
matter when the president of the United States is sundowning — a president 
surrounded by malign sycophants who tell him whatever he wants to hear and 
indulge his every whim, no matter how destructive.

For good reasons, it's normally bad practice to pronounce on someone's 
mental health from afar. Some of us still remember when right-wing pundits 
liked to call anyone critical of George W. Bush mentally ill. But after 
reading the letter that Trump just sent to the prime minister of Norway 
(Jonas Gahr Støre has confirmed that it's genuine) there should be no doubt 
that we have a president who is suffering a real detachment from reality:

Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace 
Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to 
think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now 
think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.

Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have 
a 'right of ownership' anyway? There are no written documents, it's only 
that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing 
there, also.

I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and 
now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not 
secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! 
President DJT

This might not exactly be sundowning, since it's not clear that Trump is 
lucid and rational at any time of the day. What is incontrovertible is that 
he's deeply unwell and rapidly getting sicker.

In fact, Trump is so deeply unwell that it's time to stop blaming him for 
all the terrible things he's doing. He is what he is. Responsibility for 
the catastrophe overtaking America now rests with his enablers — people who 
have to know that he's a sick man but continue to support his depredations.

Some of these enablers are monsters themselves. For example, Stephen 
Miller, Trump's immigration czar and the architect of his violent ethnic 
cleansing policies, is clearly a fanatic who is using Trump to achieve his 
own fascist goals.

However, many of Trump's enablers aren't fanatics, just amoral 
opportunists. Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, clearly understands 
how destructive Trump's actions are, evidenced by the fact that he has at 
times tried to tone them down. But for some inexplicable reason, Bessent 
has decided to sell his soul to Trump.

And then there are those who revel in the reflected glory, who are such 
utter narcissists that they're willing to destroy this country in return 
for the limelight and perks. In that camp we can find Pete Hegseth with his 
Pentagon makeup studio, who is purging the finest officers in the military; 
Kristi Noem with her Barbie-in-a-10-gallon-hat act, who positively gushes 
while calling a murdered mother a terrorist; and Kash Patel, who thinks its 
fine to fly on an FBI jet to watch his girlfriend sing while overseeing the 
debasement and corruption of the FBI.

And what can we say about the cowardly Republicans in Congress, who are 
still sustaining Trump even though many of them – perhaps most of them – 
are privately appalled by his behavior? It would take just eight of these 
people — four Republican senators and four Republican House members — to 
switch sides and caucus with the Democrats to end G. O. P. control of 
Congress and eliminate much of Trump's power. But taking such a step would 
mean risking Trump's wrath by standing up and acting like patriots, rather 
than knuckling down and averting their eyes as Trump descends into madness.

How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world's longest-standing 
republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man's dementia? 
That's an important question, the answer to which I believe lies in the 
straight line from Bush vs Gore and the Roberts Supreme Court, to January 
6th, to the execution of Renee Good. However, what's more important is that 
we realize where we are right now, that we don't try to sugarcoat and 
sanewash what's happening: A petulant, violent and deranged individual is 
running America.