Trump: "You still don't realize what you're dealing with."

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Friday November 04, 2016 · 9:49 AM PDT

2016/11/04 · 09:49

Remember the part in “Alien” where the robot Ash says, “You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.”

That’s the way I feel about Trump. People keep writing on message boards and newspaper threads that Congress can keep him in check, especially if Democrats win the Senate. Or that we’ll still have due process of law.

Do you think a man like Trump cares about due process of law, or that he’ll let Congress thwart his ambitions? This is a man who has the heart of a fascist, who lies and cheats with abandon, and who is used to getting his way. I don’t know if he’s actually a sociopath – I’m not a psychiatrist. But he certainly exhibits many of the core traits.

Anyway, what difference does it make, whatever psychological label we slap on him? The man is clearly deranged, and many of our fellow citizens apparently lack the functioning bullshit detector needed to see it. And I could easily see him ginning up a national emergency, declaring martial law and naming himself as our new leader. And what’s to stop him? Certainly not the spineless Republican politicians, who are his enablers. The military? Most of the top ranks are probably sympathizers. When he says Hillary belongs in jail, what’s to stop him from putting her there? Do you think he would let the Supreme Court stop him? Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, and so could Trump

I think all this is quite possible. “You still don't realize what you're dealing with.”

Do everything between now and Election Day to stop this very dangerous man from becoming president. Work like your lives depend on it – because they just might.

The hair-cutting incident

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Thursday August 16, 2012 · 12:21 PM PDT

2012/08/16 · 12:21

OK, this is a short diary, with details concealed to protect the identity of the person who relayed this information.

A co-worker visited a famous historic site earlier this week. One of the people who works there went to school with Mitt Romney. What's more, he actually witnessed the famous hair-cutting incident. According to this person, there is no way Romney would have forgotten this. This person called it "traumatic," and has never forgotten it.

It's one thing the hear or read about this incident. It's another to have it confirmed in this way. Yes, I know this could be called hearsay, since I didn't hear it directly. Still, I have complete faith in my co-worker, and she would have no reason to make this story up.

Mitt is not just a complete phony and a liar. He's also a bully, a nasty piece of work. Make of this diary what you will.

BP Oil Spill: Ongoing Disaster for Birds & Wildlife

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Tuesday July 13, 2010 · 10:03 AM PDT

2010/07/13 · 10:03

The BP Gulf oil spill is clearly a disaster for wildlife, but it's probably even worse than it seems. The federal government is not getting an honest assessment of the wildlife toll, and the disaster's effects will be unfolding for many years into the future.

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Saturday September 19, 2009 · 1:17 PM PDT

2009/09/19 · 13:17

This will not be a long diary, but it deals with an important question. I was reading the comments in the Washington Post on EJ Dionne's column on the death of Irving Kristol, I was really surprised by the amount of vitriol in the comments. I was also really surprised that the neocorporate Washington Post didn't delete a lot of them. (Not that, by any stretch, I was a fan of Kristol, or his truly awful son William -- my college classmate, btw.)

But this really stood out:

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I heard Obama today!!!

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Thursday September 17, 2009 · 2:51 PM PDT

2009/09/17 · 14:51

I went to the University of Maryland to hear President Obama today. Here's what I saw:

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our best President in ages

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Republican Billionaire Suicide Was a Tax Cheat

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Tuesday September 15, 2009 · 7:35 PM PDT

2009/09/15 · 19:35

Last week, a billionaire Republican active in New Jersey politics committed suicide. At first it seemed like a terrible tragedy. Now it appears that he was an epic tax cheat, and the feds were closing in.

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Wednesday September 09, 2009 · 12:49 PM PDT

2009/09/09 · 12:49

From Andrew Sullivan's blog:

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Wednesday August 19, 2009 · 11:53 AM PDT

2009/08/19 · 11:53

Even though the White House has walked back its hedging on the public option over the weekend, Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic is reporting that Obama believes liberals can be pacified, and he will get off the hook for signing a bill without the public option.

http://politics.theatlantic.com/...

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Wednesday July 01, 2009 · 7:51 PM PDT

2009/07/01 · 19:51

Last fall, I posted a diary suggesting that Sarah Palin has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. I caught a lot of flak here for playing armchair psychiatrist, which really surprised me. I'm just an an ordinary observer, but it seems to me the description fits her. Now, we have Todd Purdham writing in Vanity Fair:

More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of “narcissistic personality disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—“a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy”—and thought it fit her perfectly.

I felt a little vindicated by this, but of course no one can make a diagnosis with being a) a professional, and b) meeting personally with the individual in question. Anyway, I'm going to post this diary again. Once again, I'm NOT a mental health professional. The only point of this diary is to raise this possibility, provoke discussion, and solicit thoughts from people who are experts.

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Thursday May 07, 2009 · 9:25 AM PDT

2009/05/07 · 09:25

For most people, the reality of global warming hasn't sunk in -- relatively few people understand what's really at stake. I spend my days at a leading environmental group trying to make people understand how bad things will get unless we do something now. (I've been trying to raise the alarm since the early 1990s.) I've tried everything in the communications toolbox, but I haven't tried satire. Check it out.

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Thursday April 16, 2009 · 3:56 PM PDT

2009/04/16 · 15:56

This is big. The Alaska Senate has voted to reject Sarah Palin's nominee for Attorney General, a knuckle-scraper named Wayne Anthony Ross. This is the first time in state history that a cabinet nominee has been rejected by the legislature.

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Tuesday March 03, 2009 · 7:50 AM PST

2009/03/03 · 07:50

That didn't take long. Just a couple days after calling Rush Limbaugh "an entertainer" and "incendiary" (what a concept), RNC chairman Michael Steele has apologized, according to today's New York Times.

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