Above: If Trump was normal after this week — a five day week at that — he’d need a shoulder to cry on. I doubt that even when she’s not being embarrassed in the news, Melania provides this kind of emotional support to a man whose only emotion when things go bad is anger. I don’t even think he’s capable of self-pity. The man has no real self, no core of self-awareness — but this is another unwritten story for my TRUMPOLOGY: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF DONALD TRUMP series of Kos pieces — about 50 so far.
Now the Parkland shooting has Trump talking about mental health so he doesn’t have to address gun control. Ironic, to say the least, coming from someone who might have benefitted from psychological intervention when he first was identified as having a problem controlling his anger — possibly when he was in the second grade — in 'The Art of the Deal' he said that he punched out his second grade music teacher and gave him a black eye because he 'didn't think he knew anything about music.’
- The Rob Porter debacle rages into a second week.
- Less than 24 hours after the murder of 17 people at a Florida school, Trump takes to Twitter to offer his thoughts. "So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior,"
- An inspector general's report shows that Veterans Administration head David Shulkin's chief of staff doctored an email and made a series of false statements Read Article
Here’s my runner-up captioned-by-me picture - the photo I made to illustrate my story
“Tom Steyer's panel sounds the alarm. Another warning about Trump's dangerous mental state.”
I may add to these, but last but not least so far, I had to include Fox News which has a memory so bad that collectively they couldn’t pass the simple mental status test Trump was given:
The Fox take on this centers around the fact that Rosenstein made it clear that the indictment didn’t include any Americans, and there is no allegation that the Russian conduct as charged influenced the outcome of the elect. Of course Fox News, unlike MSNBC and hopefully other cable stations, are not playing clips of Trump’s ranting and raving, and grimacing in his inimitable way of feigning outrage, about the fake Russia story. Of course, the indictment proves Trump is a liar, and Rosenstein carefully parses his words so they only say what if and isn’t in THIS indictment. He doesn’t hint at what will be in the NEXT indictment. So, Fox News, luxuriate in your lies now because pretty soon they will come back and make chum out of your carcasses.
FROM FOX NEWS: And it indicates the investigation includes looking into whether Russia meddled in the run-up to the elections, following a string of charges relating to the actions of Trump associates.
However, the Justice Department made clear in its case that the indictment does not allege that any of the interference changed the outcome of the presidential race.
“There is no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity. There is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election,” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the special counsel probe, said at a Friday press conference.
Russia’s foreign minister dismissed the indictment on Saturday, calling it “just blabber.”
Asked about the indictments Saturday while at the same conference as McMaster, Sergey Lavrov replied: "I have no response. You can publish anything, and we see those indictments multiplying, the statements multiplying." He argued that U.S. officials also have said no country influenced the U.S. election results.
Lavrov added: "Until we see the facts, everything else is just blabber." From Fox News McMaster: FBI indictments prove Russia meddled in US elections
I just want to add this for those who don’t read Time Magazine:
Excerpts:
As is typical of the climate we’re in, Black Panther is already running into its share of trolls—including a Facebook group that sought, unsuccessfully, to flood the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes with negative ratings of the film. That Black Panther signifies a threat to some is unsurprising. A fictional African King with the technological war power to destroy you—or, worse, the wealth to buy your land—may not please someone who just wants to consume the latest Marvel chapter without deeper political consideration. Black Panther is emblematic of the most productive responses to bigotry: rather than going for hearts and minds of racists, it celebrates what those who choose to prohibit equal representation and rights are ignoring, willfully or not. They are missing out on the full possibility of the world and the very America they seek to make “great.” They cannot stop this representation of it. When considering the folks who preemptively hate Black Panther and seek to stop it from influencing American culture, I echo the response that the movie’s hero T’Challa is known to give when warned of those who seek to invade his home country: Let them try.
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The Black Panther Party, the revolutionary organization founded in Oakland, Calif., a few months after T’Challa’s debut, was depicted in the media as a threatening and radical group with goals that differed dramatically from the more pacifist vision of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Lewis. Marvel even briefly changed the character’s name to Black Leopard because of the inevitable association with the Panthers, but soon reverted. For some viewers, “Black Panther” may have undeservedly sinister connotations, but the 2018 film reclaims the symbol to be celebrated by all as an avatar for change.
The urgency for change is partly what Carmichael was trying to express in the summer of ’66, and the powers that be needed to listen. It’s still true in 2018.
Time Magazine
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Joy Reid writes:
This week we learned more about Trump’s lurid sex life than any of us ever wanted to know. And really, who cares, other than the fact that it appears that his lawless antics leading up to the election included conspiring to pay off the women he was sleeping with while Melania was at home caring for their young son. Trump’s aggressive sexuality, which has veered from consensual affairs to alleged unwanted sexual advances and assaults, is just the latest outrage to be tucked under the rug by so-called white evangelicals in America as they grasp for whatever lucre falls off the money changer in chief’s table. Surely, Jesus would shudder in their presence. Daily Beast
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