We shouldn't ignore that little man behind the curtain

 

If you think about it, it isn’t really that difficult to “explain” Donald Trump. He sees himself this way…

 

…people in the crosshairs of his perceived authority are in a constant state of this…

 

…and having reneged on his promises after forcing them to do his dirty work, it is revealed that in reality Trump is just a pathetic little man…

 

…who if he had not inherited his father’s business empire, he would not have qualified for entry in any school of higher learning, and would have been just a quack fortuneteller, mainly that of his own fantastical view of himself.

But that is all on the “outside.” What about inside the man? Now, we could call him a megalomaniac, a psychopath, a pathological liar. He is all of those things to be sure, but when Google AI is occasionally useful, it can produce a list which I am sure most thinking people will say describes Trump’s psychology perfectly:

 

This list is the response to the query “childlike psychological traits in adults,” and specifically those deemed “negative” traits. So this is the man who the world must deal with, and when you put so much power in the hands of such a childlike man who the U.S. Supreme Court nevertheless decided was “immune” from any accountability for actions motivated solely from juvenile negative impulses, people on the receiving end of his disturbances have little protection, given that Trump and his henchpersons tend not be “inconvenienced” by the law. 

We see this in his “final solution” of mass deportations that is ensnaring not just parents with U.S. citizen children, but now U.S. citizen adults as well--which we were all warned about but don't seem to "mind" as long as it just those brown-skinned people being rounded-up, just like the U.S. citizens who were rounded up and "repatriated" to Mexico during the Great Depression, something people don't  talk about but was in many ways worse treatment than the Japanese internment.

Obviously it is difficult to deal with people who cannot handle concepts like right or wrong. The other day on my way to the “office,” I encountered an employee at the corner 7-Eleven sweeping up a small hill’s worth of broken glass, which was needed as a result of what ended-up as this temporary “fix”: 

 

 

No, this act of vandalism was not perpetrated by participants in that anti-ICE protest, who merely left behind  evidence of their activities such as this:

I asked the employee what happened, and he sheepishly confessed he was at fault, but declined to discuss the circumstances.  The next day I encountered a security guard standing watch out front, and making an inquiry in regard to the matter, she told me that it was something about a “donut,” which I surmised being familiar with that location it likely involved a “discussion” between a vagrant and the employee concerning payment of said item. The employee probably should have just let the man walk with the donut, but because it was a matter of "law" which he did feel beholden to, the vagrant decided to take destructive retribution out on the window.

Minor crimes like this happen all the time, and police don’t have time for that, but they do seem to have time to protect masked and unidentified ICE Getapo thugs "kidnapping"--as described in a 9-1-1 call--a U.S. citizen who had just gotten out of a car driven by her mother and was attempting to walk to work 1.

Why is it a "surprise" to some people that we are seeing what we have all been warned about, that the lawlessness of the Trump administration is ensnaring innocent U.S. citizens? While we see localized confrontations with lawless ICE thugs, in general there has been no discomfort with these actions on a political level, at least not from Republicans or the U.S. Supreme Court, even though it is illegal for immigration authorities to detain U.S. citizens. 

Yet this lawlessness is being allowed to happen because most people in this country don’t see anyone who is Hispanic to be a “real” American who has rights anyone is bound to respect, even those with indigenous “blood” whose ancestors passed through this land tens of thousands of years before any other “race” or “ethnicity” did--let alone those who were actually born here.

Instead, it is being claimed by DHS that Andrea Velez allegedly “punched” an ICE thug, which seems unlikely since she was detained literally seconds after her mother dropped her off. It is clear that it is ICE thugs who are the ones acting violently, yet we hear Trish McLaughlin try to “justify” the illegal detaining of a U.S. citizen as one would expect from one of Trump's "talking" Barbie dolls who you just pull the string and out comes the same lies over and over again.

The lies just keep coming and coming. A magistrate judge declared that the Trumped-up charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be insufficient to justify keeping him in prison, although his attorneys admitted he needed to remain in custody for his own safety from ICE thugs who intend to deport him immediately upon release without due process served, although at the moment the DOJ and Abrego's attorneys are in "discussion."

When the little man needs to be propped-up to become that phony "wizard" in order to press his full weight on a powerless immigrant,  the Blonde Barbie triumvirate of Leavitt, Bondi and McLaughlin insult us at every opportunity with outrageously overblown depictions of Abrego's alleged  “crimes.” They lie so often it is treated now as a “joke” on social media, which it clearly is not, but only worthy of an occasional rebuke by judges and observers who can do nothing but be fodder for more insults by the Trump version of DEI hires.

The corrupt Pete Hegseth  certainly qualifies as a DEI hire based on Trump's own definition of the term, who is clearly incompetent and without any ethical or moral sense. Yet he and Bondi (who has gutted the Justice Department to prevent it from doing anything but what is considered “necessary” by Trump's vindictive mind) are going to go after “leakers” with the help of another Trump DEI hire, Kash Patel, who we learn from questioning in Senate committee hearings only sees his “job” as a means to carry out his own juvenile personal vengeance.

Not surprisingly, that “leaker” of a intelligence report that questioned the effectiveness of Trump’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities made the "error" of assuming American intelligence has a clearer understanding of facts than the Israeli intelligence. But it doesn't really matter, since Trump only accepts "intelligence" if it aligns with his overblown interpretations of his actions.

Facts don't matter; if there are "alternative" version of events, Trump picks the one that makes him appear to be "great," not an incompetent fool. A story in Popular Mechanics questions the effectiveness of the “bunker-busters” against Iran’s concrete bunkers 2 , but it shouldn’t be at all surprising that Trump is reclaiming the claim that he “obliterated” the Iranian nuclear sites based not on U.S. intelligence but Israeli intelligence, and only those sources who support his claim. ABC News reports that not everyone in Israeli intelligence is so “sure” of that:

Another Israeli source cautioned against decisive assessments. “The most honest are those who say they don’t know yet—anyone who says it was a failure is pushing in the wrong direction, anyone who says it was 100 percent obliterated is also pushing in the wrong direction.”

Iran’s leadership is claiming “victory” by inducing Israel to accept a ceasefire, but it is apparent that this is for propaganda purposes within Iran. Trump of course likes propaganda too, and he fashions it in a way to insure that he isn't blamed for subsequent failure. For now he claims that he “did his job” and it will be up to “future administrations” to clean-up the mess he made in the Middle East. Iranian leadership seems to be more interested in its own “survival” rather than talking with Trump, in fact has less motivation to do so, and while it is generally believed it is not a good idea to test Trump craziness, it isn't certain he will do anything if he isn't "certain" of the result--like, say, sending U.S. troops to Iran.

On the other hand, one wonders if Kim Jong-Un has anything to worry about. If the U.S. wanted to end his nuclear weapon program, that should have been done a long time ago; but now, “bombing” North Korean nuclear weapons would likely have region-wide repercussions from potential radiation spread. Despite reports that Kim is “taking note,” this time it is North Korea that has more “leverage” than Trump does to make a “deal”—which of course is why “negotiations” in Trump’s previous administration failed.

So what has Trump actually “accomplished” that has made America “great”? We are still waiting for all these trade “agreements” that everyone knows that if Trump actually goes through with reinstating those tariffs, stocks and the economy will tank; one may read the history books on how the Great Depression was made worse by the last tariffs made on such a scale, passed when the Republicans still controlled Congress in 1930 and made into law even after his economic advisors pleaded with Hoover not to sign it. As for Iran, how will Trump react if their leaders simply refuse to talk to him? Then who will be the one made a fool of again, this time by Israel?