I watch lots of youtube, a movie review on Twitch, and never watch CNN/MSNBC or anything else... ever. I drifted away from it all, because it's .. depressing dross. I can get all the news and analysis on mastodon. That's where I'm at.
Debating is not governing. My advice to Biden supporters and Americans in general is to double down on your support for Biden, if only to confound those who wish to destroy your morale. Biden had a cold, it wasn't a strong performance, but at the end of the day, so what? Democracy, or a twisted, orange version of Nazi Germany, or Putin's Russia is the alternative. Vote accordingly.
The pain of contemplating how much damage Trump has caused to America is depressing me to such a degree, I'm going to go to bed, and find solace in unconsciousness. 👍
@samhkennedy@ArenaCops@gfjacobs@Nonilex Calm rational analysis concludes that while Biden is old, his cognitive faculties seem to be operating in the 'normal' range, while Trump is clearly exibiting symptoms of chronic dementia, comorbid with obvious criminal-insanity, in the form of Malignant Narcissism.
The social psychologist Erich Fromm first coined the term "malignant narcissism" in 1964. He characterized the condition as a solipsistic form of narcissism, in which the individual takes pride in their own inherent traits rather than their achievements, and thus does not require a connection to other people or to reality. Edith Weigert (1967) saw malignant narcissism as a "regressive escape from frustration by distortion and denial of reality", while Herbert Rosenfeld (1971) described it as "a disturbing form of narcissistic personality where grandiosity is built around aggression and the destructive aspects of the self become idealized." Psychoanalyst George H. Pollock wrote in 1978: "The malignant narcissist is presented as pathologically grandiose, lacking in conscience and behavioral regulation with characteristic demonstrations of joyful cruelty and sadism". In 1983, M. Scott Peck used malignant narcissism as a way to explain evil.
It's a little-known fact that it's not REQUIRED for a female suspect to be patted-down by a female officer, merely preferable. The problem being there are a limited number of female officers, so it's simply not always possible to procure one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld2Te2_VgiQ
If Trump dies during the night, he will deprive me of something to rant about, and force me to rant about Ted Cruz, or the Russo-Ukraine war, death, and taxes, which are at least not orange, and clowns.
Trump is just another object to rant about, almost by default, a clear, identifiable abuser of my being, distinct from the multitude of deeper, formless, nameless tormentors of my body, heart, mind, and poor soul. A flesh and blood, walking, talking something to vent my insensate wrath upon. A bloated orange bastard that is easy to loath, in a life full of difficulties.