Monday, August 3, 2020

A Very Sick And Troubled Man

              Former Pennsylvania governor and the first Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge has been largely out of the pubic eye for about fifteen years....with the exception of campaigning for a while for John McCain in 2008. He is a decorated Vietnam veteran who first graduated from Harvard....and then served in the army as an enlisted man....highly unusual I would think...and then later continued his post-graduate work. Donald Trump....about two years his junior....chose a different path.
              Ridge appeared in a video news clip opposing federal agents being sent to our cities....and sure enough Donald Trump saw the clip.....for he must spend all of his considerable free time surfing the news for stories that would affect his polls. This alone has been troubling since he became president...and there are other stories about his desk in Trump tower stacked with articles on his celebrity on it.
              So the President saw the Ridge video....whereas he could have been reading briefs on China and Taiwan....or Israel and Iran....or Putin's latest adventures....and he immediately went to Twitter with this...."Recently watched failed RINO Tom Ridge, former head of Homeland Security, trying to justify his sudden love of the Radical Mayor of Portland, who last night was booed & shouted out of existence by the agitators & anarchists. Love watching pathetic Never Trumpers squirm!"
              This is one seriously sick and troubled man. This has been his whole life....but we don't read about his whole life do we? He must have a hammerlock on Mike Pompeo and others whose futures rest on staying in his good graces....for them to put up with this nonsense. John Bolton for his part had had enough....but then he is a...."lowlife dummy."
               Donald Trump's narcissism is not a normal narcissism....it is a reality changing narcissism. His lying is more a sickness than an act....and his needing to seek vengeance is bordering on sadistic. A judge ruled just today that Michael Cohen should be released to home confinement because his being sent back to jail was obviously retaliatory for his writing a book. Donald Trump would be a textbook case study on quite a number of psychological disorders. 
                Is this really important in the bigger scheme of things? Well....take China for example....this is how I viewed it as it happened....President Trump chose to put the screws to China with tariffs....it wasn't that long before this that he seemed to love Xi Jinping.....did China just start with their theft of intellectual property....and it was very risky....for we may want many things from China.....but what we should want most of all....is no war! The President and his men bragged on how they were turning the screws....and then came a virus. Whatever China did.....and we will probably find out in due time.....they....having the screws turned....and all of this for profits above the greatest profits America had ever known....(according to the words of President Trump)....they.....China....did us and the world no favors with the virus. The important thing in Trump's mind on this virus is that it destroyed his great campaign economy. Trump was going to get back at Xi Jinping....and then came the new cold war....and what may be next.....you probably do not want to hear. So....are mental disorders important in a President of the United States? Yes.