Pic Of The Moment: So Let Me Get This Straight

[EarlG]

Trump urges Supreme Court to keep his name on ballot, warns of 'bedlam'

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. traitortrump depends on chaos and bedlam to entertain his cult members.

[TwilightZone]

2. Well, he is an expert on the subject.

[republianmushroom]

3. You have it correct.

[FakeNoose]

4. Interesting word origin of "bedlam"

It was a corruption of the word "Bethlehem" which was the name of an old mental hospital in London, England. The mental patients were treated like prisoners to prevent injury to themselves and others. I'm too lazy to look this up, but I believe it goes back to the 18th century, before modern medicine and modern treatments of mental illness were even a thing.

So yeah, "bedlam" is the right word here.

[3auld6phart]

10. Bedlam Hospital

Once a Hospital. Turned into a mental asylum. About 1840 or so. The building still stands there. Now part of the Imperial war museums complex in Suthwark, London..

[Midnight Writer]

5. Chaos and bedlam is all Donald Trump offers. Win or lose, he will create chaos and bedlam.

I'd much rather see him creating his chaos and bedlam from his golf club than from our White House.

[DENVERPOPS]

6. Frankly

I am surprised Trump hasn't coined the expression: "Helter Skelter" which was Manson's name for his stated goal of destroying blacks across the entire U.S.

[lastlib]

9. (don't give him ideas......) n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Trump is trying to crash the economy with fear, pessimism, and logical fallacy

The longer House, Senate, State, and SCOTUS Republicans can stretch out this fairy tale,

the better chances they will have of pulling it off.

It is a strategy that includes demoralizing rational, free-thinking people, women, and all Democrats.

[aggiesal]

8. Irony Deficient n/t

[spanone]

11. Succinct

👍🏼

[Kid Berwyn]

12. By Jove, I think he's got it!

Donald Trump’s Brain Is a Catch-22

By Jeannie Suk Gersen
The New Yorker, January 26, 2018

A performative contradiction is a statement whose effect goes against its intended meaning. A canonical example is Donald Trump’s January 6th tweet in which he insisted that he is a “very stable genius.”

Snip..

Questioning Trump’s mental capacity nourishes fantasies of ousting him from office via the Twenty-fifth Amendment. At the moment, it may seem the more likely route of removal, since the other path—impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors”—seems like a foreclosed possibility so long as Republicans control Congress. The meaning of “high crimes and misdemeanors” for impeachment purposes is famously underspecified, and is not synonymous with “crimes” for purposes of ordinary criminal liability. (It is unlikely that a sitting President can be criminally indicted in court.) But many people hold out hope that, if the special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation discloses a federal crime, that revelation may spur Congress to impeach Trump (though Congress need not wait for Mueller’s findings to do so).

There is a tension between these two paths. In the hypothetical scenario in which Trump’s mental impairment warranted invoking the Twenty-fifth Amendment, that same impairment might also render him incapable of having criminal intent.

Continues...

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trumps-brain-is-a-catch-22

One can see where all 91 counts of performative jurisprudence are heading.

[niyad]

13. Yes, you understand perfectly.

[niyad]

14. Stroke out already, you F'n, murdering, demented, orange, RAPIST, TRAITOR**!!!

[twodogsbarking]

15. Have you ever met someone that explains something to you and then you are even more confused?

[58Sunliner]

16. Which the orange pos would be orchestrating. Again.

[sop]

17. At some point someone within our national security apparatus will be forced to do something about Trump.

This shit can't continue. The man is literally destroying the rule of law in this country. We can't survive another four years of his relentless attacks on our democratic system.

[redqueen]

18. K&R

[Johonny]

19. Should we let 34 year old foreign born

People run or non-Americans? Unfortunately for Trump he violated one of the few rules for eligibility defined in the constitution. If the court blows the 14th off, it allows these other rules be put into question as dumb as that feels.

[Iggo]

20. If you punish me for insurrection it could lead to insurrection.

Simplified it for him.

[Initech]

21. Funny how our laws change dramatically depending on what talk shows you watch.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

22. K&R

[BSdetect]

23. cognitive dissonance at work

[Demobrat]

24. So the Supreme Court is suppose to

make decisions based not on the rule of law, but on Trump’s threats of retaliation. And he put that in a legal brief. Okey dokey.

[dalton99a]

25. "I Alone Can Fix The American Carnage I Create

and I can do it in two weeks"

[pwb]

26. I think it would bring joy to the country. Celebrations

in every street. Opposite

[Blue Owl]

27. Diarrhea Donny shit the bedlam again

[Bucky]

28. Dysfunctional people excel at projection

Gaslighting and narcissism are the salt and pepper of abusive personalities