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Trump politically weaponizes Coronavirus

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Yes, we are living in strange times. Perhaps the strangest of all are the leaders we "elected". Is it all a cruel joke? And perpetrated by whom or for whom? These are perplexing questions. The tragedy is that many more lives will be lost because of these misguided leaders. Trump is attempting to weaponize the Coronavirus pandemic to deflect from his ineptness. He is throwing the blame on Democratic governors, WHO, Obama administration, scientists, health care workers stealing supplies, the Chinese, and whoever else he can find. He is extracting praise for his performance from the desperate governors. He is seeing to it that shortages are not in red states and that his base is not too disturbed by mitigation measures. Trump's news conferences are hardly more than self-promotions. They must be music to the ears of those who love what he stands for. In this age of Trump America is being confronted with a question of its identity. More than just stirring ...

Donald Trump: Mask and Weakness

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Trump has now succeeded in literally becoming what his father groomed him to be, a "killer". Trump did not pull the trigger, but he triggered a hate-filled racist man to do it for him. In the wake of the El Paso massacre we need to better understand the mind of Trump and what he is capable of doing. How far is he willing to go to save himself from going to jail? When I watched the video of Trump "condemning" violence, it was a disembodied voice delivering the speech. The message is that he does not believe what he is saying. His eyes were squinting and his face was stretched into a weird sort of grin, as if internally he was pleased. People still give him the benefit of the doubt, that he will do the morally right thing. But that will not happen. He will take them for fools again. Since we can not get Trump on a psychiatrist's couch we need to resort to more indirect techniques to understand his psyche. First, I will examine Trump's main weakness th...