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Right?!

I enjoyed The Mandalorian. I enjoyed Boba Fett. Hell, I even foundĀ Obi Wan engaging enough to watch through the entire series. But everything since? I can’t make it past the first episodes…

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Completely Batshit Deranged

From Greg Fallis:

Iā€™m really beginning to believe that a line has been crossed. Iā€™m talking about the line between neurosis and psychosis. Iā€™m talking about Donald Trump.

A week ago, on August 30th, Trump sat down for a chat with Tiffany Justice of ā€˜Moms for Libertyā€™ (which, seriously? Is there a ā€˜Moms Adamantly Opposed to Libertyā€™ group somewhere?). The issue of trans rights came up and Trump said something completely batshit deranged.

ā€œThe transgender thing is incredible. Think of it. Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides whatā€™s gonna happen with your child. And you know, many of these childs [sic] 15 years later say, ā€˜What the hell happened? Who did this to me?ā€™ They say, ā€˜Who did this to me?ā€™ā€

Thatā€™sā€¦well, as I said, completely batshit deranged. And as much as I complain about the news media ā€˜sanewashingā€™ the batshit deranged stuff Trump says, I have to admit that I did the same thing. I laughed with others about it, and basically dismissed it as Trump being a fucking bonehead again, exaggerating wildly for effect. Because, cā€™mon, ainā€™t nobody gonna to believe a kid goes to school and comes home days later (I guess the kidā€™s parents were busy and didnā€™t notice he was gone for a few days) with an entirely different set of gender tackle.

But then yesterday Trump held a rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin. And guess what? He basically repeated that same completely batshit deranged story. He said,

ā€œCan you imagine youā€™re a parent and your son leaves the house and you say, ā€˜Jimmy, I love you so much, go have a good day at school,ā€™ and your son comes back with a brutal operation. Can you even imagine this?ā€

No. No, I canā€™t imagine it. In fact, I canā€™t even imagine any rational person saying it. I especially canā€™t imagine a fucking candidate for POTUS saying it. And I double especially canā€™t imagine a fucking candidate for POTUS believing it. But Iā€™m actually beginning to wonder if Trump does, in fact, believe something like that is happening. I mean, if you say something completely batshit deranged once and it gets reported as being completely batshit deranged, a person who is NOT completely batshit deranged would know NOT to repeat it.

Completely batshit deranged.

But here we are. And all of a sudden, Iā€™m hearing the lyrics to Psycho Killer in my head.

You start a conversation, you canā€™t even finish it
Youā€™re talking a lot, but youā€™re not saying anything
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed
Say something once, why say it again?
Psycho Killer
Quā€™est-ce que cā€™est?

Seriously, quā€™est-ce que fucking cā€™est? Itā€™s delusional, is what it is. And that brings me right back to that line I said may have been crossed in the opening paragraph. Back in January of 2021, in an article about Trump for Psychology Today, Dr. Stephen Diamond wrote this:

Once a person, including a leader, has crossed over the line from neurosis to psychosis, for, by definition, a delusion is a psychotic rather than neurotic symptom, that person has now become debilitated or disabled by a severe mental disorder, and may no longer be able to continue to perform or discharge their job responsibilities safely, efficiently and effectively. Their reality testingā€“which is different than neurocognitive functioning per seā€“has been significantly impaired.

Bingo. By repeating that completely batshit deranged story, I have to question if Trumpā€™s reality testing has gone down the porcelain facility. Itā€™s pretty widely accepted that heā€™s had a severe personality disorder for decades. But has he crossed that line? Is he actually delusional?

Iā€™m thinking the answer is, yeah.

VOTE BLUE!

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