Unhinged and unbound
I spent an evening once with students in the hallway of a Vienna dorm listening to American rock and drinking bootleg schnapps crafted by somone’s grandfather. The English idiom “bootleg” took some explaining. It led to a long, alcohol-fueled exchange of English and German idioms. One German idiom for insane that stayed with me was, “Er hat nicht alle Tassen im Shrank.” (He doesn’t have all his cups in the cupboard.)
Watching clips from a couple of Donald Trump appearances last night brought that back in a big way.
Perhaps you’ve heard that under Joe Biden our airports are failing and in chaos? People are erecting tent camps because of flight delays, Trump claims. Trump heard something about “people camping out at the airport” because of a delay, put 2 and 2 together and got 5. It’s so crazy, noted Josh Marshall, that the Biden-Harris rapid response account simply reposted the rant without comment.
Trump seems bothered by all the musings about his mental state after his rambling about electric boats and sharks. Rather than pretend he never said it, as he often does, he doubled down and made it worse.
“Wow. His brains are pudding,” commented Spiro’s Ghost. Trump claims genetic brilliance and “aptitude” because he had an uncle who once taught at MIT. Have you heard?
“Jesus H. Christ, Trump. You and the f——- shark,” tweeted former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. “Just jump the shark. Just jump the goddamned shark. Again.”
Trump has really got it in for power generation technology not based on fossil fuels: windmills, electric cars, etc. Remember his hostility to the Navy shifting its new carriers from steam-driven to electromagnetic launch catapults?
“It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out,” he told Time in 2017. So much for the very stable genius’ aptitiude.
Thus, electric trucks are on Trump’s shit list. Electric: bad. Did you know that unlike electric-powered trucks, diesel-fueled semis can drive from coast to coast without stopping? And yet there are truck stops every few exits.
And water. Trump is obsessed with toilets and showers, convinced none of them work properly because of water conservation. News to you? Me too. He’s added dishwashers to the list.
But Trump’s enemies, of course, are the “sick people.” George Washington did not own slaves. Who knew?
And scum. His enemies are scum.
Especially undocumented immigrants. Recall Trump’s insistence that Mexican migrants are “bad hombres“? Trump now thinks someone should form a “migrant league of fighters.” Gladiators for your entertainiment. Trump suggested the league to UFC President Dana White, Forbes reports.
After condemning Milwaukee, the largest city in a state he must win, Trump went off on Philadelphia, Pennsylvania too. Both heavily Black.
Not that Trump could remember where he was.
At least North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un loves him.
Oh, and prep for this week’s presidential debate? Every accusation a confession? The internet lit up on Saturday after Trump’s suggestion that President Biden will get some sort of performance-enhancing “shot in the ass” before going on stage. *
And Trump’s beautiful body.
Okay. I see I’m way over time.
We know by now that Trump is (choose your idiom) mentally unbalanced. But as Digby mentioned yesterday, you must spend 12 minutes on this MSNBC segment with the head of the Heritage Foundation. The prion disease has spread to the entire MAGA movement.
* Had to add this. Dr. Ronny seems strangely well versed in brain-spiking medications, doesn’t he?
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