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More evidence that the president of the United States is psychotic. He’s been called out on this lie for many years. Once upon a time he knew he was bullshitting. But he has convinced himself of it now, as he has with all of the other fantasies with which he today soothes his fragile ego and that the world watches and listens to every day. That’s the end stage of narcissistic sociopathy, of malignant narcissism. He’s rapidly decompensating into psychosis, and it’s accelerating. Are we really still going to entrust him with the nuclear codes? Is the media still not going to talk about the president’s depleted mental health?

“One former Administration official told me that the President is ‘trying to project an image of American greatness,’ then suggested that I consult a relevant book, ‘Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics.’”

This detailed report not only illustrates Hegseth's profound incompetence, but also his rabid antipathy to competence in others.

This is good political advice. But it assumes that Trump is sufficiently rational and mentally sound enough to listen to it and to follow it. He's not and therefore won't. The same irrationality and impulsivity that caused him to create the problems that now beset him, and by extension, us, prevent him from recovering from those problems.

It’s right out of the authoritarianism how-to manual

We are watching, in real time, the biggest fuck-up by any president in the history of the United States of America.

Donald Trump opposes affordable housing. Pass it on.

It is not defamation. Not even close. It is not false to state that a man who forcibly inserted his fingers into a non-consenting woman’s vagina has raped her. That’s because, as the distinguished district judge in Carroll v. Trump explained more than once, and as dictionaries confirm, the word “rape” is broad enough to encompass forcible, involuntary penetration of the vagina or anus by fingers or some foreign object, even if under the specific criminal code provisions of some (but not all) jurisdictions, non-penile penetration is categorized as sexual abuse or sodomy. It is therefore not defamation to state that a man who, like @realDonaldTrump, was found unanimously by a federal jury to have forcibly inserted his fingers into a non-consenting woman’s vagina, is an adjudicated rapist. Because he is. But even if the word “rape” were categorically defined to exclude non-penile penetration (which it is not), the description of Trump as an adjudicated rapist would not be actionable under the defamation-law doctrine of “substantial truth,” which provides that, if the gist, or sting, of a challenged statement is not significantly different in reputational effect from the actual facts, there can be no liability. And here there can be no serious argument that committing forcible sexual abuse is any less morally reprehensible or reputationally damaging than committing forcible rape. So it’s a fact and not defamatory to state that Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist. He may be an adjudicated digital rapist, to be more precise, but he’s still a rapist, and it’s long past time that people stop pretending that he isn’t and wasn’t found to be one—or that forcible sexual abuse is somehow more tolerable than forcible rape. Thank you for your attention to this matter.