Let the Imperial Flailing begin!

[PCIntern]

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Well, for many months His Majesty had been looking forward to his version of a Celebration about which he, once again, deceived himself and his shrinking band of followers/subjects/hypnotized slaves into believing that this would be the extravaganza to end all extravaganzas.

Of course, as usual, he fell woefully short of the mark and it’s fortunate that it wasn’t even more of a disaster than it was.

That being said, he is going to be channeling all of his pent-up frustrations towards whomever he perceives at the moment to be another of his mortal enemies. He is going to be enraged and even more irrational and uncontrollable. The problem for us is that no matter what theoretical line he may cross, it no longer matters one whit: for the MSM it is just another day, for his fans, he’s “doing good for Amurika”, and for us it’s fulfilling our expectations of “lower and lower with no end in sight”.

He was expecting a big lift and instead he once again got nailed. “Hell hath no fury as a Trump scorned”. Congreve wrote that, he really did…all the printings of his works have contained a misprint for 400 years. Everyone knows this.

It’s gonna be a long week in my opinion

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Hell hath no fury as a Trump scorned

No one has to rewrite history to understand

[Blues Heron]

2. I'm sure Cuba will be on the menu soon

[wnylib]

9. He's setting up for it with his anti communism speeches. .

It's been on his agenda for a long time, but he's ready for action now to make himself an anti-communist hero before the midterms. Combined with his accusations of Dems as communists, he expects to cut Dem wins in the midterms by attacking Cuba.

An attack on Cuba could also rile up his thugs against Democrats.

[Bluetus]

15. Demagoguery that works at 45% won't work at 28%

So far, Trump hasn't linked Cuba with the communists that are overtaking our cities. There is obviously no evidence of that. I'm not sure he has any particular plan here. It seems to me, this is all about Mamdani, and the string of other progressive wins since then. It is about a massive outrage as Americans understand just how much the foreign agency that cannot be mentioned here has been manipulating our President and Congress. It is about the Democratic Party reaching a tipping point of progressives that are no longer willing to be pushed out of the way It is about the need to reform the SCOTUS taking hold in a way that could overwhelm our political process.

Trump has lived his whole life in a small bubble. He doesn't understand these things. He doesn't believe there are millions of people who feel this way. In his mind, anything that benefits average people instead of billionaires is communism: from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs. That's as far as his brain goes.

Will he take this on to Cuba? Maybe. Undoubtedly that is part of his frequent secret calls with Putin. We know Trump's transactional mind says "Everthing in the western hemisphere is mine, and you can have everything in the eastern hemisphere." But that eastern hemisphere thing is not working out so well for Putin. He is now watching a mass exodus from Crimea, which will render moot his effort to capture the "land bridge" down the west bank of the Sea of Azov. If he loses Crimea, then that becomes a bridge to nowhere full of dead Russians.

So I am not sure we can count on Putin giving up Cuba.

[wnylib]

18. Trump often does not make a direct statement

connection, e.g. between communism in Cuba and the people in the US that he labels as communists. He creates implications and images for people to make associations with. He uses innuendo.

There is no doubt in my mind that he is trying to set up a suggestive connection between Dems and Cuba to discredit Dems who promote social programs. Reich thinks so too. That is the whole point of his article. When you read the rest of it at the link, Reich mentions why Trump would think of using the Red Scare tactic. Trump is old enough to have remembered the McCarthy hearings of 1954. Roy Cohn was an attorney closely associated with McCarthy and the use of the Red Scare tactic. He later became Trump's mentor.

But Reich cites studies that show that younger Americans who have no memory of the McCarthy era of the 1950s are not buying into the scare tactics. I hope that they turn out in large numbers to vote because there are older voters who can be influenced by the innuendo that social programs in the US are the same as communism in Cuba.

I am a few years younger than Trump. I have a couple vague memories of the McCarthy hearings. One is of hearing kids my age in the neighborhood repeating what they heard their parents say, that there were communists in the government who want to take it over and let Russia conquer the US. At that age, I had no idea what communism was, but knew that it was something really bad. I also had a general picture of how big the US is and the distance from Russia due to educational map toys. My father and uncle were WWII vets so in a child's trust of adults, I believed that nobody could take us over. I did not believe what the kids said and told them so.

Looking back, I wonder about the gullibility of their parents. Those were children of Democratic parents in a Dem neighborhood in a very Dem city.

The other vague memory that I have is of my mother dusting off tables and knick knacks in our living room with the TV on. There were serious looking men in suits on TV raising voices in a way that was scarey to me. I did not understand anything they said but felt fear because of their tones. My mother, an FDR Dem like my father, slammed a vase down.on a table and said, "Witch hunt! Goddamned with hunt!" I was shocked at her anger and use of a curse word. She never yelled and never swore. It was many years before I learned what it was about.

[Bluetus]

19. I don't deny that Cuba could fit into the thinking, but it is clear to me that is not the main motivator

Cuba has been there all along. The new element is Mamdani, and a whole string of huge and astounding upsets that are turning political calculus upside down in the GOP (and a good part of the Dem Party too.)

Others may take a more sophisticated analysis of this wave of change. Trump's brain is not capable of that today, and probably never was, actually. So he reverts to what he does best. He goes with his reptilian brain and starts hurling insults.

[wnylib]

22. I think that you are missing my point and that we actually agree

on Trump's motivation for speeches about communism.

He is motivated by Mamdani and the recent DSA wins in the primaries. So he is labeling them as communists and extending the label to all Dems to discredit us.

But he is also linking that to Cuba, a communist nation. He has long wanted to attack and take over Cuba. There are businesses and perhaps still even some mobsters who want to get back into Cuba, where they had free reign under Batista.

I believe that it is a Trump goal to boost his labeling of Dems as communists and himself as an anti communist hero by invading and taking over Cuba. As anti communist hero for liberating Cuba, he hopes to pose himself as a defender of the US against "communist Dems" in order to defeat Dems in the midterms.

He believes that he can solve several problems at once by invading Cuba. One is to distract from his disastrous failure in Iran. Cuba is militarily weak. US forces could probably pull off another invasion like in Venezuela. That would give him an image of success to promote as a counter to the failure in Iran.

He also thinks that he can solve the midterm problem by invading Cuba. He has laid the groundwork for labeling Dems as communists because of DSA primary wins. Once he has "liberated" Cuba he can then turn to the midterms with calls to defeat "Dem party communists" at home.

So I think that the invasion of Cuba will be soon since we are already in July now. He will want to have the defeat and control of Cuba wrapped up in time for the midterms.

[Keepthesoulalive]

3. Last night he went on a whining spree

Defacing Mount Rushmore is next.

[hunter]

5. Which President is he going to rework into his own likeness?

And what will he do when the project fails spectacularly...

[sagetea]

10. It's not one of the Presidents he's going to replace...

It's Crazy Horse's profile he's going to erase.


Sage

[hunter]

14. Has Trump ever ridden a horse?

Animals frighten him.

[sagetea]

16. I'm sure he can't ride a horse.

But Crazy Horse's profile is in the area where he's put his big fat head on.


sage

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Great analysis as usual, my dear PCIntern! I always enjoy reading your take on stuff like this.

[PCIntern]

17. I am sincerely honored and grateful

[modrepub]

6. But The Market Is Up

Mostly….for now….at least I think so….

[ZDU]

8. "... the market is 50,000 dol...."

Pam, we hardly knew ye....

[Martin Eden]

7. Every day is like a week, every week like a month,

Every month like a year, every year an eternity with the Mad King ruining our country.

Unfortunately, that kind of time slowing down does not slow down the aging process for us. Constant rage and grief is not good for health.

[BobsYourUncle]

11. And this is day 531!

Yikes!

[dalton99a]

12. With still two and a half years to go

[ChicagoTeamster]

13. But he embezzled the money and shorted the people doing the actual preparation

And then let quacks and charlatans give presentations

[ananda]

20. I think you meant Congreve.

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride

[PCIntern]

23. I stand corrected. Thank you.

[wiggs]

21. Correct. Even if TSF manages to control himself this week, it's terrifying that we have to talk about and worry

about the possibility of his disorders getting the best of him with disastrous results.