His goal is to become a trillionaire. As long as he can rake in the cash, he is happy.

at the same time.

Screwing them, cheating, lying, committing crimes with no consequences.
He really loves this part.

He goes up against someone or something that has no interest in a fight and tries to wear them down so they'll concede something and make him look like a winner. Which is just one small part of what makes him a total loser.

He loves all the toadying up to him, jockeying for power, etc.
He gets off on the cruelty.

All his grievance comes from the gut knowledge that more than half of the people absolutely revile him - and he craves either love or vengeance. Draining the country of all its value is that vengeance. Love me or die.

but no matter the magnitude of his unpopularity it will be, in his little mind, those who disapprove who are wrong.

His personality disorders won't let him accept that he's wrong about anyything.

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He believes he is brilliant, special, entitled.

I think now he is just all about making money.
That is all he really cares about.

He is also quite angry and his second goal is revenge on everyone.

he's heading for an epic downfall. I hope he lives just long enough to experience it.

I agree, in the normal world he would be on a course towards an epic
downfall of Shakespearian proportions.

Donald Trump is incapable of shame.

...but he CAN be embarrassed.

Those low ratings can help with that.

... protection squad in Congress starts to crack.

He may not care, but he does care about holding his grip on the party. And he is reportedly afraid of causing a 1929. He would try to unlawfully remove Powell in a heartbeat but for the fact that even a hint that he would take out that stabilizing force sent the markets plummetting -- and so he backed off.

He will follow his worst impulses more often than not though. And that will steepen his already steep downward trajectory.

One way or the other, he's not running again.

He doesn't give a tinker's dam about his popularity.

A matter of time now. There is no escaping their downfall

And I'm not religious

and the scale of destruction that he can inflict in the next 3 3/4 years is something I try not to dwell on because it's disturbing.

Hopefully, he faces some consequences, but he has a long track record in his life of avoiding that. Best case scenario is probably that he dies, but after seeing that Vance is every bit as committed to Putin's playbook, it won't provide much relief.

We really need to pick up 4 Senate seats in 2026, which is a significant challenge. If Ossoff can hold on, there's Maine, North Carolina, hopefully Sherrod Brown in Ohio (not an easy task, but possible), but then what could be #4?

"The walls are starting to close in on Trump" means something entirely different for the author of this article than it does to me. For him it means low polling. I don't think anyone in the Trump administration is particularly interested in or concerned about polling. They will just continue on, blithely doing what they want to do. Republicans in the Senate have ceded their power to Trump and the administration seems to have no intention of following court directive, so it's all good to them.

To me, "The walls are starting to close in on Trump" means his staff is packing a go-bag for him, looking for countries without extradition treaties with the US, and making sure Air Force One is gassed up and ready to go.

From my perspective, a big difference.

and the polls. I doubt they have the coherence, intelligence, know-how, or balls to withstand this assault, and the pressure will continue to mount.

And no R2D2 to save him.

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How many times we have heard this before?

How history will record it.

That article ends with a link to this one, which says this:

Seems unlikely, and I'm not sure we'll even have legit midterm elections.

Also, I don't like the prospect of President Vance.

They need to be prison walls.

are meaningless when the vote is counted by ElonComputers. Before we have a wet dream we should give reality a look see.

Other than a Federal Judge here and there, there's nothing standing in the way.

The wholesale revanchist dismantling of the Federal bureaucracy continues unabated.

We haven't even gotten to the Reconciliation Bill that's coming.

While it's nice to point out the one poll where he is at 42%, the average of the major polls has him at 46.6%.

How it's that high, no one knows.

More graphs in the article, but I displayed the graph of the President's 1st 100 days for each President since 2008.

will be surrounded and crushed as a consequence of his walls.

The con man has lost all of the confidence he had managed to acquire.

What is left are the diehards, those that have played his Wall Street game and followed his "tips".

It is a sickening situation but the reality is that no one can trust him or believe in him any more.

They need to find a way to remove him from the Office of the President as he is anything but a President. He is a con man plain and simple.

...if he didn't. He is completely unable to ignore even the smallest slight or insult.

How many times have we heard him rant about being treated poorly, or complain that someone was "not nice" to him, or express great admiration for some real creep who strokes his ego?

I am so ashamed of my country now. He has ruined our international reputation and will destroy the robust economy President Biden created.

RIP America 1776-2024

A new poll suggests roughly a fourth of GOP voters support giving the president authority over the rule of law and civic institutions.
https://bsky.app/profile/tinalq.bsky.social/post/3lngwglmdys2j

Link to tweet

He's done it time and time again. I fervently wish I was wrong-but I trust my instinct on this. I can't describe how hopeless it makes me feel.

He doesn’t care about polls. He doesn’t care about any of this because it’s all meaningless. None of it is going to stop Project 2025. None of it is going to stop the horrific things these people are doing. The crashing of the markets will continue, the flaunting of laws and courts will continue. Public opinion polls aren’t going to bring back funding for diseases, healthcare, education or stop ICE from grabbing people off the streets.

These people are there for four fucking years. He’s not going anywhere unless he drops dead. This country is already fundamentally changed by the actions of the people making this policy, which is not him, and will be completely unrecognizable by the time they’re done.

The elected Republicans are the only people who can stop this and as Murkowski said, the ones who know better are all scared to death. The others actively want these things to happen. They won’t do anything at all to put an end to it.

Walls closing in? Hardly.

popular opinion is meaningless in dictatorships.
most of history's worst dictators were hugely unpopular

and if you think the next election is going to fix this because we have free and fair elections,
you are even further wasting your time

the possible ways this could end any time soon are diminishing

Impeach, remove and replace! Let’s elect more Democrats like AOC and be done with this fascist bigot.

and see how many people respond positively to THAT....

just because I am very interested in polling statistics.