AIBU to think Trump appears increasingly unhinged?

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Are you concerned that Trump has totally lost his marbles?

Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP

I think they are shortly due an election.

Only "over a million"? Include the concentration camps, and the Russian/Ukrainian losses and all the civilians on both sides and it's a darn sight more than that. Call it something between 60 and 75 million and you'd be closer to the mark.

Not to do with the post I replied to, but can someone explain what relevance Biden having cancer and a speech impediment has to Trump being unhinged? To me, every mention of either previous presidents or other world leaders or the other American political party as being somehow to blame for Trump going mad seems like whataboutery. We might as well blame Mick Jagger and Taylor Swift while we are at it.

Whatever the reason for his having been elected, the question is whether he appears increasingly unhinged, not what other people in the public eye may be.

Yeah, nothing wrong with him. Totally normal, folks.

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Time for an army coup. Unless Nurse Ratched is dispatched with a big syringe first.

Barking mad.

Voters have no more reason to be disenchanted with the Democrats than with the Republicans.

People might not have liked what happened around Biden but it pales in comparison with what's happening around Trump.

I don't disagree that the Dems are fractured, but so are the Republicans at this point. Even the MAGA base is split, which has been coming on slowly, but is now exacerbated by this very unpopular war. Trump's approval rating is just above 30%.

I'm not naive enough to think that all disenchanted R voters will go to Dems, as I suspect a good portion of them are going to go to a different but equally repellent new branch of MAGA. But Dems are winning all over the place right now in pretty much every special election including in places where Trump absolutely romped in 2024. If - and it's a big if - the November elections are free and fair, I have no doubt the Dems will take the house and get some control back. Right now, everything's in the hands of the Republicans. Then there will be a primary where the candidates really hash things out in front of the public and we'll have to see.

I recommend listening to Americast on BBC Sounds. It explains many of the intricacies behind what goes on in the US and how their system works (or doesn’t). One of the biggest differences is that the ‘cabinet ‘ works for the president and not the American people.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p07h19zz?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

While it's true that cabinet secretaries are appointed by the president and senate confirmed, there are departments that are expected to function in an independent non-partisan manner. The Department of Justice, the office of management and budget, the director of national intelligence, the CIA and the Environmental Protection Agency are all meant to function relatively independently. The problem is that between DOGE and Trump, they've all been hollowed out of career civil service employees, experts and independents and replaced with sycophants.

Wtaf.
If hitler had tweeted right lads tonight we obliterate a race, would they have just said ah hes nuts sure what can u do.
What kind of fuckery are we allowing happen. He should be arrested.

Jill Biden was deceitful in her concealment of her husband's condition. I annot fathom why she did this - it was cruel to her husband and disastrous for the country. Was she keen to hold on to power for him - or maybe for herself since was very involved in his presidency?

And Biden himself was a disappointing character, even before his illness. I had high hopes when he won - oh, the relief! - but he was either too old, already becoming ill or just a massive let down.

Oh and - I doubt Melania Trump has much to do with her husband these days.

I feel it's all talk and showmanship. A narcissistic mind in action.

Could the US really wipe out Iran even if they wanted to?

Well, with nukes I suppose. But the effects would be global.

You are really clutching at straws now.
Embarrassing.

The latest from the stable genius

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?

We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

But Biden.

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Sorry to go off piste...this isn't about the UK...

I think there are so many areas where it becomes clear that the UK's political system, unwritten constitution etc etc, constitional monarchy for the frills etc, works far better than the much-vaunted US system.

It's a very long time since anyone managed to progress from a log cabin to the White House.

I think that, because there's almost no glamour attached to being PM in the UK (you live in a black-brick terraced house, you fly in RAF jets from Northolt etc, not Airforce One), it doesn't attract the power-and-glamour-crazed types like Trump. The decorative stuff is done by the monarch, who is forbidden to make political comments and power is very much spread out and kept in check in the UK.

In what way exactly? Where were you during the crisis when all this played out?

Can you two get a room?

What condition?

His cancer?

Or maybe you can be a bit more specific in what exactly you are hinting at.

Stop blaming Biden and the Democrats for Trump. America is a democracy, people voted how they wanted. The fact that Trump is a narcissistic madman apparently considering genocide is on Trump, the people surrounding him, and a system that can't stop him.

Where was i?
Oh please.
This but biden obsession doesnt wash anymore. No one does anything except laugh at the lucicrousness of it.
Dont even bother love. We see you for what you are.
Embarrassing.

Biden would never have posted what Trump just did, killing a whole civilization.

Ok hes gone full on genocidal madman...hes threatening an entire civilisation with death....the cabinet and military around him now surely have to have alarm bells ringing...he is not sane and not fit to continue to hold office. He should be immediately removed from power before he does any more harm...surely nobody can pretend that this farce can go on any longer...the US now surely have to invoke the amendment to get rid of him..

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And Biden himself was a disappointing character, even before his illness. I had high hopes when he won - oh, the relief! - but he was either too old, already becoming ill or just a massive let down.

I think the thing about Biden was that he was not so afraid or so stupid that he had to know more than everyone about everything; instead, he gathered around him people who did know their stuff, and then let them get on with doing what needed to be done.

While he was in office a lot of good stuff did happen (and Trump is now systematically destroying what he can of it). Healthcare in general, and the cost of medications, would be an example: anyone with diabetes, or with a relative who has diabetes, ought to be glad the cost of insulin was dramatically reduced under Biden, and that wasn't the only one; and the number of people who could afford to be insured for healthcare rose. Salary increases outpaced inflation by 2024, and there was more job growth than under any previous president (mind you, he came after Trump and covid so that isn't entirely surprising: there was a low bar). The cost of living went down, after being out of control during his first two years. He did a lot for green energy and green spending in general. Homicides fell overall, as did violent crime.

And yet people disapproved of him. I conclude that he had the temerity to have cancer and that means he was a failure. Oh, and that stammer!

Was term 1 this unhinged?