Thank you, Bandy, for that synopsis of America's, and the world's, sobering and ominous predicament. The unanswered questions now no longer concern Trump himself as much as the deficiencies in moral character and mental health among those tens of millions who continue to support, acquiesce to or silently comply with and deny his marauding criminality, terror and fascism.
THE MOUTH (MURDERER Donald) … the following by RALPH NADER 2026-02-23 …
“Trump – by far the most impeachable of presidents and the least negatively branded by his opponents – must wonder about his luck. Consider, he is a convicted felon, a chronic liar, a serial law violator, a repeated sexual abuser of women, a crooked extortionist, a hugely corrupt user of the White House to enrich the Trumpsters, a shatterer of the social safety net for tens of millions of Americans, a slasher of safeguards and scientific research against catastrophic climate violence and pandemics leaving America rapidly defenceless, and a crazed suppressor of solar energy and wind power while boosting the omnicidal oil, gas, and coal industries. Moreover, he pathologically breaks his promises and pledges, presiding over record waste, shutdowns, and censorship, ushering in the DARK AGES for America.”
I say from Australia …
CRIMINAL TRUMP IS A MURDERER.
Start with the people killed in boats.
There are 500 million civilian guns in the UNTIDY STATES OF AMERICA … what the heck !
You forgot about the 1.1 million American's that died due to Covid. Donald Trump persuaded followers to disregard scientists and medical professionals regarding COVID-19 through a strategy of direct undermining, promotion of alternative narratives, and political weaponization of public health guidance. According to researchers, Trump was the "single largest driver" of coronavirus misinformation, accounting for nearly 38% of the misinformation "infodemic" And... the millions of people effected by the abrupt dismantling USAID and similar programmes, lack of adequate health care, hospitals, food programmes, assistance to elderly and disabled. The list goes on.
I think the more important question to ask is,why are so many Americans ok with destroying democracy? Because he couldn't do this if they didn't allow it.
Epstein belonged, & belongs, to Israel & Mossad. Beyond this, can no one see the giant Succubus attached by its sucking tentacles to the U.S. body politic? It is the creature outside of nations, nourished by billionaires’ untenable offshore accounts, whose dark monies buy our congresspersons — with a VERY FEW notable exceptions! Europe doesn’t allow this kind of $&/influence in elections; neither does Canada. Billionaire oligarchs are eating us alive. The U.S. spends billions more on health care than any other nation, bankrupting its citizens - instead, Trump GIVES hundreds of billions$$ to crony billionaires who buy elections for him, &’underwrite Trump bitcoin grifts. We donate $30+ billion ($130 B!) to Israel, so Israel can buy billions in arms from the United States. Israel spends her own tax dollars providing FREE education and health care for its citizens, while U.S. taxpayers go without health care— WE are using our tax dollars to support Israel. Trump has closed down our independent airways, and we are told the reason we are without housing, education and healthcare is BECAUSE OF foreign “illegal” immigrants — women & children We are told “THEY belong in jail”- actually, it is the pres & his billionaire grifters who belong in prison for attempting to overthrow the U.S. government & deny our constitution.
I'm troubled by this course of events, even as I believe that the state of Israel has a right to exist. The issue at hand is how to go about defending that right in a humane way. It's not about the Jewish people themselves, as many Israelis oppose Netanyahu. The ideal would have every country prioritize secular law based on independent, objective and material evidence for equal justice for all. It would include freedom of religious belief of whatever kind, as long as religious practices adhere to that secular law. Yes, it's an ideal but worth asserting over and over.
It isn’t just one person. The president has many enablers. In addition, there are many men who are not able to exist in a society that doesn’t place them at center. They are angry that their entitlements have been chopped away and they are actively lashing out at women and people that aren’t them. They are a large part of the problem too.
…in principle you’re right, only he is NOT a fucking president, stop calling dictator a “president”, words matter
…this country was a shithole when they made prisons for profit, “healthcare” as the most lucrative business, where young people graduating and can’t find a appropriate job, but owe for this education leg and an arm, lobbyists who really running our country and career politicians /millionaires…
…should i continue?
…consumerism, political ignorance, religion and lack of proper education made this country a politically impaired nation
…it didn’t happened overnight, for decades the trick was to convince american liberals they still live in a democracy, while led them to the point of no return by pulling the rug under their feet, but they still don’t fucking get it
Dr. Lee has spoken about who aligns themselves with narcissists.. Fellow narcissists and trauma bonded people. Look here and see how so many are either manipulated or follow along basically, because they like trump, approve of what he's doing.
Regarding Trump’s “ability to charm and captivate”: I can’t understand how this perception endures. I have always found him to be a self-promoting showboater whose sense of humor consists of humiliating others. I’ll never understand why this isn’t immediately obvious to anyone who listens to him for more than 30 seconds.
Dr. Robert Altemeyer was a psychologist who spent over 30 years researching not the authoritarian leader but the authoritarian personality type of followers. theauthoritarians.org He consistently found three main factors that describe them: First, of course, adherence to an authority figure, second, aggression in the service of that adherence, and third, "conventionality," or a return to their idea of another time when things were supposedly better. The second two factors have played out for all of us to see--for example, January 6 and "MAGA"/racism, respectively. There are theories about why such personalities develop, but anyway like the polling numbers show, there seems to be a certain percentage of maybe any population that includes them. We in the majority just need to out-vote them!
I wouldn't call it contrarian, just sane! If you're interested, in his free book online, you can take the RWA (Right Wing Authoritarian) "test" that Dr. Altemeyer refined over all those years. I'd guess you'd score low. On Wikipedia, "Bob Altemeyer" is a good summary. Also on Wikipedia is a good discussion of the RWA scale with an objective critique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism Nevertheless, I think it's held up pretty well.
But, those in MAGA are Fans. They are left over from his ‘Show’, plus those egged on Insurrectionists he urged to raise the WH on Jan 6th. They either don’t understand nor want to, that he’s Not in show business…he’s made himself POTUS with the aide of his billionaire buddies…because he wanted to be the most powerful man in the world😤🤦♀️🤷♀️
Trump is certainly a psychopath, but Ronald Reagan’s gutting of broadcast safeguards and enabling of Rupert Murdoch meant that Trump could be enabled by a national propaganda machine, as well as being backed by wealthy reactionaries. Murdoch and Ailes made a deliberate decision to back Trump. Without an unaccountable propaganda machine masquerading as an actual responsible news source to legitimize and promote him in order to build his base, Donald Trump would be a bankrupt has-been. Given the base built for him and the backing he had, how exactly could he been stopped?
Few people seem to understand the critical role played by Fox News. They
were left free to propagandize for 30
years, doing an immense amount of
damage.Then along came unregulated social media & dark internet platforms doing further damage. While we were kept busy with proliferating mass shootings, professional purveyors of antisocial manipulations undermined & exploited our vulnerable young people with Nazi leanings, into an army of ICE thugs who now terrorize us. What has happened is a multi-pronged social revolution aimed at criminalizing and corrupting every facet of our federal government. And
Continuing my previous post…other regulations they scrapped, such as the one prohibiting media monopolies. It’s like trust busting. Then there’s social media. Forgoing any responsibility for content under the guise of free speech is nonsense. Mandatory fact checking and content guidelines are not oppression, they are responsibilities of providing a platform.
“We” is not the problem. “We” could, with the political power that Trump’s unfolding disaster may deliver, could resurrect the fairness doctrine that Reagan’s appointees scrapped, along with
I'm surrounded by privileged Democrats who "don't want to hear about politics anymore" as I read about concentration camps being built for people like me. It's not okay.
As a geriatrician who is aghast at how the American people have ignored medical warnings about Trump’s psychopathology and progressive dementia, I thank you for all the work you’ve done to clarify the danger of a Trump presidency.
While the midterms will clip his wings, I remain very concerned about Trump’s final act. This impulsive, fragile, reckless, and increasingly confused old man acknowledges no boundaries.
This is the guy with the codes to the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. And he will do anything to stay in power.
Doctor, it's his entire administration. Everyone that works for him is mentally ill. The military brass that goes along with the evil is culpable. So were the war mongers under Biden. It's an American mental illness.
This citation from your other essay, "Crimes against Humanity that would Dwarf the Epstein Scandal", says it all about the Epstein atrocity: "The UN experts also raised concerns about 'serious compliance failures and botched redactions'. More than 1200 victims were identified in the documents that have been released, while initially every potential perpetrator’s name except Epstein’s and Ghislaine Maxwell’s was redacted. "
The video, placing the Family Court scourge in telling perspective, say is all as well as pre-meditated struxural violence. G-D bless your tireless advocacy. Others may dismiss your essays as mere jeremiads. I prefer to call the prophetic in the sense of righteously bringing us up short.
"13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her . . .
"14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments."
Historians observe that part of successful resistance includes creating societal structures around the pathological systems of authoritarian governments. Tad Stoermer gives the example of the Underground Railroad. It was illegal due to federal and state laws. It flew in the faces of white wealthy men. I believe that organizations of people of all backgrounds, professions, expertise, and, most important, life experiences can form to subvert authoritarian governments. Frankly, to hell with the APA! To hell with the Democrats, Republicans, and all enablers. You persistently put your wellbeing at risk for the sake of the world. I know there are others as well. It seems we the world are like a critically ill patient so delirious in its disease that she/he fights the very people trying to heal the patient. Importantly, people believe in people.
Thank you, Bandy, for that synopsis of America's, and the world's, sobering and ominous predicament. The unanswered questions now no longer concern Trump himself as much as the deficiencies in moral character and mental health among those tens of millions who continue to support, acquiesce to or silently comply with and deny his marauding criminality, terror and fascism.
THE MOUTH (MURDERER Donald) … the following by RALPH NADER 2026-02-23 …
“Trump – by far the most impeachable of presidents and the least negatively branded by his opponents – must wonder about his luck. Consider, he is a convicted felon, a chronic liar, a serial law violator, a repeated sexual abuser of women, a crooked extortionist, a hugely corrupt user of the White House to enrich the Trumpsters, a shatterer of the social safety net for tens of millions of Americans, a slasher of safeguards and scientific research against catastrophic climate violence and pandemics leaving America rapidly defenceless, and a crazed suppressor of solar energy and wind power while boosting the omnicidal oil, gas, and coal industries. Moreover, he pathologically breaks his promises and pledges, presiding over record waste, shutdowns, and censorship, ushering in the DARK AGES for America.”
I say from Australia …
CRIMINAL TRUMP IS A MURDERER.
Start with the people killed in boats.
There are 500 million civilian guns in the UNTIDY STATES OF AMERICA … what the heck !
Where are they ?
Fire TRUMP with Rule AK47.
… 🦘🦘🦘
You forgot about the 1.1 million American's that died due to Covid. Donald Trump persuaded followers to disregard scientists and medical professionals regarding COVID-19 through a strategy of direct undermining, promotion of alternative narratives, and political weaponization of public health guidance. According to researchers, Trump was the "single largest driver" of coronavirus misinformation, accounting for nearly 38% of the misinformation "infodemic" And... the millions of people effected by the abrupt dismantling USAID and similar programmes, lack of adequate health care, hospitals, food programmes, assistance to elderly and disabled. The list goes on.
👏👏🦘🦘😊👍
🎯🎯🎯 "This was Predictable and Preventable—Indeed, We Predicted It & Tried to Prevent It"
I think the more important question to ask is,why are so many Americans ok with destroying democracy? Because he couldn't do this if they didn't allow it.
… adopt 'RULE AK47' !
In 1939, such had to commence and be done in Deutschland.
Epstein belonged, & belongs, to Israel & Mossad. Beyond this, can no one see the giant Succubus attached by its sucking tentacles to the U.S. body politic? It is the creature outside of nations, nourished by billionaires’ untenable offshore accounts, whose dark monies buy our congresspersons — with a VERY FEW notable exceptions! Europe doesn’t allow this kind of $&/influence in elections; neither does Canada. Billionaire oligarchs are eating us alive. The U.S. spends billions more on health care than any other nation, bankrupting its citizens - instead, Trump GIVES hundreds of billions$$ to crony billionaires who buy elections for him, &’underwrite Trump bitcoin grifts. We donate $30+ billion ($130 B!) to Israel, so Israel can buy billions in arms from the United States. Israel spends her own tax dollars providing FREE education and health care for its citizens, while U.S. taxpayers go without health care— WE are using our tax dollars to support Israel. Trump has closed down our independent airways, and we are told the reason we are without housing, education and healthcare is BECAUSE OF foreign “illegal” immigrants — women & children We are told “THEY belong in jail”- actually, it is the pres & his billionaire grifters who belong in prison for attempting to overthrow the U.S. government & deny our constitution.
You are right about all of this Laulette!
I'm troubled by this course of events, even as I believe that the state of Israel has a right to exist. The issue at hand is how to go about defending that right in a humane way. It's not about the Jewish people themselves, as many Israelis oppose Netanyahu. The ideal would have every country prioritize secular law based on independent, objective and material evidence for equal justice for all. It would include freedom of religious belief of whatever kind, as long as religious practices adhere to that secular law. Yes, it's an ideal but worth asserting over and over.
The antisemitism is vile and repellant in your comment. Do better.
Jonji … I see you as unfortunately another thoughtless THEIST yelling from the rooftops.
From Australia … 🦘🦘🦘
🙄🥱
👏👏👏👍
It isn’t just one person. The president has many enablers. In addition, there are many men who are not able to exist in a society that doesn’t place them at center. They are angry that their entitlements have been chopped away and they are actively lashing out at women and people that aren’t them. They are a large part of the problem too.
He’s so pissed that it all ain’t about him that he keeps trying to make it so.
…in principle you’re right, only he is NOT a fucking president, stop calling dictator a “president”, words matter
…this country was a shithole when they made prisons for profit, “healthcare” as the most lucrative business, where young people graduating and can’t find a appropriate job, but owe for this education leg and an arm, lobbyists who really running our country and career politicians /millionaires…
…should i continue?
…consumerism, political ignorance, religion and lack of proper education made this country a politically impaired nation
…it didn’t happened overnight, for decades the trick was to convince american liberals they still live in a democracy, while led them to the point of no return by pulling the rug under their feet, but they still don’t fucking get it
…we created the empire and now we have an emperor
Dr. Lee has spoken about who aligns themselves with narcissists.. Fellow narcissists and trauma bonded people. Look here and see how so many are either manipulated or follow along basically, because they like trump, approve of what he's doing.
Regarding Trump’s “ability to charm and captivate”: I can’t understand how this perception endures. I have always found him to be a self-promoting showboater whose sense of humor consists of humiliating others. I’ll never understand why this isn’t immediately obvious to anyone who listens to him for more than 30 seconds.
Dr. Robert Altemeyer was a psychologist who spent over 30 years researching not the authoritarian leader but the authoritarian personality type of followers. theauthoritarians.org He consistently found three main factors that describe them: First, of course, adherence to an authority figure, second, aggression in the service of that adherence, and third, "conventionality," or a return to their idea of another time when things were supposedly better. The second two factors have played out for all of us to see--for example, January 6 and "MAGA"/racism, respectively. There are theories about why such personalities develop, but anyway like the polling numbers show, there seems to be a certain percentage of maybe any population that includes them. We in the majority just need to out-vote them!
I guess I’m just a contrarian who’s on guard when encountering that personality type.
I wouldn't call it contrarian, just sane! If you're interested, in his free book online, you can take the RWA (Right Wing Authoritarian) "test" that Dr. Altemeyer refined over all those years. I'd guess you'd score low. On Wikipedia, "Bob Altemeyer" is a good summary. Also on Wikipedia is a good discussion of the RWA scale with an objective critique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism Nevertheless, I think it's held up pretty well.
Thanks for the recommendations!
Exactly.
But, those in MAGA are Fans. They are left over from his ‘Show’, plus those egged on Insurrectionists he urged to raise the WH on Jan 6th. They either don’t understand nor want to, that he’s Not in show business…he’s made himself POTUS with the aide of his billionaire buddies…because he wanted to be the most powerful man in the world😤🤦♀️🤷♀️
Thanks Dr. Lee for your warnings of almost a decade about the evil, cancer & contagion that’s taken over America.
Thank you, Dr Lee, as always.
Many of us believed you the first time. Looking forward to reading your next installment.
And just today he has joined war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu in bombing and war making on Iran.
A Psychiatrist Breaks Down The Real Reason Donald Trump Bombed Iran: Follow The Money.
TRUMP WAS PAID TO BOMB IRAN
Dr. RUSSELL RAZZAQUE
https://youtu.be/9_lR1UH-IY4?si=9QYtKy5aK80J0G9H
From Australia … 🦘🦘🦘
Netanyahu provided cryptocurrency…
Trump is certainly a psychopath, but Ronald Reagan’s gutting of broadcast safeguards and enabling of Rupert Murdoch meant that Trump could be enabled by a national propaganda machine, as well as being backed by wealthy reactionaries. Murdoch and Ailes made a deliberate decision to back Trump. Without an unaccountable propaganda machine masquerading as an actual responsible news source to legitimize and promote him in order to build his base, Donald Trump would be a bankrupt has-been. Given the base built for him and the backing he had, how exactly could he been stopped?
Few people seem to understand the critical role played by Fox News. They
were left free to propagandize for 30
years, doing an immense amount of
damage.Then along came unregulated social media & dark internet platforms doing further damage. While we were kept busy with proliferating mass shootings, professional purveyors of antisocial manipulations undermined & exploited our vulnerable young people with Nazi leanings, into an army of ICE thugs who now terrorize us. What has happened is a multi-pronged social revolution aimed at criminalizing and corrupting every facet of our federal government. And
we can’t seem to do anything about it.
Continuing my previous post…other regulations they scrapped, such as the one prohibiting media monopolies. It’s like trust busting. Then there’s social media. Forgoing any responsibility for content under the guise of free speech is nonsense. Mandatory fact checking and content guidelines are not oppression, they are responsibilities of providing a platform.
“We” is not the problem. “We” could, with the political power that Trump’s unfolding disaster may deliver, could resurrect the fairness doctrine that Reagan’s appointees scrapped, along with
I'm surrounded by privileged Democrats who "don't want to hear about politics anymore" as I read about concentration camps being built for people like me. It's not okay.
Thank you for staying informed. And adding to community here. We have to stay compassionate and related!
America's Spiritual Poverty, Exposed. Are we the victims of bad medicine?
We can MAWA (Make America Wealthy Anew), and amplify good medicine to make good politics.
https://sunmoonlight.substack.com/p/americas-spiritual-poverty-exposed
As a geriatrician who is aghast at how the American people have ignored medical warnings about Trump’s psychopathology and progressive dementia, I thank you for all the work you’ve done to clarify the danger of a Trump presidency.
While the midterms will clip his wings, I remain very concerned about Trump’s final act. This impulsive, fragile, reckless, and increasingly confused old man acknowledges no boundaries.
This is the guy with the codes to the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. And he will do anything to stay in power.
Doctor, it's his entire administration. Everyone that works for him is mentally ill. The military brass that goes along with the evil is culpable. So were the war mongers under Biden. It's an American mental illness.
This citation from your other essay, "Crimes against Humanity that would Dwarf the Epstein Scandal", says it all about the Epstein atrocity: "The UN experts also raised concerns about 'serious compliance failures and botched redactions'. More than 1200 victims were identified in the documents that have been released, while initially every potential perpetrator’s name except Epstein’s and Ghislaine Maxwell’s was redacted. "
https://youtu.be/4yrAoOD5UYk
The video, placing the Family Court scourge in telling perspective, say is all as well as pre-meditated struxural violence. G-D bless your tireless advocacy. Others may dismiss your essays as mere jeremiads. I prefer to call the prophetic in the sense of righteously bringing us up short.
"13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her . . .
"14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments."
It’s amazing how far people will go to save their holes …
Historians observe that part of successful resistance includes creating societal structures around the pathological systems of authoritarian governments. Tad Stoermer gives the example of the Underground Railroad. It was illegal due to federal and state laws. It flew in the faces of white wealthy men. I believe that organizations of people of all backgrounds, professions, expertise, and, most important, life experiences can form to subvert authoritarian governments. Frankly, to hell with the APA! To hell with the Democrats, Republicans, and all enablers. You persistently put your wellbeing at risk for the sake of the world. I know there are others as well. It seems we the world are like a critically ill patient so delirious in its disease that she/he fights the very people trying to heal the patient. Importantly, people believe in people.
You linked to a fake AI video of George Will - you need to do better. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fox-news-george-will/
She issued an erratum. Probably thanks to your being alert 🙏🏾👍🏾🙏🏾
Yes- very professional and much appreciated. The rest of her post, as usual, is spot on.