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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

If you took all the worst character traits of the most infamous villains in history: dictators, war criminals, serial killers, pedophiles and slave traders and created the worst monster imaginable in Dr Frankenstein's biology lab, you would not be able to conjure up something worse that Donald Trump.

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

I do not understand why he hasn’t been charged with threatening a government official? He posts threats almost daily against prosecutors, other elected officials and on and on! This is beyond dangerous!

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

Fomenting violence might be enough reason to deny him bail. One can only hope.

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

The deranged psychopath posted a picture of himself with a baseball bat next to Bragg, and called him an animal. That looks like a clear threat to me, and a demonstration of the fascist he is. Although I love animals, deranged psychopath hates them. And using the fascist playbook dehumanizing people again. His threats should be enough right now to put him in jail. Anybody else would already be arrested.

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

Lucian, you finally corrected my blunder. For years I had labeled Trump as a sociopath. Silly me! I have been too kind. He is a legitimate PSYCHOPATH!

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

“Trump seems to think he is beyond the reach of the law”. Well, sad to say, that’s because thus far in his long and disgraceful life he is. Who else could threaten to rain down death and destruction if he’s indicted and get away with that? It’s his social media site. He has the spineless losers of the GOP terrified to go against him. Even Nixon lost his support. The Republicans didn’t want to go down with him. This is pretty damn sad. I’ve read that Bragg was asked to step back so more substantial indictments could come down. I hope that’s the case and that he wasn’t called off or successfully bullied.

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

"Why & who would do such a thing? Only a degenerate psychopath"

Projection. Always Projection.

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

It's called narcissistic collapse. He's decompensating while we watch. It's going to get worse, much worse.

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

My longtime interpretation of DJTSpeak is that he accuses others of exactly that of which he is unabashedly guilty. Here again. He announces his guilt.

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

Enough is enough already this criminal belongs behind bars and his mouth taped

so we don't have to listen to his rhetoric and foul language any more. Don't really

care if he is a former president or not ....get him out of our sight and hearing range!!

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

"...On October 26, 1963, just a few weeks before he was assassinated, President Kennedy traveled to Amherst College to speak at the groundbreaking of Robert Frost Library and to honor the poet Robert Frost, who taught for years at Amherst and whom Kennedy admired.

In his speech, Kennedy paid tribute to Frost’s particular achievement, but also hailed the critical role that artists play in society, reminding his audience that “if sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes them aware that our Nation falls short of its highest potential.”

Kennedy emphasized the importance of art, artists, and poetry in helping a nation define its values, expose its failings, and hold its leaders accountable. His voice was clear and emphatic, and his rhetorical gifts fully evident. Looking at the original typescript of his address, it is bracing to see the scrawl of his pen clearing away swaths of words and crossing through high-flown language, honing the power and impact of his statement to match the significance of his thoughts. The following frequently cited lines, with their repetition, rhythm, and economy, instantiate what they assert: the irreplaceable role of poetic language in leading us to important truths:

“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment."

Basic human truth as the touchstone of judgment; art as the source of human truth. Good art, as Kennedy points out, does not aim to indoctrinate, but to question, enlarge our sense of the possible, and remind us of our limits.” ---Biddy Martin, President Amherst College, in JFK, The Last Speech

How far we have fallen.

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

You got it precisely right - deranged psychopath. He’s also a traitor.

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

I think it's hilarious that Trump's flying monkey squad call themselves 'proud boys', which in ranching terms means a gelding that thinks it still has its balls.

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Mar 24, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

He should watch his blood pressure. No, wait. Have a dozen quarter pounders instead. With extra salt.

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This is another one of his cons: force Bragg to arrest him, then ask his dumb followers to give him more money. Arrest him with no bail. Rikers Island!

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"Trump seems to think he is beyond the reach of the Law"...........well because he is. Name one thing he has been held accountable for.

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