5/6 - Trump doesn't partake in events; he profits from transactions. He judges capriciously, out of what he considers divine entitlement. He doesn't interact with others, he lords over others as if they were mere objects.

4/6 - Neither you nor I can EVER feel the kind of desperation and rage Trump feels now. Because you and I are members of society and all its relationships and interactions, and we boast a full emotional spectrum. Not Trump. He is the entirety of his universe.

3/6 - By any objective psychological or pathological standard, he's ill. But he has NEW fears now beyond pathology - losing his physical health, and his acuity. He hates himself for it; for showing limitations.

2/6 - What drives that malice, is fear. Fear of losing. Fear of being unable to influence the narrative. Fear of constraint. Fear of losing his self-concocted aura of grandiosity. Fear of exposure of a lifetime of secrets and lies. Paranoid rear. Parasitic fear. Fear of humiliation.

6/6 - This is a man now terrified that all that he is, and all that he ever said he was - his entire lifetime of false constructs - is crumbling into the ash of a fake myth.

This is a rage-filled malignant narcissist -- in deep decline.

Parseltongue...

WHAT FUCKING WAR????? With little speed boats? If you're at WAR that needs approval through congress. So, again, WHAT FUCKING WAR?

The fog of war defense. If you didn't see survivors from all the fog, how did you know to launch a second strike?

Some u-boat commander killed a bunch of helpless shipwreck survivors, and the excuse he ginned up was that he was shooting at the wreckage, not the luckless sailors clinging to bits of it.

They shot him. And a couple of his accomplices.

2/2 Part of the pain in watching that response is knowing how the reported patently illegal orders will affect US servicemembers.

I highly recommend this essay by @marknevitt.bsky.social (Commander, JAGC (ret.)):