• You can take the bully out of the schoolyard, but you can’t take the bully out of the boy, by Hal M. Brown

      Jan 16, 2025
      Uncategorized
      bullying, donald-trump, Politics, Trump

      When Trump finally falls asleep at night he may dream of vanquishing a group of attacking thugs or being in a boxing ring intimidating his opponent with his snarling face and rippling muscles. He may also have dreams about leading a SWAT team raid against undocumented immigrants. He didn’t need to be dreaming when he…

    • Hegseth, the disrespectful somatic narcissist, by Hal M. Brown

        Jan 15, 2025
        Uncategorized
        mental-health, narcissism, narcissist, relationships, somatic-narcissism

        The photo of Pete Hegseth wearing a bathing suit after being in a swim event across the Hudson River is making the rounds on social and regular media. He has a large American flag over his shoulder. In addition to wearing the bathing suit, his displaying the flag is begging for people to pay attention to…

      • Shortly after the damning Jack Smith report was released Trump rants about… wait for it… Seth Meyers, By Hal M. Brown

          Jan 14, 2025
          Uncategorized
          donald-trump, jack-smith, news, Politics, seth-meyers, Trump

          The Jack Smith report about Trump’s election interference was released last night a bit after midnight. Just before 1:30 AM Trump took to Truth Social to blast late night comic Seth Meyers. This is because Meyers said “Trump is caught in the middle between the MAGA diehards and the rich oligarchs who helped him get…

        • Trump posed for photo op with Alberta premier with insulting billboard on his head, By Hal M. Brown

            Jan 13, 2025
            Uncategorized
            donald-trump, MAGA, news, Politics, Trump

            I don’t see anything surprising or particularly wrong with the story above. It makes sense that a conservative Canadian poltician like Alberta’s premier Danielle Smith wants to curry favor with Trump. What struck me was the hat Trump was wearing. With Trump, vanity is a prominent part of his narcissism. In this way he’s more like Narcissus than a…

          • The emperor has no clothes and truth in packaging presidential promises, by Hal M. Brown

              Jan 12, 2025
              Trump
              emperor-has-no-clothes, emperors-new-clothes, trump-emperor, trump-emperor

              Bear with me on this, and if you haven’t figured out why I used the illustrations above you will.My partner and I are on the keto diet to lose the weight we gained during the pandemic. That’s irrelevant to the point of this blog. To explain though, I was getting bored with the regimen of no carb…

            • The politics of booze, by Hal M. Brown

                Jan 11, 2025
                health
                alcohol, cancer, health, news, surgeon-general, wellness

                If wine consumption is reduced significantly it will hurt wine grape growers in my home state of Oregon, across the country, and in the rest of the world. I don’t know what crops, if any, would replace the grapes growing in our beautiful wine country. The picture is from one of our many road trips…

              • For MAGA oligarchs it’s all about rubbing our noses in their billionaire power privilege, by Hal M. Brown

                  Jan 10, 2025
                  Uncategorized
                  Elon Musk, mark-zuckerberg, news, Politics, Trump, zuckerbergs-watch

                  I’m not going to write about how Trump again proved he’s above the law by getting barely a slap on the wrist in his sentencing this morning. Instead, I will focus on another wrist. This is the wrist of Mark Zuckerberg who, of course, is in the news having announced that he is ceasing to…

                • Forget the narcissism in malignant narcissism, Trump is just pure malignant, by Hal M. Brown

                    Jan 9, 2025
                    Malignant narcissism, Trump
                    narcissism, narcissist, psychology

                    ‘Malignancy’: Historian says ‘everything just feels worse all the time’ with Trump  is the article in RawStory that prompted me to write, for the umpteenth time, about Trump being a malignant narcissist. I also posted a comment along with an AI picture of Trump looking at himself in a mirror. Wikipedia gets everything right about…

                  • Whether it’s demented or not, we’re all now at the mercy of Trump’s big brain, by Hal M. Brown.

                      Jan 8, 2025
                      Uncategorized
                      Dementia,, donald-trump, health, mental-health, Politics

                      How the holy Hell does Hezbo-f*cken-llah being involved in Jan. 6th pop into Trump’s brain when he’s downplaying what happened on Jan. 6th? Here’s is the excerpt about this from HuffPost: Trump took questions from reporters near the end of the roughly hour-long remarks, during which he pledged to make “major pardons” for people convicted of…

                    • Do you know what the Streisand effect is? It has nothing to do with singing but is relevant to efforts to hide the truth. By Hal M. Brown

                        Jan 7, 2025
                        Trump
                        barbra-streisand, donald-trump, news, Politics, streisand-effect

                        Click here to enlarge the original image of Barbra Streisand’s cliff-top residence in Malibu which she attempted to suppress in 2003 to full size. I didn’t know what The Streisand effect was until I read this on BlueSky: Click above to enlarge. Here’s an explanation of what the Streisand effect is: The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to…

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