"He's Deteriorating in Plain Sight"

zsomething wrote:And now Bolton's out, because Trump wanted to invite the Taliban over to make friends with 'em.

When you're too crazy for John Bolton... wow.  I hate the evil-Captain-Kangaroo-from-another-universe, but I can't really blame him for fleeing Trump's toxic cesspit.  I think he's going to end up with nothing but a cabinet made of FOX News personalities and televangelists, because those are the only people who still like him.  (And, um, I'm not sure Jerry Fallwell Jr.'s going to be available).

Somebody said something on Twitter I was jealous of --  "I'm glad Obama killed Bin Ladin before Trump could make friends with him."  

Sal wrote:The really scary part is that without exception every official who has been shitcanned in this administration has been replaced by something much worse.

A Judge Jeanine vs Sebastian Gorka cage match to determine Bolton's replacement?

Floridatexan wrote:

Donald Trump apparently does not enjoy that effect. His ghostwriter on The Art of the Deal, Tony Schwartz, told Reddit during an Ask Me Anything session that the president is "the most purely evil human being" Schwartz has ever met.

"I believe deeply that most people are better than their worst behaviours," he wrote. "I also believe there are some who are simply irredeemable and evil. [Psychiatrist and author] Scott Peck called them 'People of the Lie'. They lack any conscience, as Trump does, and so they're almost purely evil. Trump is the most purely evil human being I've ever met, and also the most insecure."

The worst thing about working with Trump? "The shortness of his attention span and his utter lack of interest in anything but himself."

Schwartz has spent the last few years doing a very public form of penance for helping to build the edifice of Trump as a master businessman by dragging him at every opportunity. He added that the biggest change in Trump since the time Schwartz worked with him was that he'd become more rabidly horrible.

"If he had any ideology when I met him, it was faintly libertarian," Schwartz said. "As in: You do whatever you want to to do so long as it doesn't get in the way of my doing whatever the hell I want to do. In the last few years I believe he has moved relentlessly to the right. He's become more nativist, racist, narrow-minded and he's now just a shade to the right of Attila the Hun."

Any more for any more? "I never saw him read a book, and other than The Art of the Deal, I suspect he's never read a book in his adult life," Schwartz said. "As for comprehension for what he does read, I'd say it's early high school level. To judge his writing level, read his tweets, particularly the angrier ones, which is most, and which he writes himself. His way of communicating is very primitive."

Floridatexan wrote: