A political ideology of psychopathic cruelty is shameful, given the impact on the poor, the homeless, the disenfranchised, and immigrants. This is not the human decency and dignity that is due everyone. Psychopathic neo-fascists do not care about anyone except those embracing their brand of cruelty.
To rule out sociopathy: the lawbreaking and irresponsibility behavior, the aggressive and reckless behavior are attributes we do not see in the Trump cult and the Republican legislative branch, yet we see every attribute of psychopathy.
You ask how can psychopaths be so cruel? That lack of empathy is innate, borne within them. They have no empathy because they were mentally damaged in adolescence like Steven Miller or as narcissists are as children like Trump. These people are sick. They are clearly psychopathic neo-fascists, seeking authoritarian rule at your expense. Power is their goal; plunder is their game. You must cower! I don’t think so, for now. The goon squads will appear later. A related article:
Now standing in their way, we writers on Substack are a force with which to be reckoned. More notable writers join us daily. One of my writer hero’s is a dad from California named Robert B. Hubbell. He was recommended to me by a person in the Washington, DC area, of all things. I tuned into and stayed with Robert. Why?
His voice has been unwavering, strong, honest, accurate, and insightful. Let me emphasize that Robert is a lawyer and covers the legal framework enveloping, developing in, and emanating from the psychopathic Trump’s infested swamp. His lenses focus his eyes immediately on the corporate risk exposure of Trump’s actions and words. That was his trade lane, litigating corporate gaffes.
Robert B. Hubbell is an American lawyer, specializing in professional liability, insurance coverage, securities, and general litigation. He graduated from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1981. He was selected to Super Lawyers for 2004, and 2014 through 2017. He then began his newsletter in 2017.
Robert Hubbell is on Substack, and publishes daily. Since 2017, I have followed Robert, and he was my very first paid-in subscription. I joined him as a founding member to help encourage his continuing his “column”, rather than continue his lawyering. As I was retiring, I was not able to continue that level of support beyond a few years, but I am still paying in. I read his column first every day.
Robert is a straight shooter and does not mince his words. We have butted heads, but it is very seldom and honest. His insights are sound and he has an eye for risk management. He does not know I am promoting him. I recommend him to everyone. Robert is very direct in calling a spade a spade. It is Robert’s immediate clarity of vision that I find stunning. I am slower to focus. I often copy and paste his work, like his take on the Potomac air collision, below.
“On Thursday, with no evidence to support his claim, Trump used racist, sexist, ableist language to blame the Potomac collision on the alleged inferiority of women, Black and Hispanic Americans, and Americans with disabilities. He expressed no genuine sympathy for the victims or their families. He used their deaths as an opportunity to gain political advantage. It was despicable.” Robert Hubbell
White House Psychopathy. As all can see in moments of crisis, Mr. Trump moves immediately from grief to self-serving political grievance to divert attention from and to hide and deflect from his responsibility for the system’s failure. We did not know at the time of his news conference on the tragedy that Trump had done this:
This explains why Trump moved so quickly to grievance and deflection. He knew he had screwed the pooch. He needed to raise his psychopathic neo-fascist support group to protect him.
As both a psychopath and a narcissist Trump practices the politics of division, diversion, deflection, distraction, and deceit rather than unity and honesty. Trump’s constituency of psychopathic fringe groups and legislators are stitched together with wet grievance sinew.
Trump always blames his enemies or his favorite scapegoat for his failures. His unwillingness to accept accountability for his failures within his assigned responsibilities is despicable conduct on a world stage. That is not the way an honorable person would handle the situation. It was despicable, Robert Hubbell. I move we continue the fight against these psychopathic neo-fascists.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/fight-psychopathic-neo-fascists?r=3m1bs
It’s not so much a backstory as it is to say what Trump was trying to cover up. The crash Safety Incident Report and subsequent Air Worthiness Directives will not be out for some time. Data are limited now and drawing early conclusions is scary to me. It was a common military check flight and a common commercial airliner landing path. So routine. My father was an Army standardization pilot. He did these types of check flights often. I read every final report.
Inspired by HCR’s substack of today, on Julia Ward Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Updated Battle Hymn of the Republic
For our times
Mine eyes have seen the gory, of the story of the Trump
The fat liar, pants on fire, lies as bigger than his rump
I have seen him falsely lie with bold faced falsehoods that defy the common sense
As can be asserted by none other than his VP, the servile Mike Pence
I can hear his utter balderdash whilst I sleep or in a trance
His psychosis is marching on
In the horrors of his depravities Satan enraptures the fools and freaks
With a lunacy of ghastly proportions that entices high tech geeks
As he lives to spread his evil, let us fight to make men see
That truth is plain to we
He’s just, a grifting stupid con man
He’s just, a lying stupid con man
He’s just, a fucking stupid con man
And his grift is marching on