He has stolen our standing on the world stage. The leaders of the free world are Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron. Trump is, himself, a laughingstock and has made this nation a punchline, a pitiable shithole country.
He has stolen our ability to travel and explore. With only 9 countries accepting our passports without restrictions, we are outcasts, and rightfully so. We represent a pandemic run wild, zero leadership to contain and combat it, and an incubus of literal viral plague.
He is continuing his attempt to steal our healthcare. If he wins, the Affordable Care Act will be gone and millions will face medical bankruptcy or death as they will no longer be able to afford coverage or treatments or prescriptions.
He has stolen the trust we should have in the Supreme Court by installing religious zealots and lackeys who will do his bidding and protect his ass. He is on the verge of stealing another seat (despite the machinations of the GOP in 2016 over Merrick Garland and timing) which will fundamentally alter this country for decades.
He is trying to steal our Social Security. For all of you MAGAts who have zero idea how any of this works - a big chunk is taken out of your paycheck every two weeks. It is YOUR money you have worked for. It goes into the bank, as it were, and when you retire, you receive a monthly check from the government based on what you have put in through the years. It has been the safety net for elderly people for decades, insuring at least some income to live on. He wants it gone. Think he is going to return all that money you have put in since you started working at Dairy Queen when you were 16? Idiots.
He has stolen family and friends. As they have given up all reason, humanity, sanity and joined Cult 45, or additionally slid down the rabbit hole into Qanon, families have been torn asunder. Friendships have been dashed beyond repair. But as I have said repeatedly - this is not a simple difference in politics. This is a difference in humanity. And I, for one, have zero compunction about having amputated many people from my life for good, including siblings.
He has stolen weddings, honeymoons, birthday celebrations, anniversary dinners, graduations, funerals. For the majority of this year we have been confined, restricted, fearful. With no mask mandate, no true policy to follow in terms of guidelines, we have been left to ourselves to survive as best we can, and that means completely altering all that had been treasured dates and milestones on our calendars.
He has stolen a full year of time from leading and spent it on the golf course or languishing at one of his properties. A FULL YEAR.
He has grifted $141,000,000 in taxpayer dollars by golfing and visiting his properties.
He has stolen 207,262 lives. So far. That is the count as of this afternoon, 1,348 more dead since this time yesterday. He is on track to steal another 18,000 by October 17 according to new CDC estimates.
He has stolen peace of mind. Anxiety, depression, panic attacks - all roiling this nation like never before. We are living through a collective trauma with COVID, compounded with real emotional abuse at the hands of the Oval occupier.
He has been a literal thief in the night - stealing the sleep of millions. How often do you roll over in the night to check Twitter and see what he has done now? Or do you reach for the phone first thing in the morning, exhausted from another night's worry, steeling yourself for what news is breaking?
He has stolen millions of jobs by his ineptitude and callous disregard for this nation's citizens. Yet he has padded his own coffers by over a billion dollars since taking office. Emoluments be damned.
He stole the 2016 election and is on track to do everything possible to steal the 2020. From trashing the mail system to encouraging the engagement of Russia yet again to sowing distrust of the mail in voter system that works perfectly well - this theft is happening in broad daylight.
He has stolen our political norms and practices. The latest being a refusal to agree there will be a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the election. This is unprecedented language from a shitting sitting president.
He has stolen honor by repeatedly claiming that on September 11 he had helped look for survivors in the rubble of the Twin Towers. Patently false.
He has stolen money from children with cancer, shifting donated money from them to his business. He got caught. His charity was shut down, fines were levied, his adult fail children had to take classes on how to properly run a charity.
He has stolen achievements from President Obama, repeatedly taking credit for the Veteran's Choice healthcare program - it was signed into law in 2014 by Barack Obama.
He has stolen the dignity of the office of POTUS by mocking the disabled, lying over 20,000 times, demeaning revered POW and Senator John McCain, running down Gold Star families, targeting Hispanics, targeting Muslims, targeting transgender people, targeting blue states, targeting Black people, calling our military losers and suckers, and on and on. He is a blight, a stain on our nation's highest office.
And today, he stole the peace and somber reverence being paid to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she lay in repose at the Supreme Court. Slithering out of his hidey hole, he and First Birther, Melania, showed up for a photo (fl)op. What he got was all that he deserved. Not insulated by the idiot cult members who flock to his COVID rallies, the crowd began chanting - it grew louder and louder...
VOTE HIM OUT - VOTE HIM OUT - VOTE HIM OUT - VOTE HIM OUT - VOTE HIM OUT - VOTE HIM OUT.
Clearly audible, there was no mistaking the words that rose up the steps and washed over him as he stood, grimacing and wavering back and forth in his Adderal haze. Like the infamous baseball game in which he was booed to what looked like the point of tears, you could literally see his malignant narcissism spasming, curdling inside him.
This might be my favorite 37 seconds of the past four years. https://t.co/luMr1RapeI
— Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) September 24, 2020
Public ridicule is one of the worst injuries to a narcissist. From Psychology Today, For an absolute narcissist to stay on message, there can’t be a message other than a relentless “See? I win!”
He heard today that, NO, ASSHOLE, YOU DO NOT.
Don’t try to persuade an absolute narcissist. Instead, humiliate them, cut them. Make them bleed in any exchange with others listening in, whether face to face or in a Twitter exchange. Talk past them to the audience. He’s just a specimen of mindless mechanical pretend invincibility.
Trump stays firmly in his bubble of constant affirmation. Hence the rallies, the controlled "press conferences," the selective hearing over the helicopter blades when he is asked an uncomfortable question on the lawn, the only giving "interviews" on FOX. It is not a stretch to say he literally has no concept of how he is actually viewed in this country. He protects himself from that, so today was a slap in the Maybellined face.
With absolute narcissists, it’s not that the emperor has no clothes. It’s that the emperor is nothing but clothes, a suit of armor with nobody home. You can embarrass that empty suit in front of an audience. That’s how you shame a narcissist.
Today there was an audience, and it was not a MAGAt infested rally. And that audience responded in kind for the years of literal thievery, stolen peace, grifted honor.
He will retaliate. It is what injured narcissists do. Someone will have to pay for the pain. So brace yourselves. Because today he did not hear a refrain of Hail to the Chief.
It was this nation's newest favorite song - Hail To The Thief. Alexa, put that clip on repeat, girl.
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