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He would like to personally taste the samples.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/15/us-military-testosterone-screening-hegseth
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The Glass People: The Materials of Madness, from the Glass King to the Simulation
More than six hundred years ago, the King of France stopped letting anyone touch him. Charles VI had iron rods sewn into his clothing and moved through his palace with the stiff care of a man carrying something breakable, because he believed he was carrying something breakable. He believed it was himself. The chronicles of his reign record that the king became convinced his body had turned to glass, and that a careless embrace or an ordinary stumble would shatter him to pieces on the stone floor. […] -
The Glass People: The Materials of Madness, from the Glass King to the Simulation
More than six hundred years ago, the King of France stopped letting anyone touch him. Charles VI had iron rods sewn into his clothing and moved through his palace with the stiff care of a man carrying something breakable, because he believed he was carrying something breakable. He believed it was himself. The chronicles of his reign record that the king became convinced his body had turned to glass, and that a careless embrace or an ordinary stumble would shatter him to pieces on the stone floor. […] -
But they touch upon 2 key nerves in the body politic: The tension in a #democracy about how & to whom credit for #public works & programs should be given, & narratives of gratitude particular to #US history, including the gratitude freely offered by #immigrants & #refugees, & the forced gratitude demanded from #enslaved people.
#Trump #narcissism #megalomania #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing
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But they touch upon 2 key nerves in the body politic: The tension in a #democracy about how & to whom credit for #public works & programs should be given, & narratives of gratitude particular to #US history, including the gratitude freely offered by #immigrants & #refugees, & the forced gratitude demanded from #enslaved people.
#Trump #narcissism #megalomania #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing
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…Compared with the giant banners of Trump’s glowering image hanging on federal office buildings, including the once-independent #DOJ, & the renaming for #Trump of public #landmarks & #memorials such as the #KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts, these banners are a relatively small #authoritarian incursion into the public realm.
#narcissism #megalomania #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing
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…Compared with the giant banners of Trump’s glowering image hanging on federal office buildings, including the once-independent #DOJ, & the renaming for #Trump of public #landmarks & #memorials such as the #KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts, these banners are a relatively small #authoritarian incursion into the public realm.
#narcissism #megalomania #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing
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A spox for the #Interior Dept didn’t respond to questions about how many banners have been hung, whether they are appearing outside of Washington, or how much the new ad campaign is costing.
They are a bitter topic in a city that gave #Trump’s opponent Kamala Harris >90% of the vote in the 2024 election. “I assume this is what North Korea looks like,” one critic wrote on the Globalist website.
#narcissism #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing
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A spox for the #Interior Dept didn’t respond to questions about how many banners have been hung, whether they are appearing outside of Washington, or how much the new ad campaign is costing.
They are a bitter topic in a city that gave #Trump’s opponent Kamala Harris >90% of the vote in the 2024 election. “I assume this is what North Korea looks like,” one critic wrote on the Globalist website.
#narcissism #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing
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#Trump demands gratitude in DC. So he put up banners thanking himself.
Signs appearing around the capital twist appreciation & patriotism into an authoritarian knot.#narcissism #megalomania #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/05/07/signs-thanking-trump-in-washington/ -
#Trump demands gratitude in DC. So he put up banners thanking himself.
Signs appearing around the capital twist appreciation & patriotism into an authoritarian knot.#narcissism #megalomania #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/05/07/signs-thanking-trump-in-washington/ -
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"According to aides and confidants, his focus in a potential second term has shifted away from short-term political concerns toward building a lasting legacy, even as allies worry about political fallout from policies like the Iran conflict and rising costs."
Sure you are, Donald — greatest man who ever lived, reincarnation of Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed wrapped into one. And the white jacket they're strapping on now is a new nightgown.
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"According to aides and confidants, his focus in a potential second term has shifted away from short-term political concerns toward building a lasting legacy, even as allies worry about political fallout from policies like the Iran conflict and rising costs."
Sure you are, Donald — greatest man who ever lived, reincarnation of Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed wrapped into one. And the white jacket they're strapping on now is a new nightgown.
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"Behind the scenes, Trump has started claiming he is 'the most powerful person to ever live.' A new Atlantic report suggests that Donald Trump has increasingly framed himself as a historic, world-changing figure, reportedly comparing himself in private to leaders like Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon Bonaparte."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #megalomania #narcissism #MentalDecline #MadKing
/1https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-claims-he-is-the-most
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"Behind the scenes, Trump has started claiming he is 'the most powerful person to ever live.' A new Atlantic report suggests that Donald Trump has increasingly framed himself as a historic, world-changing figure, reportedly comparing himself in private to leaders like Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon Bonaparte."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #megalomania #narcissism #MentalDecline #MadKing
/1https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-claims-he-is-the-most
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"I wonder how much he's on his phone. Do you think he has to charge it like three times a day or does he have an extra battery that goes on the back?
~ Heather Lofthouse
"I think he has batteries."
~ Robert Reich
"You know what's required to make batteries? Oil. Oil. ... he is obsessed with being online. And I wonder how he gets his dopamine hits, what he's looking at."
~ Lofthouse
#Trump #Hegseth #Pentagon #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #MadKing
/3https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-dire-straits-the-coffee-klatch
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"I wonder how much he's on his phone. Do you think he has to charge it like three times a day or does he have an extra battery that goes on the back?
~ Heather Lofthouse
"I think he has batteries."
~ Robert Reich
"You know what's required to make batteries? Oil. Oil. ... he is obsessed with being online. And I wonder how he gets his dopamine hits, what he's looking at."
~ Lofthouse
#Trump #Hegseth #Pentagon #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #MadKing
/3https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-dire-straits-the-coffee-klatch
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"There is no point in trying to predict Donald Trump's demise; he has proven adaptable and fluid, again and again. But his Iran adventure (coming as it does with a partnership with Netanyahu) has put him into a position where he must sacrifice the coalition that has kept him in power."
~ Dave Troy
#Trump #Iran #war #instability #MentalDecline #madman #MadKing #megalomania
/13https://america2.news/the-unraveling-of-donald-trump/?ref=america-2-0-newsletter
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"There is no point in trying to predict Donald Trump's demise; he has proven adaptable and fluid, again and again. But his Iran adventure (coming as it does with a partnership with Netanyahu) has put him into a position where he must sacrifice the coalition that has kept him in power."
~ Dave Troy
#Trump #Iran #war #instability #MentalDecline #madman #MadKing #megalomania
/13https://america2.news/the-unraveling-of-donald-trump/?ref=america-2-0-newsletter
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"Our idiot president 'can’t even surrender right.' … Over the weekend Paul Krugman quipped that Donald Trump “can’t even surrender right.”
This is correct. …
This guy couldn’t even get his shit sandwich plated and out the door.
Which has now left us at another brink."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #ceasefire #negotiations
/10https://www.thebulwark.com/p/our-idiot-president-cant-even-surrender-right-iran-strait-hormuz
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"Our idiot president 'can’t even surrender right.' … Over the weekend Paul Krugman quipped that Donald Trump “can’t even surrender right.”
This is correct. …
This guy couldn’t even get his shit sandwich plated and out the door.
Which has now left us at another brink."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #ceasefire #negotiations
/10https://www.thebulwark.com/p/our-idiot-president-cant-even-surrender-right-iran-strait-hormuz
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"The whiplash and confusion between war and peace talk has become the hallmark of Trump’s approach to the war."
~ Hugo Lowell and Joseph Gedeon
#Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #ceasefire #negotiations
/9https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/trump-resume-bombing-iran-ceasefire
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"The whiplash and confusion between war and peace talk has become the hallmark of Trump’s approach to the war."
~ Hugo Lowell and Joseph Gedeon
#Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #ceasefire #negotiations
/9https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/trump-resume-bombing-iran-ceasefire
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"Donald Trump has backed down again in Iran talks, agreeing to extend the ceasefire indefinitely after Iran said it would not attend a second round of negotiations. …
The U.S. ambassador to Israel has been urgently recalled to Washington, D.C., for consultations at the White House, signaling heightened diplomatic attention to the situation."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #ceasefire #negotiations
/8https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-folds-and-extends
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"Donald Trump has backed down again in Iran talks, agreeing to extend the ceasefire indefinitely after Iran said it would not attend a second round of negotiations. …
The U.S. ambassador to Israel has been urgently recalled to Washington, D.C., for consultations at the White House, signaling heightened diplomatic attention to the situation."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #ceasefire #negotiations
/8https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-folds-and-extends
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" — telling the truth — threatened his business and his employer’s stock price. The record of this is not contested. It was produced, under oath, through discovery, in a defamation case his employer settled for $787.5 million rather than allow to reach trial."
#Trump #TuckerCarlson #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman
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" — telling the truth — threatened his business and his employer’s stock price. The record of this is not contested. It was produced, under oath, through discovery, in a defamation case his employer settled for $787.5 million rather than allow to reach trial."
#Trump #TuckerCarlson #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman
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Mike Brock doesn't accept Tucker Carlson's apology for "misleading" his followers to support Trump:
"Tucker Carlson did not mislead his audience. He lied to them. He lied to them knowing the things he was saying were false, said so explicitly in writing at the time he was saying them publicly, and continued saying them anyway because the alternative" (continued in /7)
#Trump #TuckerCarlson #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman
/6https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/apology-not-accepted-mr-carlson
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Mike Brock doesn't accept Tucker Carlson's apology for "misleading" his followers to support Trump:
"Tucker Carlson did not mislead his audience. He lied to them. He lied to them knowing the things he was saying were false, said so explicitly in writing at the time he was saying them publicly, and continued saying them anyway because the alternative" (continued in /7)
#Trump #TuckerCarlson #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman
/6https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/apology-not-accepted-mr-carlson
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"I’ve served three presidents and advised a fourth. I’ve been in and around several White Houses. When presidential aides tell reporters that they’ve had to keep a president out of the room because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful, what they’re really saying is they’re dealing with someone who’s so irrational they don’t trust his judgment."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #media #ceasefire
/5https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-no-one-knows-what-the-hell-is
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"I’ve served three presidents and advised a fourth. I’ve been in and around several White Houses. When presidential aides tell reporters that they’ve had to keep a president out of the room because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful, what they’re really saying is they’re dealing with someone who’s so irrational they don’t trust his judgment."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #media #ceasefire
/5https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-no-one-knows-what-the-hell-is
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"The planned negotiations between the U.S. and Iran are currently collapsing before our eyes as the so-called ceasefire rapidly approaches its end. he corporate media may have bought into Trump’s rosy assessments, but we followed the facts and the data…."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #media #ceasefire #negotiations
/4https://www.meidasplus.com/p/tuesday-afternoon-news-updates-iran
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"The planned negotiations between the U.S. and Iran are currently collapsing before our eyes as the so-called ceasefire rapidly approaches its end. he corporate media may have bought into Trump’s rosy assessments, but we followed the facts and the data…."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #instability #MentalDecline #Iran #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman #media #ceasefire #negotiations
/4https://www.meidasplus.com/p/tuesday-afternoon-news-updates-iran
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"Trump’s war in Iran is a strategic disaster. His ego got him into this mess and his ego is preventing him from leaving. The world is at this madman’s mercy."
~ John Stoehr
#Trump #instability #MentalDecline #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman
/3https://www.editorialboard.com/the-world-is-at-this-madmans-mercy/
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"Trump’s war in Iran is a strategic disaster. His ego got him into this mess and his ego is preventing him from leaving. The world is at this madman’s mercy."
~ John Stoehr
#Trump #instability #MentalDecline #war #megalomania #MadKing #madman
/3https://www.editorialboard.com/the-world-is-at-this-madmans-mercy/
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Warning: When you come for the #MadKing prepare for fire works
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Warning: When you come for the #MadKing prepare for fire works
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@vosje62 Ja en de tegenreacties van Trump, zoals het blokkeren van al het scheepvaartverkeer door de straat van Hormuz, zijn ook heel effectief om de fossiele energietekorten en de energieprijzen op te laten lopen. 20 jaar EU/ETS beleid heeft minder bereikt dan 2 maandjes Midden-Oosten oorlog van de #madKing
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@vosje62 Ja en de tegenreacties van Trump, zoals het blokkeren van al het scheepvaartverkeer door de straat van Hormuz, zijn ook heel effectief om de fossiele energietekorten en de energieprijzen op te laten lopen. 20 jaar EU/ETS beleid heeft minder bereikt dan 2 maandjes Midden-Oosten oorlog van de #madKing
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He needs to be forcibly removed from office. He’s dangerously disturbed with classic delusions of grandeur!
Amendment 25 his arse now you #IdiotRepublicans
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He needs to be forcibly removed from office. He’s dangerously disturbed with classic delusions of grandeur!
Amendment 25 his arse now you #IdiotRepublicans
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Dan Froomkin notes that at long last, New York Timess is willing to publish an article noting that many people are questioning Trump's sanity. But what remains to be seen is whether NYT will continue this line of inquiry, or will make this a "one-and-done" story as it has with similar reports in the past.
#Trump #MadKing #MentalInstability #megalomania #narcissism #NewYorkTimes #media
/9https://criticalread.substack.com/p/new-york-times-finally-reports-on
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Dan Froomkin notes that at long last, New York Timess is willing to publish an article noting that many people are questioning Trump's sanity. But what remains to be seen is whether NYT will continue this line of inquiry, or will make this a "one-and-done" story as it has with similar reports in the past.
#Trump #MadKing #MentalInstability #megalomania #narcissism #NewYorkTimes #media
/9https://criticalread.substack.com/p/new-york-times-finally-reports-on
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"Insulting the Pope — the head of a 1.4 billion-person church, the most morally authoritative American alive, the man who has spent months calling Trump’s war unjust — is not a distraction strategy. It is the next largest available dose. It is what compulsion looks like when the previous doses are wearing off."
#Trump #PopeLeo #MadKing #MentalInstability #megalomania #narcissism #NATO #StraitofHormuz
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