The Witness Chronicles, 10/16/24

Help thy neighbor? Nope.

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Watching a Man Fall To Pieces

And his support system could care less

None of this gives me pleasure, nor should it. Yesterday Donald Trump stopped taking questions at a town hall and then stood there while his musical requests were played for 30-40 minutes, silent, while doing his weird two-fisted dance.

Most interviews he had scheduled recently have been canceled with no explanation, but speculation is that he may be having some kind of breakdown and can’t be seen in any uncontrolled environment, especially one where journalists will do their job and call out his lies.

He did do one with the Economic Club of Chicago where he was repeatedly fact checked by the moderator and veered off into anger and declarations that he knew things other people don’t. It was a terrifying display of a manic mind.

It’s a strange thing, this increasing disconnect from reality in the most public of forums, a presidential campaign in its final weeks. While we are told repeatedly that no one feels they know Kamala Harris, we all know Donald Trump and what we are seeing is alarming, both for him, his family, and the country.

That family does not seem to care, his wife distant, his older sons a part of the chaos around him, and his older daughter absent, who rapidly left the public eye after the debacle of the 2020 election loss and ensuing events.

We have learned that Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita may have earned as much as twenty million dollars running the campaign, which, if true, is a grift truly worthy of his client. What it really tells us is that Trump is the golden goose and those around him are reaping the golden eggs as fast as they can, before he finally goes too far.

To put this in perspective, the Harris/Walz campaign manager is making somewhere around $300,000, not bad money but nothing like 20 mil.

There are those who will argue that Trump has it coming, that he has been his own undoing, and that is true. But we are watching a severely mentally ill person failing in front of our eyes and half of us (if you believe the polls) are watching and finding it entertaining.

There is nothing entertaining about it. Let me be clear, I have no sympathy whatsoever for the man, a repulsive human who can legitimately be called a sociopath. But the fact that no one is helping him and are, in fact, encouraging him, says awful things about what we have become as a society.

I throw a lot of blame for this directly at the ‘legitimate’ media who for years have covered him as though everything is normal, no matter how abnormal things were. Now we have a very sick man a stone's throw from the Presidency.

The level of crazy should frighten all of us. In a recent Trump boat parade some boats were openly displaying swastikas and Nazi slogans. An armed man threatened FEMA workers in North Carolina for doing their jobs in a disaster area because of Trump’s endless lies about the agency. And there are the two assassination attempts, events which could push anyone over the edge.

After holding a rally in the desert where the Coachella music fest is held, in 100 degree+ temperatures, the Trump campaign left hundreds of their followers in the scorching heat with no transportation. If you need more proof that these people are evil and heartless, even to those who enable them, that is it.

Nothing about this is entertaining and it never was, yet we have crowds like the rabid citizens of Ancient Rome reveling in the deaths of gladiators, as they watch Trump rant and speak in tongues like a man possessed.

These are the same people who relentlessly mocked Joe Biden for showing signs of aging, signs that were nothing compared to what we are witnessing now.

My readers probably wonder why I bother writing about this nearly daily. It really bothers me that we, as a society, enable this spectacle and take pleasure in it. It also bothers me that dictators across the planet watch this and see nothing but opportunity for themselves in it, knowing they can easily manipulate a man who may become President.

They know it because they have been doing it for years. When a person suffers from extreme narcissism, simply telling them how powerful and wonderful they are does the trick. They are addicted to flattery and attention, regardless of what is behind it, and Trump is the extreme example.

Those who pay attention to all of this are aware of just how bad this is. But many do not want to hear it, preferring to live with their fantasy of a strongman leader, who in reality, is weak-minded and susceptible to manipulation.

It’s why I have no intention of stopping my rants to my little audience of faithful readers, though I would dearly like to have something reasonable and civil to write about, something inspiring. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz represent those things, but maybe inspiring is boring and demented is a lot more fun.

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