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at makes you see each individual as having a very personal reaction to trump s victory in other words not all of the reactions were euphoric melanie trump certainly had her reservations about the election results surprise was not an uncommon sentiment either the right wing is populated with diverse characters not quite human but not quite cardboard either some of the character analyses add depth while also serving as idle speculation for instance wolff ponders whether or not bannon was on the spectrum due to having a narrow focus on the issues at hand but also due to a very mystifying restrained communication style that constantly seemed to be putting a bridge between himself and others it s been a rough past couple of days for bannon and there aren t very many signs he ll be lifted from the hole of extreme presidential displeasure it s hard to tell if bannon is on the spectrum and it seems like the label was an attempt at character building before the release of wolff s book it was obvious that there would be accusations that the contents of the book were untrue i think one should take the balanced viewpoint it might offer embellishments here and there especially with the psychological assessment of the characters or have small errors due to the rushed release of the book but it provides a broad overview of the various people connected to donald trump as they progressed from the campaign trail to the white house it paints a picture of bitter competition taking angst and anxiety and placing it in the nexus of the political landscape it seems clear early on in the book that trump was considered the pinata of ambition he was not necessarily respected for his intellect but for his ability to capture attention whether that attention was negative or positive didn t matter they saw trump as a political shooting star rallying around a ridiculous man that would either clear the road to victory or obscure it for the forseeable future so to recap and keep in mind my impressions might change fire and fury teaches us several things the audience of the book is comfortable reading embellishments and absorbing the palace intrigue like style the liberties taken with character assessment assume a fascination with the current white house administration because it s very clear many people are highly interested in the behind the scenes view and how it either clashes with or reinforces their own perceptions each character is presented with their own motivations hopes fears dreams whatever how do you say that the book has pleasant fiction like elements without denigrating the importance it has in the reality we live in my focus is definitely not to disprove the contents of the book but more to assess the reason why the book chooses the tone it does it represents the author s theory of mind that again it assumes we are very interested in the characters shown in the book trump is a character seen through the lens of subjectivity how others viewed him was seen as just as important as him having his own set of motivations and insecurities a character almost defined by other characters perceptions at one point in the book you are made to believe bannon imbued trump with a unicorn like quality sort of a buffoon but possessing a strange ability that no one else could conjure the title for wolff s next book the bannon delusion bannon ailes and murdoch weren t necessarily portrayed as a tightly knit group murdoch was portrayed as bannon s enemy fractious but forced to unite competition and bitter infighting contained in the luxury of the white house lastly fire and fury teaches us that we ve forgotten a lot already it provides more context but when you read or re read excerpts from the book you realize 2017 was bloated with one controversy after another all nearly impossible to keep in your mind at any given time will post more about the book as i read it posted on january 7 2018 fire and fury causes bannon to seek shelter fireandfury bannonvstrump fire and fury michael wolff s new book made sure that the new year started with a roar and not a whimper while president trump is chafing under the media s coverage of a very negative portrayal of the white house stephen bannon ran for the nearest fallout shelter letting regret pave the way back into the commander in chief s good graces bannon said he felt regret over not responding to the book s claims in a timely fashion and that the time it took him to respond caused eyes to become diverted from trump s great achievements at least he knows which side his bread is buttered on will it be enough to placate the beast in the oval office bannon s statement reads as a weak obeisance in the wake of calls for a new chief executive at breitbart and the mercer family backing away from their financial support fire and fury sure has unleashed a political firestorm but to me it seems that many of consequences have fallen on steve bannon proof of the buffoonery of the trump administration is nothing new many of the courtiers in the white house have whispered about the 25th amendment big whoop bannon falling to his knees though looks like he ll need some financial backing to get back up and if not financial definitely political but in bannon s neck of the woods only potus can provide that by the way i ve been meaning to read more of the book and post my thoughts about it on here posted on january 7 2018 january 7 2018 north korea nuclear state with higher ambitions even though the lines of communication have thawed a little between north and south korea president donald j trump isn t deviating much from his usual tone against the rogue authoritarian state i guess when you ve been blogging long enough you start to phrase things in a quasi journalistic way and ignore the hypocrisy of the nation where you re posting from trump has offered a roughed up looking olive branch to kim jong un sure i always believe in talking was the official response he gave to journalists but this comes shortly after he said he had a larger nuclear button than kim trump followed that up with if something can happen and something can come out of those talks that would be a great thing for all of humanity that would be a great thing for the world very important such a statement follows a trail of bellicose rhetoric maybe i should add amid saber rattling to complete the illusion of journalistic language launched and sustained by both leaders trump continued to take credit for the slight altering in the diplomatic landscape between both countries a lot of people have said a lot of people have written that without my rhetoric without my tough stance and it s not just a stance i mean this is what has to be done if it has to be done that they wouldn t be talking about olympics they wouldn t be talking right now i d love to see them take it beyond the olympics at the appropriate time we ll get involved seems irrelevant to me kim jong un has already offered a vague timeline for opening up talks with other nations being very open about using the threat of nuclear weapons as a bargaining chip this reminds me of how past presidents would take credit for an improving economy even when evidence of their involvement having a positive impact was slim or nonexistent while it s important to keep pointing out blatant misinformation via the trump administration or directly from the llama s mouth considering the long term non nuclear impact this has on the the region or world politics is also important even though the north korean dictatorship has proven it is internally strong and by internally strong i mean heaping upon its citizens horrible abuse of all kinds it hasn t been able to demonstrate that it can elicit responses from other nations that benefit it until very recently if we look back it s been a lengthy road of verbal attacks and nuclear tests these tests have never been for their own sake though to see kim jong un realistically we must view him as a semi rational actor neither genius nor madman he occupies a space uniquely his own the united states has been dealing with the north korea problem since the clinton administration deferred military action and murky diplomacy have always been the habitual strategies going from vague in a few years threat to blistering moment to moment terror north korea has a story to tell too it s easy to perceive the country as a hermit kingdom with little designs beyond retaining what little power it possesses and if we aren t viewing it as a hermit kingdom we are seeing kim jong un playing the world s stage and using fear as the main source of entertainment it s an interesting if wrong perception as the new york times reports kim jong un has domestic ambitions that rival what i believe his broader ambitions to be if i understand this article correctly kim jong un wishes to seem relevant to the newest generation focusing on modern seeming nuclear weapons vs antiquated seeming technology even dictators have to seem relevant to some degree it s a form of patriotism too and despite many defectors a patriotic message is playing in north korea that isn t entirely dissimilar to the bravado seem from potus on the world s stage kim jong un might wish to sabotage the diplomatic ties with south korea and the united states not only this but openly trying to ease tensions on the korean peninsula by appealing to the south koreans takes trump out of the ballpark whether or not he approves we could see kim jong un s attempts to get closer with south korea as feeding an international agenda or as a means to prop up his domestic one certainly this is larger than donald trump and the north korean leader has definitely demonstrated that posted on january 6 2018 january 6 2018 latest trump tweetstorm isn t a revelation pretty normal category 1 behavior not one to let a sleeping dog lie potus tends to kick a canine when it s down see below now that russian collusion after one year of intense study has proven to be a total hoax on the american public the democrats and their lapdogs the fake news mainstream media are taking out the old ronald reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence donald j trump realdonaldtrump january 6 2018 doesn t seem like a hoax to me but if you kick that dog enough something good will happen doubling down via tweet was his favorite strategy during the campaign but also obviously throughout his presidency if you don t possess wit repetition is the next best thing right so he s still rambling on about the russian collusion playing the part of his worst accuser if you think about it then he chases after democrats and the media usual make america great again fare he chafes at the reagan comparison but has been happy to invoke the similarity with the former potus on prior occasions putting all that aside if you wish to not be perceived as crazy the solution to that is as simple and repetitious as the tweets themselves actually throughout my life my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being like really smart crooked hillary clinton also played these cards very hard and as everyone knows went down in flames i went from very successful businessman to top t v star donald j trump realdonaldtrump january 6 2018 once again he aspires to hurricane tier tweets but can barely reach category 1 status and that s a generous assessment imo here he attacks crooked hillary which is basic campaign trail stuff then in typical fashion he uses victim mentality to boost some mirage about having a fantastic ability he perceives himself as being mentally stable and really smart to president of the united states on my first try i think that would qualify as not smart but genius and a very stable genius at that donald j trump realdonaldtrump january 6 2018 not just smart but genius level i think he truly believes it narcissistic traits can solidify in isolation living a life of incredible wealth is a good example it allows those character flaws to magnify and there isn t much to keep them in check now he s president and in a mind like that such a position only reinforces that sense of superiority when trump witnesses the erosion of various institutions this also seems to reinforce that behavior michael wolff is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring and untruthful book he used sloppy steve bannon who cried when he got fired and begged for his job now sloppy steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone too bad https t co meeuhk5zv9 donald j trump realdonaldtrump january 6 2018 voices whispering lil bob corker are echoing throughout the vast hall of what we ll soon call history total loser same deal here what s new sure he refers to former chief strategist stephen bannon as sloppy steve but no new angle is taken no revelation from a supposedly brilliant mind even the insults aren t creative rocket man was copyright infringement lil bob corker wasn t especially wounding just another generic barb from a bumbling man there s also a fundamental inconsistency when you have the self perception of genius mingling with conservative victimhood would the mind of a chess champion become ensnared by the most basic of situations i m convinced some social and intellectual impairment exists and that no amount of twitter followers nor the withering of already weak institutions will diminish that fact if i had to critique the liberal media for one thing it would be that there is an intense focus on trump s general mental ability but what should be incorporated should be a broader reflection on trump s ability to cope with the social world sure they comment on how he is shattering norms though that isn t the same thing as commenting on a pathological deficit of social insight narcissism is almost glorified and thus is presented as a reflection of social status they focus on impulse control but that feeds into the narrative of the bully continuing with behavior that has been validated in the past posted on january 4 2018 bannon being fired again trump opposes separation of corporation and state seems strange but the exchange between donald trump and stephen bannon reminds us how hyper corporate the potus has molded the us to be where once capitalism seethed in the darkness it s just the way things are not too bad it s come out to play asserting forcefully that it can kick your ass out the door sarah sanders suggested today that breitbart should consider firing steve bannon as corporations and government protocol mingle it s becoming increasingly hard to separate the two is separation of church and state the issue here more like separation of corporation and state the former has adopted a vaguely religious ideology to protect their business practices even though bannon most likely won t be fired the threat of a diminishing fanbase is probably considered just as terrible a fate sander s position that breitbart should stroke its chin thoughtfully while thinking about tossing bannon out on ...