Trump protect social security, medicare and medicaid? Yeah, right. The only people he is going to "serve" are those in the millionare and billionare classes.

Trump has no compunction to tell the truth. Everything the imposter president says is more often than not a lie.

This man is dangerous and he should not be president. A lot his been said about his narcissism, but not as much about his "grandiosity enhancing paranoia."

I think that this description by Dr. Sam Vaknin of how paranoid narcissists think and behave explains Trump. As Thom often states, "what do you think?"

Here is Dr. Vaknin:

Being the target of relentless, ubiquitous, and unjust persecution proves to the paranoid narcissist how important and feared he is. Being hounded by the mighty and the privileged validates his pivotal role in the scheme of things. Only vital, weighty, crucial, essential principals are thus bullied and intimidated, followed and harassed, stalked and intruded upon - goes his unconscious inner dialog. The narcissist consistently baits authority figures into punishing him and thus into upholding his delusional self-image as worthy of their attention. This provocative behaviour is called Projective Identification.

The paranoid delusions of the narcissist are always grandiose, "cosmic", or "historical". His pursuers are influential and formidable. They are after his unique possessions, out to exploit his expertise and special traits, or to force him to abstain and refrain from certain actions. The narcissist feels that he is at the centre of intrigues and conspiracies of colossal magnitudes.

Alternatively, the narcissist feels victimized by mediocre bureaucrats and intellectual dwarves who consistently fail to appreciate his outstanding - really, unparalleled - talents, skills, and accomplishments. Being haunted by his challenged inferiors substantiates the narcissist's comparative superiority. Driven by pathological envy, these pygmies collude to defraud him, badger him, deny him his due, denigrate, isolate, and ignore him.

The narcissist projects onto this second class of lesser persecutors his own deleterious emotions and transformed aggression: hatred, rage, and seething jealousy.

The narcissist's paranoid streak is likeliest to erupt when he lacks Narcissistic Supply. The regulation of his labile sense of self-worth is dependent upon external stimuli - adoration, adulation, affirmation, applause, notoriety, fame, infamy, and, in general, attention of any kind.

When such attention is deficient, the narcissist compensates by confabulating. He constructs ungrounded narratives in which he is the protagonist and uses them to force his human environment into complicity.

Put simply, he provokes people to pay attention to him by misbehaving or behaving oddly.

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I am ten months away from Medicare, a system I have paid into (for my parents) since I started to work in 1970. Is there going to be a protest march hosted by AARP? Count me in!

My senators are democratic, and I know where they stand. Time to check out my representative--

The Dems also need to fight the Supreme Court nomination...McConnell has set the precedent, it's OK to wait until the next presidential election... eight justices until 2020.

Much of that "social safety net" was already destroyed, with Democrats taking the lead since the 1990s. Bill Clinton ended actual welfare aid, and took the first steps to similarly "reform" Social Security. Social Security provides retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits, and Clinton targeted the disabled. In fact, by 2000, the disabled had become the fastest-growing group of homeless people. Obama was elected, and was able to get disability benefits restored, undoubtedly saving lives. However, Democrats in Congress kicked off 2015 with virtually ending food stamps to the elderly poor and the disabled (cut from roughly $115 per month, down to $10).

Did you know that what came to be called AFDC was actually first included in FDR's Social Security Act, later separated to focus on the specific needs of young families in poverty? Getting rid of that was a critically important step toward dismantling Social Security. Just as welfare was ended one part at a time (first ending General Assistance, then AFDC), we can assume that this is how Social Security will be ended.

It's not just another "Trump scam" that he has openly promised before and after his election that he would not touch the social safety nets. In recent decades, it has become a well practiced habit of candidates, from both sides of the aisle, to lie to the public about who they are and what they stand for, only to do a 180 once in office and follow a thoroughly corporate and Right-wing agenda. Do we really believe that Clinton would vacate her positions for more Leftist/Bernie Sanders' positions on so many things once she took office? Or would it have been more likely that it would have been business as usual and she would default to her pro-corporate positions once the public had been sufficiently tricked into electing her to office? Have a look at Obama: Did he not run on so many things that he completely reversed out once he got elected? Washington no longer respects We, the People. We are just the cash cow from which they steal and loot to do the bidding of the corporations. We, the People are trying to run a democracy while Washington is absolutely running a fascist oligarchy. It won't be until We, the People get fed up enough, organize, and do whatever it takes to get corporate money and corporate shills out of our government that things even have a glimmer of hope of changing for the better. We, the People are lied to with impunity and this is something that has got to change but that change will never come from inside the Beltway. This country has to wake up, come together over common issues, step up, be vigilant, and insist that anyone who lies to us gets a swift and resounding sacking. I also think that among the changes that need to occur are: (1) No more SCOTUS appointments; going forward we need to have elected positions on the SCOTUS only, (2) Get rid of the Electoral College and return elections to We, the People, (3) An amendment which says that if Congress votes for anything against the wishes of We, the People, such as taking us to war, or voting to bomb innocent countries whose only crime is being rich in some resource or another, that there will be an override option open to We, the People, (4) That in the event a candidate lies his way into office, his presidency can be called to account and he can be summarily dismissed from office with the possibility of the opposition candidate/party taking his/her place, or that the VP will then assume that office. (5) Lobbyists, Citizens United, and all forms of money have to be removed from the political process with limits on campaign funding. We have to begin doing things to protect ourselves from this class of political liars. As long as we tolerate this, they are going to get away with it. WE have to hold them accountable because it is self evident that they are never going to hold themselves accountable; especially when there is so much money in play.

Rather than king, let's refer to it (not him, as he is not a reasonable human, but "it") as "the naked emperer." And let this be the final chapter of American fascism. There shall be no legitamizing this regime- Dems in power must call it what it is, and we must all fight for our social democracy with all our might. Or we shall lose our precious lifestyle while the whole world suffers. Zero tolerance for totalitarianism is the only solution. We must absolutely win the mid terms so we can impeach and be rid of it.

With the firing of the Attorney General it might be important to remember that there is a difference between a Presidential Order and a law passed by the Congress.

Help needed.

Last Thursday Thom said that Medicaid and Medicare were going to be cut 41% while Social Security was being cut 8%. I am loooking for further information on this for a disiabled friend.

I've listened to Thom for years and know he doesn't just make things up. Does anyone know where this information came from or how I can get details about this?

Mary asked,

"Help needed.
Last Thursday Thom said that Medicaid and Medicare were going to be cut 41% while Social Security was being cut 8%. I am looking for further information on this for a disabled friend.
I've listened to Thom for years and know he doesn't just make things up. Does anyone know where this information came from or how I can get details about this?"

Mary: Sometimes words are twisted and used to scare people. Your fear of your friends SS and Medicare being cut by 41% or even 8% being a great example. Take what you hear from lefty/socialists and righty/warhawks with a huge helping of salt. Both would not exist on the radio or television without making outlandish statements and using fear tactics to keep listener ship.

Best to turn on the Hallmark channel. You will learn more and come away with a positive attitude.

The Heritage Foundation originally and then into Paul Ryan's proposed budget.

Notice how "wise" old Trump trolls are long on superiority attitude, condescending "advice," fact-free opinions, lame insults, and easily debunked falsehoods, and short on verifiable sources to back up their anemic analyses. Trump's Republican apologists seem to have adopted his reckless disregard for truth, refusing to acknowledge the facts laid bare right in front of them. The Hallmark Channel is about as deep as they are.