No doubt the T-Rump is one of most way-terrible, awful people who’s ever lived, and that’s covering a shitload of historical ground. Along with the cruel awfulness, he’s frightfully fairly-close to being really-bad ‘mentally divergent,’ which in itself isn’t outstanding, except the shitbird is supposedly the most powerful man on earth.
He can cause enormous suffering, and it’s fully within his twisted personality stain to generate as much anguish as possible on his way (hopefully) out the door.

Aparently, the T-Rump is deteriorating under the horror of being a loser. Now the Oval Office deadbeat’s mental condition is leaking, oozing out into the public:

SCOOP – Sidney Powell was in Oval Office last night as POTUS discussed making her special counsel for election fraud. @KannoYoungs and me https://t.co/wUB8ZMrPxp

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 19, 2020

Powell one remembers is a nutcase of the hard-right-wacked loons — in a sureal press conference last month: ‘She described a secretive vote-flipping operation devised by a veritable who’s who of conspiracy theory tropes: George Soros, the Clinton Foundation, Antifa, “communistic” actors in Venezuela (including late ex-president Hugo Chávez), Cuba, China and thousands of election officials from both parties.‘
She was also banished from the T-Rump’s insane-clown-car legal team shortly after for being too wacky, which is a divergent mouthful, too, considering the crowd. Reportedly, notwithstanding: ‘A Trump campaign official told The Washington Post at the time that Powell “was too crazy even for the president.”‘

Wrong! Who’s too cuckoo for cocoa puffs? An addendum on the circus (The Daily Beast): ‘According to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter, in the time since Powell’s ejection from Trump’s legal “strike force,” the president has continued to stay in repeated, direct contact, including over the phone, with Trumpist attorneys Powell and Lin Wood, who have been running their own flailing legal blitzes separate from the legal team. (Powell and Wood’s legal efforts to overturn the 2020 election are in part funded by Trump friend and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s large donations, as The Daily Beast reported Friday night.)‘

Supposedly, the T-Rump was doing all this behind a lot of nutcase backs. Even so, Rudy Giuliani presumedly pushed back against making Powell special counsel, as also did White House attorney, Pat Cipollone, and Mark Meadows, T-Rump’s chief of staff — three asshole shitbirds in their own right.

T-Rump’s mental condition has been a factor since day one. He’s flash-full of the Dunning-Kruger effect, which warps every facet of his thinking, which really doesn’t happen with him, more liken to a way-laid emotional-grunt thought pattern. In August 2017, 60,000 mental health professionals signed a petition to remove T-Rump from office due to ‘“serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States.”‘

A recent update on the unhinged angle via the Guardian this afternoon:

It was reported this week that he had threatened not to leave the White House on inauguration day, 20 January.

“He’s throwing a fucking temper tantrum,” CNN quoted an unnamed adviser as saying.
“He’s going to leave. He’s just lashing out.”

But the same report cited an anonymous source as saying the atmosphere in the White House had “turned crazy.”

During a entire torrid life of losing, the T-Rump has always been able to slither out of trouble one shitty way of another, bankruptcies, court fights with vendors, ex-wives, whatever, he’s been fortunate to have an exit — but no more. Now he’s cornored like a petulant, wounded rat.

From Michael Kruse at Politico last night:

“He’s never been in a situation in which he has lost in a way he can’t escape from,” Mary Trump, his niece and the author of the fiercely critical and hugely bestselling book about him and their family, told me the other day.
…
“His fragile ego has never been tested to this extent,” Michael Cohen, his former personal attorney, told me.
“As each day ends, Trump knows he’s one day closer to legal and financial troubles. Accordingly, we will all see his behavior deteriorate until it progresses into a full mental breakdown.”

In the estimation of Bandy Lee, the forensic psychiatrist from Yale who’s spent the last four years trying to warn the world about Trump, it’s not something that could happen.
It’s something that is happening, that’s been happening.
“We’re at a stage now where his detachment from reality is pretty much complete and his symptoms are as severe as can be,” she said.
She likened Trump to “a car without functioning brakes.” It can look for a long time like it’s fine, and keep going, faster and faster, even outracing other cars.
“But at the bottom of the hill,” Lee said, “it always crashes.”

Couple that with this report also this afternoon from Axios:

Senior Trump administration officials are increasingly alarmed that President Trump might unleash — and abuse — the power of government in an effort to overturn the clear result of the election.
These officials tell me that Trump is spending too much time with people they consider crackpots or conspiracy theorists and flirting with blatant abuses of power.

The big picture: Their fears include Trump’s interest in former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s wild talk of martial law; an idea floated of an executive order to commandeer voting machines; and the specter of Sidney Powell, the conspiracy-spewing election lawyer, obtaining governmental power and a top-level security clearance.

A senior administration official said that when Trump is “retweeting threats of putting politicians in jail, and spends his time talking to conspiracy nuts who openly say declaring martial law is no big deal, it’s impossible not to start getting anxious about how this ends.”
“People who are concerned and nervous aren’t the weak-kneed bureaucrats that we loathe,” the official added.
“These are people who have endured arguably more insanity and mayhem than any administration officials in history.”

He’s performing his best at being the worse, and it’s frightfully alarming what he’s capable of doing, and what he will do the next 31 days, 15 hours, 29 minutes.
Although he’s no legal maneuvering room left, despite the QAnon-infected Powell’s exertions, the T-Rump can create havoc, chaos and death via many, many venues, from COVID-19, the Russians and beyond, all as he crawls from office.

Maybe he’s actually ‘preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto…‘

Dangerous Looney-tune time…

(Illustration: Salvador Dali’s ‘Galatea of the Spheres,’ found here).