"It was foreign affairs journalist Ishaan Tharoor who captured the larger story of Trump’s speech.
“'A senior foreign diplomat posted at the U.N. texts me,' Tharoor wrote, "This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?"’”
Americans do. Some of us at least. America as a whole does not. Of course if enough of us had been capable of seeing the difference between those two realities we wouldn't have insisted on ripping our own skeleton out through our throats by throwing away our institutions and values for a lower price of eggs. It's ridiculous, and embarrassing.
Unfortunatley, emotions like shame and embarrassment rely on a general, majority consensus on *what* is supposed to make you feel those things. Like scandals — it's only scandalous if you *think* it is. Which is why both the scandals of this regime and their embarrassments lead to no shame in their base: their idea of shame, embarrassment, and scandal is to *be* the person *saying* those things are what they are. In other words, it's being woke. That's the shame, where the embarrassment lives.
On that note, very interesting to me that the escalator was "sabotage" to "humiliate" Dear Leader. He can only be humiliated if he, himself, believes it to be humiliating. So, his inability to arrive "gracefully" or "make an entrance" because he had to walk what amounted to a flight of stairs feels telling about either his physical state or the fragility of his inflated grandeur.
"It was foreign affairs journalist Ishaan Tharoor who captured the larger story of Trump’s speech.
“'A senior foreign diplomat posted at the U.N. texts me,' Tharoor wrote, "This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?"’”
-- Heather Cox Richardson, 2025-09-23
Americans do. Some of us at least. America as a whole does not. Of course if enough of us had been capable of seeing the difference between those two realities we wouldn't have insisted on ripping our own skeleton out through our throats by throwing away our institutions and values for a lower price of eggs. It's ridiculous, and embarrassing.
If Putin and Trump are both mad what could go wrong?
We do, but unfortunately, as we have all learned, there's way more dumb-as-rock voters in America than we could have imagined.
Unfortunatley, emotions like shame and embarrassment rely on a general, majority consensus on *what* is supposed to make you feel those things. Like scandals — it's only scandalous if you *think* it is. Which is why both the scandals of this regime and their embarrassments lead to no shame in their base: their idea of shame, embarrassment, and scandal is to *be* the person *saying* those things are what they are. In other words, it's being woke. That's the shame, where the embarrassment lives.
On that note, very interesting to me that the escalator was "sabotage" to "humiliate" Dear Leader. He can only be humiliated if he, himself, believes it to be humiliating. So, his inability to arrive "gracefully" or "make an entrance" because he had to walk what amounted to a flight of stairs feels telling about either his physical state or the fragility of his inflated grandeur.
One question: Did Fox play any of his spewing?
Therein lies one rub.
This is definitely one of the reasons. They don't see all the blathering as Fox heavily edits him to seem relatively normal.
Don’t make excuses for the ignorant bozos who watch Fox.
Many Americans have, it seems, lost their ability to be embarrassed or shamed.