Homo Suicidus maybe?

Glad you decided not to hold back Kathleen...but did you forget meglomaniacal?

@Marionville

I thought of megalomaniacal, but wasn't sure how to spell it.

You have a good point. Synonyms for megalomania:

Conceited
Arrogance
Bragging
Boasting
Egomania

Thanks. I added "egomaniac."

I third that! McConnell is truly EVIL! And I am someone who doesn't believe in literal evil. But he IS. And he is not alone in his complete lack of any ethics.

Well, it doesn't mean he's NOT a sniveling little shit. Or sniveling big shit.

@Gwendolyn2018 I've been watching that pos for over 40 years.
He's been gettin' his lean on for a while.

Doesn't mean he hasn't always been an asshole though.
It just mean that as he's gotten older, he's gotten worse.
Fred wasn't that much different.
Bet Junior and Eric go the same route.
It's genetic.

@Gwendolyn2018 I grew up in northern New Jersey, right across the river from New York. That's how I knew about him. I remember reading a story in the Village Voice newspaper (about 1978 or so), about 45 being mobbed up.
Then more and more stories surfaced about how he and his father were discriminating against minorities, and how they were ripping off the City.
More, and more, and more. Then the casinos, and the bankruptcies.
It just never stopped.
When he got his stupid tv show, I was disgusted. It's always seemed truly pathetic to me how people would think he was so great.
He's always been a piece of shit.

@Gwendolyn2018 I absolutely tried to warn people about him. No one would listen.

@KKGator AH, I grew up in South Jersey and saw clearly how mobbed up trump was!! No one wanted to listen to me. yeah, jersey kids can spot a con a mile away. Course this does NOT explain wtf happened with my identical twin.

@silverotter11 Or my cousin who still lives there.‍

@Gwendolyn2018 Although this could come from an expanding prostate gland, which keeps making rise during deep sleep pattern to use the toilet, then he tweets madness while he is there, and never quite gets enough sleep.
Being a man of a certain age, he really needs an afternoon nap, but is he getting one? As the lack of sleep or sleep debt builds, this takes a toll on his cognitive functions, causing confusion, balance issues, poor judgement, paranioia, anger and memory malfunction.

Unlike dementia, sociopathy is a personality disorder while both are forms of mental illness. The big diff is that dementia is all about cognitive disability while personality disorders do not affect cognitive functioning like memory, intelligence, reasoning, etc. The truth be told, most CEOS of large companies, as well as some pols in DC, are probably sociopaths because that personality and its lack of empathy are actually advantages in making it up the corporate ladder or the political food chain.

OCD, Obssessive compulsive disorder, is also a personality disorder type of mental illness. I have no doubt that Trump has some of this as well as some paranoid features.

@Gwendolyn2018 Of course that could be true. It happens. My sister in law has Borderline Personality Disorder and most likely will develop dementia like her sister-my late wife- and their mother and grandmother before them.

@TomMcGiverin I just don't think he has PSP. I was just pointing out that he was always a sociopath and always an idiot.

He doesn't appear to have the gait problems associated with PSP. But then I am not a medical doctor.

@TomMcGiverin Dementia is not classified as a form of mental illness, btw.

...and a raging racist, sexist, xenophobe!

@Gwendolyn2018 .. and yet, the Criminally negligent Senate GOP will never act on the 25th amendment. He can be in full blown psychotic meltdown, and they will pretend all is fine. They have already amply demonstrated their disregard for their Constitutional duty.

@Gwendolyn2018 I also don't think they are delusional. Some of the voters, sure. I think the politicians are cynical, dishonest, and intentionally playing to conservative voter fears, rather than showing any integrity, because they are frankly afraid of Trump's base and his ability to turn his base harshly against GOP politicians who get on his bad side. (He has an enormous bad side)

@MikeInBatonRouge We can only hope he screws up enough to lose in November, and take the GOP Senate majority down with him. Then we can start repairing the damage of his reign of error. And we can let an honest DOJ go after him with snarling satisfaction; anyone else want to sing "Doing the perp walk?"

@alliwant nice to imagine, but then it makes his replacement look vindictive like some third world despot. I would still throw the book at him, but I can see Biden trying to "rise above it."

7@MijeMcEwan
...exactly that!
"Those who are willing to work for him are prostituting themselves".
They're pawns!

@Gwendolyn2018 I see your point. In logical world, that would matter. The national GOP is anything but logical. His impeachment provided copious incontrovertable evidence of his high crimes, even with all the blocked witnesses and documents, but the GOP in the Senate refused to acknowledge the facts. A pox on their heads!

@jorj no, the witnesses acknowledged to specific questions some hearsay, but also their own direct experiences. And a president commonly uses many go-betweens in the chain of command. You could call everything not uttered in person by the president hearsay. Most I think would consider that how he relays his wishes and expectations.
As for Trump not being involved with Russian operatives, bullshit. Other than him asking for Putin's intervention on live camera for the world to see, there were multiple meetings. Trump welcomed Russians right into the White House and banned cameras or American surveillance. During the campaign, his son, son in law, and other aids had a meeting with Russian operatives at Trump Tower. Are you seriously claiming to think Trump had nothing to do with that?

@jorj ok, alternate universe, you referred to yourself earlier ss a liberal, but this last post shows you are not. You will never be proven wrong to your mind, because your working set of "facts" is pulled out of Kelly Ann Conway world, and you are clearly drinking trump koolaid, so we are done here. Enjoy yourself.

@Gwendolyn2018 I've wrestled with that as well, because if anything I think he would lean backwards more in heels. I've considered that all his weight is in his front/stomach and he arches his back in an effort to suck it in? I dunno.

@Gwendolyn2018 Yeah, it's grasping ... I used to weigh 242.5 and I never stood like that, either. I wonder when the first photo of him standing like that was taken? I'll have to keep an eye out.

@Gwendolyn2018 Is that a real thing?

@Justme43 I googled it a few days ago, and yes, it is a real thing. He is literally one sick puppy.

@Gwendolyn2018

Poor judgement
Socially Inappropriate bahavior
Lack of inhibition
Inability to concentrate
Abrupt mood changes
Speech difficulties
Memory Loss

@Gwendolyn2018 It would have to be his RIGHT foot......he is against anything on the left.

Sounds very likely. In my experience, the people that most easily notice dementia are those who have seen the patient up close and then not again until much later. The symptoms are easier to notice if the observations are interrupted by some amount of time. The other group that sees the symptoms early are those that are looking for them because they are trained and knowledgeable and are looking because they have been asked to evaluate the patient or because they are part of the patient's social system and they are aware of a family history of inherited dementia. In my late wife's case, we were both looking out for signs of it because of her mother and grandma's history of dementia late in their lives.

@Gwendolyn2018 Even tomorrow is not soon enough.

Ummmm HELL no. If he goes look who we get....that dumb duck wants creationism taught in schools. Fuck that

Yes it is fatal. Eventually they lose the swallow reflex and develop aspiration pneumonia. You can fight that with antibiotics but it will return quickly. You're just prolonging the death process. Personal experience and medical advice speaking here.