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I'll be at the ocean for the next week. For my mental health I'm taking a vacation from Trump and from my Substack. By Hal M. Brown

How about a big inflatable alligator eating Trump for the next protest? By Hal M. Brown

Biden had Elton John entertain on the White House lawn. Trump wants to have a UFC fight. What's next, gladiators fighting to the death? By Hal M. Brown

They are here legally, White, armed to the teeth, and itching to shoot people. What is Trump going to do about it? By Hal M. Brown

The Trump MAGA hat, the greatest fetish for the greatest president, By Hal M. Brown

What's not being asked about why Trump really wanted a brain scan. By Hal M. Brown

Trump is a Two Hit Wonder: MAGA and America First. By Hal M. Brown

For those not well off, Trump's Big Beautiful Bill's message is "let them eat cake." By Hal M. Brown

What will the country look like in a year? Here's the best case. By Hal M. Brown

A new article and an old one about Trump's dangerous malignant narcissitic psychopathology prompted this Substack. By Hal M. Brown, MSW (Retired psychotherapist)

The mad scramble to gaslight us about what we saw with our own eyes after the Iran bombing. By Hal M. Brown

No Joy in Mudville: It looks like Trump's big beautiful bombs didn't achieve deep penetration, By Hal M. Brown

The poeseur poser president knows the power of a picture. He bombed with his bunker buster bombing photos. By Hal M. Brown

Who will Trump wage war against next? Want to make a guess, Sparky? By Hal M. Brown

Politely Put or Just Plain Weird: "Thank you for your attention to this matter." Now is the time for peace or you sign your own death warrant, thank you, says Donald J. Trump. By Hal M. Brown

Trumpworld 47: Where experts go to die. By Hal M. Brown

Why, oh why, did I post these on BlueSky? By Hal M. Brown

Who's got the balls, Bondi and Noem or Gabbard? By Hal M. Brown

I was going to write about how long Push-up Pete and other members of the Trump cabal have to bother testifying before Congress and then Trump came on and launched into a rant. By Hal M. Brown

Trump's decision about joining Israel's war against Iran with a bunker busting bomb will rest on emotion rather than logic. By Hal M. Brown

What happens when you let the gremlin get wet, by Hal M. Brown

Even Febreze, with its HPβCD, wouldn't take out the stink of what Trump's psychopathic Gestapo are doing. By Hal M. Brown

Trump has already torn holes in the Constitution, today his tanks will rip holes in Constitution Avenue. By Hal M. Brown

Here's a backstory about dear Kristi's DHS and her spokeswoman which you may have missed. By Hal M. Brown

Les Mis premier: A lot of noise signfiying Trump. By Hal M. Brown

Why you shouldn't count on patriotic generals to save us, in two words: Pete Hegseth. By Hal M. Brown

While anxiously waiting for Trump's next move on his dictatorial juggernaut I found two small things to be pleased about. By Hal M. Brown

"When they spit, we hit." As if we needed more proof that Trump was sadistic malignant narcissist he shares a viscious ditty... by Hal M. Brown

Trump may have lost immigration cases in court, but now he's about to get his biggest win: martial law. By Hal M. Brown

The battle of les géant enfant terrible, By Hal M. Brown

What can happen when the government has a database on everyone? By Hal M. Brown

Fuckshitratdamn, what the hell is going on in the Trump administration with appointments like Thomas Fugate? By Hal M. Brown

Some Republicans say they didn't read the Big Beautiful Bill. Now they have buyers remorse. How many didn't read Trump correctly when they became his toadies and have buyer's remorse? By Hal M. Brown

What will happen if Trump gets medieval...

When a mood driven president's decisions lead to chaos, chaos can lead to catastrophe. By Hal M. Brown

Is Trump's agenda really struggling?

Musk's drug use. By Hal M. Brown

Should we laugh at things like this, should we cry, or should we scream? By Hal M. Brown

How long before ICE or other members of Trump's Gestapo search my iPhone or my name plus Trump online before I am on my way to prison? By Hal M. Brown

There's only one good thing about Stephen Miller. By Hal M. Brown

Every honest paper in the country should have headlined yesterday's Memorial Day story "Trump Destroys Democracy." By Hal M. Brown

What kind of leader sends a message like this on their country's day set aside to honor fallen soldiers? By Hal M. Brown

This is one of the most depressing articles I've ever read. The only hope I see is if that enough of these voters didn't really want Trump to be a ruthless dictator. By Hal M. Brown

Caught on Kremlin camera: Putin reads his daily intelligence briefing, By Hal M. Brown

Why the f*ck is Musk advertising Starlink on Salon? By Hal M. Brown

All that glitters: Trump's self-aggrandizing clownish PR stunt, his glorious Golden Dome, is worse than a budget breaking waste of money. By Hal M. Brown

Who are those masked men? They certainly aren't Lone Rangers. By Hal M. Brown

Does anybody know what the f**k Trump believes when he says things like he did today? By Hal M. Brown

Trump, love, and stuff. By Hal M. Brown, MSW

Think the Pope Trump image was bad? Watch the cringeworthy AI video Trump posted. To fully understand the depth of his pathological narcisissm you need to check it out. By Hal M. Brown

The hell with attempts at clever wordsmithing, plain and simple in two days Trump proves how he's a mentally unwell rageaholic. By Hal M. Brown, MSW, Retired Psychotherapist

The upside down flag. By Hal M. Brown

MAGA minds soft as shit in a sneaker. By Hal M. Brown

Does Trump really blink? By Hal M. Brown

Trump lives in my house and my mind like a giant disease carrying housefly. By Hal M. Brown

Eventually Trump will say "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead," only for him the torpedoes will be nothing more than Nerf balls. By Hal M. Brown

Habeous Corpus, immigrants, and the dandelion invasion. By Hal M. Brown

Trump lit the fire and is burning down the house. Now he's sitting there happily roasting marshmallows. By Hal M. Brown

The demonization of Albrego Garcia. By Hal M. Brown

Now defunct website called Trumpelthinskin endeavored to skewer Trump. Trump 45 wasn't as bad as predicted, but now he has a second term and he's a horror show. By Hal M. Brown

Who deserves to be called "The Greatest," Donald Trump or Muhammad Ail? By Hal M. Brown

Trump, Miss Manner's he ain't. By Hal M. Brown

Mike Pence seems to seek redemption. He owes us more. Start by saying Trump's name. He's not Voldermort. By Hal M. Brown

Nothing better to do tonight? Watch Mike Pence receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. By Hal M. Brown

With Trump's ordering his armed thugs to emulate the Nazi Schutzstaffel, or the Waffen-SS, we might as well call the country the USSA. By Hal M. Brown

If you can't taste the Democracy killing poison in Trump's Kool-Aid there's something wrong with you. By Hal M. Brown

30 Barbies: Not good at parenting or at the maths. By Hal M. Brown

Fake Photogate: Trump's MS-13 Garcia hand tattoo shows how far he's willing to go to gaslight us. By Hal M. Brown

For now Trump is working more or less within the law. He's appointing loyalists as interim US attorneys. At some point he may not bother with lawyers at all. By Hal M. Brown

Trump told The Atlantic that he runs the country and the world. Take him seriously. Hitler could have said the same thing. By Hal M. Brown

Combine DOGE and ICE and we could have an American Gestapo armed with both guns and computers. By Hal M. Brown

The ship of state is sinking. Why we ordered a flag to carry at the next protest. By Hal M. Brown and Ann Rutz

Hitler turned anti-semitism into a reason to demonize Jews, Trump is trying to turn fear of Hispanic gangs into reason to hate all brown skinned immigrants. By Hal M. Brown

Trump is in the Dark Pentagon, and I don't mean the home of the Dept. of Defense. By Hal M. Brown

Fox tries to make a new Willie Horton. By Hal M. Brown

Aloha, indeed! What do people in Germany think of the US when they read about what happened to these young German women? By Hal M. Brown

Will Trump dump Petey Piranha? By Hal M. Brown

Phallocentrism, the ideology that the phallus is the central element in an organization, is central to the manosphere of Trump world. By Hal M. Brown

Unsolved mystery: We know Trump is creating chaos, but why? By Hal M. Brown

“If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio. "The president is getting bored," David Ignatius on the war in Ukraine.

Wait until Trump & Co. find out about Harvard Law's initiatives to "honor the enslaved people whose labor generated wealth that contributed to the school's founding." By Hal M. Brown

You don't have to be another Hitler to be Hitlerian, by Hal M. Brown

Dr. Seuss gave us "Bartholomew and the Oobleck." Trump is giving us the Stephen King version where burning lava is raining down on us, By Hal M. Brown

There may be those who remember history and want to repeat it. By Hal M. Brown

The soul is often conceived as the non-physical, immaterial essence or principle that animates a living being and is believed to be immortal. It's seen as the core of who we are, a uni by Hal M. Brown

Kristi Noem does the blonde Trump Barbies one better by proving her malevolent sadism with an assault rife, By Hal M. Brown

Am I the only anti-Trump shrink who thinks Trump may not have dementia? He may. But he may not. By Hal M. Brown, MSW

This Amanda Marcotte brilliant take is too bad (good) not to share, By Hal M. Brown

Trump's Hitlerian Henchwomen: Pam Bondi and Karoline Leavitt offer the feminine tone as their Führer sets the stage for sending people to the modern day version of concentration camps, by Hal M. Brown

This should be common sense, but apparently someone may need a Georgetown Law School professor to to explain it, By Hal M. Brown

Then and now: Comparing the radical and dangerous SDS protest plans of 1970 with the HandsOff! peaceful protests.

I am an old radical gratified to welcome a new generation of radicals. By Hal M. Brown

Democracy's fate will be decided by what happens with all the Trump gates. By Hal M. Brown

Crashgate, Donald Trump drives the economy into Herbert Hoover Hell, by Hal M. Brown

What's next, Tarriffgate? Will Trump's presidency be known for its gates? By Hal M. Brown

The Trump war on fake evil Canadian Fentanyl pushers and a f*cken nuts president, by Hal M. Brown, MSW

Another "how dare he from Trump," this one may be his most insensitive one yet, By Hal M. Brown

With Trump's "off with their heads" revenge rage attacks we all could end up as the next Alice, By Hal M. Brown

Could Trump and Patel put Jeffrey Goldberg on the FBI 10 Most Wanted List? By Hal M. Brown

A Substack by Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen should be alarming. Mine might outdo his. By Hal M. Brown

About Kristi Noem's perverse PR stunt: Trump probably loves her for it, but will it backfire? By Hal M. Brown

The death of American Exceptionalism: what other country sent "undesirables" outside of their country to meet their dire fate? By Hal M. Brown

Trump survived Pussygate unscathed. Will he survive Signalgate unscathed? By Hal M. Brown

If Trump was told and forgot about what was reported by The Atlantic this could be solid evidence he has dementia, By Hal M. Brown, MSW, Retired psychotherapist.

Trump's attack on The Atlantic, if he forgot about what the article was about, could be the strongest indication yet that he has dementia, By Hal M. Brown, MSW

The president's preening narcissism, again! By Hal M. Brown

How a few comments to a HUFFPOST article comparing Trump to Hitler is a snapshot of divided America, By Hal M. Brown

The concrete Trump poured to destroy democracy is beginning to cure. How long will it take to be as strong as Hoover Dam? By Hal M. Brown

Sadists ® U.S: Trump and The Dark Tetrad, By Hal M. Brown

The warrior president and his weapon wielding thugs: will we have Strykers in the streets? Wait for it. By Hal M. Brown

On top of all the other shit blowing into our faces we are dealing with finding out it's hit the Wikipedia fan too, By Hal M. Brown

Trump is engaged in two fights against democracy. Both involve agents armed with guns. Are we a nascent police state? By Hal M. Brown

Henchmen and Enablers: How much friggen evidence do Congressional Republicans need to admit they supported a ruthless dictator who will soon ignore the law at will? By Hal M. Brown

Think DOGE is bad, WOGE will be way worse, By Hal M. Brown

My city council is united against Trumpism, By Hal M. Brown

Trump and Trumpism: A Witches Brew Times Two, By Hal M. Brown

Holy Fucken Shit, Sabrina Haake!!!! My comment to you has become most of my Substact today. By Hal M. Brown

Does Trump really care about Wall Street? By Hal M. Brown

Wearing my feelings on my shirt. By Hal M. Brown

Are we becoming a police state? Look at the definition. By Hal M. Brown

When I read news like this I imagine seeing Trump literally as Putin's hand puppet. By Hal M. Brown

Thinking the unthinkable about fighting the good fight against autocracy. By Hal M. Brown

Trump's hellscape has become just plain normal for half the country, by Hal M. Brown

In the early 1960's we had The Realist with the "Fuck Communism" poster. Today the poster on my wall should read "Fuck Trumpism." By Hal M. Brown

The Democrats need one person to go on TV, YouTube, and X every day to fight Trumpism. By Hal M. Brown

What's wrong with Trump's "Golden Dome" missile defense plan? Everything. By Hal M. Brown

Biggest bully Trump to the free world: "Fuck all of you," By Hal M. Brown

What do they think of Trump's cozy relationship with Putin in the other Manchester? By Hal M. Brown

What if these things didn't happen to Trump? By Hal M. Brown

From Putin to Trump to Bondi to Patel: what if it's worse than the U.S. making it easier for Russia to spy on us? By Hal M. Brown

Tidbits today. By Hal M. Brown

Hitlerism as a word never became popular. There is now such a thing as Trumpism. By Hal M. Brown

Some think Trump's aura of invincibility is fading. By Hal M. Brown

When the armored FBI Tesla Cybertruck parks in front of our houses, By Hal M. Brown

Yesterday I wrote that the tyranny blitzkrieg has entered our village, now they are about to burn down our houses. By Hal M. Brown

I did business in Russia. Trump is importing KGB thuggery.

Trump & Co. have just blown by the "SPEED, NO LIMIT" sign on the road to tyranny, By Hal M. Brown

Trump's tweets are a royal road to his unconscious, by Hal M. Brown

We're on the road to tyranny, By Hal M. Brown

The Oval Office is the new Access Hollywood bus, By Hal M. Brown

Trump just gave Europe its Pearl Harbor by backing Russia in the Ukraine war. By Hal M. Brown

Airplane crashes and more: turnabout may not be fair play, but Trump and Musk deserve it. By Hal M. Brown

A tale of the DOGE destruction disruption and more unintended consequences. By Hal M. Brown

I call it Munchausen masculinity. By Hal M. Brown

Trump want us to think he's Napoleon, and probably George Washington too, by Hal M. Brown

It's not hyperbole to invoke Hitler, albeit with qualifications, anymore, by Hal M. Brown

Vance gave a speech at the Munich Security Conference for an audience of one, Donald Trump, By Hal M. Brown

Government by thugs and thuggery, By Hal M. Brown

Trump and Musk's effort to expose fraud is all sizzle and no steak. They are preeminent American fraudsters themselves, but it's worse than this. By Hal M. Brown

Relgious leaders sue to prevent ICE raids on churches giving immigrants sanctuary, does Trump care? By Hal M. Brown

Thanks to Lawrence O'Donnell... well really thanks to Donald Trump... I am wide awake at midnight writing this. By Hal M. Brown

Three weeks in and we have Fort Sumter. By Hal M. Brown

What's wrong with this photo? A man with a badge and a gun stopped a US Senator from entering a federal building. By Hal M. Brown

I say it's a blitzkreig. By Hal M. Brown

Hair of the dog, anybody? I have discovered who some of the FoxNews morning audience are. By Hal M. Brown

The anti-Trump resistance must use peaceful unconventional warfare using smarts instead of guns. By Hal M. Brown

Again Trump works his misdirection magic, this time with Gaza distraction, by Hal M. Brown

It may just be YouTube, but Fox was just bounced out of first place by a liberal media outlet and they are panicking, By Hal M. Brown

Marjorie Taylor Greene's latest attempt stroke Trump's - uh - ego, gets blowback, By Hal M. Brown

What does DEI stand for now? This one Trump is promoting. By Hal M. Brown

Want to join the MAGA Mafia or Amercian Gestapo? Make your bones by turning in your DEI neighbor or colleague. By Hal M.Brown

What's wrong with this picture? Anti-DEI Trump demands best and brightest and gives us RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel, by Hal M. Brown

It is time for Rachel Maddow cut the chuckling and get deadly serious. by Hal M. Brown

Trump's gift to the press is Candy Karoline. At least she's better looking than Joseph Goebbels, by Hal M. Brown

If Rachel Maddow isn't on the top of Kash Patel's media hit list, after last night's take-down she is now, by Hal M. Brown

Performative sadisim: Cruelty in the closet doesn't count. It's just no fun. By Hal M. Brown, MSW

Trump and MAGA cohorts don't lack empathy. As sadists, they have perverse empathy, by Hal M. Brown, MSW

Rachel Maddow, there's nothing remotely amusing about Trump. By Hal M. Brown

Get ready for Tsar Trump the Terrible, by Hal M. Brown

How Trump's grandiose narcissism can help turn around the dark days of democracy's death, by Hal M. Brown

Trump attacks bishop for her sermon at National Prayer Service saying to "have mercy" on his constituents, specifically naming LGBTQ people and immigrants and Gays for Trump is still online

My Washington Post subscription cancellation just got a temporary reprieve. It's still on probation. By Hal M. Brown

Every freedom loving American should be thinking of this alliteration, by Hal M. Brown

Vomitaurguarion Day will challenge half the country to find something else to do, by Hal M. Brown

Hegseth is wrong, There is no thin line between legality and lethality. By Hal M. Brown

Make America Nasty and Mean, by Hal M. Brown

You can take the bully out of the schoolyard, but you can't take the bully out of the boy, by Hal M. Brown

Hegseth, the disrespectful somatic narcissist, by Hal M. Brown

Shortly after the damning Jack Smith report was released Trump rants about... wait for it... Seth Meyers, By Hal M. Brown

Trump posed for photo op with Alberta premier with insulting billboard on his head, By Hal M. Brown

The emperor has no clothes and truth in packaging presidential promises, by Hal M. Brown

The politics of booze, by Hal M. Brown

For MAGA oligarchs it's all aboout rubbing our noses in their billionaire power privilege, by Hal M. Brown

Forget the narcissism in malignant narcissism, Trump is just pure malignant, by Hal M. Brown

Whether it's demented or not, we're all now at the mercy of Trump's big brain, by Hal M. Brown.

Do you know what the Streisand effect is? It has nothing to do with singing but is relevant to efforts to hide the truth. By Hal M. Brown

Jan. 6th: The start of the second great experiment in American democracy is about to be certified. Something wicked this way comes. By Hal M. Brown

In two years let's hope voters realize Trump is a modern Fiji mermaid, by Hal M. Brown

My take on The Washington Post spiking an Ann Telneas editorial cartoon and her quitting in protest, by Hal M. Brown

My take on The Washington Post spiking an Ann Telnais editorial cartoon and her quitting in protest, by Hal M. Brown

Am I the only anti-Trump shrink who thinks Trump may not have dementia? By Hal M. Brown, MSW

It would be better to have a calculating liar as president than one who doesn't get all the facts before making a major decision, by Hal M. Brown

The "dignified "Trumps are going to Jimmy Carter's funeral. This is as it should be, however this is what they will be feeling. By Hal M. Brown.