A handwriting expert analyzed Trump’s signature and was shocked by what he saw.
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What I saw: psychopath
Today’s outrage, btw: The Orange Vandal just removed all protections for grey wolves in the lower 48.
F this guy.
Did I say “psychopath”? Sorry. I meant “illiterate psychopath.”
Yesterday he removed environmental protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, opening it for development.
If Biden wins, he will have to review every single appointment and executive order by Trump. The career officials will identify the Trumpers trying to burrow in.
❤
Right, Diane.
Let all of Trump’s cogs be ratted out.
After WWII, there were no Nazis in Germany. Only people doing their duty.
Bob,
So agree.
The DUMPster is definitely a psychopath.
He’s so out of touch with reality it’s more than scary.
He thinks he’s done a great job with this pandemic while people die.
Biggest number of Covid-19 infections were recorded in the U.S. today. And this 3rd wave is higher than the first two.
I wonder what drugs are being pumped into the DUMPster’s wretched body? He looks and acts even more CRAZED.
He is definitely psychotic. He’s a great danger to the country.
May Donald take a hike in the Yellowstone backcountry where firearms are prohibited — and wolves and grizzlies are always hungry and on the lookout for large, slow moving ungulates.
Golf clubs were forbidden too, last time I checked
Although balls are allowed and the bigger, the better.
Trump hiking? HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Don’t hold your breath waiting for that! Theodore Roosevelt he isn’t.
Well, he wouldn’t have to hike far.
Just far enough .
In some parts of the park (eg, Lamar Valley) the wolves and grizzlies come close to the road.
I hiked out of the park from the Lamar Valley once.
The ranger scared the bejebus out of me by telling me I had to hang my food between two trees and at least 15 feet off the ground to keep it from Mr. Gris.
The first night I ended up hanging my food in the dark, expecting Mr. gris to show up at any moment. I got the food about 3 feet off the ground before I decided it was not worth sticking around to see who showed up.
I have also hiked in Glacier with grizzlies. Always makes for interesting hiking especially when you are alone as I was.
Once in Glacier a grizzly hiked across the trail right after I had passed. I saw him from up higher.
The wolves could easily mistake Donald for a bison.
Dear Joe: On your first day in office, please line up all the Trump Executive Orders with the following at the top of them:
By Executive Order of the President of the United States, the following order is null and void.
Then sign every one.
Thank you,
Bob S.
I am not sure that the President can do a blanket Executive Order that will revoke all 193 Trump’s Executive Orders up to October 26, 2020 but that might be the most efficient way to get rid of these.
Some Executive Orders will require something other than an automatic move (e.g., pay schedules for federal employees, judges, and so on).
Well observed, Laura!
A 2.5 month transition is plenty of time to review all the executive orders and write new ones replacing them. How long should it take Biden to write his signature 193 times on day 1 .
May he be eternally impaled on every spiked upstroke of his signature.
I will settle for Trump, Miller, Sessions, and Rosenstein being indicted by the International Court of Criminal Justice for crimes against humanity and being extradited for trial by the Biden administration.
Sounds like a plan!
Trump is the most immediate, most severe and pressing danger to our country.
Dump turns my stomach. He is one of the most disgusting humans on this Earth. There are NO redeeming qualities about him. He is evil.
Why people are surprised by him killing animals and caging kids is beyond me.
I am sure those missing children are being trafficked or are dead.
Healers will have to be brought in to “cleanse” the wh of dumpster’s evilness.
.
George W. Bush liked to blow up frogs with firecrackers when he was “in his youth” (35?)
There seems to be a pattern
People generally don’t change their ways. Just their power.
I imagine working with Trump is like being in a prison camp. While the consequences are far more dire in a death camp, those that work with Trump confirm that they must stroke his ego and tiptoe lightly around areas that will cause friction. He requires total loyalty even if a team member must divorce him or herself from reality and sometimes the law. Anyone that crosses him will wind up in the dustbin where so many former team members reside. His paranoia explains why he spends so much time watching Fox News and engaging in conspiracies. His penchant for rallies satisfies his need for the constant attention he craves. He cannot stand losing. Let’s make sure he loses and free ourselves from this tyranny.
His signature is hilarious. It’s like how an athlete or actor would sign his name at an autograph booth.
My friend David Beskind on Trump:
He’s the kind who pours salt into the earth so crops can no longer grow. His new goal will include leaving the most massive s**tstorm possible for Joe & Kam.
I remember that in the ’80’s, handwriting analysis became more well-known to the general public through magazine articles. As a veteran watcher of courtroom dramas, I was already acquainted. I had an additional interest, having been an amateur tarot-card reader & birthchart-caster in the ’70’s [very like literary analysis, those two pursuits]. So I studied it a bit: quite different from the New Agey arts; a science of sorts. You can even observe heart arrhythmia in handwriting. Certain broad affinities such as artsy vs techy [& the combo] are evident even to a beginner’s eye– as is the startling heavy, oversized stroke and ballooned capitals of the seriously-disturbed’s signature. Spotted that even from a distance as it45 held up his EO’s for the camera.
“I like winners, not losers.”
Is this Donald Trump endorsing Joe Biden?
Signatures are samples of behavior. When Trump was told that his signature matched those of serial killers, he said he was only joking around to make his haters crazy.
I was born with a severe case of dyslexia, but back then the so-called experts didn’t know what dyslexia was and they called us retarded.
When I was seven those “experts” told my mother I would never learn to read or write. She cried on the drive home and made the decision she would not let me follow in my brother’s footsteps. My brother was 12 years older than me and was already into drugs, a violent lifestyle, and was in prison when I was seven. Richard, my brother, spent 15 years of his 64 behind bars. He died illiterate at 64.
Motivated, my mother taught me to read and write with advice from my 1st-grade teacher, not the “experts”.
Living with dyslexia comes with some tough challenges to overcome, but it also comes with gifts such as:
“Highly intuitive – known to have ‘street smarts.’ Is often ‘dead on’ in judging personalities of others.
“May be able to sense emotions and energy of others”
https://www.dyslexia.com/about-dyslexia/signs-of-dyslexia/common-characteristics-of-adult-dyslexia/comment-page-10/
I know that I have those two good dyslexia gifts because they served me well during my thirty years as a public school teacher. But I also live with several of the curses that come with dyslexia.
In short, back in 2016 when I watched Trump on stage during the presidential debates, my impression from his body language was that he was a monster and I have not changed my mind.
I think that the world would be a much safer place if Trump suddenly collapsed, ended up back in the hospital, and died from COVID-19 complication in the next couple of weeks.
If he doesn’t, I will not relax until January 20th when Biden will be sworn in as president, and even then the danger Trump represents will never be gone as long as he is alive and his base continues to blindly worship him. If he cannot comment a civil war to put him back in power, he will run again for president in 2024 and every four years after that if the GOP doesn’t stop him.
Wow, you overcame a lot. 😐🙂
If Trump loses in 2020, he can’t run forever. He will eventually die from something. 😐
I have faith that the time will come, soon, when the only news we hear of Trump is about his indictments.
And Mr. Lofthouse is a lesson to those who would pigeonhole kids at an early age. He grew up to be a fine man and a superb teacher and novelist, someone whom I am proud to call friend.
There is no “I” in team, but there are two “I” s in indictment
With Love
Goodbye, adieu, good riddance
Your term has reached it’s morrow
I really have no pitiance
And really have no sorrow
Where are the Von Trapp singers to perform this?
Yes. Lloyd’s life story should remind us all that dyslexia is too often treated as if a disability that cannot be overcome.
Dyslexia diagnoses are fairly common is those college students who major in the visual arts and are superior students but who cannot do academic work without systematic support.
Thanks, Lloyd, for your candor. I really appreciate it.
Ditto, thanks, Lloyd.
Interesting, isn’t it, that in the superhero movies, the arch-villain isn’t a schlub?
Count me as skeptical that one can tell so much from handwriting.
The fellow who did the analysis knew who Trump was and it was not all that difficult to see most (if not all) of the characteristics he (allegedly) saw in Trump’s handwriting just by watching Trump.
This piece reminds me a lot of the claims made by psychics. If you ask enough psychics you are bound to find one (just by pure chance) who “predicted” the future.
And of Clever Hans the horse.
I agree. But certainly Trump’s scribble matches his personality.
Handwriting Anslysis
You write like Charlie Manson
Your signature is evil
Your loops are necromancin’
And slither like a weasel
Your ‘a’ is Adolf Hitler
Your ‘j’ is Josef Stalin
Your ‘B’ is Bettey Midler
When witches come a callin’
Poetry Analysis
You crhyme like Norman Bates
And verse is vile parameter
Your meter is to hate
Iambic pentagrameter
Bette Midler tweets insults to Trump.
It was a reference to her movie, Hocus Pocus, in witch she plays a witch
Love that Poetry Analysis! 😀
How, the science of Tweet analysis is something else entirely.
Tweet Analysis
Analysis of Tweet
Is really kinda neat
It tells us all about
The tweeting one, no doubt
For tweet is like a porthole
Directly into mind
Identifying a-hole
And other psycho kind
Handemic Analysis
His hands are very small
And writing full of peaks
If pandemic comes to call
The Donald will say “bleach”
Wordprocessing Analysis
The way you strike the keys
Identifies your path
Electrons, if you please
Can tell a psychopath
Thanks for the poems!
Glad to oblige
Mouse Analysis
The way you move the mouse
Can tell us every thing
That you will live in House
That has a Western wing
That you will serve one term
Except the legal one
Prediction’s really firm
And really kind of fun
I hope you will be writing some “good riddance” poems soon.
“Except the legal one” might qualify
With Love
Goodbye, adieu, good riddance
Your term has reached it’s morrow
I really have no pitiance
And really have no sorrow
Hard, what spite the yonder window breaks?
It is the West wing and Donald is the sonofagun.
Good riddance, good riddance, parting is such tweet sorrow, that I shall say good riddance till it be morrow.
Omg, what wonderful Shakespearean parody!
The possibilities are endless.
Maybe you should devote a post to soliciting such parodies.
To tweet or not to tweet?
That is the question
Naw, never mind…
To tweet!
Trumpeo Trumpeo
Wherefore art thou Trumpeo?
The pandemic’s the thing, wherein we’ll catch the conscience of the King
An indictment, my Presidency for an indictment!
Donald, Donald , toil and trouble; virus rage and DOW-Jones bubble. Cool it with a baboon’s blood, Then the charm is firm and good.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Donald, than are dreamt of in your fullofsophy”
“This above all: to thine own self be true” — Felonius
“Cohen is the sole of Donald”
“Conscience doth make Cohens of us all”
“My tweets fly up, my thoughts remain below: tweets without thoughts always to Twitter go.”
“The Comey doth protest too much, methinks.”
“Madness in great ones must not untweeted go.”
Ok, I’ll stop and leave some for udders.
To die, to drink – to drink perchance to inject– ah, there’s the rubbing alcohol, for in this drink of death what stomach aches may come”
Well you do impress me with the way you said does words and I do see you as a honest and smart lady ☺️
Trump’s but a poor player that struts and frets
his hour upon the stage. May he soon be jailed
and heard no more. His is the tale of an Idiot,
full of sound and fury, signifying the nothing
that he was, is, and will forever be.
dignifying nothing, too.
A tale told by a Donald, full of Bannon and Rudy, dignifying nothing.
Wonderful, SomeDAM!
Perfect, Bob.
Shall I compare him to a summer’s day.
Of course not, for…
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long he shall remain a grotesquerie.
To Glorious Leader Who Shines More Orange than the Sun, with Apologies to EBB
How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.
I loathe thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach. I cannot stand the sight
Of thee. Disdain thou makest me embrace.
I loathe thee to the level of every day’s
Most fervent rage, by sun and monitor light.
I loathe thy morals, thy contempt for every right.
I loathe thy vanity, seeking constant praise.
I loathe thee with the passion one might choose
To heap on vandals, and with my childhood’s faith
That decency, under thy boot, we shall not lose.
So may we curse thee with every waking breath
Thy objectification of all, thy conman’s ruse,
Thy instincts not of a man but a wasp on Meth.
I don’t think even Shakespeare could have said if better.
SDP,
Thanks for getting this poetry slam going.
There is no poetry in Trump’s soul. That’s another indication of how sick he is.
If he had a favorite poem, what would it be? (I’m Rubber, You’re Glue)
Sole Man
Trump has sole
But lacks a soul
Trump has Id
But lacks a lid
Trump has “mp”
But lacks the “-thy”
Reason to be
Is “Me, me, me!”
What does this voodoo have to do with “A site to discuss better education for all”. Very disappointing.
I’m sorry you are disappointed. It’s my blog and I write about whatever I want. Read or don’t read. Your choice.
Better voodoo for one and all
Diane Ravitch makes the call
She is true to education
Even voodoo on occasion
Let me post that with the proper line endings
To Glorious Leader Who Shines More Orange than the Sun,
with Apologies to EBB
How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.
I loathe thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach. I cannot stand the sight
Of thee. Disdain thou makest me embrace.
I loathe thee to the level of every day’s
Most fervent rage, by sun and monitor light.
I loathe thy morals, thy contempt for every right.
I loathe thy vanity, seeking constant praise.
I loathe thee with the passion one might choose
To heap on vandals, and with my childhood’s faith
That decency, under thy boot, we shall not lose.
So may we curse thee with every waking breath
Thy objectification of all, thy conman’s ruse,
Thy instincts not of a man but a wasp on Meth.
Masterful!
Loathe is a rose, but you better not pick it
It only grows when it’s on the Don
Handful of thorns and you’ll know you’ve hit it
Lose your loathe when you say the word Gone
That’s Linda Ronstadt, of course
lol
All you need is loathe
Doo doo doo doo doo
All you need is loathe
Doo doo doo doo doo
All you need is loathe
Loathe
Loathe is all you need
(the Beatles)
Maybe I didn’t loathe you
Quite as often as I could have
And maybe I didn’t treat you
Quite as bad as I should have
If I made you feel second worst
Don, I’m sorry I was blind
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
(Willie Nelson)
Oh, SomeDAM, now that’s POETRY!!!! Bless you!
SomeDAM, can you post your website here again?
BTW, I just dead a web search for SomeDAM Poet and found your work EVERYWHERE! It’s getting reposted A LOT. Congratulations. Well, well deserved!!!! The Poet Laureate of the Resistance. The ancient Welsh bards used to bestow upon the greatest among them a red cloak. None so deserves to wear this, SomeDAM. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for your wit and talent. So, so appreciated here.
Trump as the deformed, jealous loser:
Now is the winter of their discontent
Made glorious by this sun of Scranton;
And all the clowns with which I crammed our car
To the boards of chuckleheaded corps returned.
Now are their brows no longer bound by MAGA hats;
Their brandished arms are locked in basement safes;
Their stern FoxTV changed to merry CNN,
Their angry militias to Rotary Clubs.
The Botox team hath smooth’d his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting platform planks
To cheer the souls I filled with fear,
He capers nimbly in legislative chamber
To the slavering applause of fools.
When forty indictments shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy wallet
Thy youth’s proud brashness, so gazed on now,
Will be a tatter’d weed, or whatchacallit
Then being ask’d where all thy money lies,
Where all the treasure of thy dealing days,
To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes,
Were an all-empty fame and shiftless ways
How much more praise deserved thy wealthy ruse
If thou couldst answer ‘This , my tax evader
Shall sum your count and make your old excuse,’
Proving your guilt beyond Darth Vader
Indictments to be made when thou hath lost
And see thy blood boil when thou feel’st cost
bravo!
I said: Shotgun.
Shoot him ‘fore he run now!
Do the Jerk, baby.
Do the Jerk now!
(Junior Walker)
Fred, you are FUNNY!! Liked all your earlier comments, too, esp. describing it45’s “poetry,” if he had any: “I’m rubber, you’re glue…”
Stunted at the preschool level.
Really, you’d all like Mary Trump’s book (if you hadn’t yet read it). The analysis of it45 in about 19 sentences, & the rest a fascinating study of a fractured family.
Dear Retired.
Retired here too. Thank you. These days, more than ever, I’m trying to stay in touch with my inner child. I cling to fond memories and smile as often as I can. But there are also recurring regrets. Growing older has brought me to a happy-sad bipolar state. The sunny side is the better place to be.
I agree with you about Mary Trump. She is the most lucid voice of authority on Uncle Donald. Better than Huey, Louie and Dewey. Everyone else — the talking heads, the come-lately book writers, the columnists — fall far short of her insightful analyses of his personality, motives, insatiable needs, cruelties, yada yada.
Most of them fail to acknowledge Wayne Barrett, whose seminal 1992 book they have drawn on (Trump: The Deal and the Downfall), has provided them an MRI into this guy’s methods and mind and the ways his dirty behavior was shaped. Mary readily credits Barrett among others.
But, enough. I must tend to my child.
Fred
What blight through yonder window breaks?
It is The Donald,
And Chaos is the sun…
Friends, Americans, Countrymen, lend me your ears,
I have come to bury Donald, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Donald The noble Rudy
Hath told you Donald was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Donald answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Rudy and the rest–
For Rudy is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
Come I to speak in Donald’s funeral.
He was not my friend, neither faithful nor just to me:
And Rudy says he was ambitious;
Yes, Rudy is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Mar-A-Lago
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
This in Donald seemed ambitious.
When that the poor have cried, Donald never wept:
Ambition is indeed made of sterner stuff:
And Rudy says he was ambitious;
Yes, Rudy,is an honourable man.