Core Collapse: Trump’s Detonation Is Inevitable

There is no way to know what’s on the other side and there is no way back

We are in the final, grueling stages of watching a malignant narcissist lose his mind—a narcissist with nukes, an enemies list, and absolutely no boundaries. Yesterday, I listed three things that he could do when he finally ruptures, meaning, the final stage of narcissistic collapse:

1. Arrest his political enemies—Obama, Clinton

2. Pardon Ghislaine Maxwell and point the blame at Democrats

3. Get into a war with Russia

Since then, he has loaded all three guns.

First, Trump’s propagandists and prophets have been beating the drum for arrests of his enemies. It’s not justice they’re looking for, it is violent, Girardian scapegoating they want. Trump not only can’t ignore this bloodthirst, he is creating it deliberately.

The shocking evidence that has been uncovered came from addled nonagenarian Senator Chuck Grassley, who has been vociferously promoting Russian propaganda and QAnon conspiracy theories for at least a decade. Grassley released the “Durham Annex” to the fraudulent Durham investigation—which Durham had previously kept sealed. But rather than proving any wrongdoing, the Annex actually showed that Durham’s entire investigation was based on Russian-created “evidence.”

Nevertheless “lock her up” is a powerful meme in Trump’s cult and facts don’t matter in his closed system, so he’s promising them that their core prophecy of Hillary in an orange jumpsuit will finally will come true—and they are thirsty for it.

On the Ghislaine Maxwell front, despite heart-breaking outreach from the families of her victims for Trump to not offer Maxwell any comfort or clemency, Trump had the Bureau of Prisons move the most notorious living American pedophile to a minimum security Federal Prison Camp, which doesn’t even have a perimeter fence.

In a statement released after the news of Maxwell's being moved broke, the family of Epstein abuse survivor Virginia Giuffre, joined by Epstein and Maxwell accusers Annie and Maria Farmer, said, "It is with horror and outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has received. Ghislaine Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children on multiple occasions, and she should never be shown any leniency. Yet, without any notification to the Maxwell victims, the government overnight has moved Maxwell to a minimum security luxury prison in Texas."

This is a clear signal that Trump has officially moved Ghislaine Maxwell into the category of victim. He sees her as his only way out, the truth and the victims be damned.

The third prediction, that Trump might get us into a war with Russia to deflect from the Russian interference that got him elected, and to prove his dominance, took a big step forward. This is an extremely dangerous provocation.

Putin is a totalist messianic narcissist like Trump, who reacted to Trump’s shortening of a ceasefire deadline from 50 to 10 days by sending one of its largest missile bombardments into Kyiv yesterday, murdering over a hundred, including entire families, and more than a dozen children in just the last 24 hours.

When two narcissists get locked into conflict, it’s almost impossible to get them to stand down because it is their nature to escalate, to dominate, regardless of the consequences. When they each have 1000s of nukes and one of them is in cognitive and emotional collapse, well, nothing good can come of it.

Forgive a short detour into astrophysics, but perhaps you’ll see why. A very large star, at least 20-25 larger than our Sun will live millions, not billions, of years during it’s main sequence when it is in relative balance, turning hydrogen into helium in its core by stable fusion. When it starts to run out of fuel, however, it begins to eat itself and fuses heavier and heavier elements together (carbon, oxygen, etc.). The star becomes violent and unstable, and ends up with a tightly packed iron core.

When the iron core crosses a certain threshold of density, gravity overtakes the atomic bonds holding the iron atoms together and it implodes into a black hole within milliseconds. However, the outer parts of the star rocket inward and bounce outward in a supernova explosion, a massively energetic event—10²⁸ times more powerful than an H-bomb.

Trump, in this metaphor, is getting very close to the critical point before core collapse. His internal psychology, his very likely frontotemporal dementia, and the deep narcissistic wound created by Epstein have depleted his fuel, and he’s become increasingly unstable as he shrinks further down into his own messianic alternate reality.

As a final example of how far gone he is and why I believe core collapse is near. After a weak jobs report, Trump literally fired the messenger, because he is desperate to create what I have called epistemological totalitarianism, which is the seizure of the means of telling truth from falsehoods by the state. Trump doesn’t just want to own the world, he wants to own the truth. He wants to destroy the ability of objective reality to interfere with his projection of dominance.

Asked about why he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

REPORTER: Why did you fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics?

TRUMP: Because I think the numbers were wrong.

REPORTER: Why should anyone trust the numbers?

TRUMP: You’re right. No, you’re right. Why should anyone trust numbers?

[h/t Aaron Rupar]

This is one of those “even for Trump” moments when he appears to take possession of the field of mathematics. He’s saying, clearly: “Why should you trust the numbers when you have me to tell you what they are?”

This is not just domination of the people, it’s an attempt at domination of reality.

Unfortunately, a black hole is a singularity, meaning that once you go in you can never, ever leave. There is no way to know what’s on the other side and there is no way back.

The timing and intensity of Trump’s core collapse, at this point, is just a matter of time. And as surely as numbers still exist, the detonation will surely follow.

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