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[–] 113 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

Trump is a malignant narcissist suffering from dementia. Everything he says is most likely in no way related to reality, so please stop reporting and posting crap about what Trump is saying.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    Oh, but they never will, the news media hasn’t stopped talking about Trump since before 2016. It’s been a decade of Trump. Stay prepared for more. They won’t stop now, not while he’s still got a pulse.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Media was gobbled up by billionaires specifically for the purpose of promoting their own interests and that includes keeping Trump and MAGA in power. He’s so easy to openly bribe and as a pedophile himself, Trump will make sure they never face consequences for raping children at Epstein properties. Buying up mainstream media is an investment that keeps billionaires out of jail.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    No, please post, this is too funny. It needs to be remembered by history so we don't repeat it

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    You can only laugh so much over how stupid USA and Trump are. I'm way past the laughing phase. And there is more than enough material without taking something with as little importance as this.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (8 children)

    I'd like to gently push back on some of that. Most of his abhorrent behaviour can be explained by narcissism and the fact that he's 80 years old. You wouldn't expect someone that old with poor sleeping schedule while eating exclusively fast food to be cognitively sharp. Also on the label malignant: this has a specific meaning as a qualifier for narcissistic personality disorder. In short:

    • narcissism: clearly met. Being admired for his imagined business acumen is his highest goal.
    • anti-social: met but can be explained in function of narcissism itself.
    • paranoia: I'm not seeing it.
    • sadism: I see suffering in the wake of his destructive path but it seems more a consequence than a goal per se.

    There are some commentors who claim that his lack of inhibition and poor impulse-control and capriciousness and short attention span is better explained by ADHD. Things are what they are, that he is a malignant political force and basically a stinking sack of shit is clear but it is not useful to attribute additional labels to him that can be explained with what we know already as it would muddy the waters and give your statement less weight.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    paranoia: I’m not seeing it.

    Really? Trump is super paranoid, he literally believes when he claims there's witch hunt against him. Also your list is not the most important things, the malignant narcissist is an extreme psychopath and 100% Trump has zero empathy.

    better explained by ADHD

    I disagree, what looks like ADHD is his narcissism combined with stupidity. Trump is a very stupid guy, there was even a teacher that claimed he was the stupidest pupil he ever had.

    Maybe he has ADHD, but that's trivial and irrelevant compared to the rest.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago*

    Everyone in the deep state knows that Donald Trump isn't paranoid.

    Those bastards in Canada and the EU have really been out to get him for a long time.

    Just ask the people in Greenland. They'll tell you about all of the secret military exercises being conducted over their shores.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Good points. On the paranoia: is this also not more likely due to narcissistic injury? My impression is that paranoia in context of such personality disorders is more often preemptive and constant rather then reactionary due to his bubble of grandiosity being burst. On the ADHD: either it is part or it isn't but I disagree that it is trivial. We're trying to make sense of this cheese brain and it should help us (voting world population) to better understand the tendency of self-absorbed people, like he, getting positions of power aiding our democratical collapse.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I see no signs of ADHD, and if there are any, they are very minor, so yes that is absolutely a minor concern compared to him being a raving malignant narcissist.
    If you see Trump speeches from 40 years ago, it is very evident that he does NOT have ADHD, back then he was perfectly coherent and could stay on track for hours. People with ADHD cannot do that.

    The fact that he can't do it now, doesn't mean he has ADHD it means he has dementia.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    back then he was perfectly coherent

    People with ADHD can speak perfectly coherently. ADHD is an issue with attention and focus, not with language.

    and could stay on track for hours

    How could you possibly know that? Were you physically there with him at the time, critically assessing his performance? I thought you were dead, Epstein.

    People with ADHD cannot do that.

    You have no idea what you're talking about. They very much can.

    doesn’t mean he has ADHD it means he has dementia

    Anyone who can't distinguish those two conditions is more than a few marbles short. They're nothing alike.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Paranoia may actually be met, don't know if it's confirmed or not but I've heard his love of fast food may in part be so he doesn't get poisoned. Honestly though given how many people he has pissed off over the decades that may actually be the most rational course of action.

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  • [–] 89 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

    The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

    He's been doing that since long before he ran for president. He literally pretended to be his own PR guy for a while. He literally called him self John (his middle name) Barron (his kid's name). It's typical of people with his mental disorder not to have imagination because they have no curiosity to think about anything but themselves.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    And here I thought my shitty method of bashing two random ancestors names together was bad, but I guess that's not too bad since it's harder to figure out where I'm pulling shit from. Also I get bangers sometimes, there's at least two random ass sites with the name Arminius de Bruce listed as a member.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    I know you're shit posting but I did once mash together the names of my great grandfather and my 2 times great grandfather on the opposite side of my family true, this resulted in the culturally disgusting name of Willard Wilms.

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  • [+] 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
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    It's especially funny since Willard is a traditional Celtic name and Wilms is a slightly Americanized name from what is today Baden Germany. Though at the time my ancestors left it was still Baden, Baden.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    since Willard is a traditional Celtic name

    It's Germanic, as are most names ending with -ard or -hard (Richard, Bernhard, Eberhard). It appears in old English as Wilheard.

    Wilms can also be a form of Willems, which is Dutch. I don't know if it occurs in Allemanic-speaking regions such as Baden. It might. I've been there, but only once or twice long ago. But I know the Low Countries well and have seen the surname used both in the Netherlands and Flanders.

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  • Then where the fuck did my family get it from? Cause we almost exclusively stick to Celtic, Roman, and Christian names IE Lucius, Jess, Gordon, Robert, Michael, Scott, and Antony so why did we pick up a random German name to start throwing at random kids every couple of generations. Like don't get me wrong it's faded in the last couple generations but I can't imagine my 2x grandpa Jess.

    The Willms (how it was spelt before immigration) were surprisingly well traveled and I know that the mother of my ancestor who came over was from Schleswig-Holstein so it's possible the name moved around.

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  • [–] 78 points 2 weeks ago
    [–] 30 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    His ego is writing checks that his brain can't cash. -J-Roc

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  • [–] 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    His handlers have been feeding him lies

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    100%. Look at what happens when he sits at a table with all his henchmen. The meeting always starts with going around the table kissing his ass. What are the chances they're NOT also saying "MR.PRESIDENT YOU'RE SO GREAT, LOOK; EVERYONE LOVES YOU!"?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago

    Somehow, again, coincidentally, all of the Earth is lying and only Trump knows the truth.

    What are the odds? Poor guy just can't catch a break other than his entire life and two Presidential terms

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Why stop at 60 if you're just going to make shit up. Say 100% .... Or 11000394847292%.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago

    I’m shocked he was willing to go that low.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago

    If you're going to make up a number that no one will believe anyway, why stop at 60%?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    In other words: his handlers / string-pullers told him most people love him. So it must be true because it makes his fee-fees tingle.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Maine being able to set your own approval rating... And going only 60%.

    What a moron.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    President Trump has a different way of calculating ...[percentages]

    from rfk, jr about maga math

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    He’s not wrong, polls are fake. People will still vote for him if he ran even if they say they disapprove of him

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    Only 60% among his sycophants? Imagine what it is among the people who never answer surveys.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    He didn't "insist his approval rating is really at 60%". Quote from the article says:

    I don’t believe I could be beaten by anybody. I think that if I needed it, which I don’t, I think 60.

    Which, as usual, makes absolutely no fucking sense. Because the one thing you do need to win an election is approval. Or maybe it's a reference to his earlier promises to "cheat like hell"? As in, he doesn't need approval because he's going to cheat? Who fuckin knows what goes this this guy's head? But then he provides no source for the 60 number, because he clearly made up on the spot.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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    He has a point that approval rating is one thing but winning is another. As soon as he’s matched up against an actual person the game changes completely. People will vote for someone they don’t approve of very much in order to block someone they despise. “Hypothetical Democratic candidate” probably polls higher than any of Kamala, Newsom, Bernie. AOC, Buttigieg, anyone.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Knowing the US, probably.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    And I say my poverty is fake and I actually have 60 billion in the bank.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    It must be kinda nice to be so narcissistic that you're genuinely delusional.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    hilarious. I bet he's in the 20s at best.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    He means 60% of his sworn followers. (Noone else counts.)

    Truman's the drugstore guy turned congress-critter who, as president, signed everything they told him to, including creation of a bunch of 3-letter agencies.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    "No I'm not hated by almost everyone, I'm only hated by almost half of everyone " doesn't feel like quite the flex he thinks it is

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    With the American mythos that exactly half of everyone subscribes to one of the two shades of the uniparty, it's not too bad.

    It reads like his entire shade plus 20% of the other party's base.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Come on piggy, only 60%? Your buddy Kim Jung-Un is pulling 98.99%. Surely you can be the most popular president ever in the history of the universe!

    /s

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Tick tock 9 days.

    What's your plan if the midterms don't stop MAGA?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    What do you think would be different? Seriously.

    They won't pass minimum wage increase, they won't impose term limits, they won't make an age cap, they won't pass universal healthcare, and so on.

    They won't release the Epstein files. You know, like every other time for 20 years

    (I'm voting, and you should too. But great expectations are at this point ridiculous)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    The midterms are an emergency break, even if the Dems win the most likely outcome is that the legislative branch can at least try to counter some of Trump's nonsense IE Iran but otherwise will simply work as not being a rubber stamp.

    Personally I'm not expecting much, but the possibility that he cant appoint any more judges in the courts is good enough by itself let alone the possibility that there are no more funding bills passed.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Probably based on a poll among his personal yes-men.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Since he's already figuratively living on another planet, maybe we should literally send him to one. Venus would be my personal favorite.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Too quick of a death. Mars is a good choice. Send him with all the billionaires with space toys. Make it a reality TV show.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    I've been saying it for ten years—the man is actually delusional.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    The 60% approval rating came from the Muscovite and CCP mobile phones.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    And my parents gobble it up I bet

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Awww is that what Natalie Harp told you before tucking you into bed last night?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Well shit. If someone like the president of the united states of america said it then it must be true!!! /s

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    I think making it "Donald Trump says polls are fake and insists his approval rating is really at 6%" would be better to show that he needs to be ousted.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    That means his actual approval rating is well below 30%.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    He asked all his friends, and still only got 60% approval?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    60% high cholesterol?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago*

    It's more like 95% if you (correctly) consider inaction a form of tacit approval.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    I don't believe the polls saying that his approval rating is that low. I also fear that there won't be a blue wave. I remember the lead up to 2016 and the vibe was similar, wasn't it?

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    [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    And every single woman that smiles at me wants to have sex with me, and every man wants to be me.

    That would be a hard no to all 3 lol

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Sure, grandpa. Now let’s get you inside…

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