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— Samuel L. Bronkowitz (@SamBronkowitz) December 18, 2016
At least the discussion is being disseminated widely enough that the electors won’t be able to claim they hadn’t heard about it before they make President-Asterisk’s position official.
For additional self-torture, follow the feed of this professional specialist in the disorder…
For the next several years, keep in mind that narcissism doesn't have an agenda outside itself.
— Josh Grubbs (@GrubbsDr) December 18, 2016
It's also worth remembering that narcissists are hard to consistently manipulate. Easy to bait, but hard to predict.
— Josh Grubbs (@GrubbsDr) December 18, 2016
The charisma and machismo that often leads a narcissist to the top of a social hierarchy cannot sustain them once there.
— Josh Grubbs (@GrubbsDr) December 18, 2016
companies and organizations led by narcissists are failure-prone, with low employee morale and propensity toward unethical practices
— Josh Grubbs (@GrubbsDr) December 18, 2016
Arclite
Yeah, I have a friend with this. It can be hard to deal with. Even when they do something nice for you, it’s always a card they can hold in their hand and play later.
Big R
How many career foreign service officers are calling their local counterparts to basically say, “Dude, listen to me, not the Cheeto-Haired Shitgibbon”?
Probably none.
Mai.naem.mobile
For the millionth time, I just cannot believe that people voted for this guy. I just don’t get it. My brother told me the other day,his doctor(who happens to be Indian)told him he voted for Trump. I don’t know how an educated member of a minority voted for him.
seaboogie
Eleventh hour before the electoral college votes it the best time to bring this up? Maybe during the primaries, when the white supremacists were getting their game on might have been more opportune? But now we’re hoping the electoral college goes rogue…good luck with that.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Mai.naem.mobile: Yeah. I’ve not been indulging in fantasies that we’re going to be delivered from this evil, but at the same time I’m not coping well. I haven’t been able to get a decent night’s sleep since the election, and even while the klown kar kabinent is being filled, I’m more interested in what Bannon and his bunch are doing behind the curtain. I’m wondering whether we’re going to see a bunch of executive orders being signed on day one which will make Bush’s unitary executive a fond memory. Lately I’ve started wondering: what happens if that evil man is impeached and the Senate votes to remove him from office, and he refuses to go.
Comrade Scrutinizer
Arclite
@Mai.naem.mobile:
You might have heard, HRC committed the crime of the century, forever disqualifying her from public office: SHE HAD AN ILLEGAL EMAIL SERVER (that Colin Powell explained how to set up)
Lalophobia
@seaboogie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqQ99s4Ywnw
rikyrah
those who voted for him are my enemy.
NotMax
Visions of upcoming charter schools?
Quinerly
@rikyrah:
I’m with you. I’m also beginning to think of them as “enemies of state.”
satby
@rikyrah: they’re their own enemy too, most of them will find out.
And I hope they find out good and hard.
Damien
@rikyrah: they are backing the literal subversion of democracy, both on a domestic level via vote suppression and actions like the NC legislature, and by allowing a hostile foreign power to install their preferred candidate into office.
They are our enemies, and traitors to the country they profess to love as they gently grab it by the kitten. Fuck. Them. They are bad people and should never be forgiven.
Iowa Old Lady
@Comrade Scrutinizer: Wormtongue got to the voters, apparently.
Dadadadadadada
52% of Republicans believe Trump won the popular vote.
Both of the above statements cannot be true at the same time.
Edited in a failed attempt to fix the link wonkiness.
Shalimar
@Dadadadadadada: I’m inclined to think that a good portion of that 52% think “popular vote” means the way only the real, true Americans voted. People of color and liberals won the “unpopular vote”, which everyone knows shouldn’t have been allowed to take place because those people are too whatever to be trusted with votes.
NCSteve
The APA forever damned itself when it basically told all of its members to stop talking about Trump’s mental disorder because code of ethics goldwater blah de blah de blah.
The amazing thing isn’t that Trump won despite the fact that his mental disorder was widely recognized and discussed. The amazing thing is that the MSM asshats are still persisting in talking about Trump as if there was a way to make sense ouf of what he’s doing in any terms other than his having a serious personality disorder that basically determines all of his behavior.
J R in WV
@Mai.naem.mobile:
I’m certain my doctor didn’t vote for Drumpf. I won’t ask, because he would tell me, and if he did, I would be looking for a new doctor after nearly 40 years.
Can’t do it, the guy knows me so well I can mumble about a problem and he already knows what it is and how I can avoid it.
If my doctor told me they had voted for Trump, I would tell them this is the last appointment, no one with the lack of empathy shown by such a vote is qualified to be a medical doctor. And ask them to please prepare a complete set of medical records to be provided to my next doctor’s practice.
Plus, all the health care facilities will be crashing because of the end of ACA payments. Crazy for a medical person AND immigrant to vote for Trump. His kids will get beaten in the streets for being brown. Did no one tell him about this before? Guess not… Dolt. Thinking “It won’t happen to me, Trump doesn’t mean me and mine, we’re good people, hard working, not like those OTHERS!” Wrong! He Means YOU.
J R in WV
@NCSteve:
This:
Because what he is doing, and how he is going about it, is so disordered, unorganized, and erratic, anyone would already have cut him loose. To dangerous to be allowed out on the street.
Shakti
@Mai.naem.mobile: Taxes, just like any other year with Republicans. Also he’s probably very anti Muslim as well. If he follows Indian politics, Shiv Sena likes Trump. Also they seem to think he’ll push for closer relationships with India over Pakistan.
A lot of people compartmentalize. If someone isn’t specifically anti-them, they don’t get alarmed.
cmorenc
@seaboogie:
All of us are far better off to forget the fantasy of a rogue Electoral College saving us. Even if it did happen, the net result would far more likely be: throw the election to the House of Representatives, and we either still get President Trump or equally bad, we get President Paul Ryan.
Instead, we need to get into the mindset of unremittingly fierce resistance, seizing every opportunity to attack, undermine and expose this recklessly sociopathic, predatory administration for its abusive exploitation of those it purported to be helping bring prosperity back to during the campaign.
PaulWartenberg2016
@Mai.naem.mobile:
I’m looking at his profession as a doctor, which tends to be a high-income profession. I know a couple of doctors who would otherwise be bleeding heart liberals… except that they don’t see the benefits of the health care bureaucracy itself, and who think tax cuts are their due. They just don’t see outside their bubble what voting for Trump will do to them – major shifts in health care policy are going to get WORSE, not easier; everybody else around them like their single-parent nurses and office workers are going to lose benefits and tax deductions – in the long term.
The enemy this election wasn’t the very poor people (most of whom even whites voted Democrat and for Hillary), it was the middle-income and upper-income brackets who were either lied to by a biased media or who bought into an anti-government (and racist/sexist) ideology with heartless glee.
Sondra
Well we had a lot of this type of Psyc. stuff when G. Dubya got into office and it was interesting, on point and more than a little scary. He mangled our language, had the same attitude and also thought he knew everything he needed to know and would palm off the rest onto his superior staff. Nothing came of it and he got 8 years to prove himself to be the worst Preznit ever.
So here we go again. I take heart in knowing that his ego needs are insatiable, he requires constant new converts and camp followers, he will discard the people around him regularly when he gets bored and he will be in constant chaos because that’s his style.
PIGL
@rikyrah: and mine.
Sad to say, I think that includes all my American cousins.
Calouste
Which is why Putin will get rid of Trump once he has done what Putin wants him to do, which is wrecking NATO. Of course that will cause more chaos in the US, which is the second objective for Vlad.
patrick II
That all fits except “exaggerated sense of self importance”. He actually is the most important man in the world now and he actually underestimates how important that is, except the part where likes to have people kiss his ass. God help us all.
John M. Burt
Not even co-ordinated assassinations (as were planned by the Confederate conspirators at the end of the Civil War) can save us:
After Trump would come Vice President Pence, who is worse than Trump.
After Pence would come Speaker Paul Ryan, who is worse than Pence.
After Ryan would come President Pro Tempore of the Senate Orrin Hatch, who is worse than Ryan.
After that, it runs through Trump’s swamp cabinet, in the order in which their departments were created.
Sorry, it’s turdholes all the way down.
opiejeanne
@Calouste: How does Putin get rid of Trump? Have him offed?
libarbarian
@Quinerly:
Rhetoric aside, I think the Dems have a REAL opportunity to leverage this brewing scandal to continue the work of retaking Patriotism and Nationalism from the GOP … if they can keep the “progressives” from prematurely running right off the reservation.
The key is framing this as a bigger issue than this 1 election. The talking points should be that this is a clear National Security issue. A failure to fully investigate and respond to this only invites future foreign interference in our elections. We cannot defend against what we refuse to look at. A refusal to investigate is, at best, a case of putting personal interests above the clear national interest. At worst, it invites suspicion that Trump is hiding something much more serious, such as evidence that he knew about, approved of, and maybe even collaborated with this interference.
Calouste
@opiejeanne: I guess that would be the last option, but I assume that the Russians have enough dirt (invented or not) on the GOP in general and Trump in particular to swing the 2018 election and get at least a Democratic House, thereby neutering Trump to a large extent. The target in the end for Putin is weakening the USA, not supporting Trump. Trump is just a means to an end. There is a risk for Putin that Trump goes too far and takes complete control of the media, which means it’s going to be impossible for Putin to sow chaos, and even Putin can’t control Trump. And Trump of course could turn against Putin on a dime, that’s the kind of person he is.
SFAW
@libarbarian:
How are you defining “progressives”? Bernie-or-bust-ers? Or pseudo-liberals (i.e., left-side persons who are too candy-assed to refer to themselves as a “liberal,” because they’re still a-skeered that wingnuts will make fun of that label)? Or “pragmatic centrists” who are left-side?
And who exactly would investigate? Loretta Lynch has about a month left, and you don’t actually believe anyone in the incoming Executive or Legislative branches would push for that, do you?
Mike G
@Mai.naem.mobile:
People from India tend to be the most GOP-leaning Asians. And doctors can be pretty clueless outside their medical knowledge since they don’t have a lot of time to read widely.
The Palestinians who run a local deli proudly told me they voted for Trump. And this is a liberal college town, it’s not like they were making it up to impress their customers.
I just don’t get it. But I guess I won’t feel so bad when they get deported to Manzanar or wherever.
TriassicSands
Trump also fits the Antisocial Personality disorder perfectly.
SFAW
@Mike G:
Or, as the saying goes: The difference between God and a Surgeon is that God doesn’t think he’s a surgeon.