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Trump administration 2024-2028

According to this paper, there are eight types of narcissist. The author might have revise it to nine since it seems Trump has morphed them all into one. 'He's the bestest, most perfect narcissist the world has ever seen!'.
 
lenaitch said:
According to this paper, there are eight types of narcissist. The author might have revise it to nine since it seems Trump has morphed them all into one. 'He's the bestest, most perfect narcissist the world has ever seen!'.
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1. Grandiose
2. Covert/vulnerable,
3. Malignant (dark triad or dark tetrad)
4. Communal
5. Benign
6. Neglectful
7. Entitled/self-righteous
8. Generational/cultural

9. Batshit loony
 
brihard said:
I just personally verified this is a 100% real post tonight. He’s having a normal one.
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I can’t begin to fathom how Americans (which include most of my remaining U.S. relatives) can still support Trump. It was one thing for them to have elected him in the first place. But now that his derangements have become part of his administration’s policies, he is still basically riding high. Although recent polls show that a majority of Americans are now beginning to show some misgivings on how he has mishandled things, people still worship him. The Republican Party has ceased to exist, except only in name. And then there’s the U.S. Constitution, one of humanity’s more enlightened endeavours. More than ever before, in our lifetime at least, it’s being assaulted from every direction and is becoming an irrelevant, mostly minor obstacle for those who want to impose change on American society. Sad.
 
That's because it has most of the makings of a cult:

  • The group is focused on a living leader to whom members seem to display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment.
  • The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
  • The group is preoccupied with making money.
  • Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
  • Mind-numbing techniques (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, debilitating work routines) are used to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
  • The leadership dictates sometimes in great detail how members should think, act, and feel (for example: members must get permission from leaders to date, change jobs, get married; leaders may prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, how to discipline children, and so forth).
  • The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and members (for example: the leader is considered the Messiah or an avatar; the group and/or the leader has a special mission to save humanity).
  • The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which causes conflict with the wider society.
  • The group’s leader is not accountable to any authorities (as are, for example, military commanders and ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream denominations).
    The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify means that members would have considered unethical before joining the group (for example: collecting money for bogus charities).
  • The leadership induces guilt feelings in members in order to control them.
    Members’ subservience to the group causes them to cut ties with family and friends, and to give up personal goals and activities that were of interest before joining the group.
    Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.
 
ModlrMike said:
That's because it has most of the makings of a cult:

  • The group is focused on a living leader to whom members seem to display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment.
  • The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
  • The group is preoccupied with making money.
  • Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
  • Mind-numbing techniques (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, debilitating work routines) are used to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
  • The leadership dictates sometimes in great detail how members should think, act, and feel (for example: members must get permission from leaders to date, change jobs, get married; leaders may prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, how to discipline children, and so forth).
  • The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and members (for example: the leader is considered the Messiah or an avatar; the group and/or the leader has a special mission to save humanity).
  • The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which causes conflict with the wider society.
  • The group’s leader is not accountable to any authorities (as are, for example, military commanders and ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream denominations).
    The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify means that members would have considered unethical before joining the group (for example: collecting money for bogus charities).
  • The leadership induces guilt feelings in members in order to control them.
    Members’ subservience to the group causes them to cut ties with family and friends, and to give up personal goals and activities that were of interest before joining the group.
    Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.
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I agree 101%. Those bullet points are well worth remembering.

My wife has a sister who moved down to the U.S. while in her early 20s and became a citizen there decades ago. She is now as pro-Trump as my surviving U.S. relatives and has basically cut off contact with us over her obsession with Trump’s agenda and how he is probably the greatest president in U.S. history. My relatives have bought into the whole Red Scare agenda and think we here in Canada are totally dominated and controlled by the communists despite my having told them that Mulroney and Harper were conservatives and that many of our provincial governments are conservative as well. This has gone on for decades. But Trump has taken things to a new level. He is focussing on many of the inherent fears already present in American society and weaponizing them in order to feed his insatiable, damaged ego. Unfortunately he has much of the American public blindly following him to accomplish that agenda.
 
It's important to remember that generally speaking, our conservatives are actually to the left of the Democrats, so very much and apples to oranges comparison.
 
ModlrMike said:
It's important to remember that generally speaking, our conservatives are actually to the left of the Democrats, so very much and apples to oranges comparison.
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In many ways the Demos are probably closer to the old Progressive Conservatives.
 
JLB50 said:
I can’t begin to fathom how Americans (which include most of my remaining U.S. relatives) can still support Trump. It was one thing for them to have elected him in the first place. But now that his derangements have become part of his administration’s policies, he is still basically riding high. Although recent polls show that a majority of Americans are now beginning to show some misgivings on how he has mishandled things, people still worship him. The Republican Party has ceased to exist, except only in name. And then there’s the U.S. Constitution, one of humanity’s more enlightened endeavours. More than ever before, in our lifetime at least, it’s being assaulted from every direction and is becoming an irrelevant, mostly minor obstacle for those who want to impose change on American society. Sad.
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Like Canada and our Provinces, the US has pretty powerful and independent states (more independent than our Provinces in many ways) that can buffer and balance the impacts of the federal government in a variety of ways.

Many people kind of shrug their shoulders and get on with their lives.
 
daftandbarmy said:
Like Canada and our Provinces, the US has pretty powerful and independent states (more independent than our Provinces in many ways) that can buffer and balance the impacts of the federal government in a variety of ways.

Many people kind of shrug their shoulders and get on with their lives.
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I am writing my next podcast on this subject - how our nations differ.
 
brihard said:
I just personally verified this is a 100% real post tonight. He’s having a normal one.
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I'm all for a joke, but that's a bit far for a sitting president.

The anglosphere is largely protestant, but many parts of the world are very catholic, and would likely take that to be extremely offensive. How might that sort of short-sighted troll post impact international relations in the next 4 years?
 
Furniture said:
... The anglosphere is largely protestant, but many parts of the world are very catholic, and would likely take that to be extremely offensive. How might that sort of short-sighted troll post impact international relations in the next 4 years?
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Like all things politically Rorschach-ian, the boosters'll say "hey, can't you take a joke?" :(
 
Furniture said:
I'm all for a joke, but that's a bit far for a sitting president.

The anglosphere is largely protestant, but many parts of the world are very catholic, and would likely take that to be extremely offensive. How might that sort of short-sighted troll post impact international relations in the next 4 years?
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Especially when his “spiritual advisor” is considered a heretic by many Christians.
 
HavokFour said:
Already shot down. Now we wait and see if a big military parade for the birthday boy survives as well.

abc7.com

White House backtracks on renaming Veterans Day

"We are not renaming Veteran's Day," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told ABC News.
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Alt: https://archive.ph/HZkgi
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Self-reminder to always knock on wood. Supreme Leader might be getting one in the end.

abcnews.go.com

Nearly 7,000 troops, tanks and parachute jumps: Army confirms military parade coinciding with Trump's birthday

The Army is planning a historic parade through the streets of Washington on June 14 that will coincide with and be part of the Army's long-planned 250th celebration.
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Alt: https://archive.ph/Mz57G
 
HavokFour said:
Self-reminder to always knock on wood. Supreme Leader might be getting one in the end.
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I’m sure he’ll insist on his Masturb-a-thon military parade going forward. The spectacle of the Bastille Day parade in France is exactly the kind of thing that appeals to him.
 
I am fully aware they probably gave him the red lightsaber because Republicans, but it's still funny knowing who always has the red ones in Star Wars media. What makes it absolutely hilarious is that this is going to live forever in the Library of Congress.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1919053040734072844

For those not up to date on the canon:

In the construction of a Sith lightsaber, individuals partook in a process known as bleeding. By ways of the Force, they would pour negative emotions, such as rage, hate, fear, and pain into kyber crystals. The process would result in the crystals gaining a distinctive crimson or red hue. Any kyber crystal could be bled for use in a Sith lightsaber, though some Sith believed that the proper method to gain a crystal involved capturing one from a Jedi lightsaber
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Sith lightsaber

Sith lightsabers, also known as Sith sabers, were lightsabers wielded by members of the Sith. They were constructed through methods similar to those used by other Force-sensitives, but the underlying philosophy was different. Unlike the Jedi who followed the light side of the Force, the Sith...
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RangerRay said:
Especially when his “spiritual advisor” is considered a heretic by many Christians.
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Well, I’m not much of a Christian, but I don’t see a lot of solid theology in what she’s, literally, selling.

en.m.wikipedia.org

Paula White - Wikipedia

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White has been criticized for her religious beliefs by multiple theologians and conservative evangelists including John Mason, Scott Ross, Jon Root, calling her a "heretic" and "an abomination."
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I’ll leave to theologians to call her a heretic, but having seen her on TV, she’s either a not very good con-artist or a loon.
 
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