# I'm fucking mad at the people in the US who support and promote adult bullies.

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**Created:** [August 21, 2015, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417 "2015-08-21T07:57:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/41 "2015-08-21T17:22:55Z")

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> [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> No, bullying behavior is when you take it upon yourself to attack someone for no apparent reason and generally for no motive other than the bully’s amusement.

Like when Trump criticized Heidi Klum’s looks for no reason?

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/42 "2015-08-21T17:26:12Z")

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> [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> No, bullying behavior is when you take it upon yourself to attack someone for no apparent reason and generally for no motive other than the bully’s amusement.

Bully!

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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/43 "2015-08-21T17:28:31Z")

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> [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> No, bullying behavior is when you take it upon yourself to attack someone for no apparent reason and generally for no motive other than the bully’s amusement.
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> Trump responds forcefully to put an end to bullying or other wrongful behavior aimed at him and there’s nothing at all wrong with that.
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> The fact that some of the posters here think that hitting back is ‘bad’, and that they ‘might’ be justified in trying to hold the bully who’d kicked them in such a way that he couldn’t kick them again (assuming they had the strength and size to do that in the first place, which they probably didn’t or the bully wouldn’t have attacked them in the first place) is probably a large part of the reason why bullying is so prevalent in our liberal dominated school system and society today. Bullies know they have nothing to lose so why not go for it?

Bullshit, and I work in local schools.

In fact a lot of recent news from the right that are distorted are coming from efforts made by schools to stop bullies from thinking that nothing will happen to them.

As for the “grown up” real bullies that [Trump likes to be a fellow traveller of:](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/07/10/donald_trump_arizona_anti_immigrant_sheriff_joe_arpaio_appearing_with_2016.html)

> **[Contempt hearing unmasks Joe Arpaio](https://www.azcentral.com/story/laurieroberts/2015/04/24/joe-arpaio-contempt-hearing/26316123/)**
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> Laurie Roberts: America's scariest sheriff should resign.

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> It seemed fitting somehow that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s unmasking this week came on the anniversary of Senate Bill 1070.
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> On the day that marks a largely irrelevant law that was mostly struck down as unconstitutional, Arpaio took his own giant step toward irrelevance on Thursday.
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> America’s scariest sheriff admitted that he’d hired an investigator to investigate the Department of Justice, which at the time was investigating him and his top deputies for abuse of power. And he admitted that his attorney hired an investigator to investigate the wife of the federal judge who nailed the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office for engaging in widespread racial profiling of Latino drivers.
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> …
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> The court order slipped through the cracks? For 18 months?
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> Arpaio is either lying or he’s admitting that at at 82, he’s no longer able to do the job.
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> Either way, he should resign.
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> Arpaio’s day is done. His America’s-toughest-sheriff, I’m-the-only-one-enforcing-immigration-laws schtick long ago went sour and the people of Arizona – the ones outside the Joe Choir – now have seen at exactly who and what Arpaio is.
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> A bully with a badge.

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**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/44 "2015-08-21T17:30:15Z")

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> [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> The fact that some of the posters here think that hitting back is ‘bad’, and that they ‘might’ be justified in trying to hold the bully who’d kicked them in such a way that he couldn’t kick them again (assuming they had the strength and size to do that in the first place, which they probably didn’t or the bully wouldn’t have attacked them in the first place) is probably a large part of the reason why bullying is so prevalent in our liberal dominated school system and society today. Bullies know they have nothing to lose so why not go for it?

Yep. Bullies, racist murdering cops, child rapists… as long as you know there won’t be any consequences because you can count on the higher-ups to look the other way, why not go hog wild?

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/45 "2015-08-21T17:33:14Z")

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> [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> Trump responds forcefully to put an end to bullying or other wrongful behavior aimed at him and there’s nothing at all wrong with that.

What wrongful behavior has been aimed at him?

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**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/46 "2015-08-21T17:58:10Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> Like when Trump criticized Heidi Klum’s looks for no reason?

That wasn’t bullying, unless like ‘rape’, ‘racism’ and ‘sexism’ the term is stretched so far and spread so thin that it loses all real world meaning.

In the first place I don’t think Trump meant to attack Klum so much as to stealth brag about the beauty of the women he’s always dated. It’s also possible that Klum slighted him at some point in the past and he saw an opportunity to get back at her and took it.

But be that as it may, men and women make judgements as to each other’s attractiveness. It happens, big deal. Why do I suspect that if Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton were to make some comment along the lines of how they didn’t think Brad Pitt was all that anymore we wouldn’t be hearing a word about it from you guys?

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**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/47 "2015-08-21T18:05:44Z")

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> [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> That wasn’t bullying, unless like ‘rape’, ‘racism’ and ‘sexism’ the term is stretched so far and spread so thin that it loses all real world meaning.

Bullying isn’t nearly as bad as those other 3 things, and thus there’s not much of a stretch. I’ve bullied my wife at times without realizing it, and when I did, I apologized for it. Most people have bullied someone at some point – but the good ones recognize this, apologize for it, and try to avoid doing it again.

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> In the first place I don’t think Trump meant to attack Klum so much as to stealth brag about the beauty of the women he’s always dated.

If so this speaks very poorly of him, that he would attempt to elevate his own image by insulting someone else.

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> But be that as it may, men and women make judgements as to each other’s attractiveness. It happens, big deal. Why do I suspect that if Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton were to make some comment along the lines of how they didn’t think Brad Pitt was all that anymore we wouldn’t be hearing a word about it from you guys?

Because your insight into how our minds work is totally out of whack. Obama made a joke about Boehner’s skin tone once – that was wrong, and he shouldn’t have done that. At least he made it to his face and was trying to joke rather than put him down.

Putting down people’s looks in public is incredibly obnoxious, and yes, it’s a form of bullying. It’s even worse considering the cultural and societal values placed on women’s looks – that it’s acceptable to judge and value women based on attractiveness.

You like Trump, and that’s fine. In fact, I hope he does well – I’m really rooting for him during the nomination. But you’re kidding yourself if you think he’s not a bully, at least sometimes. I think you’re just excusing it because you agree with him and like him.

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**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/48 "2015-08-21T18:09:44Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> Putting down people’s looks in public is incredibly obnoxious, and yes, it’s a form of bullying.

[we shall overcomb - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=we+shall+overcomb&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) - those liberal bullies.

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**Author:** ![inscrutable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a88e4f/32.png) [@inscrutable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inscrutable)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/49 "2015-08-21T18:17:48Z")

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> [@GIGObuster](#):
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> Sorry, but even in the SDMB I had already had an encounter with fake environmentalists, they do overlap a lot with nativists.  
> Now, that last group, NumbersUSA, was recently involved in the effort to turn what it was a humanitarian crisis into a border crisis by astroturfing the Republican party into doing their nativist bidding.
> 
> It is indeed a big point that I have many many times before with many conservatives that I do think have not fallen into the dark side yet: there is a lot of navitee, plain ignorance and worse: a good number of conservatives that do know what the racist agenda is and agree with it.
> 
> Until I see many official, no uncertain statements, that the Republicans are telling those groups to take a hike it is very insulting to an Hispanic or a minority that we should ignore the crazy elephant in the room.

…so we’re “nativists” now? Are citizens of Hispanic heritage and legal immigrants in favor of illegal immigration? If they’re not, should they be voting Republican?

Interesting post – sort of a ‘refutation by association’ argument: one crazy splinter group has an ulterior motive defined as racism, so we’re all racists.  
Don’t you realize this is the attitude some of us find objectionable?

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**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/50 "2015-08-21T18:18:28Z")

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> [@Terr](#):
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> [we shall overcomb - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=we+shall+overcomb&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) - those liberal bullies.

Yes. It’s stupid and wrong, and arguably bullying.

Your point?

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**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/51 "2015-08-21T18:22:30Z")

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> [@Terr](#):
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> [we shall overcomb - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=we+shall+overcomb&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) - those liberal bullies.

We all age. But Trump has \*chosen \*that orange skin tone. And he’s _chosen_ to try to disguise male pattern baldness with a ridiculous combover. He’s got horrible taste.

Just like Ted Cruz. Very early pictures show a rather good looking young fellow. He’s earned that face.

I mostly criticize what both these creeps _say_, though.

(On the morning news, Jeb Bush was questioned about using the phrase “anchor baby.” He got angry & defended his choice. The Bushes were once almost reasonable on immigration policies. Jeb’s got a Mexican wife & a slightly Hispanic looking son, already beginning a political career. But Trump is being an asshole, so Jeb is following his lead. )

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/52 "2015-08-21T18:23:22Z")

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It’s kind of funny. I was going to come in here and say “Trump is a jerk and I don’t like him, but calling him a bully may be going too far.”

But StarvingArtist pretty much convinced me the OP is right. :smack:

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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/53 "2015-08-21T18:33:28Z")

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> [@inscrutable](#):
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> …so we’re “nativists” now? Are citizens of Hispanic heritage and legal immigrants in favor of illegal immigration? If they’re not, should they be voting Republican?

That was not the only choice. One should assume first that you are only an ignorant about what a lot of the Trump supporters are up to, but if you want to carry water for them it is not my problem. The point is that a lot of moderates become aware of the type of bullies that are using laws (made by bullies too) to harass notv only illegals.

> [@](#):
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> Interesting post – sort of a ‘refutation by association’ argument: one crazy splinter group has an ulterior motive defined as racism, so we’re all racists.  
> Don’t you realize this is the attitude some of us find objectionable?

I was not borne yesterday. Condemn those groups and bullies like Arpaio and then I would agree.

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**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/54 "2015-08-21T18:34:14Z")

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> [@Terr](#):
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> [we shall overcomb - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=we+shall+overcomb&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) - those liberal bullies.

Yep. Did you not read the rest of my post, in which I admit to having bullied in the past and admonished President Obama for making a joke about Boehner’s appearance?

I take it you agree with my points, then?

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**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/55 "2015-08-21T18:34:19Z")

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> [@andros](#):
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> Yes. It’s stupid and wrong, and arguably bullying.
> 
> Your point?

Um…

“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the [beam](https://www.google.com/search?q=we+shall+overcomb&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) [that](boehner orange) [is in](https://www.google.com/search?q=boehner+orange&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CB4QsARqFQoTCIbo7-jluscCFQtakgodrp0GJQ&biw=1600&bih=784#tbm=isch&q=bush+chimp) [thine](http://theweek.com/articles/456819/enough-chris-christie-fat-jokes) [own](https://www.google.com/search?q=palin+appearance+mocking&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAmoVChMIxK20n-e6xwIVzxCSCh28Nwr7&biw=1600&bih=784#tbm=isch&q=bachmann+corn+dogs) [eye](https://fromtheleft.wordpress.com/2007/03/03/ann-coulter-is-a-man/)?”

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/56 "2015-08-21T18:36:14Z")

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> **[Trump's Self-Hatred Will Destroy His Campaign](https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/14/trumps-self-hatred-will-destroy-his-campaign/)**
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> To paraphrase Bob Dylan, even Donald Trump must stand naked, and like everyone else sometimes he winces at what he sees. Consider Trump stepping out of the shower--forced to confront all that sun-lamped, over-fed, over-cologned flesh, and those...

> [@](#):
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> You don’t have to be a psychotherapist to see that Donald Trump’s loathing for others is just an offshoot of his loathing for himself. Do you know any confident people in their 60s who need to compulsively remind you that they attended a good college–and got As? Do you know any truly-loved people who keep insisting, twenty times a day, that everyone loves them? Trump’s dirty secret is that he’s just smart enough to know that he’s a fraud, and not smart enough to forget it. He knows in his bones that if he wasn’t rich, not only would Hillary Clinton skip his wedding, but there would be no wedding to skip–at least not to another attractive young blonde.

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**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/57 "2015-08-21T18:36:14Z")

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> [@Terr](#):
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> Um…
> 
> “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the [beam](https://www.google.com/search?q=we+shall+overcomb&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) [that](boehner orange) [is in](https://www.google.com/search?q=boehner+orange&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CB4QsARqFQoTCIbo7-jluscCFQtakgodrp0GJQ&biw=1600&bih=784#tbm=isch&q=bush+chimp) [thine](http://theweek.com/articles/456819/enough-chris-christie-fat-jokes) [own](https://www.google.com/search?q=palin+appearance+mocking&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAmoVChMIxK20n-e6xwIVzxCSCh28Nwr7&biw=1600&bih=784#tbm=isch&q=bachmann+corn+dogs) [eye](https://fromtheleft.wordpress.com/2007/03/03/ann-coulter-is-a-man/)?”

Thank you for recognizing that I mentioned this in my post.

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**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/58 "2015-08-21T18:37:43Z")

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Me: ‘Trump bullied, I’ve bullied, and liberals like President Obama have bullied too – bullying is wrong and people who have done it should apologize and not do it again.’  
Terr: ‘Liberals like Obama bully too, Mr. hypocrite!’  
Me: …

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**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/59 "2015-08-21T18:46:47Z")

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> [@Acsenray](#):
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> You don’t have to be a psychotherapist to see that Donald Trump’s loathing for others is just an offshoot of his loathing for himself. Do you know any confident people in their 60s who need to compulsively remind you that they attended a good college–and got As? Do you know any truly-loved people who keep insisting, twenty times a day, that everyone loves them? Trump’s dirty secret is that he’s just smart enough to know that he’s a fraud, and not smart enough to forget it. He knows in his bones that if he wasn’t rich, not only would Hillary Clinton skip his wedding, but there would be no wedding to skip–at least not to another attractive young blonde

I am enjoying watching Trump’s political opponents, Republicans but especially Democrats, completely misunderstand Trump - and I hope they continue to do so.

Trumps’ boastful, over the top, in your face, persona is playing to the public. Very successfully, by the way. Thinking that this is how he actually is and trying to psychoanalyze him on that basis is pathetically presumptuous and completely misses the point. Yes, Trump is a motormouth, but he is very calculatingly a motormouth. His boasting is not “compulsive” - it is planned, well executed, and is working now and has worked really well for him in the past.

Trump extremely shrewdly calculated and understood the current voter Zeitgeist - and not just the Republicans’ either. The robotic, advisor-and-poll driven, everything-is-a-talking-point politicians have completely turned off the voters. The other candidates, Republican and Democrat, have so deeply incorporated these robotic tactics that they could not act natural if their lives depended on it. Trump looks natural and sounds natural. He, very calculatingly, KNOWS how to do it. No other politician seems to. Sanders tries, but he is a pale shadow.

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**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-fucking-mad-at-the-people-in-the-us-who-support-and-promote-adult-bullies/728417/60 "2015-08-21T18:50:56Z")

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> [@Terr](#):
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> I am enjoying watching Trump’s political opponents, Republicans but especially Democrats, completely misunderstand Trump - and I hope they continue to do so.
> 
> Trumps’ boastful, over the top, in your face, persona is playing to the public. Very successfully, by the way. Thinking that this is how he actually is and trying to psychoanalyze him on that basis is pathetically presumptuous and completely misses the point. Yes, Trump is a motormouth, but he is very calculatingly a motormouth. His boasting is not “compulsive” - it is planned, well executed, and is working now and has worked really well for him in the past.
> 
> Trump extremely shrewdly calculated and understood the current voter Zeitgeist - and not just the Republicans’ either. The robotic, advisor-and-poll driven, everything-is-a-talking-point politicians have completely turned off the voters. The other candidates, Republican and Democrat, have so deeply incorporated these robotic tactics that they could not act natural if their lives depended on it. Trump looks natural and sounds natural. He, very calculatingly, KNOWS how to do it. No other politician seems to. Sanders tries, but he is a pale shadow.

_Applause_

Republicans, listen to **Terr**. Trump is your best hope! Nominate the man!

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