asahi
December 1, 2019, 11:13am
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Broomstick:
Yeah, if that happens I’ll probably stop posting on the internet and thoroughly scrub my computers. Among other things.
Well, maybe I’ll post innocuous things on the internet, like food recipes and bird pictures. But nothing meaningful anymore.
LOL! Too late, bud. The internet has a long memory.
Monty
December 1, 2019, 1:47pm
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Yeah. It worked great for Liberia. And we all know how much Trump adores dictators.
From The Atlantic :How Narcissists Wear Out Their Welcome (And Why Trump Has Not) Why has Trump followed the predictable course for narcissism in one way, alienating many who have served in his administration, and defied expectations in another way, by continuing to attract an adoring core?
Good article (though long & wordy-- are there no editors anymore??). The upshot is that narcissists IRL ultimately wear out their welcome because they are unpleasant to be around:
Over time, people become annoyed, if not infuriated, by their self-centeredness. When narcissists begin to disappoint those they once dazzled, their descent can be especially precipitous.
This has been borne out by the revolving door in this administration. People who actually have to DEAL with him give up after a while. His adoring supporters never have to work with him in person.
…But the crux of the matter—the secret to Trump’s success with the base—may be that if bad news can’t quite pierce the Trumpist bubble, neither, in a way, can Trump. The millions of American voters who adore the president do not have to interact with him directly. Unlike the White House staff, they do not have to endure Trump’s incendiary outbursts or kowtow to his unpredictable whims. As anonymous members of a television audience, they can gaze upon their hero from afar.
If they want to get a little closer, they can attend a Trump rally. In the local sports arena or civic center, they can sit just a few hundred feet away from the president, cheering and chanting. They can express their love for the him in the presence of thousands of others who love him too. They can laugh at his jokes and partake of the anger and disgust he expresses toward his enemies. Excitement fills the arena. What outlandish thing will he do? What will he say to capture the headlines of the next day? A Trump rally is a safe space for Trump supporters. They can sit back and enjoy the performance, because whatever he says cannot directly threaten them. He will be gone tomorrow.
The relationship that Trump enjoys with rally-goers may mirror the one he established more than a decade ago with viewers of The Apprentice. In her article “From Apprentice to President,” the cognitive scientist Shira Gabriel argued that **viewers of Trump’s reality-television show formed “parasocial bonds” with the host. These “one-sided psychological bonds with specific media figures such as favorite celebrities” leave the viewer feeling that she truly knows the star and enjoys a special relationship with him. **After statistically controlling for a range of other factors, Gabriel found that American television viewers who established parasocial bonds with Trump as the host of The Apprentice were disproportionately likely to vote for him in the 2016 presidential election, even if they were Democrats. They were also more likely than others to report that they believed Trump’s promises to bring back factory jobs to the United States, build a wall on the Mexican border, and defeat America’s enemies in the Middle East. If it were not for The Apprentice, Gabriel argued, there would be no President Trump.
Trump’s biggest fans have a parasocial bond with an icon—whereas his advisers and staff must work through a real-life social bond with a difficult human being. Trump’s biggest fans believe that they have an up-close-and-personal relationship with Trump—but they never actually see the man up close.
My bold. Like the relationships we had with our teenage idols. And at about the same developmental level IMHO.
…The president’s raging narcissism has created chaos in the White House, and it has driven away scores of advisers, staff members, and others who had hoped to serve productively in his administration. As is usually the case with narcissists, Trump has worn out his welcome. He has disappointed and alienated many of the people with whom he has worked closely, as narcissists eventually do.
But Trump’s unusual brand of narcissism has simultaneously worked to solidify his loyal base of support in the American public at large. Those who admire him from afar may enjoy an extraordinarily durable parasocial relationship with a reflected persona that is deeply familiar to them. They know in their heart who Donald Trump is. They continue to admire his wonderful and unchanging essence, beautiful like the boy in the pool [the mythological Narcissus], even if they know very little about what it is like to encounter Donald Trump as a real human being.
“Real human being”? :dubious:
This is separate from the problem of gutless, unprincipled Republicans who support him in public (or simply fail to oppose him) because their constituents are in thrall. Or for other reasons, like wanting to lock in a conservative Supreme Court.
Don, Jr. is pissed that bookstores aren’t carrying his book.
Welcome to the club, pal.
Donald Trump Jr. is triggered by lack of bookstore support for ‘Triggered’
Yes, Junior, it’s the usual B.S. — i.e., no one outside of the Republican National Committee wants to buy your book, and no one who can actually afford a plane ticket and/or a $9 bag of trail mix would be caught dead holding it.
So, yeah, whine some more, Little Lord Fauntleroy.
It’s the No. 1 book because Daddy told the RNC and the other Trump-cult satellites to buy it in bulk. Most people would rather be seen walking around the airport with a flamethrower and a crate full of hand grenades.
Full disclosure: I haven’t read it. But for some reason I’m guessing it’s not exactly Voltaire.
Yes, Junior, it’s the usual B.S. — i.e., no one outside of the Republican National Committee wants to buy your book, and no one who can actually afford a plane ticket and/or a $9 bag of trail mix would be caught dead holding it. So, yeah, whine...
jayjay
December 2, 2019, 3:18pm
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They LOOOOOVE capitalism until it bites them in the ass.
Boycott
December 2, 2019, 11:19pm
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Tom Steyer, one of the democratic candidates, has bought the URL for Trump’s 2020 slogan “Keep America Great”
https://www.keepamericagreat.com/
Someone in the Trump campaign is in trouble!
Morgyn
December 2, 2019, 11:42pm
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Boycott:
Tom Steyer, one of the democratic candidates, has bought the URL for Trump’s 2020 slogan “Keep America Great”
https://www.keepamericagreat.com/
Someone in the Trump campaign is in trouble!
I’m not entirely happy with Steyer being in the race, but this? *This *is GOLDEN .
Sherrerd
December 3, 2019, 12:15am
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My guess is that the cloud of methane drifting about his fast-food-scarfing person, does indeed mark him as human.
In 2018, Lewis Lukens, the number two man at the US Embassy in London and a 30-year veteran diplomat, made a speech at UK universities talking about how the UK should not give up on the relationship with the US. He was then fired by the Individual 1-appointed Ambassador, Johnson & Johnson scion Woody Johnson, for mentioning Obama in his speeches.
And the impeachment inquiry is only making things worse. With new figures and fresh horror stories, Julia Ioffe reports on how the president is politicizing our embassies, alienating our allies, and decimating the ranks of the foreign service.
asahi
December 3, 2019, 7:58pm
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Meant to comment on this a few weeks ago, but keep your eye on the Fed Chair and how Trump reacts to him. Trump seems obsessed with negative interest rates. This push for negative rates, which has failed in Europe, leads me to believe that he is massively in debt with no way out – in addition to the many other signs.
Individual 1: “I don’t know Prince Andrew”. He had lunch with him the last time he was in the UK.
To be fair, he can’t remember much of anything more than a few hours in the past.
The New York Times article about Trump’s claiming not to know Prince Andrew is pretty funny, in that it includes photos of the two of them together at multiple occasions.
He doesn’t remember what he said at the beginning of a sentence by the time he reaches the end.
Johnny_L.A:
snerk
The first movie directed by Orson Welles was about a woman with two lovers, entitled Too Much Johnson .
Pompeo: The US supports the protesters in Iran.
Monty
December 4, 2019, 12:40am
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Oh, come on. You know that’s not correct. When has he ever uttered a complete sentence?
