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THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2021-06-09 at 4:17 AM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-06-09 at 10:04 AM UTC
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2021-06-09 at 10:32 AM UTCSO ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO KILL OUR COUNTRY WHILE TRUMP WAS IN OFFICE WAS FLUFF HIM FROM TIME TO TIME,, WHAT A PUSSY ASS SELLOUT BITCH!
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2021-06-09 at 1:22 PM UTCSalon
No, Trump's not delusional — it's actually much worse than that
Alan D. Blotcky
A growing and prevailing view is that Donald Trump has become delusional. His fixed and intractable obsession with his Big Lie is seen as proof of his psychosis.
But Trump is not detached from reality at all. He knows exactly what he is doing. He knows the difference between truth and a lie — he just doesn't care about that, if a lie gets him what he wants. He is devious, conniving and hell-bent on satisfying his needs, wants and desires at any cost.
Trump's "delusion" is simply a conspiracy theory that he thinks has gained the most traction with his millions of supporters. His "delusion" is purposeful and intentional: The election was stolen from him; he will be reinstated as president in August (or at some other time); he could run for speaker of the House in order to impeach President Biden; he is likely to run for president again in 2024. He holds onto his "delusion" because it has successfully kept him the cult leader of the aggrieved and the victimized. His "delusion" has made him the pied piper of the Republican Party.
Calling Trump psychotic misses the point. It creates an excuse for a man who deserves none. Trump is a fearful, vindictive, anti-American megalomaniac. It is this combination of features that accounts for his "condition" or "state" since leaving office on Jan. 20.
Trump is terrified because he is looking down the barrel of a long list of potential criminal charges. The empaneling of a grand jury in New York has intensified his worries. He thinks that if he is somehow returned to the presidency, he will be protected from the indictments against him. So he is seeking a way to have the November election reversed through "audits" and spreading the fiction that he will be reinstated to the presidency in August. This is not a delusion. It is the wishful thinking of a humiliated and disgraced ex-leader who, it turns out, may be a criminal as well.
Trump thrives on destroying people who have been disloyal to him. He is actively trying to tarnish the reputations of Republicans who have not supported him. Look who he hates now: Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Liz Cheney — and the list goes on. His vindictiveness is a far cry from delusion. Who he hates can change instantly, depending on how he perceives the transaction of the moment. McConnell was almost his buddy at one time.
Trump proved he was anti-American by inciting the insurrection against our government on Jan. 6. He does not love democracy and does not care about the will of the people. He wants to be a dictator, pure and simple. Disregarding the Constitution and overthrowing our government are nothing to a man desperate for the continued taste of power, greed and adulation. Nothing about that is a delusion.
Trump is a megalomaniac who thinks he is smarter, richer and stronger than anyone else. Everything he says and does is aimed at fortifying his grandiose and superior persona. He never admits to a mistake. He never acknowledges a loss. He always doubles down on a position. He does not care a whit about the people of this country. Grifting others is his sport. Despite being impeached twice and losing the national election by 7 million votes, Trump marches on with his false self of grandiosity. That is not a delusion — it is his psychic machinery of self-preservation.
It is a mistake to consider Trump psychotic. That would be to assume that psychiatric medication might alleviate his delusional thinking. But medication cannot fix a psychopath with malignant narcissism. Medication cannot fix a manipulative and exploitative opportunist. Medication does not affect shamelessness and lack of a moral compass. Medication cannot make a self-serving "delusion" disappear.
Trump remains a grave risk to democracy. He will throw anyone and anything under the bus to save his own hide and to advance his personal power and greed. If democracy gets in the way, he is more than ready to smash it or flick it away. Do not forget his glee as he watched the attempted coup against our nation our on television. He thought Jan. 6 might be his de facto coronation as dictator. That was his plan all along. He is an authoritarian, not a psychotic.
How long will we continue to enable this dangerous ex-leader? How long will the GOP remain lost, wandering through the wilderness of his psychopathic mind? How long will democracy be on the chopping block? When will a new, fresh Republican leader come forward?
These are the pressing questions of the day. Not whether Donald Trump is delusional. He is not. He is something far worse. -
2021-06-09 at 1:48 PM UTC
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2021-06-09 at 1:50 PM UTC
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2021-06-09 at 1:50 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Salon
No, Trump's not delusional — it's actually much worse than that
Alan D. Blotcky
A growing and prevailing view is that Donald Trump has become delusional. His fixed and intractable obsession with his Big Lie is seen as proof of his psychosis.
But Trump is not detached from reality at all. He knows exactly what he is doing. He knows the difference between truth and a lie — he just doesn't care about that, if a lie gets him what he wants. He is devious, conniving and hell-bent on satisfying his needs, wants and desires at any cost.
Trump's "delusion" is simply a conspiracy theory that he thinks has gained the most traction with his millions of supporters. His "delusion" is purposeful and intentional: The election was stolen from him; he will be reinstated as president in August (or at some other time); he could run for speaker of the House in order to impeach President Biden; he is likely to run for president again in 2024. He holds onto his "delusion" because it has successfully kept him the cult leader of the aggrieved and the victimized. His "delusion" has made him the pied piper of the Republican Party.
Calling Trump psychotic misses the point. It creates an excuse for a man who deserves none. Trump is a fearful, vindictive, anti-American megalomaniac. It is this combination of features that accounts for his "condition" or "state" since leaving office on Jan. 20.
Trump is terrified because he is looking down the barrel of a long list of potential criminal charges. The empaneling of a grand jury in New York has intensified his worries. He thinks that if he is somehow returned to the presidency, he will be protected from the indictments against him. So he is seeking a way to have the November election reversed through "audits" and spreading the fiction that he will be reinstated to the presidency in August. This is not a delusion. It is the wishful thinking of a humiliated and disgraced ex-leader who, it turns out, may be a criminal as well.
Trump thrives on destroying people who have been disloyal to him. He is actively trying to tarnish the reputations of Republicans who have not supported him. Look who he hates now: Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Liz Cheney — and the list goes on. His vindictiveness is a far cry from delusion. Who he hates can change instantly, depending on how he perceives the transaction of the moment. McConnell was almost his buddy at one time.
Trump proved he was anti-American by inciting the insurrection against our government on Jan. 6. He does not love democracy and does not care about the will of the people. He wants to be a dictator, pure and simple. Disregarding the Constitution and overthrowing our government are nothing to a man desperate for the continued taste of power, greed and adulation. Nothing about that is a delusion.
Trump is a megalomaniac who thinks he is smarter, richer and stronger than anyone else. Everything he says and does is aimed at fortifying his grandiose and superior persona. He never admits to a mistake. He never acknowledges a loss. He always doubles down on a position. He does not care a whit about the people of this country. Grifting others is his sport. Despite being impeached twice and losing the national election by 7 million votes, Trump marches on with his false self of grandiosity. That is not a delusion — it is his psychic machinery of self-preservation.
It is a mistake to consider Trump psychotic. That would be to assume that psychiatric medication might alleviate his delusional thinking. But medication cannot fix a psychopath with malignant narcissism. Medication cannot fix a manipulative and exploitative opportunist. Medication does not affect shamelessness and lack of a moral compass. Medication cannot make a self-serving "delusion" disappear.
Trump remains a grave risk to democracy. He will throw anyone and anything under the bus to save his own hide and to advance his personal power and greed. If democracy gets in the way, he is more than ready to smash it or flick it away. Do not forget his glee as he watched the attempted coup against our nation our on television. He thought Jan. 6 might be his de facto coronation as dictator. That was his plan all along. He is an authoritarian, not a psychotic.
How long will we continue to enable this dangerous ex-leader? How long will the GOP remain lost, wandering through the wilderness of his psychopathic mind? How long will democracy be on the chopping block? When will a new, fresh Republican leader come forward?
These are the pressing questions of the day. Not whether Donald Trump is delusional. He is not. He is something far worse.
I hate Trump and all but that's a whole lot of writing about nothing really. What a shitty journalist. -
2021-06-09 at 1:54 PM UTC
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2021-06-09 at 4:50 PM UTC
Originally posted by POLECAT SO ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO KILL OUR COUNTRY WHILE TRUMP WAS IN OFFICE WAS FLUFF HIM FROM TIME TO TIME,, WHAT A PUSSY ASS SELLOUT BITCH!
NOEM /GREEN 2024!!!
He always thinks he can win over even the most corrupt and evil bags of shit. He avoids conflict whenever possible, and at the moments when it is most required. -
2021-06-09 at 4:58 PM UTC
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2021-06-09 at 6:02 PM UTCI'd love to see you pass on to the next one, Donny.
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2021-06-09 at 6:04 PM UTC
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2021-06-09 at 6:37 PM UTCTrump is the choker of all chokers, and he's the worst judge of character imaginable, but he still won the 2020 election.
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2021-06-09 at 6:50 PM UTCThe thing that Trump likes to choke is his chicken.
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2021-06-09 at 7:48 PM UTC
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2021-06-09 at 8:22 PM UTCIF YOU WANT TO HAVE A CLUE ABOUT HISTORY BEING MADE WATCH THIS VIDEO AND IF YOU CAN STAND TO SIT THROUGH THE EIRST 2/3RDS OF IT YOU WILL SEE WHATS GOING ON AND WHEN IT COMES TO FRUITION YOU WILL KNOW THE GOD DAMN POLECAT WAS ON THE PULSE OF THE NATION WHEN YOU URSELF WAS JUST BEIN A DUMBFUCK.
i FEEL BAD FOR YOU NEVER TRUMPERS BECAUSE THIS IS GOING TO BRING TRUMP BACK INTO THE WHITE HOUSE.
THAT BEING SAID AND WE ALL KNOW YOU ARE PROBABLY TRIPPING OUT INSTEAD OF READING THIS NEXT PART BUT WHAT IT ACTUALLY MEANS IS WE ARE THE POWER IN THIS COUNTRY AND IF YOU WANT TO BE A KING YOU CAN BE IF YOU FOLLOW THE RULES AND WE AS A PEOPLE CAN DIRECT OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS WHEN THEY STEP OUT OF LINE AND THEY WILL LISTEN ANYWAYS WATCH IT IF YOU CAN AND GO SUCK A BAG OF DICK IF YOU CANT HANDLE THE REALITY WE ARE IN TODAY. -
2021-06-10 at 3:47 PM UTCMaking
All the world
Grateful
Again
Business Insider
The end of the Trump presidency brought the US one of its biggest spikes in global approval ratings on record
oseddiq@insider.com (Oma Seddiq)
The US' global image has rebounded under President Joe Biden.
Pew Research Center surveyed adults in 16 countries, including Canada, Japan and the UK.
More people expressed confidence in Biden as a leader compared with Trump.
The global image of the United States has vastly improved since President Joe Biden took office compared to all-time low ratings under former President Donald Trump's leadership, new data released by Pew Research Center on Thursday shows.
Pew Research Center polled people in 16 countries and the results show a major shift in public attitudes after Trump left the White House.
The US' average favorability rating increased by 28 percentage points this year - one of the biggest spikes on record since Pew started polling more than two decades ago. The number jumped from 34% in 2020 to 62% this year.
In six countries - France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands and Canada - positive opinions of the US grew by at least 25 percentage points, returning to the high ratings seen during the Obama era.
Overall trust in the US president within the international community hit historic lows under Trump. The Pew study showed that with Biden, the numbers have rebounded to pre-Trump levels.
Around 75% of people surveyed expressed confidence in Biden to do the right thing when it comes to world affairs. A year ago, only 17% said the same for Trump.
Public confidence was particularly high among the US' European allies. In Germany, 78% of respondents expressed confidence in Biden as a leader compared to just 10% who said so about Trump last year.
Biden was sworn in after a tumultuous year in which the US faced a raging pandemic, weakened economy, and a chaotic 2020 presidential election, leading to an insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. -
2021-06-10 at 4:12 PM UTCThe Hill
Former GOP rep calls on party to move on from 'patron saint of sore losers' Trump
Mychael Schnell
Former GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock (Va.) called on members of her party to move away from former President Trump after Senate Republicans blocked legislation to form a commission to probe the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
In an op-ed published Wednesday in The New York Times, Comstock, who lost her reelection bid in 2018, said Republicans need to "stop fearing" Trump, whom she called "the patron saint of sore losers."
"Republicans, instead of opposing a commission to investigate the events of Jan. 6, need to be at the forefront of seeking answers on the insurrection and diminishing the power of QAnon and the other conspiracy theories that Mr. Trump has fueled," Comstock wrote.
"He is not the future, and Republicans need to stop fearing him. He will continue to damage the party if we don't face the Jan. 6 facts head-on," she added.
Senate Republicans last month blocked legislation to form a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol breach in a 54 to 35 vote, falling short of the 10 GOP votes needed to overcome the legislative filibuster.
"Republicans need to have more faith in their policies and stop being afraid of a dangerous and diminished man who has divided the country and now divides our party. Reconsider the commission, let the investigation go ahead, and run and win in 2022 on the truth," wrote Comstock, who voted in line with the former president's position 97.8 percent of the time.
She said the former president's "lies are red meat to those in the conspiracy world who have already demonstrated what they are prepared to do," adding that the lies have "metastasized and could threaten public safety again," referencing a report from the Capitol Police that threats against members of Congress have increased 107 percent this year.
The Hill has reached out to Trump for comment.
The former president, who says he isn't to blame for Jan. 6 riot, took on Comstock last week, calling her a RINO, or Republican in name only, in a statement that featured a photo of her in the Oval Office at one of his bill signings.
"She had no problems being with me while in the Oval Office, or when she needed something," Trump wrote.
On probing the events of Jan. 6, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election, Comstock said, "Nothing less than a full investigation is essential."
She said the subpoenas and testimony that would be part of an investigation "would produce records that tell the story."
"This material will come out eventually - in hearings, in books or in the media - but Republicans should be part of the process, to help provide accountability and prevent future attacks," Comstock said. -
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