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[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Liar lies in public. The question is why are so many Americans so keen to trust their futures with a man who will lie to them so easily and so often about even the most little things.

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I grew up in the sticks where, if you didn't pay your bills, people would gossip about you being a deadbeat and spend all day speculating about what kinds of problems you have. So it's kind of funny to me that those folk just rationalize all of his shit and at the same time drag their kin through the mud. Some random nobody pulling his shit, those kinds of used car salesmen have a special place in hell when you're from a town of 300 people

[–] generichate1546@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 month ago

The guy doesn't pay bills all over the country and people don't seem to think less for it for ...... reasons?

I fully believe once this is all over (for better or worse), this will be analyzed as the largest documented case of a narcissistic abusive relationship in history.

There must be tens of millions of MAGA who are basically abused spouses, so psychologically dependant on Trump that nothing short of a brush with literal death, a personal sustained break and intervention, or focused multi-year deprogramming, will snap them out of it. But the scale of it makes it hard to understand.

To paraphrase Eddie Izzard, if you narcissistically abuse one person, maybe you go to prison. Ten people, you go to Texas, they hit you with a brick. Twenty people, they put you in a hospital and look at you through a small window. More, we can't deal with it. Thirty million people, we're almost like... Well done! How would you like to be president?

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Apparently it’s not just cats and dogs.

“The former president also – again without any evidence – said the migrant community is “eating other things too that they’re not supposed to be.”

TOFU?

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Ass, I bet it's ass. Don't kink shame bro.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Vegans eat dogs too, but surely even they would never stoop to eating tofu.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

hah, brilliant

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago

burgers cooked only to medium well?

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I remember in 2016, it was pointed out that he very convincingly shared all the symptoms of pathological lying. This also connects with both the narcissistic and/or borderline personality disorders; which he also shares a lot of symptoms with, especially NPD.

I'm no doctor, but I feel like anyone can read into it and easily diagnose this one on his behalf. He frequently showcases first-rate examples and I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if a type of pseudologica phantastica based.around cult of personality was named after him.

[–] SerpentPeaked@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 month ago

Fine. But how long did he dance? Let’s stay focused on the important issues here.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

"We had the strongest.... we’ve ever had in the history, recorded history of our country,”

What about American pre history? Are large swaths of American history simply unrecorded?

What a fucking idiot.

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

At what point do we assume Trump ate a dog, he's all projection. We know several of his political allies have killed dogs, because they could.

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