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Diminished and Confused - Is Trump OK?

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by citygator, Feb 23, 2024.

  1. l_boy

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    That’s pretty alarming.
     
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  2. gatorpa

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    Move the goal posts much?
    I said by watching clips.
    Perhaps by spending actual one on one time but that’s not what I said.

    Just to correct you again since you suggested it twice there isn’t a Psychiatrist “union”.
     
  3. higator85

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    I can do it my watching a sufficient hours of videos. The sociopath stuff is especially easy.

    your union sucks.
     
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  4. ajoseph

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    To be fair, Trumpese is not taught in schools, either, and thus most Americans have no idea what is actually being said by Trump 89% of the time.
     
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  5. BLING

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    Perfect. Lol.
     
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  6. gatorpa

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    What a silly post.

    Do you do bypass in your spare time from watching Utube also?
     
  7. higator85

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    What a silly post. I am slightly less brilliant for reading it.
     
  8. gatorpa

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    Go watch some videos then it will make you smarter…
     
  9. citygator

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    There just is something really wrong with this guy. Remember he wants to be leader of the free world.


     
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  10. sierragator

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    Gives adolescent boys a bad name. More like a three year old with the tantrums.
     
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  11. VAg8r1

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    This is from Washington Post column by the late Charles Krauthammer from June 2016. Your analysis of Trump mirrors that of Krauthammer. Krauthammer was considered a conservative and was a regular on Fox News. He was also a board certified psychiatrist.

    This is beyond narcissism. I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value - indeed exists - only insofar as it sustains and inflates him.

    Most politicians seek approval. But Trump lives for the adoration. He doesn't even try to hide it, boasting incessantly about his crowds, his standing ovations, his TV ratings, his poll numbers, his primary victories. The latter are most prized because they offer empirical evidence of how loved and admired he is.
    Charles Krauthammer: Donald Trump and the fitness threshold

    Unfortunately, Krauthammer was overly optimistic. He thought that the public was starting to see through Trump. Sadly, the opposite has turned out to be true. In the eyes of his followers Trump has evolved from a charismatic media celebrity to the infallible leader of cult.
     
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  12. G8trGr8t

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    It is amazing to think of the list of established conservatives that MAGA have laid waste to with their propaganda driven emotional appeal. the total assumption of the republican party by MAGA will be a psych study for decades to come
     
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  13. GatorJMDZ

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    It's also interesting to listen to a Trump speech read by someone else...straight. It forces you to actually listen to the words and not be distracted by his voice, mannerisms or presentation. Now unlike gatorpa, I did not stay at a Motel 5 last night, but to me there are very strong indicators of mental illness, paranoid grandiosity, in his words.

     
  14. citygator

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    We need a WTF emoji.
     
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  15. g8trjax

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    LOL, Trump's senile, cant' prosecute...precedent's been set!
     
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  16. sierragator

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    Also need a bullshit emoji.
     
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  17. citygator

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    Trump needs a mental health check. Here are some bizarre examples. 9 year olds sound more coherent than Trump. What grown man talks like this, much less one campaigning for leader of the free world?!

    “Somebody said he looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand and he was having a hard time lifting his feet through the sand, because you know sand is heavy, they figured three solid ounces per foot, but sand is a little heavy, and he’s sitting in a bathing suit. Look, at 81, do you remember Cary Grant? How good was Cary Grant, right? I don’t think Cary Grant, he was good. I don’t know what happened to movie stars today. We used to have Cary Grant and Clark Gable and all these people. Today we have, I won’t say names, because I don’t need enemies. I don’t need enemies. I got enough enemies. But Cary Grant was, like – Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Cary Grant.’ Well, we don’t have that any more, but Cary Grant at 81 or 82, going on 100. This guy, he’s 81, going on 100. Cary Grant wouldn’t look too good in a bathing suit, either. And he was pretty good-looking, right?”

    “The fake news will say, ‘Oh, he goes from subject to subject.’ No, you have to be very smart to do that. You got to be very smart. You know what it is? It’s called spot-checking. You’re thinking about something when you’re talking about something else, and then you get back to the original. And they go, ‘Holy shit. Did you see what he did?’ It’s called intelligence.”

    “It’s a magnificent love story, like Gone With the Wind. You know Gone With the Wind, you’re not allowed to watch it any more. You know that, right? It’s politically incorrect to watch Gone With the Wind. They have a list. What were the greatest movies ever made? Well, Gone With the Wind is usually number one or two or three. And then they have another list you’re not allowed to watch any more, Gone With the Wind. You tell me, is our country screwed up?”



    Trump’s bizarre, vindictive incoherence has to be heard in full to be believed
     
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  18. citygator

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    I can’t.

     
  19. higator85

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    It’s hard to tell with Trump where the blithering idiocy ends and the dementia begins.
     
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  20. rivergator

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    Others predict end of democracy if he wins.
    I guess we’re just toast. Oh, well. It was a good run.