Politics Thread

[GoMuskies]

Who wants an narcissistic a-hole for President?

How could we ever have someone who s not a narcissistic asshole as President? Only a narcissistic asshole would ever even consider running for President.

[X-man]

At least MOR is consistent. If someone (person or media) dislikes Trump, they are ipso facto liars and wrong no matter the evidence. MOR, for example, keeps claiming the Washington Post's news reporting is not to be believed because the Post opinion people, as well as Bezos no doubt, dislike Trump. Yet every time the right claims the Post made stuff up in their news articles, they cite no evidence. In fact, the evidence that subsequently comes out after Post reporting invariably demonstrates that the Post is accurately citing their numerous sources.

[bobbiemcgee]

How could we ever have someone who s not a narcissistic asshole as President? Only a narcissistic asshole would ever even consider running for President.

Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder:
.Grandiose sense of self-importance. ...
.Lives in a fantasy world that supports their delusions of grandeur. ...
.Needs constant praise and admiration. ...
.Sense of entitlement. ...
.Exploits others without guilt or shame. ...
.Frequently demeans, intimidates, bullies, or belittles others.

He does fit the bill.

[GoMuskies]

Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder:
.Grandiose sense of self-importance. ...
.Lives in a fantasy world that supports their delusions of grandeur. ...
.Needs constant praise and admiration. ...
.Sense of entitlement. ...
.Exploits others without guilt or shame. ...
.Frequently demeans, intimidates, bullies, or belittles others.

He does fit the bill.

As does every other recent President and serious presidential candidate.

[XU 87]

Got some of it right. Who wants an narcissistic a-hole for President?

I suppose it's better than someone with early dementia.

[noteggs]

As does every other recent President and serious presidential candidate.

Bingo

[GoMuskies]

I suppose it's better than someone with early dementia.

Early?

[paulxu]

You have to go back to 2013 to find something nice that Trump did?

Did you get a refund on your Trump University tuition?

[Masterofreality]

At least MOR is consistent. If someone (person or media) dislikes Trump, they are ipso facto liars and wrong no matter the evidence. MOR, for example, keeps claiming the Washington Post's news reporting is not to be believed because the Post opinion people, as well as Bezos no doubt, dislike Trump. Yet every time the right claims the Post made stuff up in their news articles, they cite no evidence. In fact, the evidence that subsequently comes out after Post reporting invariably demonstrates that the Post is accurately citing their numerous sources.

Riiiiiiight. Like when the Post jumped on a story about Bret Kavanaugh- Trumps hand picked SCOTUS selection- from an uncorroborated accuser that NO ONE gave back up to, but they ran, and ran and ran and ran with it. How's that story look now?
Oh, and how about the 2019' articles that the Post ran claiming that Trump was benefitting from Russian influence in his campaign? No evidence put forth no sources and they've been sued for defamation.

Or this from the unbiased Investors Business Daily:

https://www.investors.com/politics/e...ts-media-bias/

“Sources" yeah.

[boozehound]

Laugh Out Loud!!

Every publication that you quoted is on record long term of hating Trump. The Atlantic is basically equal to Breitbart on the other side.
USA Toaday has never been fair to this administration, never, but you try to cite that as a quotabkle source? Amazing.

BTW. Those who excuse Biden's flubs as Malaprops under the guise of "If you have the camera on you 24/7 you'll get caught saying something stupid" sure are the first ones to jump on Trump when he says something stupid...and he has....just like every damn politician. Trump is a narcissistic a-hole, but he has put a functional government together despite the undermining by lots of long term government workers- and honestly entrenched media who were seeing their little hornets nest of contacts being cashiered-who didn't like their little Fiefdom Club disturbed. Took a while to root those suckers out and it took a while for a private citizen to figure out how some of this internal government iish works, but he did, with overall really good results until this disease craziness started.

I cited those sources as a direct response to a demonstrably false claim that "no one was questioning if Trump had dementia until Biden's gaffes which has been proven untrue. You can argue if those sources were being fair to Trump, but you can't argue that it didn't happen.

I get that Trump is your guy. It makes a lot of sense, actually. You like to call people things like 'Beaknose' and 'Desert Raccoon' and have a deep love of alliterative but insulting nicknames for people with whom you disagree or dislike. Many, but not all of them, making light of their physical appearance. Trump was probably like your Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of Presidential candidates.

The thing that generally concerns me is the ability of people, to filter out anything negative about Trump. I believe that they believe it, too. So many seem to have crafted a narrative in which Trump built a functional government despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary. They probably think that 'politicians' are corrupt but Trump isn't. He's cleaning up Washington and 'draining the swamp'!

I understand people who think of Trump as the lesser of two evils. I understand why people voted for him, and why some people would vote for him again. The people who genuinely think he is doing a good job baffle me.