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lunatica

(53,410 posts)
Sat Oct 5, 2019, 12:51 PM Oct 2019

Trump believes to his core

that we are all like him. He knows in his much vaunted gut smarts that the only reason we hate him is that he is better at it than we are. In his mind that makes him a winner and us losers. His world is not divided into good and bad, only into losers and winners at the only game in town.

The game is who is better at lying, cheating, conning and self serving. He loves strongmen because they are the ultimate winners. They are the only humans who have more power than he does and that’s because they’re better at being utterly ruthless in their methods. It’s admirable to him, worthy of envious respect and adulation, and that’s what he’s determined to acquire. Ultimate power of life and death over everybody. He will be the winner at whatever cost. And in his dark, self worshipping imagination we will all bow our heads and kiss his ass because he was just fucking better at it than we were.





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lunatica

(53,410 posts)
2. He admires the winner sociopaths
Sat Oct 5, 2019, 01:02 PM
Oct 2019

but he believes we’re all sociopaths. Only we’re loser sociopaths.

coeur_de_lion

(3,680 posts)
3. I've seen comments from his supporters
Sat Oct 5, 2019, 01:07 PM
Oct 2019

They know he broke the law. They are saying this impeachment inquiry will amount to nothing.

They're thrilled that he will get away with murder.

That's why they like him. Because he is the same kind of asshole that they are.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
4. Yes. They want to be just like him
Sat Oct 5, 2019, 01:20 PM
Oct 2019

which they actually are, only they aren’t real winners like he is. But they do aspire!

You’re right!

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
6. It's so funny to me that he sees himself as a "winner" because I see him as the consummate
Sat Oct 5, 2019, 01:46 PM
Oct 2019

loser. He does not see himself clearly at all. He is and always has been a loser.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
7. Well you're not a psychotic Malignant Narcissist with
Sat Oct 5, 2019, 02:35 PM
Oct 2019

a an overinflated superiority complex. His avid followers are to some degree. It’s just easier for them to play the victim AND they weren’t born into wealth and privilege. But they have the same worldview that think it’s a game of outsmarting all the other sociopaths. If they had what Trump has they’d be just like him. So they’re just being meaner if they can’t be smarter.

Don jr and Eric, stripped of wealth, would fit right in with Trump’s MAGAT followers.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
11. Narcissist's offspring are useful as long as they devote their lives
Sat Oct 5, 2019, 06:11 PM
Oct 2019

to him. And everything they do must reflect on his greatness.

Why are Melania and Ivanka plastic dolls with identical boobs, bright, shiny, insincere, meaningless, dazzling smiles who walk like models? It reflects on how great He is to be surrounded by gorgeous women. It makes other men envious of HIM.

He, him and himself. The three most important people on earth.

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
14. I honestly don't think he believes that he is a liar, cheating, conning, self server. I think he
Sat Oct 5, 2019, 08:18 PM
Oct 2019

honestly believes he's better than everyone else, at everything, and that he owes all he successes and wealth to himself, because after all, he's a self made billionnaire. Everything he has, he owes to himself. He did it all himself. That's his story, and he's sticking to it. He's a pathological, self-serving, liar and a cheat, who thinks everything he has, he owes to himself because he's smarter than everyone else. He is such a con man which is why he'll never be happy, because he's cheated everyone he's ever done business with, that he expects others to do the same to him, if he's not on guard 24 hrs to prevent it. Same things with all the wives. He'll been a cheater all his life, and he figures that everyone cheats, and he's got to be the first to cheat before it happens to him.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
15. Yes
Sat Oct 5, 2019, 11:22 PM
Oct 2019

He does have a blind spot though. A defect that just might be his self inflicted downfall. It’s his inability to see his error in judgement or action. He simply sees no defects in himself which explains why he doesn’t change his actions. We’ve just been getting to know him, so to us it has been a crash course in Trump tactics, but it’s emerging that he really doesn’t do anything new. He’s doing the same things he’s always done.

Nancy Pelosi May have been amazingly prescient and exceptionally insightful to see that he would self impeach. It’s because he can’t step out of his own way. It’s his own incapacity to see any error in his actions that are doing him in.

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