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lindysalsagal

(20,692 posts)
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 01:12 PM Aug 2016

imho: fRump's bargaining intimidation tactics backfired: Americans are terrified of him

My opinion: The strategies that supposedly "worked" in his business life cost him the presidency. 353 vs 179 electoral votes
www.electoral-vote.com


The Atlantic by Dan P. McAdams June 2016
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/


"Trump’s tendencies toward social ambition and aggressiveness were evident very early in his life, as we will see later. (By his own account, he once punched his second-grade music teacher, giving him a black eye".) According to Barbara Res, who in the early 1980s served as vice president in charge of construction of Trump Tower in Manhattan, the emotional core around which Donald Trump’s personality constellates is anger: “As far as the anger is concerned, that’s real for sure. He’s not faking it,” she told The Daily Beast in February.

“The fact that he gets mad, that’s his personality. Indeed, anger may be the operative emotion behind Trump’s high extroversion as well as his low agreeableness. Anger can fuel malice, but it can also motivate social dominance, stoking a desire to win the adoration of others. Combined with a considerable gift for humor (which may also be aggressive), anger lies at the heart of Trump’s charisma. And anger permeates his political rhetoric.".
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imho: fRump's bargaining intimidation tactics backfired: Americans are terrified of him (Original Post) lindysalsagal Aug 2016 OP
"the heart of his charisma"? he has neither. unblock Aug 2016 #1
He won the rw idiot base. They think he's charismatic, and so do Tv executives. lindysalsagal Aug 2016 #3
he's angry, his base is angry maxsolomon Aug 2016 #8
God, what a hideous man - inside and out. smirkymonkey Aug 2016 #14
Later in article: honesty of 2016 candidates: fRump lies 75% of the time. lindysalsagal Aug 2016 #2
Even later in the article: fRump's reality paradigm: Warrior lindysalsagal Aug 2016 #4
Well, a peculiar kind of warrior gratuitous Aug 2016 #13
What's that stuck in his teeth? tavernier Aug 2016 #5
It's an amalgam filling. He's too cheap to get a porcelain one, let alone gold. kestrel91316 Aug 2016 #6
ha - i still have 1 maxsolomon Aug 2016 #9
I have three. No reason to do anything with them. They're just fine and I am not phobic. kestrel91316 Aug 2016 #12
I was wondering the same thing? imanamerican63 Aug 2016 #15
gift for humor? anamandujano Aug 2016 #7
the "2nd Amendment People" comment was kind of funny maxsolomon Aug 2016 #10
“an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.” smirkymonkey Aug 2016 #11
k UTUSN Aug 2016 #16
Hey Trump, tell your dentist to get into the 00s. Silver amalgam should have been pulled by then. TheBlackAdder Aug 2016 #17

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
8. he's angry, his base is angry
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 04:23 PM
Aug 2016

Last edited Fri Aug 12, 2016, 06:50 PM - Edit history (1)

he's a boor, they're boorish.

he's just like them, but he's famous and rich, so he must know what he's doing.

end of trump voter thinking process.

lindysalsagal

(20,692 posts)
2. Later in article: honesty of 2016 candidates: fRump lies 75% of the time.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 01:23 PM
Aug 2016

Assessing the truthfulness of the 2016 candidates’ campaign statements, PolitiFact recently calculated that only 2 percent of the claims made by Trump are true, 7 percent are mostly true, 15 percent are half true, 15 percent are mostly false, 42 percent are false, and 18 percent are “pants on fire.” Adding up the last three numbers (from mostly false to flagrantly so), Trump scores 75 percent.

The corresponding figures for Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Bernie Sanders, and Hillary Clinton, respectively, are 66, 32, 31, and 29 percent.

lindysalsagal

(20,692 posts)
4. Even later in the article: fRump's reality paradigm: Warrior
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 01:33 PM
Aug 2016
"In Trump’s own words from a 1981 People interview, the fundamental backdrop for his life narrative is this: “Man is the most vicious of all animals, and life is a series of battles ending in victory or defeat.” The protagonist of this story is akin to what the great 20th-century scholar and psychoanalyst Carl Jung identified in myth and folklore as the archetypal warrior. According to Jung, the warrior’s greatest gifts are courage, discipline, and skill; his central life task is to fight for what matters; his typical response to a problem is to slay it or otherwise defeat it; his greatest fear is weakness or impotence. The greatest risk for the warrior is that he incites gratuitous violence in others, and brings it upon himself."


He certainly did bring it upon himself.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
13. Well, a peculiar kind of warrior
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 06:37 PM
Aug 2016

One who fights only from a position of overwhelming advantage, who skedaddles at the first sign of a prepared opposition, and who shelters under the aegis of the bankruptcy laws when the fight he picked doesn't go as planned. Strangely, for all the battles he's been involved in, Trump has never taken a direct blow. The one time he could have seen some actual live ammo shooting battle, he had an owie foot.

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
12. I have three. No reason to do anything with them. They're just fine and I am not phobic.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 06:31 PM
Aug 2016

If I have the money when they crack eventually I'll do porcelain or gold, but I might be stuck with the poor man's fix once again.

imanamerican63

(13,798 posts)
15. I was wondering the same thing?
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 06:56 PM
Aug 2016

Maybe, he needs to see a dentist? "Oops, I thought your tongue out instead of the cavity"! Said the dentist 😷!

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
10. the "2nd Amendment People" comment was kind of funny
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 04:25 PM
Aug 2016

reckless and inappropriate in a President, but he was basically telling them that they're crazy.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
11. “an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.”
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 06:10 PM
Aug 2016

That is Trump in a nutshell. There is NOTHING there. He is an empty shell of a man and only anger, ego and hatred are present to fill up the vacuum.

TheBlackAdder

(28,205 posts)
17. Hey Trump, tell your dentist to get into the 00s. Silver amalgam should have been pulled by then.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 10:37 PM
Aug 2016

.


With all of the other fake shit doing on in there, that should have been taken care of too.


Granted, they are functional but someone with money would have had them addressed.


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