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originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: Bobaganoosh
Well your argument here is basically, "I'm a Conspiracy Theorist. I may not like Trump, but I have to vote for him because he stands for conspiracies." Nevermind all his faults and that he is as trustworthy as a drug addict in an unsupervised pharmacy.
Not like you're going to stop visiting or anything..
I don't believe in most of the CT's on this website, as I find them to be silly, full of holes, contradictory, and mostly reliant on wishful thinking. I mostly come here for the discussion.
I don't want to see the world burn just because. I happen to LIKE the direction the world is going in.
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
originally posted by: RomeByFire
originally posted by: DJW001
originally posted by: Gin
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
Top US Psychiatrists Confirm - Trump is a "Textbook Case" of Narcissistic Personality Disorder
A person with narcissistic personality disorder:
Reacts to criticism with anger, shame or humiliation
Takes advantage of others to reach his or her own goals
Exaggerates own importance
Exaggerates achievements and talents
Entertains unrealistic fantasies about success, power, beauty, intelligence or romance
Has unreasonable expectation of favorable treatment
Requires constant attention and positive reinforcement from others
Disregards the feelings of others, lacks empathy
Has obsessive self-interest
Pursues mainly selfish goals
Hillary fits on the bill with all of those points. Thanks for sharing and pointing this out.
Once again, rather than try defend Trump, the only option seems to be to switch the topic to Hillary.
One does not simply defend Trump without comparing him to Hillary. It's the Trump-cult method.
Reminds me of a fortune cookie I had once.
"Comparing yourself to one who is evil does not show that you are pure."
Who would have thought that comparing two opposing candidates in a presidential election was wrong? I'm surprised you're not comparing them.
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
originally posted by: RomeByFire
originally posted by: DJW001
originally posted by: Gin
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
Top US Psychiatrists Confirm - Trump is a "Textbook Case" of Narcissistic Personality Disorder
A person with narcissistic personality disorder:
Reacts to criticism with anger, shame or humiliation
Takes advantage of others to reach his or her own goals
Exaggerates own importance
Exaggerates achievements and talents
Entertains unrealistic fantasies about success, power, beauty, intelligence or romance
Has unreasonable expectation of favorable treatment
Requires constant attention and positive reinforcement from others
Disregards the feelings of others, lacks empathy
Has obsessive self-interest
Pursues mainly selfish goals
Hillary fits on the bill with all of those points. Thanks for sharing and pointing this out.
Once again, rather than try defend Trump, the only option seems to be to switch the topic to Hillary.
One does not simply defend Trump without comparing him to Hillary. It's the Trump-cult method.
Reminds me of a fortune cookie I had once.
"Comparing yourself to one who is evil does not show that you are pure."
Who would have thought that comparing two opposing candidates in a presidential election was wrong? I'm surprised you're not comparing them.
originally posted by: kazanoom
It's just a transaction for the Donald. He doesn't care a bit about working people or middle class. You'd have to have conscious for that. Running for president is just like peddling a Trump steak or coveted "Trump University" degree. It's just business for a psychopath.
For instance?
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
originally posted by: TheBulk
There is video of Bernie supporters chanting "F%ck free speech". Free speech has been under increasing assault by the left for the last 8 years. Where have you been?
Since when does a random, anecdotal video represent legal discourse? You are REALLY stretching here.
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
Freedom of speech is a human right. You either believe it and respect the human rights of others, or you don't.
And Trump doesn't.
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
a reply to: DJW001
It was in reply to your comment.
Still waiting for you to refute what I said about him. Many of his business ventures attest to his poor judgement, as does burning political bridges with rivals he might need supporting him later on. He has openly mused about letting the US default on its debt. He does not seem to realize that the United States is not the only country that would be affected. As for being a liar?
www.dailywire.com...
As for his education?
In the August 6th Republican candidates debate, Trump answered the moderators’ questions with linguistic austerity. Run through the Flesch-Kincaid grade-level test, his text of responses score at the 4th-grade reading level. For Trump, that’s actually pretty advanced.
www.politico.com...
His lack of curiosity?
But Donald Trump is not much of a reader, despite having written The Art of the Deal, “the number 1 selling business book of all time.” Asked by Megyn Kelly what his favorite book is besides The Art of the Deal, Trump chose All Quiet on the Western Front. (Not sure what happened to the Bible!) Kelly, perhaps sensing that Trump may not have read a book since sixth grade, asked him to name the last book he read. “I read passages, I read areas, chapters, I don’t have the time,” Trump said. “When was the last time I watched a baseball game? I’m watching you all the time.”
newrepublic.com...
His ties to Yanukovych?
Trump’s top adviser, Paul Manafort, has spent much of his recent career working for pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, and doing complex deals for an oligarch with close ties to Putin. And while a Democratic senator has already charged Trump is not responsible enough to receive secret information, Manafort’s deep relationships with top pro-Russian figures raise special concerns.
Manafort may be best known for managing the 2010 campaign of Viktor Yanukovych, the Ukrainian politician whose ouster as president prompted a Russian invasion of the country. He has, according to court documents, managed tens of millions of dollars for Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch denied entry to the U.S. reportedly for ties to organized crime, but so close to Vladimir Putin that top Russian officials fought (unsuccessfully) to get him a visa.
Gary Schmitt, a former Reagan Administration official now at the American Enterprise Institute, said he believed Manafort’s ties merit extra scrutiny.
“If Trump is to be given access to sensitive intelligence, which can’t help but implicitly involve even more sensitive information about ‘sources and methods,’ then it’s imperative that any campaign staff who have had commercial ties with foreign governments and politicians not be given access as well until they have gone through a full, thorough background check — not the typical perfunctory review,” he said.
“Given his dubious foreign connections, it’s fair to assume that many in the intelligence and national security community would be extremely wary of him handling or receiving material at even the lowest level of classification,” said Adam Blickstein, a former aide to former Obama defense secretary Robert Gates.
[Edit for brevity--DJW001]
“Ties to Russia and the Kremlin would without question be a matter of concern. He’d have to explain in far more detail what the contact has been. That will have to be fleshed out in far more detail,” said Moss. “It would be difficult — but not impossible — to imagine security clearing him.”
A former Republican national security official put it more bluntly: “He’s an intelligence classification vetting nightmare scenario.”
Manafort’s close ties to Russia’s authoritarian ruler match Trump’s own praise for Putin. Putin — whose project of undermining his western antagonists by any means has often included support for right-wing populists — last year called Trump a “bright and talented” figure, and Russia’s propaganda outlets have amplified the American’s campaign. Trump responded to Putin’s praise in kind, saying that “he’s running his country and at least he’s a leader, unlike what we have in this country,” and avoided condemning the murders of journalists in Putin’s Russia.
[Edit for brevity. --DJW001]
Trump has disturbed critics of Russia by suggesting the United States should not let the invasion of Ukraine get in the way of vaguely-described dealmaking.
www.buzzfeed.com...
I've seen ZERO evidence of this from Trump. I have seen Bernie supporter mobs beating up pro-Trump people, I have seen rabid left wingers shutting down speakers they don't like at universities, I have seen political correctness chip away at our freedom of speech.
And this whole time you (a supposed defender of free speech) haven't had a single issue with ANY of the above.
In psychology, there is a construct called Cognitive Dissonance. Basically the idea goes that once people make up their minds about something, they become emotionally wedded to a person, idea or plan of action. Despite being confronted with evidence that contradicts a given thought or commitment, people tend to ignore the data at hand rather than modify or change their position.
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Impulse is easy and may lead to immediate gratification. Critical thinking is hard and may require putting aside a temporary high or the illusion of security in order to do what is right for one's self and others.
Hopefully, while we are about 100 days away from the presidential election, citizens of this nation who have become intoxicated by the Trump experience have time to recalibrate their thinking and make the kind of decisions that reflect real thought, a weighing of the facts at hand, and do not wake up the morning after the election with a terminal case of buyer's remorse.
Dr. N.G. Berrill is the executive director at the New York Center for Neuropsychology & Forensic Behavioral Science