2024 Presidential Election | ELECTION DAY 2024

[Wheels81]

No one approaches my hatred for DonOld Trump, but second place would go to Stephen Miller.

 

[Carolina Fever]

Holy shit. Of all of the crazy shit that we see these days, this might be among the craziest. This dude needs to be institutionalized to protect both himself and others. He is deeply unwell.

So, does he trust their figures?

 

[CFordUNC]

Nobody with the pathological explosive anger issues that people like Trump and Miller have should be anywhere near the levers of government. What an unbelievable embarrassment for the Republican party.

 

[superrific]

No one approaches my hatred for DonOld Trump, but second place would go to Stephen Miller.

Stephen Miller is sui generis.

I mean, in a way, you've got to give him credit: he has managed to craft his own unique style that lets him stand out from the rest of the braying GOP. Nobody is an asshole quite the way he is.

I can always recognize Stephen Miller. Give me an audio tape with the voice masked and no indication of who is speaking -- no problem. Most psychopaths are able to hide their animosity toward everyone, which is why they can be effective serial killers. Stephen Miller doesn't even try.

 

[Ddseddse]

Stephen Miller is sui generis.

I mean, in a way, you've got to give him credit: he has managed to craft his own unique style that lets him stand out from the rest of the braying GOP. Nobody is an asshole quite the way he is.

I can always recognize Stephen Miller. Give me an audio tape with the voice masked and no indication of who is speaking -- no problem. Most psychopaths are able to hide their animosity toward everyone, which is why they can be effective serial killers. Stephen Miller doesn't even try.

Trump and Miller are both what I call "primary psychopaths". While Trumps orbit draws psychopaths like flies, all the others in Trump's orbit are "secondary psychopaths". These are folks whose otherwise natural psychopathic tendencies are more or less kept in check by the social mores and norms surrounding them in everyday civil life. Unlike a primary psychopath the secondary psychopaths lack the courage and the constitution to act on their psychopathic tendencies on their own. As such they most often pass among us unnoticed.

However, in cases where a primary psychopath rises to a position of power, the secondaries miraculously appear out of the woodwork, because they have been granted a permission structure by someone powerful to act on their natural tendencies. I think of the relationship between them like as a giant sun resistant mushroom providing an umbrella of shade which allows all the garden variety mushrooms to sprout under.

True primary psychopaths are, thankfully, vanishingly rare. Secondary psychopaths are a dime a dozen.

Trump and Miller are the only two that spring readily to mind that fit the primary psychopath profile.

 

[superrific]

Trump and Miller are the only two that spring readily to mind that fit the primary psychopath profile.

Tom Cotton. Kash Patel. Clarence Thomas.

 

[CFordUNC]

 

[lawtig02]

The next week or so may be very interesting. Trump’s been slowly unraveling for a while now, but his disintegration is picking up speed. His 40% core is unshakeable, but he’s becoming less and less palatable to undecideds and this is when they really start tuning in and making their decisions.

 

[TarHeelGrad]

Of course not. He got his clock totally cleaned, and it would most likely be even worse the 2nd time they meet. And he can hide behind the "I'll do it if Fox hosts it", knowing full well that no Democrat would agree to that.

 

[CFordUNC]

 

[CFordUNC]

#WhereIsMelania

 

[Ddseddse]

Tom Cotton. Kash Patel. Clarence Thomas.

Could be, though I see Thomas in particular as a special case of secondary psychopath with the cover of a lifetime Supreme Court appointment providing a similar type of coverage that the primary psychopath provides. I feel like it took some time for Thomas to reveal his full awfulness, and that was him taking the time to experiment and test his lack of accountability for his actions. A primary wouldn't feel the need to do that.

Cotton and Patel are genuinely awful people, but to me they lack the out-of-the gate air of reptilian menace that I feel puts a person into contention for primary psychopath status.

But I think reasonable people can disagree, and in all probability its a spectrum and not binary anyway. I find the primary/secondary frame useful, but it's just a model that I use to help me make sense of reality, and not reality itself.

 

[uncgriff]

What a pussy.

He's such a pussy a Haitian immigrant should eat him.

 

[superrific]

But I think reasonable people can disagree, and in all probability its a spectrum and not binary anyway. I find the primary/secondary frame useful, but it's just a model that I use to help me make sense of reality, and not reality itself.

Yes. I will have to ask my wife about this. She's does forensic psychiatry.

Surprisingly (to me), I've never seen that distinction in any serious discussion, and my initial reaction was that it was something you made up. But since I almost always fact check myself before posting (unless I'm very sure what I'm talking about), I now see that it's a recognized distinction. I like learning.

 

[LeoBloom]

Bill and Frank, forever

That episode is such an emotional gut punch.

 

[heelinhell]

#WhereIsMelania

Loomer asks when will Lady G come out of the closet... The Trump/GQP/MAGA campaign is imploding

'We know you're gay': Laura Loomer uses childish taunt as Lindsey Graham calls her 'toxic'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) isn't the only Republican trying to get former President Donald Trump to disassociate himself from MAGA activist Laura Loomer.Andrew Desiderio of Punchbowl News reported Thursday that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters on Thursday afternoon that he...

www.rawstory.com

 

[lawtig02]

Loomer asks when will Lady G come out of the closet... The Trump/GQP/MAGA campaign is imploding

'We know you're gay': Laura Loomer uses childish taunt as Lindsey Graham calls her 'toxic'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) isn't the only Republican trying to get former President Donald Trump to disassociate himself from MAGA activist Laura Loomer.Andrew Desiderio of Punchbowl News reported Thursday that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters on Thursday afternoon that he...

www.rawstory.com

4chan has been lurking just below the surface for 9 years now, but damn if it isn’t finally breaking through.

 

[heelinhell]

If I'm Trump's campaign managers I'm wondering how long before I'm fired and replaced with Lara Loomer and Corey Lewandowski

 

[Ddseddse]

my initial reaction was that it was something you made up.

Ha! It's so much worse than you thought...

I ran across it many years ago (pre-Trump era) in a $.99 self published Amazon book on hypnosis by an anonymous author!

Over the years (and in particular as the Trump era progressed) it sure does seem to have had a lot of explanatory power, so I've always kind of used the frame.

TBH, I'm kinda surprised it's an actual thing (thought to be fair to the author, it was apparent early on that he had a lot more going on than anything you would ever expect out of an anonymous Amazon self published $.99 book on Hypnosis author).

I think you know by now not to expect a lot of intellectual rigor from me, but I do collect interesting tidbits and curios when I find them.

 

[4thgenheel]

Loomer asks when will Lady G come out of the closet... The Trump/GQP/MAGA campaign is imploding

'We know you're gay': Laura Loomer uses childish taunt as Lindsey Graham calls her 'toxic'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) isn't the only Republican trying to get former President Donald Trump to disassociate himself from MAGA activist Laura Loomer.Andrew Desiderio of Punchbowl News reported Thursday that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters on Thursday afternoon that he...

www.rawstory.com