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linkThe media is covering up terrorist attacks according to Trump.
This is way beyond Narcissistic personality disorder.
Trump suffers from a serious mental illness.
kentuck
(111,106 posts)Obama must have done a really great job for eight years? I can't remember this type of paranoia and fear while Obama was President?
unblock
(52,277 posts)not reporting the massacre at bowling green, and all over europe.
gotta keep up with the tweets, silly!
kentuck
(111,106 posts)where the untruth becomes the truth and the truth becomes unbelievable?
unblock
(52,277 posts)and it gets more and more ridiculous every time.
yet republicans keep going for it.
because they're not evaluating those things for truth or validity. it's just a loyalty test.
parrot this nonsense back, defend it strongly against attackers, and you're a republican. otherwise you're the enemy.
that's how they think.
so it doesn't matter to them how crazy the crap is.
kentuck
(111,106 posts)Is it a distortion of reality?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)being clever, just gathering ammo to sling, but over time their brain functions do become affected, they are processing different information differently, and much of this stuff does end up in their bag of knowledge as things they know. Whole frames of knowledge, what they KNOW that does not need to be questioned because it is proven, become based on an accumulated sediment of these lies.
Also extremely alarming, social scientists have found that large numbers of Americans on the right-- AND significant numbers on the left, are becoming extremist in their thinking, nursed along by a constant diet of lies. They are no longer the political people they were 10, 15, 20 years ago. They are people who could elect a disordered, debauched swindler like Trump. And others are people who could insist, and worse--believe--that a good, decent woman is no better than Trump.
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(52,277 posts)kentuck
(111,106 posts)We don't know what is going to happen but we know one reality will be proven wrong. The one that distorts or does not match up with the facts, will be the first one lost in the wilderness. There is a price to pay for lying to oneself.
jayschool2013
(2,313 posts)I'll be eternally grateful to vigilant patriots who somehow stopped Operation Jade Helm in its tracks and saved God-fearing Americans from gun confiscation, sharia law, FEMA camps and forced gay marriage.
Hallelujah, and praise Jeebus.
world wide wally
(21,749 posts)displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Trump said today that the navy was at WWI level readiness. Obama is a miracle worker!!!
dubyadiprecession
(5,720 posts)Reagan said the same thing about Carter in 1980. Defense spending skyrocketed when he became president.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Poster "child" for the Super Insane.
lpbk2713
(42,763 posts)They see him as the Emperor with a new suit of clothes.
He'll only get worse. There will be a tipping point.
TNLib
(1,819 posts)They know he's mentally unfit but they don't care as long they can have their power grab.
malaise
(269,107 posts)if they make it up it happened
BeyondGeography
(39,377 posts)As long as it's conducted by the "right" people. It's insane.
Big_K
(237 posts)Oops! It was a white guy. Move along, nothing to see here.
JDC
(10,130 posts)loyalsister
(13,390 posts)https://bioethics.georgetown.edu/2017/02/should-doctors-talk-about-trumps-mental-health/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BioethicsNewsDigest+%28Bioethics+News+Digest+%C2%BB+Bioethics+Research+Library%29
TygrBright
(20,763 posts)kairos12
(12,865 posts)TygrBright
(20,763 posts)"How is it possible for a man who owns so many hotels to NOT have a bathrobe?"
Although I might have bagged that one in favor of... "Just how do you KNOW this, Sean? You say you've never SEEN him in one, but... why would you expect that to mean he doesn't have one? Just where and when have you two been hangin' out together...? With Melania gone...?"
No wonder they say journalism's dead.
sadly,
Bright
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)that some folks with the ability to stop him on the grounds that he's incapable of being president are covertly planning just how they'll go about dismissing the idiot. I say "covertly" cause I don't see any OVERT signs of an ouster being planned. Makes me think of a guy dying of injuries while the individuals in a crowd gathered round leave it to someone else to call for an ambulance.
hunter
(38,322 posts)But I tend to be whimsical and not mean.
As Buckaroo Bonzai says, "Hey, hey, hey, hey-now. Don't be mean; we don't have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
Trump is mean. He cheats people. Anyone who doesn't sing his praises is his enemy.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)Look at the run-up to Iraq war. The media totally prefers to bore people so they change the channel.