• Funderpants @lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Liar lies in public. The question is why are so many Americans so keen to trust their futures with a man who will lie to them so easily and so often about even the most little things.

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      1 month ago

      I grew up in the sticks where, if you didn’t pay your bills, people would gossip about you being a deadbeat and spend all day speculating about what kinds of problems you have. So it’s kind of funny to me that those folk just rationalize all of his shit and at the same time drag their kin through the mud. Some random nobody pulling his shit, those kinds of used car salesmen have a special place in hell when you’re from a town of 300 people

    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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      29 days ago

      I fully believe once this is all over (for better or worse), this will be analyzed as the largest documented case of a narcissistic abusive relationship in history.

      There must be tens of millions of MAGA who are basically abused spouses, so psychologically dependant on Trump that nothing short of a brush with literal death, a personal sustained break and intervention, or focused multi-year deprogramming, will snap them out of it. But the scale of it makes it hard to understand.

      To paraphrase Eddie Izzard, if you narcissistically abuse one person, maybe you go to prison. Ten people, you go to Texas, they hit you with a brick. Twenty people, they put you in a hospital and look at you through a small window. More, we can’t deal with it. Thirty million people, we’re almost like… Well done! How would you like to be president?