Phil1111

When defending the indefensible becomes tiresome. The standard whipping boys, that are ingrained into the psyche come first to mind. Consenting adults? Nah, porn stars and corporations set up specifically to launder hush money. Are all brownie points for trump party loyalists.

Its difficult for trump supporters to read and personally interpret complex issues.Well even simple issues. Reading long articles takes time and questioning the logic and accuracy of the story line requires effort. For trump soundbites and FOX video links its easy. They often lie then offer opinion as fact. When you go to the FOX website there is very little written content. Its almost all video. Usually presented by an attractive young blonde women. In order to sustain the interest of its older white male demographic. But I digress. "Bartsdaddy" ? This is a forum about politics, guns, religion, etc. Perhaps if the usual cast of trump supporters is interested in finding out how much each poster here has donated. Since thats not really a contentious issue they could poll in the Bonfire section. But it seems clear now after several replies that his supporters concede that trump will be out of office before he either donates or accepts responsibility.For the whole C-19 debacle. The SOP to distract, deflect, deny and sidestep.By his supporters and apologists. Duly acknowledged.

For all of his supporters not a single thought, or statement, as to if trump will ever donate a cent to C-19 relief or a charity. At least its clear you both thoroughly understand him

So since you didn't read it thats a no on trump ever making a penny in donation to C-19 relief? Despite his claimed $10 billion in personal net worth. Or is cluttering up threads with mish-mash repetitive trump supportive statements like "Another one that can't wrap their head around the difference between rates and raw numbers." on a twice a week basis. As though you understand the C-19 modeling better than the statisticians in every developed country. Both you and airdvr like to boast about trump's performances yet cannot quote the "raw" or is it "rates"?, numbers on what sort of great job they are doing. "I find it telling when you require percentages and per capita numbers when discussing gun murders in Chiraq but not when looking at Covid deaths. " airdvr said:

Trump claims net worth of more than $10 billion in new filing In May 2016 Yet trump personally and this corporations have yet to donate a cent to Covid 19 relief or charities. Did All Vegas Hotels Except Trump’s Donate Rooms for COVID-19 First Responders? Never donated any rooms, from Snopes Business Executives Offer Large Donations to Fight Covid-19 The Gates foundation $250 million, trump ZERO. 'Never Heard of Anything Like This': Watchdogs Sound Alarm as Trump Puts For-Profit Insurer in Charge of Covid-19 Hospital Funds As usual trump sees misfortune as a chance to make money and curry favors. "For months, The Washington Post has been looking for evidence to back up a key claim Donald Trump makes about himself: that, in recent years, he has given millions of dollars to charity out of his own pocket. There is no evidence of that in the files of Trump's nonprofit, the Donald J. Trump Foundation. And Trump has not released his tax returns, which would detail his recent charitable giving...So far, The Post's search has turned up little. Between 2008 and this May — when Trump made good on a pledge to give $1 million to a veterans' group — its search has identified just one personal gift from Trump's own pocket. " from WP 2016 How long will it be till trump either makes a donation regarding C-19 or announces a personal fundraiser for C-19 relief? Sorry its a trick question, obviously never.

The Project on Excellence in Journalism report in 2006 showed that 68 percent of Fox News Channel cable stories contained personal opinions, as compared to MSNBC at 27 percent and CNN at 4 percent. The "content analysis" portion of their 2005 report also concluded that "Fox (Fox News) was measurably more one-sided than the other networks, and Fox News Channel journalists were more opinionated on the air."[46] Old white republicans and trump supporters are FOX viewers "Americans ages 65 and older account for around four-in-ten of those who say their main source is Fox News (37%), compared with 21% of all adults, according to the November survey. And around nine-in-ten who turn to Fox News (87%) identify their race and ethnicity as non-Hispanic white, compared with 65% of all adults" These are the most and least biased news outlets in the US, according to Americans

The 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday, with the New York Times walking away with three awards, the most of any publication. The award ceremony is usually held at Columbia University in New York City, but was held this year from the living room of Pulitzer administrator Dana Canedy and live-streamed on YouTube. The Times won awards in three categories: investigative reporting, commentary and international reporting. Meanwhile his base looks for reporting thats not "mainstream". Lies, FOX, etc that fits their messaging needs, translate: what and how to think.

IMO there has been some progress made with regards to defeating C-19. Sweden embarked on a different route and its mortality can be compared to its Nordic neighbors. Sweden has nearly 10 times the number of COVID-19-related deaths than its Nordic neighbors. Here's where it went wrong. States should open up sooner rather than later. But older and at risk people need serious protections. Protections from exposure and from having to take unnecessary risks for employment, or obtain goods and services. It seems as if the need for ventilators has become less of an issue. That younger healthy people are generally fairly safe. Some industries airline, cruise,restaurant, sports, travel, etc. will show financial damage for years.

Yet his lack of attention to detail never hampered his presidency. Because he had such a strong cabinet and Nancy. Perhaps his prior work kept him on script when media and public appearances was necessary. Sorry about that! trump's lack of attention to detail on the other hand leads to all sorts of screw-up.

I always tend to separate narcissistic, predatory psychologies. From those who may have psychological defects arising from childhood abuse, fetal alcohol syndrome, drugs, etc. Anyone who tends to prey upon the weak, the foolish or the elderly. Tends to set my fuse to short and response.

Agree and I also agree on the Jackson issue. ?? Its difficult to figure out all the psychological issues that Jackson had.

"President Trump accused the Chinese government of making a “horrible mistake” in its coronavirus response and of then orchestrating a cover-up that allowed the pathogen to spread around the world. “My opinion is they made a mistake. They tried to cover it, they tried to put it out. It’s like a fire,” Mr. Trump said on Sunday night during a virtual town hall on Fox News. “You know, it’s really like trying to put out a fire. They couldn’t put out the fire.” Pompeo Ties Coronavirus to China Lab, Despite Spy Agencies’ Uncertainty. So trump and his lapdog Pompeo are both out selling the China Lab lie. Six months to the election and its going to be China,China,China.

Americans who thought he would make a good POTUS. Were likely people who are easily sold a bill of goods. Many of the usual bunch here have been around the block a couple times and could recognize flim-flam when they heard it. Promises in every corner of the spectrum that most adults knew could never be met. Then a swath of larceny.

I can't remember any bad comments about Regan. That was a different era where the office had respect. Regan was a people person and used those skills to get what he wanted. He also knew how to delegate. He surrounded himself with a good cabinet. Leadership Lessons from Abraham Lincoln

Well statistics say otherwise. trumps current life expectancy is 12.4 years and Biden's is 9.94. Biden is in better physical condition, contrary to the quack doctor that said about trump “his strength and physical stamina are extraordinary” astonishingly excellent.”

"convoluted logic" Calling Ron!

Thats Nancy Pelosi. Angela Merkel intimidates him as well because she stood up to President Putin and is better educated than trump. Thats a silly sort of statement because my cat is smarter than trump. But I digress.

WTF, how long does she last? Kayleigh McEnany promises not to lie as White House press secretary Trump’s New Press Secretary Promises She’ll Never Lie Minutes after pledging to not lie, the new White House press secretary lied a whole bunch BTY she is #4 in 3.5 years.

Sounds perfectly logical. Science driving public safety and not guns/ trump mob rule. MAGA White supremacists seek to stoke the fear and disruption caused by the pandemic to push their agenda and to recruit. MAGA, trump

"What distinguishes the demagogue in a democratic society, he argued in ‘Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda’ (1951), is the identification between the leader and his followers. The narcissism in question is not only Trump’s. More important is that of his followers, who idealise him as they once, in childhood, idealised themselves. Beyond that, the demagogue has a special appeal to wounded narcissism, to the feeling that one has failed to meet standards one has set for oneself."... His followers take every attack on their leader as an attack on them. ‘The fascist leader’s startling symptoms of inferiority’, Adorno wrote, ‘his resemblance to ham actors and asocial psychopaths’, facilitates the identification, which is the basis of the ideal. On the Access Hollywood tape, which was widely assumed would finish him, Trump was giving voice to a common enough daydream, but with ‘greater force’ and greater ‘freedom of libido’ than his followers allow themselves. And he was bolstering the narcissism of the women who support him, too, by describing himself as helpless in the grip of his desires for them." To end the formalized national sexual exploitation of women by a minority of voters. Will take sacrifice.

Donald Trump/Date of birth June 14, 1946 "The successful demagogue activates this feeling by possessing the typical qualities of the individuals who follow him, but in what Adorno, quoting Freud, called a ‘clearly marked and pure form’ that gives the impression ‘of greater force and of more freedom of libido’. In Adorno’s words, ‘the superman has to resemble the follower and appear as his “enlargement”.’ The leader ‘completes’ the follower’s self-image." "Among voters ages 30 to 49, 51% supported Clinton and 40% favored Trump. Trump had an advantage among 50- to 64-year-old voters (51% to 45%) and those 65 and older (53% to 44%)."

"Trump’s background in salesmanship and reality TV prepared him perfectly for his present role. According to Adorno, the leader can guess the psychological wants and needs of those susceptible to his propaganda because he resembles them psychologically, and is distinguished from them by a capacity to express without inhibitions what is latent in them, rather than by any intrinsic superiority." So trump supporters believe themselves to be knowledgeable about everything. They just don't like to brag about it. "Blacks, brown people, etc. are stupid and don't want to work. But I'm smart and want to work." trump says what they want to say but can't because it would expose them as braggart racists.

B.S. I have it from well placed WH sources that if trump loses the November election. He will instruct his base to all jump into the Potomac to protest the rigged vote. trump wants to compare his mass appeal with Jim Jones.Because Jones preached social and racial equality. The two concepts trump hates the most. It will be horrific and SC will never be the same.

He is a wealthy peasant. Zero class. Look at the pictures of his apartment with all the fake gold appointments. There is a new psychological paradigm of trumpism. All 38 percent of trump supporters are not stupid and for certain some smart ones are not on SC. Not to insult the posters here that support trump. Because clearly most have to say and admit. That they know trump lies about everything. That they know he is stupid. His intellectual curiosity, zero. But that they support him for other reasons that they cannot admit. Reasons that they don't understand. Or that they they are too embarrassed to disclose. This will help. The Mass Psychology of Trumpism by Eli Zaretsky 'the members of a group stand in need of the illusion that they are equally and justly loved by their leader; but the leader himself need love no one else, he [must] be of a masterful nature, absolutely narcissistic, self-confident and independent. Hitler, Mussolini, Ataturk and even De Gaulle fit this model, as they drew on mass media, parades, sporting events and film to project themselves as father figures to enthralled nations.... One might object that Trump, a billionaire TV star, does not resemble his followers. But this misses the powerful intimacy that he establishes with them, at rallies, on TV and on Twitter. Part of his malicious genius lies in his ability to forge a bond with people who are otherwise excluded from the world to which he belongs. Even as he cast Hillary Clinton as the tool of international finance, he said: I do deals – big deals – all the time. I know and work with all the toughest operators in the world of high-stakes global finance. These are hard-driving, vicious cut-throat financial killers, the kind of people who leave blood all over the boardroom table and fight to the bitter end to gain maximum advantage. With these words he brought his followers into the boardroom with him and encouraged them to take part in a shared, cynical exposure of the soiled motives and practices that lie behind wealth. His role in the Birther movement, the prelude to his successful presidential campaign, was not only racist, but also showed that he was at home with the most ignorant, benighted, prejudiced people in America"

airdvr is a realtor. So he likely knows the Clinton residence would be a quick sale. The trump residence is either prostitution, pimp house or drug related. Even the Saudi's have given up on the Miami vice, pseudo Versaille Paris look. But trump followers like that too so??