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moniss

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25. I've tried many times here to describe to people
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 02:32 PM
Monday

what sociopaths are, how dangerous they are and it seems only a few like yourself truly understand. I mistakenly married one and barely got out alive. They will slit someone's throat without a care in the world and then sit and have coffee next to the body like nothing happened. If the cops come they will lie and deny and if that seems not to be working they will claim it's not their fault and that someone/something made them do it. Furthermore when they go to the step of putting off blame they will also say they are blameless because nobody stopped them.

They feed on the upset, pain and misery they can cause and they plan it and manipulate others both to be co-perpetrators and victims. They never, ever take real responsibility for themselves. They lie as easily as they breath and they lie about inconsequential things like what time a TV program came on or if there is canned soup in the pantry. Part of the lying is that they use it as a mechanism to draw you in for manipulation purposes. They know you will engage with them and they will start pushing buttons like guilt, sympathy, anger etc. and these responses "feed" them and they use this as part of a validation and sense of power and control within themselves.

If you do not engage with them it drives their anger to unbelievable levels and they will lash out. This is why in extreme cases like Crumb the 1st he is always looking at the TV and media for his name and things about him to be mentioned. He desperately needs people to react to him and so the more outrageous things he says and does he knows he will get a larger and larger "feeding".

There is nothing much to be done to change them from a mental health perspective. As you said they are very cunning and any display of seeming "ignorance" is actually likely calculated by them to generate comment, outrage etc. so they can "feed". Sort of like the old "Star Trek" episode where an alien being foments conflict and negative emotions because it feeds on them and draws strength.

Until quite recently people were saying that Trump was totally stupid, incompetent, and not at all dangerous Irish_Dem Monday #1
Well stated. Thank you. OLDMDDEM Monday #2
Pelosi said Trump wasn't worth impeaching leftstreet Monday #4
Many people do not realize how dangerous psychopaths are. Irish_Dem Monday #7
True, but you'd hope an elected Rep would leftstreet Monday #8
What are you talking about? Blaming Pelosi for Republicans refusing to impeach Trump? Why? betsuni Monday #51
I've tried many times here to describe to people moniss Monday #25
Yes most people think psychopaths are all psychotic serial killers, like Charles Manson, etc. Irish_Dem Monday #29
Two attempts on my life. nt moniss Monday #38
You are lucky to be alive. Irish_Dem Monday #39
One with drugs and once with a car. moniss Monday #40
Psychopaths are excellent at gaslighting. Irish_Dem Monday #41
Yes and to show you how deep they take you under their influence moniss Monday #45
Yes this is classic, life with a psychopath. Irish_Dem Monday #46
Yep. And more apropos, it seems: Dark n Stormy Knight Tuesday #64
When we read the dystopian novels, we never thought it would come to us full blown. Irish_Dem Tuesday #65
Honestly, I'm pretty generally pessimistic, at best cautiously optimistic. Dark n Stormy Knight 15 hrs ago #85
Same here. I am a realist and cynic. Irish_Dem 7 hrs ago #91
I would argue that Trump is a symptom lonely bird Tuesday #68
It's a mental health mess for sure and there's an amplification going on. harumph Tuesday #75
I had to interview one during a domestic violence Phoenix61 Tuesday #71
Democrats have completely underestimated Trump from the beginning. hadEnuf Tuesday #83
Mental health professionals have been warning about Trump for years. Irish_Dem Tuesday #84
She said that because she could count votes. nt Trueblue Texan Monday #16
she said it was too divisive Celerity Monday #50
She said that ALSO because she can count votes Trueblue Texan Tuesday #78
He was impeached MorbidButterflyTat Monday #17
Yikes, and you had to go and interject facts. Eliot Rosewater Monday #49
The Pelosi-bashing addiction is really hard to beat, I guess. Maybe there are patches, Pelosi Patches. betsuni Monday #54
It's utterly pointless MorbidButterflyTat Tuesday #60
Guess we're supposed to get upset and not vote because the previous Speaker could count votes betsuni Tuesday #74
because they didn't have the votes in the Senate. The fact is, this should have been stopped in 2016, lostincalifornia Monday #56
And yet the House, under Pelosi, impeached him twice mcar Tuesday #73
Well, in addition to all the things you listed...... SergeStorms Monday #28
He is not a complete ninny or moron. Irish_Dem Monday #31
+1. People spent too much time mocking him and severely underestimated his popular appeal and demonic thirst for power. dalton99a Monday #34
Yes and they do so at their own dire peril. Irish_Dem Monday #36
An inate reptilian cunningness. yellow dahlia Monday #58
Yes exactly. Irish_Dem Monday #59
T is an idiot IbogaProject Tuesday #69
People don't understand that intellectual functioning is complex Irish_Dem Tuesday #79
And he also hires people just like him mdbl Tuesday #72
He hires ignorant psychopaths who will help him with his crimes. Irish_Dem Tuesday #80
Democratic voters have have always said he was fascist a Nazi and a traitor, Autumn Monday #3
But we have some right here that have tried to minimize the danger that Trump poses and still do so to this day. W_HAMILTON Monday #19
Got a link to any one here who is minimizing the danger Trump Autumn Monday #32
Check my posting history, since I usually respond when I see it. W_HAMILTON Monday #35
I must have the right people on ignore Autumn Monday #37
same Skittles 13 hrs ago #90
the fly-under-the-radar trolls Skittles 13 hrs ago #89
I tend to think people listen most carefully to those who best validate our biases Torchlight Monday #33
I was aware of what was comming, and it's going to get far worse, and was surprised to see that people weren't taking Dave Bowman Monday #5
No one had ever been exposed.... SergeStorms Monday #30
Many Democrats refused to entertain such a possibility dalton99a Monday #6
Thank you and no, the following which I just read here is total bullshit Eliot Rosewater Monday #9
We are just so conditioned to having white males running things. ananda Monday #10
And not just white males BaronChocula Monday #22
I'm thanking you too! ananda Monday #42
Here ya go Nigrum Cattus Monday #11
Thank you for this post and I hope you remember me as one of which you speak. hamsterjill Monday #12
Thank you, consider yourself included in my "we." Eliot Rosewater Monday #23
Thank you homegirl Monday #24
The alternative for them would be to accept Buddyzbuddy Monday #13
Bullshit MorbidButterflyTat Monday #20
Certainly for the most part for term 1. But people saw what he was... electric_blue68 Monday #47
Distraction Ksout Monday #14
Way to miss the point! Ray Bruns Monday #18
Really? Ksout Monday #27
NOTHING TRUMP DOES would be approved by Jesus Skittles 15 hrs ago #88
Consider my pearls clutched over the fact that you are put off. Scrivener7 Tuesday #76
it's a killer! Skittles 15 hrs ago #87
LOLOLOL!!!!! Skittles 15 hrs ago #86
I reached a point . . . AverageOldGuy Monday #15
I paid attention Cirsium Monday #21
Thank you, I am still waiting for a single one of the Eliot Rosewater Monday #26
Well, I held my nose and voted for Hillary. ananda Monday #43
Same here. I dont have to worship or even like a Democrat to vote for them. Autumn Monday #52
Still waiting... Eliot Rosewater Monday #48
"Hold my nose" "lesser of two evils" means "I'm gullible, don't know anything, a very bad judge of character, and betsuni Tuesday #61
And the only criticism of Hillary that was out of the ordinary Eliot Rosewater Tuesday #62
Not letting Republicans fill Supreme Court seats should have been reason enough... 3catwoman3 Tuesday #70
Let me say this. A group of people (not exactly sure who they are) picked TSF as a chosen one, and bluestarone Monday #44
He's been playing the fascist playbook since day one. usonian Monday #53
It could have been ALL AVOIDED in 2016 when the supreme court was at stake. In every swing state, Hillary lost lostincalifornia Monday #55
Exactly, and another 1 to 2% would have been voting for her in all of those states Eliot Rosewater Monday #57
This!!! Take heart. Many of us are with you. Joinfortmill Tuesday #63
I don't understand what's the problem . . . AverageOldGuy Tuesday #66
And those who are insisting that all is well with our response are still not understanding what we are dealing with. Scrivener7 Tuesday #77
Thanks, I need a new keyboard now. OldBaldy1701E Tuesday #81
I was on Radio Free Liberal lonely bird Tuesday #67
👎👎 👎 👎 👎 👎 👎 👎 👎👎 👎 usaf-vet Tuesday #82
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