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harumph

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75. It's a mental health mess for sure and there's an amplification going on.

Tue Sep 16, 2025, 09:43 AM

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Generally weak minded people - those with primarily a transactional ethos - are easy to manipulate because they don't operate on
principle. Bad religion also plays a part in the toxic environment because it encourages the "just world fallacy." By way of metaphor, we now know that many parasites will colonize a person's intestinal track and actually change the chemistry of the gut to make it more habitable for the parasite. Often the changes are not noticed until really dire symptoms are occurring. As our environment and national
discourse declines, it serves to amplify the most sociopathic elements because their plan is uncomplicated by concern for the environment or fellow citizens. These are simple transactional beings. No philosophy can explain their motivations because it aims too high. It is all about what is good for them at this moment, as horrifying as that sounds.

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The mountains of absolute SHIT some of us took eight years ago or seven years ago or six years [View all] Eliot Rosewater Monday OP

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

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

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

Consider my pearls clutched over the fact that you are put off. Scrivener7 Tuesday #76

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

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