I didn't think I was being passive aggressive, I thought I was being rather blunt. The pandemic thread talks about MANY world leaders who have gotten it too. UK leaders, Brazil and many other people just as important as Trump. They talked about the impacts in their nations there as well.
Yeah, pretty much what I was thinking, basically this sucks, he dies we lose, he survives we lose.Yea I had already talked about that on the first thread about this here..
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Pentagon used taxpayer money meant for masks and swabs to make jet engine parts and body armor A $1 billion fund Congress gave the Pentagon in March to build up the country’s supplies of medical equipment has instead been mostly funneled to defense contractors and used to make things such as jet...forums.escapistmagazine.com
AND to make it worse, Due to the sheer wealth and power of the US, what happens here also disproportionately affects your country as well. The reality is the US has too little corruption laws so it allowed these things to be so bad when someone as corrupt as trump gets control. Pence is worse than Trump because he is a religious extremist bigot who tries to do things and hides what he is doing from public view and then directly just lies to people telling them it was good when it was horrific. He is like a snake. Trump is like a bull in a china shop so everyone sees the mess he is making. Pence is the snake hiding and people do not realize what he has done until it is too late. Pence 100% supports forcing his religious beliefs onto the general population, is 100% pro corporate, banks and the wealthy, is pro war, pro killing Muslims, He doesn't even think women and men should be allowed to work together, and believes women's place is in the home. He even refuses to meet with women in a work environment alone and does not hire women to work with him because he does not believe that is a " woman's place".
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As a reflection of how debased political standards are these days, I find that this is depressingly credible. Fake claim of infection, and when he sails through fine, uses this as an argument for how amazing he is and how he was right all along that infection control was for stupid, weak, worry-warts.
OTOH, we wouldn't have to worry about him refusing a peaceful transition of power or calling for armed bigots to intimidate people at the polls, BUT we would have the conspiracy nuts saying the "Deep State" controlled by Hillary Clinton really assassinated him and covered it up with fake COVID-19.
I think he'd need years of psychotherapy to get his empathy up.
I am not convinced that psychotherapy would actually work on him regardless. In his case, he may actually just want to harm others rather than just being indifferent. Others being harmed may actually bring him pleasure instead, and that it isn't that he doesn't understand other's hurting, I think it is possible he does, but WANTS them to be harmed instead. according to his former Chief of Staff for Secretary of Homeland Security, Miles Taylor said that was exactly the case. His former Chief of Staff for Secretary of Homeland Security said he hated and despised the poor and his opposition to the point he was actively seeking to harm them and could care less if it was illegal or not.
It seemed to work better for Boris Johnson to some extent. Though he started to get comfortable again when he thought he was immune until he found out it is possible he could get it again after 4 months, then he wanted to shut everything down again and have them arrested,..
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You know if Trump, and everyone around him wore " the biggest mask I've ever seen" as Trump mocked Biden for, he wouldn't have this problem right now.
Narcissists are frequently unpleasant or difficult, but they aren't necessarily malicious. I think Trump is malicious, domineering, vindictive: his record of bullying, his rule-breaking, his mockery of people weaker than him, his sister describing him as "cruel". I think a lot of that could potentially be changed, but not without sufficient motivation. It's not clear to me what that motivation could be - he's too rich and too powerful to ever fall in the way us hoi polloi can. Even a Trump that had a business crisis and downsized to mere hundreds of millions would still be a vastly rich and powerful man able to lord it over the masses. He'd still be rich and powerful if jailed for fraud and placed in a 5* prison for the elites (although I'm sure a convenient "health problem" and his age would be leveraged for some sort of house arrest or parole). Humiliating, sure. But not a catastrophe.
If he dies before the election and Pence does not, Pence gets to distance himself from the obnoxious buffoonery until the election, but keep the calculated cruelty and maybe win without even having to cheat.
I think you overestimate how much people who weren't already anti-Trump care about the shallow aesthetics.
Hopefully this isn't a lie to hide from the debate. And I hope he and the majority of Congress will die from it.
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