of all the ones i have read i found this one most useful
https://medium.com/@nziehl/coping-with-chaos-in-the-white-house-697fa2ca3ddf#.f0qo8huxx
― the late great, Friday, 2 December 2016 07:18 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 24 December 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
it doesn't matter
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 24 December 2016 06:16 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 25 December 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
this is one of the slightly more embarrassing tantrumps tbh
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 December 2016 00:10 (seven years ago) link
whatever man, you're not getting deported
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 25 December 2016 00:57 (seven years ago) link
technically speaking its more that i never went but im sorry fer yer troubles
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 December 2016 01:17 (seven years ago) link
chances that trump deports more ppl than obama aren't very good
― k3vin k., Sunday, 25 December 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
you're such a tiresome fuck
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Sunday, 25 December 2016 02:22 (seven years ago) link
Trump probably only has 4 years to Obama's 8, though, so you're probably safe with that bet
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Sunday, 25 December 2016 02:23 (seven years ago) link
facts, stubborn things, etc
― k3vin k., Sunday, 25 December 2016 02:33 (seven years ago) link
happy holidays tho
4 people on ilx think i am a psychopath
― Treeship, Sunday, 25 December 2016 04:11 (seven years ago) link
My psychic (I keep one on retainer) tells me one of the four is Donald Trump and the other three are interns he ordered to register with ILX in order to vote.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 25 December 2016 04:23 (seven years ago) link
my favorite way to listen to the president is slowed down to 1/2 speed because it reveals how often times his logic is indistinguishable from that of a drunk person: pic.twitter.com/QiUb4CQdU9— Arlen Parsa voted! (@arlenparsa) November 7, 2018
― rob, Thursday, 8 November 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
― Treeship, Saturday, December 24, 2016 11:11 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 8 November 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
is that why you changed your name
― rob, Thursday, 8 November 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
Yeah but you guys figured it out
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 8 November 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
Kimmel has been making slowed down "Drunk Donald Trump" videos ever since the election.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 8 November 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
even more revelatory are the videos where they dub him over Master Shake
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 November 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
lol at the John McCain quote
― Freda VanFleet (symsymsym), Thursday, 8 November 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
what's crazy about trump is that he apparently doesn't drink at all. this is him operating at the top of his game
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 8 November 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link
He’s sleep deprived and doesn’t eat plants though
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 9 November 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
I'm going with early-onset dementia magnified by decades of overdosing on finasteride.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/02/03/side-effects-of-the-drug-trump-reportedly-takes-for-hair-loss/
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 9 November 2018 01:59 (five years ago) link
happy 30th anniversary of trump taking out $85K worth of newspaper ads calling for the execution of the central park five
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
He's such a Gemini.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Yes. Almost two cents of every dollar reported as losses one year by everyone in the United States were reported by Donald Trump. And what this shows is something I’ve been saying and writing about Trump for 30 years: he is a terrible businessman. His business model is not to get an enterprise, to nurture it, to grow it, to make it more profitable over time. His business model is the same as a mob bust-out. Get your hands on an enterprise, squeeze all the cash out of it, don’t pay your vendors, try to cheat as best you can your employees, don’t pay the bankers — and Trump once said, “I borrowed money knowing I wouldn’t pay it back” — and then leave the carcass and go on to the next deal.That’s why the Art of the Deal is so significant in all of this, because Trump’s business model is to rip off one person after another who gets involved with him thinking he will make them wealthy while he is destroying their wealth. Donald is, after Bernie Madoff, arguably the greatest wealth destroyer in American history.
That’s why the Art of the Deal is so significant in all of this, because Trump’s business model is to rip off one person after another who gets involved with him thinking he will make them wealthy while he is destroying their wealth. Donald is, after Bernie Madoff, arguably the greatest wealth destroyer in American history.
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
that makes him smart
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
Coming in 2054 to PBS: "Nation of Chumps - The Trump Years"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
this is just the fishiest thing i've ever heard of
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
"Almost two cents of every dollar reported as losses one year by everyone in the United States were reported by Donald Trump."
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
but he kept his businesses? and wasn't audited?
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
I think part of the antichrist's deal is that he's able to pull off feats just as astonishing as his opposite except they just leave everyone feeling like they need a shower and a fifth of vodka.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
I thought some of this would be cleared up by mueller
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
Naively i see now
Note who the US AG for Southern District of NY was during these years. Giuliani.
Honestly, it's not the tax loss carryforwards that trouble me. Its the fact that real estate has more intrinsic incentives towards fraud than most industries, and Trump is clearly less principled than most people. I've no doubt his first 20 years in the business was rife with assessment fraud, but unlike some 800 fraudsters who had jail time during the 1980s S&L crisis, Trump carried on scot free.
That and then was the time to go through his dealings with a fine toothed comb, and Giuliani didn't.
― nonsense upon stilts (Sanpaku), Thursday, 9 May 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
was were rife
― nonsense upon stilts (Sanpaku), Thursday, 9 May 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link
At his rally tonight, Trump says the government is unable to violently attack immigrants, someone in the crowd shouted "Shoot them!"The crowd & Trump erupt in laughter & cheers. Trump says, "Only in the panhandle can you get away with that statement."pic.twitter.com/SgQd2OH9ti— jordan (@JordanUhl) May 9, 2019
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
Really sickening.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
I'm only able to sleep at night by reminding myself that Donald Trump will someday be the most consistently-defiled corpse in American history.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 May 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link
I know I can’t diagnose someone, but I do think there is something wrong with this guy that goes beyond the fact that he is part of a nihilistic political party (the GOP). Thereis a recklessness about how he has gone about his entire life that feels very deranged.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:01 (four years ago) link
That’s why I stand by this poll. It’s not about if Trump is *worse* han someone like GWB—so far, he hasn’t caused as much damage. I think he really is sick.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
In the sense of having a malignant personality disorder. Not trying to stigmatize the mentally ill, a group to which I belong myself. But I don’t know what other way to tak about a person who is bizarre and delusiona and relishes breaking out of social norms
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:06 (four years ago) link
The old word “evil” maybe.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
I have literally never met someone anything like Donald Trump in my life.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
Apologies for more trump posts
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link
I think I'm finally convinced: that boy ain't right.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:14 (four years ago) link
I don't know if he's a psychopath, but I think he's a kind of hydroponically-grown version of Americanism, a product of a culture. I've been recently referring to behaviour like his as Kissingerism, based on the tenet that "harming others, or creating chaos in the lives of others, is profitable for the self", which is not localized to America but does seem to flourish there more visibly
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
He’s kind of like a living portrait-in-the-attic of everything ugly about our society that we try to sweep under the rug, it’s true
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
Is that an actual quote from kissinger?
exactly
― treeship., Monday, 5 October 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
that is why i bumped the psychopath thread. maybe he is just a narcissist. i don't know if labels help, but there is something "off" about this dude.
I'm wondering if there is one thing "on" about this dude
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 5 October 2020 01:04 (three years ago) link
I think Trump is stupid and reckless and a bad person in pretty much every sense of the word but this joyride thing is the first time I've thought he's literally an insane person
― frogbs, Monday, 5 October 2020 01:06 (three years ago) link
I don't know where the line between hyper-narcissist and psychopath is, or if the two aren't really connected. If such a line does exist, he has put down a marker where it is the past few days.
He's also quite clueless in gauging public reaction beyond his cult.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 October 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
conservative america thinks 'freedom' is the unrestrained right to dominate. trump has no sense of others beyond himself at all, therefore he's maybe the purest possible embodiment of this ideal.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Monday, 5 October 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link
Put it this way: if 1% of the population is a sociopath, I find it hard to believe that there are 780 million people on the planet who care less about others than he does.
― Alba, Monday, 5 October 2020 01:10 (three years ago) link
wow that's higher than i thought. i thought sociopathy was rare.
― treeship., Monday, 5 October 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link
'Trump told advisers on Sunday that he was getting bored being in the hospital and was tiring of watching coverage of his hospitalization.' He briefly left the hospital to greet fans as confusion continues over his health @ToluseO @jdawsey1 @goldsteinamy https://t.co/O9QgVTACck— Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) October 4, 2020
seriously what the fuck
― frogbs, Monday, 5 October 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
62 million Americans voted for Trump because he promised to hurt people
― frogbs, Monday, 5 October 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
not that it affects things that much, but 1% of the population is around 78 million, not 780 million
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Monday, 5 October 2020 01:23 (three years ago) link
but let's just make it an even 62 million
I'm talking world population.
― Alba, Monday, 5 October 2020 01:24 (three years ago) link
He was probably tried of hearing himself described as overweight in every story about how the disease could affect him.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 5 October 2020 01:24 (three years ago) link
i mean, unperson is going to sweep in and "nail" me for this, but i don't think that was the prime motivator of most of his voters. a lot of those people just always vote for the republican because they think their tax bill will be lower or they think abortion is murder or whatever.
― treeship., Monday, 5 October 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link
Oh sorry, you're right and I'm not reading properly. 78m yes!
xpost
― Alba, Monday, 5 October 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link
Apparently some people think it's as high as 4%
https://cmc.marmot.org/Record/.b35000260
― Alba, Monday, 5 October 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
7,800,000,000 * .01 = 78,000,000
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Monday, 5 October 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
it's a lot
― treeship., Monday, 5 October 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link
wonder if any ilxors are psychopaths
^classic psychopathic speculation
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 5 October 2020 01:40 (three years ago) link
I know none of u are psychopaths because none of u r real
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Monday, 5 October 2020 01:42 (three years ago) link
I'm closer to believing no one else is real than not caring about anyone else's feelings. Solipsism is much more socially acceptable than sociopathy, and that matters to me.
― Alba, Monday, 5 October 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
Okay but he also doesn't care. Like, I have no problem agreeing that he doesn't know... but if he knew, he still wouldn't care.
I guess? I dunno. I am drinking bourbon and probably shouldn't also be doing amateur psychoanalysis.
― May you live in interesting Times New Roman (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 5 October 2020 01:57 (three years ago) link
he doesn't want people imagining him in a hospital bed so he is doing everything he can to replace that mental illness with these different images, like him tottering around in his suit signing documents or riding in a motorcade or whatever.
― treeship., Monday, 5 October 2020 02:04 (three years ago) link
even the way he walked to the helicopter--unaccompanied, giving the thumbs up, he wants to seem in control. and you know, there isn't anything psychopathic about this. the problem is that he is putting others in danger.
― treeship., Monday, 5 October 2020 02:05 (three years ago) link
Xps:Narcissist, sociopathic, histrionic and borderline personality disorders enough commonalities that psychologists just lump them together as cluster B.
I've lost my family of origin because of a guy with elements of all the cluster B disorders dropped in 27 years ago. I'm not so keen on dissecting which ones he qualifies for in the Venn diagram. I think Trump is much the same.
― Sanpaku, Monday, 5 October 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 5 October 2020 03:48 (three years ago) link
yup. I noticed that sly one, too.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Monday, 5 October 2020 03:55 (three years ago) link
Okay but he also doesn't care.
I agree with that to a degree (and the same thought occurred to me after I posted), but he supposedly watches just as much CNN as Fox, and being delusional is part of his narcissism; when he went for his little joyride today, I bet part of him wanted to be admired--to be awed by his courage--by even those whom he knows hate him.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 October 2020 04:34 (three years ago) link
He totally cares. That's his whole thing! Nobody is that angry with every perceived slight if they truly dgaf
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 5 October 2020 05:00 (three years ago) link
I'm going with totally clueless. He's always wanted everyone to adore him but doesn't know how to do it. In his 7th decade of trying he finally stumbled upon being a far right wing agitator. He could have a good deal more followers even he wasn't so fucking clueless about how boasting about your own intelligence, wealth and prowess turns many people off. Likewise, insulting women and ethnicities prob got him some laughs and attaboys in the country club locker room but…
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 5 October 2020 05:05 (three years ago) link
I mean I've known quite a few people who make it pretty easy to deduce that they consider themselves to be world class geniuses but they at least have had enough social sense to not just BLURT IT OUT.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 5 October 2020 05:09 (three years ago) link
Dunno about psycho, but him and his cronies are def sociopaths according to Chomsky:
I have no independent evidence about what is inside people's minds. In the case of the Trump administration, I simply think that they don't care. They are sociopaths.
https://www.salon.com/2020/10/17/noam-chomsky-if-you-dont-push-the-lever-for-the-democrats-you-are-assisting-trump/
― pomenitul, Saturday, 17 October 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link