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    I agree. He looks like a man who took too many drugs, ate too much junk, and then died on his bathroom floor mid-shit.

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    The man is a narcissist, and constantly compares himself to other, much more successful people. He will hint at it if the person is controversial or outright state it if benign.

    He’d like to be seen as intelligent as an MIT professor, as honest as Lincoln, as famous as the Mona Lisa, as dangerous as Al Capone, as persecuted as Mandela.

    He’d none of these things, but he wants to plant that association in your head. It’s transparent and a consistent core of his disorder.

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    Can we dig up Elvis and do a side by side comparison? He’s probably right, but I don’t suppose fat Elvis is fat anymore.

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    The mistake here is thinking that his supporters will care, if they even hear about it.

    They won’t.

    As long as he is hurting the right people, they will excuse anything.

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    I will never forgive conservatives for making this guy the daily topic of conversation.

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      We (anyone not alt-right) are to blame too. We click and watch and view stuff with the rest of them…

  • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.ee
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    nothing will stop the simpleminded to vote for hate. unless the orange is locked away murica is doomed to become idiocracy as a livestream.

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      Even if he’s locked up, they’ll vote for him. The only real way they won’t vote for him is if they can’t find his name on the ballot.

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    Lol. Even if he was a 1 for 1 exact copy of Elvis, only the irrelevant would give a shit. I look forward to the day when I’m old and for some fucked up reason the names ”Elvis” and “Trump” come up and people ask me who they were and whether due to dementia or just old age I can smile a fat grin and simply say, “I don’t remember.”

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    This is one of those stories that I have to apply the filter of: STOP GIVING THIS WINDBAG AIR.

    He says this shit on purpose to get a rise out of stupid people that hate him. It keeps him in the news in areas he would normally drop to the wayside. Say what you will about his mental acuity or emotional intelligence, the man knows how to stay in the spotlight.

    I can’t think of a better situation to apply the treehouse of horror/Paul Anka maxim: Just don’t look.

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      Idk, the dude has been showing signs of advancing dementia for a few years now.

      I think we’re at most a few months from him sundowning on live TV. If his heart lasts that long, that is.

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        I’ll generally agree, but at least based on this article, I wouldn’t say “I think I look like Elvis” to be a matter of diminishing mental capacity, it’s just unjustified narcissism.

        There’s so much other things to illustrate mental capacity issues that I feel like we shouldn’t feel compelled to rope this into that neighborhood. That just serves to discredit the criticism.

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    It’s so weird that this is the statement that makes some of his supporters question his sanity or ability to form and communicate coherent thoughts…I would say there’s a trail of breadcrumbs of much more damning statements going back as far as you’re willing to look, but it’s more like a trail of roach-infested bakeries.

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      Turns out that even mental gymnastic experts who can rationalize an imsurrection attemt as simultaneously benign and a false flag attempt, while saying that Trump did nothing wrong AND trying to say “why didn’t media care as much about the BLM protests”, have to admit that this MF ain’t no Elvis

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      It’s so weird that this is the statement that makes some of his supporters question his sanity

      Where are you getting this from?

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    If saying he looks like Elvis is damaging to him when trying to overthrow the country didn’t, that will be weird.

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      It is entirely within expectations of the fucked up timeline we’ve found ourselves in, though.

      Call for treason and insurrection? Uproarious Cheering.

      Fuck children? Endless defense and excuses (and cheering)

      Wants to fuck his own daughter? “Well hell yeah, I’d fuck my daughter too if she looked like Ivanka!” - Disturbing number of republicans when looking at a pre-teen picture of her.

      But say you look like Elvis? Oh my god, thats just so inhuman and so far fetched.

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        Politics works under WWE rules now. Trump is the heel they like. As long he’s doing fucked up shit to the face characters, they keep on cheering.

        Him trying to be a face character is bad because people only like him for being the heel.

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        But say you look like Elvis? Oh my god, thats just so inhuman and so far fetched.

        Is there any evidence that anyone who cheered for him in the above is in that boat? I’m pretty sure it’s a subset of the people upset about the treason, sexual assault, seemingly incestuous desires. Because speaking as someone who finds Trump utterly despicable, I fail to see why in the world I should care that he is vain enough to declare himself like Elvis. That’s utterly harmless narcissism on normal scales, let alone grading on the Trump curve.

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    No fucking shit he’s demented. Seriously, this is the first time we are seeing this in a headline? And it’s from rawstory, and it’s in quotes?!

    Goddamn, corporate news media - do your fucking goddamned jobs and call it like it is - YES he’s got dementia. He’s also a rapist and a convicted fraud if you want to really get down with the trüfax instead of the weak ass bullshit you normally run to goose this pathetic horserace as per your republiQan owners’ instructions.

    Oh yeah and he orchestrated a failed coup to stay in power that got some people killed. Dunno if you knew that or not based on how you talk about him and what he does. I’d be happy to direct you to ALL THE GODDAMNED PROOF if you need, just hit me up there. Corporate news media. You utter shitbags. This entire trump fiasco - all of it - is absolutely your fault. You can’t be destroyed fast enough.