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At some point even he has to realize that he's a joke right?
Like even his syphillitic brain can't not see what's right in front of him forever, can it?
To other world leader's he's a joke. Someone who they can stroke his ego to get whatever they want, and then ignore him entirely and do whatever they feel like anyway.
"Israel..don't drop those bombs" Israel had no intention of listening to him. Russia had no intention of listening to him. They make his sense of self importance skyrocket and so they say whatever they need to say to get him to do whatever THEY want him to do, and then don't listen to him the rest of the time.
Is he really this fucking stupid?
Nah. Narcissism is a hell of a drug.
Yes. Trump definitively answered the question of whether a complete, total, utter, absolute, unconditional moron can fail upwards and be fabulously wealthy.
This is what generational wealth in an ultra-capitalist society with a different justice system for the wealthy can produce. A monster. A stupid fucking monster.
That would probably happen as part of a narcissistic collapse. In the most extreme cases, it may trigger suicidal reactions.
Hope isn't the right word for me. But I would very deeply enjoy Trump swinging from a noose of his own make.
Heh he’ll get replaced quickly, and a new cult leader will rise. I wonder who it’ll be. Vance and trumps family aren’t popular, neither is Musk. But then again, in a dictatorship popularity isn’t important.
He's the one that cultivated the cult of personality. Some have tried to use it, but trump still has the final say on everything. I imagine if Trump disappeared, the base would fracture.
Fracture to where?
We already know conservatives are literally incapable of voting for anyone that doesn't have an "R" next to their names. They may not worship the next one the way they worship Daddy Trump, but they'll all 100% vote for whoever it is.
Fracture to irreverence where the component pieces eat each other. There is no future for the party after Trump except as various fringe groups claiming to be the "true" party.
In a dictatorship, the rise to power is extremely dependent on being popular. Once established though, not so much. I'm guessing JD Vance, Musk, or some other Trump family member would not have sufficient following and the whole thing would topple over, as is fairly common after dear leader dies.
My copium is that to me it looks like it’s not the party’s cult, it’s Trump’s cult, and it will collapse without him at the helm.
Lol. I've been experiencing the conservative cult for far too long to believe this.
There will be another one and conservatives will flock to him. And now that the bar is permanently and extremely lowered by Trump, you can expect him to be pretty fucking bad.
You've been experiencing a cult of an idea. The Republican party has transformed into a cult of personality with no clear successor.
There are cults of personality that have successfully transformed into a cult of ideas. Mormons and Scientology are examples. However, in each case, the person at the center fostered a clear successor, and that successor was able to make it last in the long run by centering around ideas. Scientology still has that successor around (David Miscavige), but there isn't really a specific person in charge of the LDS. Not in the same way. Their leadership is now interchangeable, but replacing their ideas is a harder sell.
Trump has no successor, and isn't interested in fostering one. It's not JD Vance; nobody respects him, including Trump. It's not Musk; he made the mistake of trying to be more popular than the boss, and he's not a natural-born citizen, anyway. It's not Peter Thiel; he prefers to be the power behind the throne. It's not any of Trump's adult children; they're nothing but spoiled rich kids. It's not any of the people in his cabinet; they're all plebes using booze and cocaine to get through the day. It's not Tucker or Matt Walsh or any of the other right-wing commentators; they'd just eat each other trying to get on top.
Oh, no, they'll devolve into infighting. There won't be enough shared ideals and actions to sustain Republicans as a political force. There will be fringe groups that linger on for a while. After almost three centuries, there are still two people left claiming the Shaker tradition; that's a group that forbids sexual relations even for procreation, so you can see how they'd have trouble gaining new members. But they're not a religious group that anyone really cares about, either. That's how MAGA will go eventually.
See also, Knitting Cat Lady, who is a former member of the Children of God cult, then the US Army, and then got a masters in organizational psychology around cults.
Yeah, to anyone that may be new to all this, I promise you and will bet my life savings on it, that conservatives will memory-hole Trump after he's gone and be 100% onboard with the next criminal dunce the Republican party shits out.
I watched them do it with Bush Jr. We know how stupid conservatives are. That isn't changing anytime soon. They have not, nor will they ever, learn anything.
Oh I never knew that had a name.
I love doing that to pathological narcissists, whenever safe.
Yes.
Yes.
The answer to your question is yes
You fail to understand how narcissism works. He's literally incapable of believing anything negative about himself.
I wish I was that way honestly. I almost can't believe anything positive about myself.
But he asked them so nicely to not violate the ceasefire on his social media site! He said they'd only do a "Plane Wave"!
It is so weak that he expects the world to read his xitter as a news source and that he has to sign it to affirm that he is in fact (in all caps) THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Also where the heck is my thank you for my attention to this matter. Such an utter buffoon.
Dude has Netanyahu's phone number, but he's screaming into the void of the internet like some pleb? Yeah, definitely not a good look.
This is how you tell me that you haven't been raised by narcissists without telling me that you haven't been raised by narcissists.
The problem is everyone else clearly. If only they just listen to him everything would be fine. Why is everyone so stupid!!? Why is no one listening to big brain??!