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Diamond Boy's avatar

Well said.

Here is my judgement on it: Trump is a strange guy he has different wiring.

He is hypersensitive to personal slight, which may be part of his narcissism but he is also quite well attuned to figuring out the bottom line. By that I mean he shows good judgement and he can tell when someone is full of shit. He then takes that to the next level, he says it right out loud and doesn’t care who doesn’t like it, even though he is hypersensitive and this brings withering attacks against himself. I think it’s a very unusual combination .

This is the quality that I find so refreshing and damn hilarious, because it manifests as him being an endless tattletale. He calls bullshit on these people, they excoriate him, which he’s to thin skinned to take and then he tells more tales out of school. It’s exhausting and disgusting and I can’t take my eyes off of it, he is a machine, the perfect device for fucking the pretentious bastards. This is why I’m always perplexed that people like Caitlin don’t like him, she’s missing the boat, this guy is hilarious, heaven sent! Altogether much too serious, I think Curtis Yarvin’s right, America’s a joke. Please, lighten up folks, you know it’s a fraud, “the indispensable nation”, you read Caitlin, jeez, lighten up and enjoy the orange monster at work.

Philip said it elsewhere: our elite are there to enrich themselves, all their posturing and equivocating is just window dressing, they are money grubbing whores and Trump says so, right out loud.

Enjoy!

He is my favourite president ever. He would concur with Caitlin. OK so he’s an ignoramus, you can’t have everything

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I am not at all sure that Trump is an ignoramus. He has enough self-awareness to stay off alcohol (an enormous achievement for someone who is half-Scottish). I have it on very good authority from someone who had a chance to see him up close frequently over a ten year period that he stayed away from drugs and drug-###### women, so he is not a sexual predator (the business partner of a friend worked in the modelling industry in Manhattan and had to chaperone/safeguard super models and this guy reported that Trump would show up at night clubs every night in the 80s and 90s, stay to get photographed or mentioned in the press, then go home as quickly as possible avoiding the party crowd as much as possible).

He plays up to his persona. He is a rich man, but he understands the social psychology of lower middle class and working class whites. A large part of Trump's appeal is the Long Island thing: he belongs to a certain type that is well-represented in all the white ethnic communities of the Tri-State area. The stick-up-their-ass types prefer euphemism and pretension. They confuse it with class. He is a blond-haired version of Rodney Dangerfield. The laugh is on his critics.

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Diamond Boy's avatar

On second thought I want to give you one more insight. Specifically, I call him an ignoramus: it means a person who is wilfully ignorant. I think that’s part of his shtick and of course hilarious (he is Rodney Dangerfield).

When the syndicated conservative commentator George Will wrote a think piece that described the numerous ways in which Trump was wrong on some topic, Trump answered: “people only think he’s smart because he wears glasses.”

That makes me happy!

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Diamond Boy's avatar

Food for thought!

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