• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Y’all acting like Trump personally ordered the raid and is suddenly backing up, TACO.

    Trump told ICE, “You’re weapons free, you got a quota.” And they went for it. Because of course they did.

    This is Trump screaming, “Not like THAT!” Which is somehow hilarious and horrifying at the same time.

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      1 hour ago

      The idiot leader was too stupid to provide contingencies. And the ICE goons are too stupid to understand them anyway.

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      11 hours ago

      Well, the desk in the oval office used to have a simple plaque on it that said: “the buck stops here”.

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        10 hours ago

        Mother was a narcissist, not on Trump’s level, but I’ve never known another person so eat up with NPD. Impossible to overstate that these people cannot understand personal responsibility for their actions. Their failures are always someones else’s failures. They cannot fail.

        I was well into my 40s before it occurred to me, mother never once admitted fault or said she was sorry. Sure, some people act like that, sometimes, but you can tell they have a sense of guilt, a sense of wrongdoing. Sure, we’ve all know people who misdirect blame. A true narcissist cannot feel those emotions, cannot be wrong.

        Telling a lie is a falsehood you know is false. Trump has never lied. He believes every word that has ever come out of his mouth. It tears my brain apart every time he’s accused of lying or bending the truth. Anyone having a hard time with the notion I just described is suffering cognitive dissonance. Have fun with that, he can’t feel it. You can because you’re sane.

        Trump isn’t playing games. He isn’t a tactical or strategic genius. He’s simply a wealthy narcissist who struck political gold. He got dumb luck, like some of us do, and ran with it.