• logicbomb@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    She said that on a taped conversation in private. The article said that she was a critic of his, but I’m not sure that she was a public critic of his.

    The point being, it’s not like Donald Trump doesn’t know that he’s done things that were wrong. For example, he knows it’s wrong to try to steal an election, because he’s constantly accusing other people of doing it. But he does know the truth, that it was he who was doing those things.

    A person shouldn’t be lauded for privately knowing there is a problem, but never doing anything about it.

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      11 months ago

      Here’s the thing I keep hammering about Trump; He’s eat up with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. That doesn’t mean “narcissist” in the way people have been slinging the word around for a decade+. It’s a real diagnosis with a real meaning.

      If you’ve ever been close to someone with NPD, you realize that they literally have no sense of personal culpability. They are literally unable to process an idea that says “you are wrong”.

      Trump isn’t purposefully hiding his “wrongness” from us, he can’t know he’s wrong. His brain can’t imagine such a thing.
      The “stolen” election for example; He did realize for a minute that he was beaten, plenty of evidence of what was said in that brief timespan. So we normal folks say, “Ah ha! Told you he was a liar!”

      But his brain reworked the thing, because being beaten, “wrong” to his mind, is not possible.

      You could hardly torture a confession out of the man, because to his mind, he has nothing to confess. His behavior is far more terrifying once you truly internalize that.

      Now add the beginnings of dementia to his extreme case of NPD. He’s basically a religious fanatic, and he’s his own god.

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      11 months ago

      I don’t know anything about her other than what this article says. Lauded is a huge stretch.

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      11 months ago

      I’m not gonna lose too much sleep over an elderly woman not publicly criticizing her baby brother.