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  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    I have investigated. My conclusion is: Your low approval rating is because you are a toad.

    My consultancy rate is very reasonable at three million dollars per second. You owe me nine million dollars. Sign here, please.

  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    I don’t think Trump ever developed a theory of mind when he was a child.

    “Theory of Mind” is the developmental change where you realize that other people know things that you don’t know, and you know things that other people don’t know. It usually shows up before you turn five, kind of concurrent with a solid grasp on language. But I don’t think he ever got it.

    So he doesn’t understand how people could know words that he doesn’t know (“groceries”), he doesn’t understand how people could understand the importance of things he doesn’t understand the importance of (pretty much every government agency), he doesn’t see any reason for social supports (because, see, he doesn’t need them). And, paired with his obvious narcissism, since he loves himself, he is psychologically unable to conceive of the idea that other people could exist who don’t love him.

    Under this framework, he can never be wrong, because he literally knows all the things (the hurricane path map). He can never have done anything wrong, because he knows what’s best. And he can never have broken any promises, because he knew what would happen and made the choice on purpose.

    But he’s also been around for long enough to prove all of that untrue, so he’s had to carve out little exceptions for himself: specifically, that (1) everyone who doesn’t like him isn’t really a person, they’re actually evil and bad and nobody likes them (because he doesn’t); (2) everyone who knows something he doesn’t is either keeping secrets or a super-genius, depending on whether he likes that thing or not; and (3) when his actions have negative consequences that actually affect him, it’s because of one of those evil not-people plotting against him.

    So, anyway, when you call Trump a toddler, you’re actually giving him a few extra years of credit that he hasn’t earned.

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        25 days ago

        I mean, it depends on whether you mean “can say some words” or “can actually carry on a conversation.” The speech thing can vary pretty widely; I’ve got an 8-year-old who was speaking in complete sentences by, like, 20 months, and an almost-3-year-old who was speech delayed and is really only just grasping the idea of expressing his preferences to us with words. Our other two were in between those two extremes.

        You’re not wrong, though. In any case, he is not fully-developed as a human adult.

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    26 days ago

    We’ve got zionists running through the streets of New York assaulting people they perceive to be possibly arab, a mayor who is only there because trump pardoned him for his crimes, and trump, who “demands” the polls show him whatever he wants to see. It just gets crazier, stupider, and more corrupt every day, and we are only 2/48ths of the way to trump being out of office, assuming he leaves peacefully. He needs to be impeached.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Of course he does.

    Christ, I miss the short reprieve of 4 years where I didn’t have to concern myself with what this asshat was emoting about.

  • LordCrom@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Article says Trump believes he has a 99.9% approval rating on the border issues…

    He is delusional

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
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    I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I understand that Trump might be confused about this. He isn’t doing anything that he didn’t specifically say he would do when he was asking for people’s votes. They loved him before the election. They loved voting for him. I can understand why he might not believe that suddenly they don’t like him. Somewhat the same for Musk except he started crashing back with the purchase of Twitter so he should have had time to understand that he was driving his fans away the further right-psycho he got.

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      He isn’t doing anything that he didn’t specifically say he would do when he was asking for people’s votes. They loved him before the election. They loved voting for him. I can understand why he might not believe that suddenly they don’t like him.

      This is what happens when you steal an election

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        The data behind that conclusion is compelling to those who understand both statistics and technology. Most of the US Congress has repeatedly shown that they have neither the capacity nor the inclination to understand either.

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      One of the rhetorically effective things about his campaign messaging was how broad and vague it was. Pundits, podcasters, influencers, and those manipulating the algorithms of social media, took that messaging, isolated parts of it and recontextualized those parts for specific audiences.

      So while he may have assumed he was being very clear about what he was going to do, the messaging many of his voters got was totally detached from his intentions.

      A good example of this is people who thought that the tariffs would somehow be a tax levied on foreign countries, not a sales tax on imported goods. Or those who thought the tariffs would be targeted at specific goods categories to benefit their particular industry, not a blanket tariff that impacts their upstream supply chain.

      He told his subordinate on the campaign to get voters to vote for him, he assumed that meant convince them he was right, but that was impossible, the only ones that could get him the numbers he liked were the ones who just twisted what he said till people agreed with it.

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    26 days ago

    Someone needs to transvestigate this “man” have you heard how sassy this bitch talks? …and the girl is so insecure!

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    More signaling that he plans to ignore the constitution and try to run again in 2028, as if anyone is surprised. (I think we’ll mostly be surprised if he makes it to 2028)