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Patrice La Belle, M.D.'s avatar

This is the picture of a sociopathic narcissist. He stands in stark comparison to the other people in the picture as totally lacking in normal human empathy. He isn't even trying to fake it.

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Public Servant's avatar

The fascists are starving us into submission. My partner and I were fired from our civil service careers. We had to line up at a food bank again, use the same Halloween costumes as last year for our kids, and recycle their candy to give to trick or treaters.

So many of us are struggling with DOGE and the MAGA shutdowns - any support makes a big difference: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/emergency-furlough-maga-shutdown

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PowerCorrupts's avatar

Connecting the dots...

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We've been brainwashed to NOT sue, suing the government is checks and balances and required for democracy

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We're spoiled EXACTLY AS THE SCIENCE OF DESENSITIZATION PREDICTS

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We're blinded by our ego from seeing our faults:

3a.

An addict named George W Bush redirected 70 percent of Americans anger from Al Queda to Iraq... Trump (see top 40 of his most pathetic attributes above) redirected the anger of his voters to day laborers, etc

3b.

We believe the human brain is superior to animals but the evolution of life on Earth has evolved their brains 1000000 times longer than ours to avoid their extinction

3c.

No American googled "... the science of anger.."... we are threatened by our EMOTIONAL IMMATURITY to be aware of our EMOTIONAL IMMATURITY....?

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Heather.B's avatar

Yes, he is a narcissist. Narcissism is a total lack of self image, this is why he loves to tear others down, so he can feel better about himself. Everything is all about him. He has no principles and cares about no one.

“Malignant narcissism has four components: narcissism of course, but also psychopathy - what we call antisocial personality disorder - so lying, breaking laws and norms, having no remorse for violating the rights of others. Also paranoia and finally, sadism.”

“It’s kind of a historically obscure diagnosis, but I’ve studied with the person who is the world expert on malignant narcissism and so - early on when Trump was running for president in 2015, - I recognised this was essentially a meteor heading towards earth!”

― Dr John Gartner

I would like to read about the Trump voters who now have "buyer's remorse". We TOLD you and you didn’t listen, and now you have no one to blame but yourself!

Not only do I tell people: "Don't blame me. I voted for her", but I have a tee shirt that says that. This one 👇

https://libtees.dashery.com/products/79821408-dont-blame-me-i-voted-for-her-t-shirt

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Patrice La Belle, M.D.'s avatar

Unfortunately, telling people they were wrong or pointing out their flaws rarely has the intended consequence of changing their opinions. That is more difficult and takes emotional empathy as well as evidence. Blame, or worse belittling, just makes people more entrenched in their views. It is even worse when they have been influenced and persuaded by a charismatic cult-like sociopathic leader who has focused their drumned-up anger on his preceived foes.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Or he's totally unaware of what's going on.

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Michael Anthony Valente's avatar

The only photo describing the Trump years that I’m interested in seeing is of an ICE thug taking a crying baby away from its mother.

Anything else reminds me that people have ignored the biggest atrocity that’s been occurring for the last 10 years

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Private Intellectual's avatar

Agree!

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pilar's avatar

Is that ‘far enough’ for smelly, old fuckface?

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Ron's avatar

Not just the tRump presidential years, the tRump life.

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Linda M. Fritz-Gasteier's avatar

The annoyed detachment from someone in distress, inability to muster any humanity, confused and awkward standing by the situation with no clue what to do….yes, pretty much a metaphor for the Trump years.

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Terry's avatar
4hEdited

He looks like a brain dead zombie standing there.

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Martha Franklin's avatar

This would be an accurate observation were it not for lack of the required substrate. ; )

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Lora Ellison's avatar

Yes, it will. It's a reflection of how much he cares about the American people.

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Elizabeth Tiller (Beth)'s avatar

I think about how I look at photos of Hitler or Idi Amin or Mussolini or Mugabe or Stalin or...I look at a photo and think, "They don't look that evil. Evil doesn't have a physique. And there must have been a time in their early life when there was hope for them." Actually, I already do look at this photo that way. Photos like this capture one thing perfectly: the banality of evil.

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Whatistobedone's avatar

Yup. Hannah was spot on.

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Erica Wolf's avatar

I want to see his MRI. The vacant look is a giveaway.

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Martha Franklin's avatar

The MRI found nothing.

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Linda Bruce's avatar

Only according to Trump.

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Sandy Kleppe's avatar

No, literally nothing in his brain.

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Lillian Murty's avatar

It was a blank MRI. No brain

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pilar's avatar

Brainless moron

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CSL Laurentien's avatar

I lived and remember these photos well. Don’t forget the May 4, Kent State photo as a student grieves as another student is dead in the parking lot shot by Ohio National Guard.

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Whatistobedone's avatar

I am of the Vietnam era. That day, May 4, 1970...to THIS day...is etched into my life, let alone memory. The horror of that day remains profound for me. A friend of ours was shot. I mourn...still.

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AVee. (Alexia)'s avatar

💔I remember 💔

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Jean M's avatar

I graduated from college two weeks after Kent State. What struck us then as people in that area was that Kent was considered a party school with little political identity. The ONG should never have been there--or at any protest.

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DAR's avatar

Yes! But the problem is that there are so many Americans that are just like him that are positions that we deal with everyday.

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Whatistobedone's avatar

JUST thinking the very same thing! Fuhrer will be gone some day. Our issue as citizens: half of the country despises us. What is to be done?

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David Warburton's avatar

Separation for irreconcilable differences.

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DAR's avatar

Yes! But the problem is that there are so many Americans that are just like him that are in positions that we deal with everyday.

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pilar's avatar

Sadly true

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Richard M. Ellis's avatar

The only thing we can do without a violent revolution is to vote as they did in Virginia, New Jersey, NYC and many areas in PA. I read that there was a very significant awing to the left in Mississippi. Now that is a good thing.

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Luce's avatar

Funny, (not funny). But when the photo was first seen on social media, people were saying it was a fake photo. However then we saw actual video footage. Shows what a disturbed man he is. His whole life is all about him. And no one else matters.

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John Horwitz's avatar

no, see, it will be the bloody ear with zero damage - his entire life is a lie!

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Deborah Neudorfer's avatar

The stare of emptiness. No empathy, no compassion no concern no humanity and yet there he stands as our president of the United States. I only hope this is the portrait that goes on the presidential wall. Let it be a reminder of what evil is and what evil does. May God help us!!!

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Peter Wilson's avatar

The picture of a malignant narcissist!

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Duane Hybertson's avatar

I fully agree. It accurately reflects the true Trump. He is sad and perplexed - why is he not the center of attention for a few minutes?

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Dawn Kucera's avatar

The moment totally overwhelmed him. He has never helped anyone in his life and he has no natural empathy - completely foreign to him. He had no idea what to do.

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Pamela Avison's avatar

This man is utterly devoid of humanity and deserves to rot in hell. How he & SCOTUS like taking food away from children & the elderly reflects their total lack of respect for those less fortunate.

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