Posted on 04/16/2016 9:29:51 AM PDT by Savage Rider
From his career in New York real estate to his extraordinary campaign for the White House, the court of Donald Trump has operated much like that of Louis XIV of France: everything revolves around the imperious, bouffanted Sun King.
“He is a total narcissist, and what you see here is the way he’s always been,” said a source intimately familiar with Trump’s way of working, who declined to be identified criticising a potential president. “This, between you and me, will be the destruction of the United States.”
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Thank you, erkelly.
That’s a very good point.
And that will be the last of her until another lousy Texas candidate tries to run for president.
What points? I saw a disjointed screed written by European Socialists that have no clue how to be the Greatest Nation in the World, let alone how to make it Great Again after Socialism has gradually attempted to destroy it for the past one hundred years of salami slicing.
Did you notice a specific point you want to debate?
So I do get it....but your wrong to not realize the man is totally and wildly incompetent to hold the Office of the most powerful nation in the world....but he knows this truth very well. Which is why he's looking for a way to escape and still save face......watch and see.....
That was your first line or two and where I stopped reading. It's just jibber jabber mumbo jumbo.
Fine. We’ll end it here.
Well said
Well, you are right about the willing part. I will admit that we never really “know” what is in a politician’s heart. Lee Rodgers once said, “Don’t fall in love with a candidate, they will break your heart every time.”
I had just this experience with W. I thought he was my kind of guy. I turned out to be very wrong about him. His ties to the establishment led him to trash the country and run up incredible debt. In Trump’s defense, he is not an insider, and in that respect it is his time.
As far as him being dangerous, I do not think his positions will lead into dangerous territory. On the contrary, letting not vetted Muslims into the country, not closing the border, and not expanding the in country job situation will be issues I can understand.
> “Narcissists lack insight into their issues and point the finger elsewhere- never admitting that they may be at fault”
Donald Trump admits skipping debate may have hurt him in Iowa
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/03/donald-trump-admits-skipping-debate-may-have-hurt-him-in-iowa.html
Donald Trump admits Heidi Cruz tweet attack was “a mistake”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-admits-heidi-cruz-tweet-attack-was-a-mistake
This list gets quite lengthy.
Is there any allowance for the reality that a very wealthy person must absolutely minimize mistakes and especially acts twisted into ‘mistakes’ to discourage a relentless parade of nuisance lawsuits brought on by unscrupulous unprincipled opportunistic attorneys representing persons of the same category?
And it seems the Donald faces his misgivings pretty well after he admitted his marriage to Marla Maples was “just lust”. Further, he knows he’s a difficult person:
“Trump himself admitted last week that “being on the other side of a relationship with someone like me must be difficult.”
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20122177,00.html
austingirl has never been in a position of such high responsibility or of such wealth that one’s entire life is a walk with a target sign fixed to one’s back. And yet Donald still faces his demons and admits to his difficult nature.
Donald has never asked forgiveness because he never had to; he always made those that nerer hurt by him ‘whole’. He took care of all those that were close to him or who had a credible and genuine claim. He took care of everyone in those situations. A great testament to this fact is the unwavering support he receives from his family members, ex’s, business partners and associates and even reaching back to his days in the NY Military Academy who recently published an Op-Ed that as successful lawyers and business persons in their own right, and despite their never before publishing a preference for any political candidate, they were glad to step forward unhesitatingly to attest to Donald Trump’s unselfish character, his graciousness and kindness.
And if that’s not enough, America’s military veterans and brave warriors are firmly solidly in knowing that Donald Trump is genuinely passionate about them, a passion that goes back to when he worked long hours with his father who was devoted to vets and their plight.
There is no better evidence of Donald’s quiet unselfish character than this post that was made last summer by someone who started out by hoping to show that Donald Trump was a liar and a fraud, only to find the opposite, that he is honest and genuine, and who can’t stand liars:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3330070/posts?page=86#79
Like he did in Colorado?
2 seconds after Trump wins the Nomination, he goes up 5 points on Hillary.
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) April 15, 2016
We will see
He did not become a billionaire by being disorganized or unable to accomplish things.
Running a business is not the same as running what’s supposed to be a Constitutional Republic.
Ant candidate can promise anything. But the US Constitution limits what they can actually do. Unfortunately, too many find away around it than embrace it
I find it incredible that you have "diagnosed" all of the various traits of NPD in Trump, yet have failed to see the textbook manifestations of several of the DSM criteria for NPD while watching Cruz. For example, one of the symptoms of NPD is "Expecting to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it"--certainly applicable to Cruz, who has very few, if any, accomplishments and no qualifications to occupy an executive position, let alone the country's top executive spot. Yet he is trying to pass himself off as being almost holy in his pureness and as the only person for the job.
I do not think that you are actually basing your judgment of Trump on dispassionate observation, as would befit a health care professional. I think that you simply dislike Trump, you are probably more swayed by the negative media coverage than you would care to admit or even recognize, and what you are doing is projecting the qualities of NPD on Trump in order to rationalize your hatred. In other words, your entire "diagnosis" of Trump is based in emotional thinking, not logic and observation.
In reference to the above, I should point out that the media has a strategic goal, and the negative coverage about Trump is not reflective of anything he has said or done. The negative coverage is a tactic the media roll out any time a strong conservative comes along and threatens their long-term goal (which is to make America into a socialist authoritarian dictatorship). Their tactics are well-known--they misrepresent, they cherry-pick statements in order to paint a picture of a truly reprehensible human being. (Conversely, if the person is a liberal who advances their agenda, they do the same to paint a picture of an almost godlike saint.) It takes a bit of investigative digging to find the truth about a person whose image has been falsified by the media. The more people that fall for the media tactics, the better the media has done its job. I, for one, do not want a president that the media/Democrat cabal has selected. BTW, do not deceive yourself that Cruz is somehow immune to media-driven image manipulation. When/if it comes time to take him out, they will do it, and probably with far less effort than they have expended on Trump--because, face it, Cruz is handing them ammunition on a silver platter right now.
And a real health care professional would know that it is HIPAA, not HPIAA, training that we have to update on a yearly basis.
Sorry to nitpick. Overall, your posts are very good and you sound like a well-educated professional person.
Oops, sorry about that last post. I hadn’t scrolled down to see you correct yourself before posting. My bad!
I speak for myself, but I think that a lot of Trump supporters are right there with me when I say that I know exactly who I am supporting. I am supporting a man who is not trying to get my vote based on his supposed "perfect" and nearly holy conservative ideology. I am supporting a man whose executive experience over the course of decades demonstrates that he has the diverse skill set needed to be the top executive in the country.
Colorado was rigged against Trump from the get-go. Have you ever considered the possibility that Trump knew he was in for this tactical loss, but decided to turn it into a strategic victory? Look what he has gained from it: he has not only exposed the corrupted innards of the political machine in CO, but he also showed up his opponent as a "win at any cost" slimeball. To use the old cliché, Trump has made lemonade out of this lemon.
As a Trump supporter, I look forward to this kind of thinking going into the White House.
Ant candidate can promise anything. But the US Constitution limits what they can actually do. Unfortunately, too many find away around it than embrace it
The US government is, in fact, a business, whose product line is the security and safety of its citizens. Since you apparently do not know this, I will let you in on a little inside "secret"--people who work in government use the language of business to describe their work. We have stakeholders and customers; we watch the bottom line; we take classes to become certified in certain business practices.
The president, according to the job description found in the Constitution, is a top-level executive. He is responsible for budgeting, for overseeing the top-level operations, for managing a large staff, etc. The voters have place lawyers into that executive position far too many times in the last few presidential elections, and those lawyers have demonstrated over and over that they do not perform very well as executives. There is no reason to think that lawyer Cruz would perform any better than lawyer Obama, since he has no executive skills or experience. There is, however, a candidate who has already demonstrated a long history of executive experience and been quite successful at it. Judging purely on previous experience and demonstrated job skills, I expect that executive will perform very well as the top executive in the country.
Consider this, too: every lawyer politician takes donations from special interest groups and thus becomes beholden to them. When they become elected with special interest group money, they write laws to benefit that special interest at the expense of everyone else. Cruz is no different. But in this election, we do have one candidate who has not taken any special interest money, who is financing his own campaign. Thus, he is beholden to the American people, not some special interest with deep pockets.
The US government is, in fact, a business, whose product line is the security and safety of its citizens. Since you apparently do not know this, I will let you in on a little inside “secret”—people who work in government use the language of business to describe their work. We have stakeholders and customers; we watch the bottom line; we take classes to become certified in certain business practices.
The president, according to the job description found in the Constitution, is a top-level executive. He is responsible for budgeting, for overseeing the top-level operations, for managing a large staff, etc. The voters have place lawyers into that executive position far too many times in the last few presidential elections, and those lawyers have demonstrated over and over that they do not perform very well as executives. There is no reason to think that lawyer Cruz would perform any better than lawyer Obama, since he has no executive skills or experience. There is, however, a candidate who has already demonstrated a long history of executive experience and been quite successful at it. Judging purely on previous experience and demonstrated job skills, I expect that executive will perform very well as the top executive in the country.
Consider this, too: every lawyer politician takes donations from special interest groups and thus becomes beholden to them. When they become elected with special interest group money, they write laws to benefit that special interest at the expense of everyone else. Cruz is no different. But in this election, we do have one candidate who has not taken any special interest money, who is financing his own campaign. Thus, he is beholden to the American people, not some special interest with deep pockets.
No need to lash out angrily at me. I’m simply pointing out that success in business does not necessarily translate into success in the presidency.
Being a business owner is different. First, there’s no separation of powers like there is in government. Trump just can’t fire a congressman, for example, that doesn’t perform to his standards or go along with his ideas. Second, a business owner isn’t bound to the limits put on him/her by the US Constitution. A president is.
What happens when Congress decides not to go along with any of Trump’s ideas or he runs afoul of the US Constitution on the path to Make America Great Again?
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