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  #2552922 31-Aug-2020 11:03
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The New York Times - Trump Embraces Fringe Theories on Protests and the Coronavirus

 

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WASHINGTON - President Trump unleashed an especially intense barrage of Twitter messages overnight and Sunday morning, embracing fringe conspiracy theories claiming that the coronavirus death toll has been exaggerated and that street protests are actually an organized coup d’état against him.

 

In a concentrated predawn burst, the president posted or reposted 89 messages between 5:49 a.m. and 8:04 a.m. on top of 18 the night before, many of them inflammatory comments or assertions about violent clashes in Portland, Ore., where a man wearing the hat of a far-right, pro-Trump group was shot and killed Saturday after a large group of Mr. Trump’s supporters traveled through the streets.

 

In the weekend blast of Twitter messages, Mr. Trump also embraced a call to imprison Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, threatened to send federal forces against demonstrators outside the White House, attacked CNN and NPR, embraced a supporter charged with murder, mocked his challenger, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and repeatedly assailed the mayor of Portland, even posting the mayor’s office telephone number so that supporters could call demanding his resignation. ...

 



 

Is it possible that the Orange Man has a mental health problem? ...   😕

 

 




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  #2553023 31-Aug-2020 11:26
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... even posting the mayor’s office telephone number

 

 

 

Surely this should lead to him having his Twitter posting blocked for a while? It is a flagrant breach of the Twitter TOS to dox people like that. I know that his account has special status and won't be banned by their usual processes but surely this is enough to trigger some action from them.

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  #2553086 31-Aug-2020 12:22
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A narcissistic, corrupt, and unprecedentedly dishonest populist (to the point of cultism) leader of the most powerful military in the world, waving the bible and the flag, openly taking sides to support the activities of racist anarcho-fascist paramilitary counter-protesters who welcome a "final conflict"

 

What could possibly go wrong?

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  #2553091 31-Aug-2020 12:25
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Fred99:

 

A narcissistic, corrupt, and unprecedentedly dishonest populist (to the point of cultism) leader of the most powerful military in the world, waving the bible and the flag, openly taking sides to support the activities of racist anarcho-fascist paramilitary counter-protesters who welcome a "final conflict"

 

What could possibly go wrong?

 

 


He could be re-elected.  😟




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  #2553092 31-Aug-2020 12:27
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Fred99:

 

A narcissistic, corrupt, and unprecedentedly dishonest populist (to the point of cultism) leader of the most powerful military in the world, waving the bible and the flag, openly taking sides to support the activities of racist anarcho-fascist paramilitary counter-protesters who welcome a "final conflict"

 

What could possibly go wrong?

 

 


He could be re-elected.  😟

 

 

 

 

For a third term.




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  #2553101 31-Aug-2020 12:45
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Sideface:

 

Fred99:

 

A narcissistic, corrupt, and unprecedentedly dishonest populist (to the point of cultism) leader of the most powerful military in the world, waving the bible and the flag, openly taking sides to support the activities of racist anarcho-fascist paramilitary counter-protesters who welcome a "final conflict"

 

What could possibly go wrong?

 

 


He could be re-elected.  😟

 

 

I think they're close to a point where it's not going to matter long-term.  If Biden wins, over a 4 year term fixing the aftermath of Trump's presidency can't happen without radical reforms, those needed reforms will harden the far-right, not reforming will alienate the left, so it'll be riots regardless.  Riots are very good news for fascists.

 

 

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  #2553167 31-Aug-2020 14:24
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Trump crowned? No faux King way!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  #2554185 31-Aug-2020 15:35
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A couple of screen photos taken during Trump's nomination acceptance speech. Despite being famous for his "little hands" I have never noticed it before. Also, this is not how you wear a mask.  

 

 




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  #2554220 31-Aug-2020 16:31
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The Sydney Morning Herald -  Trump's strongman routine has finally failed him

 

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Strongman politicians pretend they can bend anything to their will: enemy nations, domestic political foes, sectors of society they don't like, scientists and other experts.

 

Theirs is a politics of ego, domination and control that presumes simply to impose their position on the world. 

 

Faced with COVID-19, they're likely to decide they aren't going to be pushed around by some stupid virus and respond as though it's a battle of wills. 

 

That was clearest in the extraordinary levels of denial and wilful blindness from Bolsonaro and Trump. ...

 

Right now, this particular style of emperor has no clothes. 

 

[The strongman] fails on two fronts: first in the sheer weight of death he facilitates, but, second, he cannot even comfort or console because that requires him to acknowledge a pain he isn't preventing ...

 



 




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  #2554370 31-Aug-2020 19:18
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CNN: Twitter removes QAnon supporter's false claim about coronavirus death statistics that Trump had retweeted

Twitter on Sunday took down a tweet containing a false claim about coronavirus death statistics that was made by a supporter of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory -- a post that President Donald Trump had retweeted earlier in the day.

The tweet -- which has been replaced with a message saying, "This Tweet is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules -- from "Mel Q," copied from someone else's Facebook post, claimed that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had "quietly" updated its numbers "to admit that only 6%" of people listed as coronavirus deaths "actually died from Covid," since "the other 94% had 2-3 other serious illnesses."

That's not what the CDC said.

As of Sunday at 4 p.m. ET, Twitter had not removed a second tweet, also retweeted by the President on Sunday, that spread the same false claim. The second tweet, by Trump campaign adviser Jenna Ellis, linked to an article on the right-wing website Gateway Pundit that was based on the QAnon supporter's tweet.

CNN has reached out to the White House for comment on Trump's retweets.

The CDC's latest regular update to a public statistics page on the pandemic -- there was nothing especially "quiet" about it -- said that for 6% of the deaths included in its statistics, "Covid-19 was the only cause mentioned" on the deceased person's death certificate.

That is not at all the same thing as saying only 6% of reported Covid-19 deaths "actually died" from Covid-19. It simply means that the other 94% were listed as having at least one additional factor contributing to their death.

For example, the other 94% includes people whose death certificate listed both Covid-19 and obesity, both Covid-19 and diabetes, or both Covid-19 and heart disease -- among other conditions.

People can live with obesity, diabetes or heart disease for years but then get infected with Covid-19 and die quickly. The fact that they also had an underlying condition does not mean that Covid-19 was not a major reason, or the major reason, they died when they did.

There is no secret about the fact that pre-existing health conditions can cause people to experience more severe problems from Covid-19. The CDC has long said that older adults and people with other underlying health conditions are more likely to become seriously ill.
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  #2554390 31-Aug-2020 19:46
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Ivanka is a 'mini-Donald': Donald Trump's sister

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Donald Trump's older sister heavily criticised her brother and his children in a new set of recordings released by her niece.

Former federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry can be heard condemning Ivanka Trump, the president's adviser and second child, the president's son Eric as well as Mr Trump himself.

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  #2554396 31-Aug-2020 20:08
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Sound like anyone we know?

Case Study: Narcissism and Snapping | When the Narcissist Loses Control

Dr. Todd Grande

This video answers the question: Can I analyze a case study featuring a narcissist who snapped? Sometimes snapping is referred to as an episode of narcissistic rage.


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  #2554431 31-Aug-2020 21:55
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German far-right "anti-lockdown" protesters bearing a bastardised version of the Reichsflagge (featuring Trump) outside the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, over the weekend:

 

 

 

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  #2554558 31-Aug-2020 23:51
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kingdragonfly: October surprise from Russia to help Trump?

CNN: 2 Russian aircraft make 'unsafe' intercept of US Air Force B-52 bomber

 

 

Both sides have been doing that for decades. A former boss of mine had a photo of a Bear (Tu-95) bomber with an A-7 just off its wingtip in his office, he was flying the A-7. If the US was flying B52s over the Black Sea what were they expecting from Russia? What would the US do if Russia flew Bears up and down the US Atlantic coast?

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  #2554559 1-Sep-2020 00:03
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kingdragonfly: Sometimes snapping is referred to as an episode of narcissistic rage.

 

 

If you want to see what this is like, the famous and endless-satire-fodder scene from the end of Downfall is a good depiction of narcissistic rage. The link is to an extended version of the scene which also shows the calm and reasonableness (compared to earlier) that follows the rage.

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