• LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      When asked recently if he would invoke the Insurrection Act, Trump repeatedly emphasized that he was allowed to do it. And I’ve noticed several other times when he used the same excuse.

      I’ve seen a lot of psychopaths in real life and in the news who had the same perspective. You’ll see it in a couple of days, actually, as it happens every year probably in every city that people will leave a bowl of candy out for Halloween, and somebody will take all of the candy out of the bowl, and if confronted, they’ll just say that it’s not illegal. Or for the news example, you’ll see the guy who killed an intruder, but if you listen to the way he talks about it, it seemed less like self-defense and more like he’d always wanted to kill somebody and managed to find a way to do it “legally”.

      Trump is almost certainly a psychopath. He doesn’t have a conscience, and so it is natural for him to think that he should be allowed to do whatever he wants, as long as he doesn’t suffer any consequences. He wants to kill people with nuclear weapons, and so he’ll likely figure out a way to start a war just so that he can legally do so. And if that doesn’t work, then he’ll settle for this kind of shit. Just like a little shitstain future serial killer child who starts fires to see what he can get away with.

      He’s so transparent. It’s still difficult for me to fathom that even a single other person, outside of his family and inner circle, voted for Trump in the last election.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I remember reading after Trump’s first term about how Bill Barr would have to dangle death row inmates he could put to death in front of him like dangling keys in front of a baby to keep Trump focused, listening, and on task.

        You’re absolutely correct, he’s absolutely obsessed with harming others.

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        There are lots of psychopaths in a population of 350 million who can entirely relate to and feel excited by having one of their own as a leader.

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      Remember his excitement when he got to play wroom-wroom with the big car?

      It’s like that, I reckon. He knows there’s this Big Bad Button that “only the most powerful man gets to press” but that - to his confusion and consternation - none of them ever did. Now he’s that man, and by God, he’s going to find a way to Press That Button.

      If the adult diapers weren’t hint enough, he’s basically a baby in a room full of bottled nitroglycerine.