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 Posted: 07/30/18 7:26 am ::: Trump & Sympathetic Audience Control |
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| Trump is not mentally ill, and I doubt that he is even “living in his own reality,” as so many have claimed. He is simply fairly unique in a way that is hard for the public to understand. In a nutshell, Trump is highly vulnerable to what can reasonably be called “sympathetic audience control.” |
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| All normal people are subject to “audience control” to one degree or another. That means simply that they regulate what they say and do based on who’s around them. |
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| If I’m right, and I’m pretty sure I am, Trump is capable of only a minimal level of analytical or critical thinking. Perhaps more alarming, our president — the putative leader of the free world — doesn’t believe in anything and he rarely, if ever, means anything he says. The impulsive tweets, the conservative court appointments, the unfunded tax cuts, the obsession with a wall, the swipes at immigrants — all are byproducts (dross, if you will) of sympathetic audience control operating in small time windows. There are no principles operating here, just gusts of wind. |
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/07/30/trump-lies-reversals-rudderless-unprincipled-leader-psychologist-column/848728002/
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| Posted: 07/30/18 7:33 pm ::: |
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I know the author refutes the idea of "mental illness", but in this portion....
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| Not only do his views shift, he also has no trouble denying, entirely without guile, in my view, what he said yesterday. All that’s shiny and real to him is what friends or foes are saying inside those small time windows. Everything else is fuzzy, and that’s why he can so easily tell so many lies. From his perspective, lying has no meaning. Only reacting has meaning. Trump reacts. |
....I'd say there's a definite pathology in play, when one cannot fathom his own lying.
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| Posted: 07/31/18 10:36 pm ::: |
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| It isn’t every day that the Department of Justice acknowledges formally that the president of the United States lied in a speech to Congress |
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Only because he doesn't speak to congress daily.
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| Posted: 08/01/18 7:44 pm ::: |
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| I don't know who W Kelley Lucas is, but with logic like that it's easy to see why they might think they're dumber than Trump.
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| Posted: 08/02/18 7:19 am ::: |
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| I don't know who W Kelley Lucas is, but with logic like that it's easy to see why they might think they're dumber than Trump. |
When it comes to politics, people will listen to anyone who says what they want to hear. W Kelley Lucas isn't even well known enough to have a wikipedia entry.
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| Posted: 08/02/18 12:45 pm ::: |
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| I don't know who W Kelley Lucas is, but with logic like that it's easy to see why they might think they're dumber than Trump. |
When it comes to politics, people will listen to anyone who says what they want to hear. W Kelley Lucas isn't even well known enough to have a wikipedia entry. |
You don't need a Wikipedia entry to observe that a bunch of know-nothing idiots sit behind their computer and think they're brilliant. I've never heard of this guy myself. You don't have to be famous to point out what everyone else outside of your protective bubble is already thinking.
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| Posted: 08/02/18 1:07 pm ::: |
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| I don't know who W Kelley Lucas is, but with logic like that it's easy to see why they might think they're dumber than Trump. |
When it comes to politics, people will listen to anyone who says what they want to hear. W Kelley Lucas isn't even well known enough to have a wikipedia entry. |
You don't need a Wikipedia entry to observe that a bunch of know-nothing idiots sit behind their computer and think they're brilliant. |
Especially when you're one of them.
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| I've never heard of this guy myself. You don't have to be famous to point out what everyone else outside of your protective bubble is already thinking. |
I think you have inside and outside mixed up.
What leads you to believe Kelley is a guy?
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| Posted: 08/02/18 1:25 pm ::: |
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You don't need a Wikipedia entry to observe that a bunch of know-nothing idiots sit behind their computer and think they're brilliant. |
Especially when you're one of them. |
Coming from a broke charleton who spends all their time during the workday posting on a web forum and thinks you need a Wikipedia entry to make a valid point in life that most people (who are more successful than you) agree with.
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I think you have inside and outside mixed up.
No I got it right. YOU have it wrong. |
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| What leads you to believe Kelley is a guy? |
Could be a woman. Doesn't really change the fact that what was said true.
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| Posted: 08/02/18 1:46 pm ::: |
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You don't need a Wikipedia entry to observe that a bunch of know-nothing idiots sit behind their computer and think they're brilliant. |
Especially when you're one of them. |
Coming from a broke charleton who spends all their time during the workday posting on a web forum and thinks you need a Wikipedia entry to make a valid point in life that most people (who are more successful than you) agree with. |
I don't know what a "charelton" is, but generally when someone attributes a quote it's supposed to lend authority. When it's attributed to someone that nobody has heard of, it's sorta pointless. But of course you didn't put that much thought into it. You just copied and pasted, as is the wont of internet trolls.
I do like how you avoided my original point, that intellect isn't the determining factor in becoming rich.
As long as you believe success=money, you'll always be disappointed with your life.
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| Posted: 08/02/18 2:09 pm ::: |
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| I don't know what a "charelton" is, but generally when someone attributes a quote it's supposed to lend authority. When it's attributed to someone that nobody has heard of, it's sorta pointless. |
Not really... and it's "charleton" btw |
Which is still not a word. Perhaps you should use some that money you make to invest in a phone that has autocorrect, or at least a spell checker.
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