Harvey Weinstein: Another Good Liberal...

[Tassman]

Let's see.... Tassy gets a choice between having a hand cut off, or getting poked in the eye with a needle. He chooses the needle, so that proves being poked in the eye with a needle is acceptable to liberals.

There were 17 Republican candidates standing for the presidency. If Evangelicals didn’t want to be stuck with having to vote for Trump, they shouldn't have supported him though the Primaries.

I swear your momma musta dropped you on your big empty head.

What are you talking about? SCOTUS was YUGELY important to the Evangelical agenda. “Whatever it takes” was the overriding sentiment...including voting for a moral reprobate who has bragged about his sins and built a career on casinos and half-naked women.

[Cow Poke]

There were 17 Republican candidates standing for the presidency. If Evangelicals didn’t want to be stuck with having to vote for Trump, they shouldn't have supported him though the Primaries.

Yes, and I supported a number of them over Trump. Ultimately, he ended up being the only choice. Perhaps somebody should sit down and explain the primary process to you.

What are you talking about? SCOTUS was YUGELY important to the Evangelical agenda.

Absolutely. To me, as well.

“Whatever it takes” was the overriding sentiment...including voting for a moral reprobate who has bragged about his sins and built a career on casinos and half-naked women.

That doesn't mean we supported him - to me, it was more that Hillary needed to be stopped.

She was. Now she's blaming everybody and everything but her own self.

[Cow Poke]

No, but then again CP is clueless.

Jimmy, how bout trying to say something that isn't JimmyCrap?

[One Bad Pig]

The "Narcissist in Chief" is not Obama. He left office after two terms with very high approval ratings. This compared to the present incumbent's record low ratings after less than a year in office. So the majority of people, both nationally and internationally, don't agree with your jaundiced assessment.

Do you just not know what a narcissist is, and are simply winging it here? Narcissist does not mean "has low approval ratings."

[Tassman]

Jimmy, how bout trying to say something that isn't JimmyCrap?

How about trying to say something constructive for a change.

[Tassman]

Do you just not know what a narcissist is, and are simply winging it here? Narcissist does not mean "has low approval ratings."

I’m operating on the assumption that the electorate recognises the narcissistic grandiosity of Trump and responds accordingly, hence, his record lowest approval ratings so early in a presidential term.

Trump has all the hallmarks of a narcissist, and the consequent problems in many areas of life, such as dysfunctional relationships and work environs...which would explain his odious sex life and the chaotic White House environment. .

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-...n/con-20025568

[Cow Poke]

How about trying to say something constructive for a change.

I frequently do, but when Jimmy spews forth ignorance, like he did then, I am free to comment. Just like you're doing here, you hypocrite.

See, Jimmy had just said....

No, but then again CP is clueless.

So, why don't you rain on his parade?

[JimL]

I frequently do, but when Jimmy spews forth ignorance, like he did then, I am free to comment. Just like you're doing here, you hypocrite.

See, Jimmy had just said....

CP, stop whining will you, its embarrassing, if you can't take it, then don't mete it out.

[Cow Poke]

CP, stop whining

Jimmy, stop being such a freakin baby that you see any opposition as "whining".

[One Bad Pig]

I’m operating on the assumption that the electorate recognises the narcissistic grandiosity of Trump and responds accordingly, hence, his record lowest approval ratings so early in a presidential term.

Trump has all the hallmarks of a narcissist, and the consequent problems in many areas of life, such as dysfunctional relationships and work environs...which would explain his odious sex life and the chaotic White House environment. .

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-...n/con-20025568

Looks suspiciously to me like a theory in search of facts to support it. I'm not denying that Trump is something of a narcissist - anyone who runs for the position almost inevitably has a narcissistic streak - but blaming all of Trump's problems on narcissism is woefully simplistic.

[Tassman]

Looks suspiciously to me like a theory in search of facts to support it. I'm not denying that Trump is something of a narcissist - anyone who runs for the position almost inevitably has a narcissistic streak - but blaming all of Trump's problems on narcissism is woefully simplistic.

I think you’re confusing narcissism, which is a diagnosable Personality Disorder, with the sort of healthy self-respect and self-confidence necessary to reach the top...whether of business, politics or the armed services.

“If you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may belittle or look down on people you perceive as inferior. You may feel a sense of entitlement — and when you don't receive special treatment, you may become impatient or angry. You may insist on having "the best" of everything — for instance, the best car, athletic club or medical care.

At the same time, you have trouble handling anything that may be perceived as criticism. You may have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation. To feel better, you may react with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make yourself appear superior. Or you may feel depressed and moody because you fall short of perfection”.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-...s/con-20025568

All this tends to create chaotic dysfunction among those surrounding him or her...whether family or colleagues...and we have in Trump, I think, a text-book case.

[One Bad Pig]

I think you’re confusing narcissism, which is a diagnosable Personality Disorder, with the sort of healthy self-respect and self-confidence necessary to reach the top...whether of business, politics or the armed services.

“If you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may belittle or look down on people you perceive as inferior. You may feel a sense of entitlement — and when you don't receive special treatment, you may become impatient or angry. You may insist on having "the best" of everything — for instance, the best car, athletic club or medical care.

At the same time, you have trouble handling anything that may be perceived as criticism. You may have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation. To feel better, you may react with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make yourself appear superior. Or you may feel depressed and moody because you fall short of perfection”.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-...s/con-20025568

All this tends to create chaotic dysfunction among those surrounding him or her...whether family or colleagues...and we have in Trump, I think, a text-book case.

What we have here is a definition so broad (note the many times "may" occurs in the definition), and a pathological hatred of Trump so deep that there's almost inevitably going to be an overlap. I agree that Trump has at least a touch of that - but merely repeating the definition does not make your assertion that he is the "most" narcissistic any more true. I don't think he's managed to top giving another head of state recordings of his own speeches, or using the FBI to go after critical journalists, or whining about not being up by 50 points in the polls....

[Mountain Man]

I think you’re confusing narcissism, which is a diagnosable Personality Disorder, with the sort of healthy self-respect and self-confidence necessary to reach the top...whether of business, politics or the armed services.

Oh, I get it, when it's someone you like then they have "the sort of healthy self-respect and self-confidence necessary to reach the top", and when it's someone you don't like, they're narcissistic.

So how's that double-standard working for you?

[rogue06]

I’m operating on the assumption that the electorate recognises the narcissistic grandiosity of Trump and responds accordingly, hence, his record lowest approval ratings so early in a presidential term.

Trump has all the hallmarks of a narcissist, and the consequent problems in many areas of life, such as dysfunctional relationships and work environs...which would explain his odious sex life and the chaotic White House environment. .

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-...n/con-20025568

Even Jimmy Carter, who has never been a friend of any Republican, understands that Trump's low approval rating is largely due to a rabidly hostile press.

[rogue06]

I think you’re confusing narcissism, which is a diagnosable Personality Disorder, with the sort of healthy self-respect and self-confidence necessary to reach the top...whether of business, politics or the armed services.

“If you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may belittle or look down on people you perceive as inferior. You may feel a sense of entitlement — and when you don't receive special treatment, you may become impatient or angry. You may insist on having "the best" of everything — for instance, the best car, athletic club or medical care.

At the same time, you have trouble handling anything that may be perceived as criticism. You may have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation. To feel better, you may react with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make yourself appear superior. Or you may feel depressed and moody because you fall short of perfection”.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-...s/con-20025568

All this tends to create chaotic dysfunction among those surrounding him or her...whether family or colleagues...and we have in Trump, I think, a text-book case.

All that is a fairly accurate description of the previous POTUS who was quite well known for being incredibly thin-skinned. Of course he didn't have to worry about facing much criticism since it would automatically be drowned out by screams of 'RACISM!!1!!'

Still we are talking about a guy who no matter what topic he was talking about soon turned it into a discussion about himself with the words "I," "me" and "my" peppering every other sentence.

And as has already been noted in this thread he's the one who proclaimed after securing his party's nomination "This is the moment we will see the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal"

And intoned how "a light will shine down from somewhere, it will light upon you, you will experience an epiphany and you will say to yourself 'I have to vote for Barack'."

The man who actually thought an iPod loaded with audio recordings of his speeches and pictures of himself was an appropriate gift for the Queen of England.

And who soon after being elected went to Europe to tell the Olympic Committee that they should select Chicago as the venue for the event because this would please him.

While Trump is a narcissist, no question about that, I don't think he holds a candle to Obama when it comes to that.