#JAILTOTHECHIEF- Shit Just Got Real

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Still, there’s one nugget in Woodward’s book that stood out amidst all the terror, and that’s Jared “Slumlord” Kushner saying that the best way to understand his father-in-law is to read Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland. More specifically, the president’s senior advisor compares Trump to the story’s ever-grinning Cheshire Cat, who famously said, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any path will get you there.”

“Did Kushner understand how negative this was?” Woodward asks in his book. “Was it possible the best roadmap for the administration was a novel about a young girl who falls through a rabbit hole, and Kushner was willing to acknowledge that Trump’s presidency was on shaky, directionless ground?”
I suspect Kushner has never read the book.
 

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President Donald Trump’s stunningly candid interviews with Washington Post editor Bob Woodward, which have raised a major scandal over Trump’s deliberate downplaying of COVID-19, were stemmed from the President’s belief that he could get the journalist to give him good PR.

CNN reported on Wednesday night that Trump was dead set on granting interviews with Woodward, who was working on a book about Trump titled “Rage,” to boost his image, with the President reportedly relying on his experience as a salesman to present himself in a positive light.

White House aides “repeatedly” warned Trump against speaking to the dogged reporter, a source told CNN, but as usual, the President ignored their advice and acted on his own instincts instead.
 

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CNN reported on Wednesday night that Trump was dead set on granting interviews with Woodward, who was working on a book about Trump titled “Rage,” to boost his image, with the President reportedly relying on his experience as a salesman delusional narcissist, compulsive liar, self-aggrandizing demagogue, sociopathic con-man, shallow fraud, insufferable blowhard, petulant baby, vengeful tyrant, pessimal Dunning-Kruger datapoint, flagrantly ignorant bullshitter, prince of lies .... to present himself in a positive light.
fixed that for them...

His defense, if ever his day in court should come (which it won't because fuck 2020 and the utter collapse of the rule of law in the U.S.)... will simply be "I only did the stuff you claim is wrong because I knew you'd let me get away with it. So it's your fault, not mine!"
 

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which it won't because fuck 2020 and the utter collapse of the rule of law in the U.S.
Yeah, sadly civil war is not the worst that could happen to you - it could be your only chance to fix your defunct government system but the cost would be horribly high.
 

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Yeah, sadly civil war is not the worst that could happen to you - it could be your only chance to fix your defunct government system but the cost would be horribly high.
Or we could end up with something worse than what we had before.
 

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Yeah, sadly civil war is not the worst that could happen to you - it could be your only chance to fix your defunct government system but the cost would be horribly high.
Kind of hard to have a "war" when nearly all the guns and people eager to use them are on the same ideological side.
 

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Claire...So good.
semi-quoting McCaskill: "Who in their right mind, who is running for office within a year, sits for eighteen interviews with a journalist?"

Answer: Ordinarily, nobody, but Trump doesn't have a right mind. He's a narcissist who needs to be the center of attention for eighteen interviews. He knows that Bob Woodward is famous. Being interviewed by someone famous is all he cares about. F his reelection. That's the desperation of his narcissism.
 

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semi-quoting McCaskill: "Who in their right mind, who is running for office within a year, sits for eighteen interviews with a journalist?"

Answer: Ordinarily, nobody, but Trump doesn't have a right mind. He's a narcissist who needs to be the center of attention for eighteen interviews. He knows that Bob Woodward is famous. Being interviewed by someone famous is all he cares about. F his reelection. That's the desperation of his narcissism.
People rally to those they like when they think they're being treated unfairly. Trump's emotional intelligence may be the lowest, but he still uses this to his advantage. The more he can foster seemingly 'unprovoked' attacks on him, the more he bonds with his idiotic base.
 

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People rally to those they like when they think they're being treated unfairly. Trump's emotional intelligence may be the lowest, but he still uses this to his advantage. The more he can foster seemingly 'unprovoked' attacks on him, the more he bonds with his idiotic base.
Trump has a habit of confessing his sins. Sometimes it is with some expectation of privacy (Hollywood Access tape) and other times totally in public view (like admitting he fired Comey to obstruct justice).

I think he knows full well that he is not supposed to have done the things he admits to, but a) his psychopathic mentality just does not care and b) his narcisstic mentality likes the attention he derives from his confessions. I think the effect on his base is lower on the ladder--not as immediate--but I do get a sense of a "breaking bad" hysteria, as it were, that gets shared between Trump and his base.

I don't think Trump or his base cares much if the attacks are provoked or not. Attacks are just more dramatic material. Trying to spin them as unwarranted is a way of repeating the cycle. Yes, he's lying if he says they are unprovoked. No, he does not care that he's lying. Yes, he likes the attention generated by the ensuing uproar. Some in his base react in a thoughtless, hysterical manner.
 

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“I watched Liz MacDonald, she’s fantastic. I watched Fox Business. I watched Lou Dobbs, last night,” he said, listing three hours of shows Fox Business.

“Sean Hannity last night. Tucker [Carlson] last night. Laura [Ingraham],” he continued, listing three more hours of watching Fox News.

“I watched Fox and Friends in the morning.” Trump said of the three-hour show.
 

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Fair and balanced posting:





Brandt intended it as a joke. I wonder what Tybring-Gjedde's state of mind is.
Oops!

 

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