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Trump’s narcissism makes him predictable and manipulable. As severe narcissistic wounds mount, narcissistic collapse is possible. His narcissism predicts what The Country’s Biggest Loser do in the face of losing the election, his business, and freedom?
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We know they’re lying. They know they’re lying. We know it will hurt people, even kill them. They know it will hurt people, even kill them. Yet, they lie anyway. How can that be?
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Could it be that the entire debacle of secret government documents secreted away in a poolside closet at Merde-a-Lardo (Thanks, @Tengrain) be due to Trump’s executive dysfunction as this @NBCNews seems to imply?
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We all KNOW that Trump was selling US secrets to China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, right? But, his diagnosis as an unproductive malignant narcissist tells us much much more.
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The main reason mass shootings are a unique American problem is because Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott and all of the pro-death, misery, and injury politicians in the GQP have been bought and paid for by the merchants of death. The dark tetrad explains why
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How narcissistic are the far-right evangelical christians? Very. They fit the criteria like they all have the same personality disorder. It makes them manipulable and destructive.
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How to explain the debacle that is the Senate? One piece of it is found in the dark tetrad personalities of Manchin and Sinema. We spend some time exploring them. Let me know what you think!
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The Republican Party has been acting with greater callousness towards the American public. None of their politicians seem to feel guilt, empathy, or remorse for the pain, suffering, or death they cause from the pandemic, the Big Lie, or abortion laws. They are obviously psychopaths.
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We’ve finally finished the series on conspiracy theories. This one takes a closer look at the role that antisocial personality traits plays in the destructive behaviors of the conspiracy theorists and their followers.
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Conspiracy theories seem to abound throughout the media. They seem to have the conservatives in a fever grip of nonsensical nonreality. What makes them so difficult to dispel?
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It’s been a busy, but quite week at Ye Olde Blogge because we moved across the apartment complex. We did a little everyday and then BOOM did the rest. It left time for lots of reading, most of it in psychology, but some other interesting stuff, too. And, the Delta Variant sucks.
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There is a substantial minority of Americans who believe the Big Lie and that Trump is going to be reinstated by some bloddy miracle. What is likely to happen? How likely is it that we’ll see another organized insurrection? A disorganized one? Random sporadic lone-wolf violence? The GQP stealing our elections at the state level? Here are some predictions based on application of narcissistic personality disorder.
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Forensic psychology has a lot to say about the mass shooters — hell, we’ve had enough of them that they’ve got enough “data points” to come to some conclusions, amirite?
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Politico is shocked to realize that Trump’s narcissism and executive dysfunction continue to dog him even after he’s left office.
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Don’t waste another minute worrying about an armed insurrection, military coup, or civil war being fought to keep Trump in office. Trump is a narcissist. He is not a visionary, leader, or organizer. He just isn’t capable of doing it.
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Narcissism makes people who have it predictable. using the narcissist’s playbook, these are predictions of Trump’s post-election behavior.
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The debate among the punditry is over the way Trump will leave office. Will it be with a bang, a whimper, or not at all? He’s a narcissist, so we know the answer to this.
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It is almost assured that Trump will lose the election it is just a matter of time. So, what does narcissistic personality disorder tell us about how Trump will react to losing? What should we expect?
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What on earth could compel someone to attend one of Trump’s superspreader events? Why on earth would Trump hold one? Other than the obvious, he’s a narcissist, and they’re all gaslit, there are powerful brain circuits involved in compelling these self-destructive and foolish behaviors.
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With a gaping narcissistic wound where a heart or soul should be, how does Trump get through each day? He has a variety of coping mechanisms that he uses to distract him from the less than perfect aspects of his existence.
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