Ben Meidas, a creator of The Meidas Touch blog, demonstrates Trump’s state of mind by reproducing some of his recent posts on “Truth Social,” the media site Trump launched after he was banned by Twitter for inciting violence.
The first question that occurs is: Is it normal for a 78-year-old man to refer to his political opponents by calling them derogatory names? Isn’t that what you might hear on a playground from little children? Doesn’t it seem as though he is the playground bully? Was his mental and emotional development stunted at the age of 7?
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I knew a dozen or more donald trumps. They were the alpha males at the prep school I attended in the 60s. In a way, we were all privileged to be able to receive such a great education, but those lads were definitely over-privileged.
They entertained themselves at the expense of lesser beings by engaging in “rank-out sessions,” in which they would pile on insults and name-calling. I have to believe the vast majority of them outgrew it by their sophomore year in college. But I’m equally sure a few, like trump himself, never have. He’s unique only in the size of the megaphone he has to project his immature bullshit.
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We have all (or at least most of us) been bullied by Trump for years now. We’ve been living in fear and on the defensive. It took Kamala saying “I know his type” to make it safe to actually say the guy is a lost case.
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Brattish behaviour, from a person who never grew out of their pre-adolescence.
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Trump is the very definition of the term “arrested development.”
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Arrested in more ways than one.
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If an honest measure of a person is the size of the “thing” that bothers them, how small would one have to be, to be pissed off/on by a piss ant?
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Depends if the pissant has access to the nuclear codes.
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I think Traitor Trump’s mental and emotional development was stopped cold in its tracks years before 7.
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And I that’s an insult to 6-year-olds, most of whom are much nicer than TFG
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What’s shocking is that the so-called liberal media has essentially normalized this behavior by Trump instead of treating it as the shocking, unacceptable, improper behavior that it is — behavior that would have been reported daily as absolutely disqualifying for any Democrat, let alone one running for president. But, much like the so-called liberal media does for Trump’s severe and problematic cognitive failings, it is reported once as if it is normal – with criticism being presented as “partisan” – and news stories inform the public that it is debatable whether Trump’s behavior is admirable or worthy of criticism. Meanwhile, the reporters at the NYT are busy writing multiple articles about whether Walz has exaggerated and lied about his National Guard service or not. Or how Jews are afraid of anti-Semitism on the left (a brand new story today in the NYT because it has only been covered in 100 previous stories but since the Republican sources are desperately pushing that narrative, NYT journalists know it is so newsworthy that 100 more stories will be written about it until the public understands that anti-Semitism is a huge problem for Democrats.).
False narratives that undermine the Dems are always newsworthy, regardless of how ridiculous they are. (Walz’ National Guard retirement after 24 years?? Really, that’s worthy of so much coverage??) Truths that undermine the Republicans get one story and then are forgotten and left out of every future story.
I noticed that Peter Baker at the NYT just today wrote an entire article about Biden’s new Sunday interview without once mentioning how Biden’s answers reflected his cognitive failings and made Americans question Biden’s fitness for office and raised doubts about Biden’s mental status.
I guess once a NYT journalist’s Republican sources are no longer interested in amplifying their false narratives (“Biden is cognitively unfit”), journalists like Baker no longer believe it is “newsworthy” to inform America about every possible instance of misspeaking that supports that narrative and they go back to simply reporting actual reality.
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l would love to see subscribers cancel their subscriptions in droves.
Only 💰💰💰 talks.
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Oh, & in my 6:34 PM comment l was referring, of course, to subscribers of The NYT.
& I also would like TNYT to please remove their motto, “All the news that’s for to print,” changing it to “All we CHOOSE to print.”
(ls it my imagination, our has The New York Post risen in stature as compared to The Times–?!
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I wonder in the NYT will post the college drag picture of Vance that is circulating online. It wouldn’t even be an issue if Vance wasn’t such a judgemental liar. I hope Vance gets some media heat payback from it, and Walz continues to be an awesome candidate.
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NYCPSP: I get the impression from the general press coverage that most, if not all, are yet to understand that their “this and that” fence-sitting is involved in a huge oversight:
They continually overlook the fact that Trump is also after their own foundations, Freedom of the Press, not to mention truth itself. They seem to see themselves as abstractions and so instead of truth-telling, they report lies as if they had the same status as the truth.
Trump said the moon is made of cheese, . . . well, you haven’t been there and so you don’t know that it’s not. CBK
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“Donald Trump tells biographer he’s the same now as he was in first grade…”
The Week
September 8, 2015
At least he’s self aware…
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This really isn’t a reply to pabonner, but l couldn’t find how else to tack this onto the end.
Not sure where that comment is that expressed hope that Harris-Walz wouldn’t overuse the “weird” label in reference to it45/Just Dumb.
Just want to say that I’m reminded of an early use of the word weird in the it45 rein of terror. It was reported that, at the inauguration (w/an attendance MUCH greater than Obama’s!!), former President George W. was overheard, saying, upon hearing it45’s speech, “This is some weird s**t!”
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”Isn’t that what you might hear on a playground from little children?”
Yes
“Doesn’t it seem as though he is the playground bully?”
Yes
“Was his mental and emotional development stunted at the age of 7?”
That’s the average age when things become somewhat internalized, yes.
Who knows, though. With a mentor the likes of Roy Cohn…layer upon layer of cement, cast daily, year after year after year….
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I am a few weeks younger than Donald Trump. I turned 78 years old July 22nd this year. It is a tricky age to be living. I was 22 in 1968, the first year I taught school…those 8th graders are more than 60 years old now. The nation elected Nixon president, and he considered me more valuable as a soldier than I would be as a teacher, so I was drafted in 1969 and became a medic (got to see Janis Joplin down in Texas), and then I was sent to Vietnam. I won a bronze star for valor in combat, and finished my last 7 months in Vietnam traveling to fire bases……playing my saxophone with a really good band. Neil Larsen was our keyboard player. Nowadays, I tell people that I was chosen to take the place of Donald Trump, who could not be sent to Vietnam, because he had sore feet.
In 1971….I started teaching 6th graders in rural Missouri. That was a great job. I see my wonderful alumni almost every day—out shopping, stopping to reminisce with me. 1991 was my last year teaching.
I had a second job, mostly on weekends, playing my sax and piano…1974, about the time the nation was deciding what to do with president Nixon, a band “Gibraltar” recorded an album…we pressed only 1000 copies….sold them locally, and I sold the last 200 to somebody in Switzerland. I learned that they were recopied as CDs, in several places in many places over the years…..and were sold for 7 dollars to as much as 100 dollars….our music was pretty good….It remains so…..”Joe Prichard, Gibraltar” is probably available on your I-phone, free to listen to. I never get any money. The local paper did a story late last autumn about the five of us in Gibraltar and that album. Some company called Riding Easy was marketing the album… I still play my sax, more often in a bar called Hammerstones in St. Louis than anywhere else. I am sometimes asked to play in my home town, (Festus) at this nice place if a band asks me to…..I don’t want to embarrass the owners……they told me to not come back—I am now barred from going there.
Apparently, I said something to a girl that was inappropriate. I thought long and hard who it might have been…I am capable of saying something stupid….I remember one of their employees who I asked about what she thought of Kamala Harris……she thought Kamala was really awful….I predicted that she would think Kamala was pretty special by the middle of September. Given the area where I live….that might not have been a good thing to say. Trump remains kind of popular. They have a right to protect their workers from people like me saying things to them that are terrible.
I wanted to play the Gibraltar Album through their sound system, maybe on a band break……they were not interested…..I still think it would have been entertaining for thirty minutes. But, mostly, I need to learn to behave.
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Thank you, Joe Prichard. You have led a most interesting life. I wish I knew as much about others who comment here.
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