My favorite part of this entire article is the author referring to Trump as a "former game show host."
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I like the one calling him Rapist Who Wanted Vice President Dead Compares Self to Navalny
People keep calling him a "game show host" and I feel like I'm missing something. Are people calling the apprentice a "game show"? Thatt was reality TV imo, not a game show.
I thought more game show than reality, like survivor. Apparently the genre is "reality competition"
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So, when I read this, I can't help but think that that sounds like a miserable way to live, going from hatred to grudge to hatred as a continual state of being. Really nothing his actions could cause me to want for him is worse than being him. I wish he could go and get help instead of spending his time taking it out on everyone around him, but he won't.
He never looks happy. At the rare time he smiles, it's clear from his eyes that it's false.
He's a miserable old man and, regardless of the outcome of the election, he will die miserable.
I can't always manage it, like when I think about what he wants to do to my whole family for existing differently in a way his base has been told to be angry about, but sometimes I do manage a sense of sorrow for the fact that he's spent his entire life like that, trapped in himself.
I have absolutely no sympathy for him. He's a rapist, he's a bigot, he's a traitor, he's a tax cheat. And there are so many other reasons.
Donald Trump does not deserve happiness.
I spent a while practicing the ability to see / be aware of and empathize with the pain of others a while back as part of an effort to learn universal love. I endorse having done so, and I still think he's a piece of shit. It's just that, much like the dog dump on the lawn, he can't help being what he is; he's made of atoms that follow physical law. I don't think that free will is a thing, and I don't think between his genetic and environmental inheritances he ever had a real chance to be better. Doesn't mean I want him to have his tiny hands on the power that gives his cold black heart the closest thing it ever has to happiness (the feeling of not just not wanting to throw hamberders at the wall, but the feeling of wanting not to throw hamberders at the wall), just that it's sorrowful he is that way, and I wish he could get real help for the sickness inside.
I'm somewhere along the same lines, but stop short at not believing in free will. He came from terrible circumstances with a sociopathic father and distant mother, but there are plenty who come from similar backgrounds and overcome being huge pieces of shit, let alone being responsible for countless deaths because of his actions.
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If free will isn't a thing then why are you urging us to empathize? There's nothing you can say or do that will influence my behavior in the slightest. Sorry, I don't have a choice: I hope he dies in prison miserable and alone.
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I for one hope he is miserable every moment for the rest of his life.
. I wish he could go and get help instead of spending his time taking it out on everyone around him, but he won't.
I wish his anger would consume him and his entire body and he ends up all shriveled up like Voldemort in that one scene.
That would probably be better for the rest of us, and more likely, but it's still a sad outcome compared to him recovering from the sickness he's suffered from his whole life.
I dunno, that shit seems pretty baked in. And if he were suddenly able to gain perspective and sanity, I don't think that would be a particularly enjoyable experience.
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Donald Trump has clinically diagnosable Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and living with NPD is hard. People with NPD aren't walking around saying "I only associate with the best people and have the best things" and viewing every single experience through the singular lens of how it affects them because they want to, but because they have to. It's the only way they know how to cope with the world around them.
People with NPD who aren't born into money like Trump often struggle to maintain employment and relationships. Trump struggles just as much but can throw money and power around to get out of bad situations. Just look at all his failed business ventures and failed relationships. Trump is literally textbook NPD and it's terrifying he has so much power and is influencing such a large segment of society to be like him.
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....everyone around him being the entire country and then some, given the power this country has.
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That is exactly what I think when I spend time around some of the more conservative relatives. Envy, fear, anger, and ultimately hatred. So much jealousy. Over the years it’s shown me how so much of the suffering in the developed world is self imposed, and helped me change.
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I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.
-Snoop, 2024
I guess weed does make you stupid after all.
Snoop wrote a song dissing him, talked shit about him for years, then worked him over and got him to pardon a bunch of dudes. Snoop's not dumb, he knows he played him and won, and that, for the sake of his friend that could possibly have his pardon revoked if the world's biggest narcissist gets a second term, needs to play it cool.
Or, he literally is ok with dropping his beef now that the asshat is out of office, like an adult.
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While the famous rapper and actor recently made headlines discussing his “love and respect” for the ex-president, he bitterly feuded with Trump early on in his presidency, before his feelings softened.
...At least one Trump aide quickly started googling for other derogatory, profanity-laden Snoop Dogg quotes that were directed at the 45th U.S. president. The examples were compiled, and some of these officials personally saw to it that Trump was shown how the rapper had felt about him in recent years.
This immediately enraged the Republican president, who had apparently forgotten about the depths of Snoop Dogg’s past hatred.
Snoop was trying to get clemency for a Mr. Harris.
Michael "Harry-O" Harris was a co-founder of Death Row Records. He was also a gangster and a drug kingpin and was once charged with attempted murder, although that charge was dropped. He is an instrumental figure in the history of hiphop. He also does not deserve a pardon.
Which is kind of why I'm surprised Trump didn't give him one.
Snoop is listed at 6’4”. Trumpf claims to be 6’3”. Hmmm. Looks a little bit more than 1” diff, but even without the spacing…. Maybe that’s the reason he was upset?!?
It’s because Trump is 5’11
I'm 5'10". Trump is still taller than me. 😕
Only physically taller
The Flying Squid has an unparalleled moral stature that dwarfs tiny man Trump
Why thank you.
😘
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You know, given how angry Trump was at Snoop Dogg, I wonder how much the pardon cost?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In late 2020 and early 2021, Snoop Dogg secretly worked to influence the White House on executive clemency for federal prisoners — including for the rapper’s close friend and Death Row Records figure, Michael “Harry-O” Harris.
Near the end of Trump’s administration, Snoop Dogg and several others had been working diligently behind the scenes for weeks to secure a presidential commutation for Death Row Records co-founder and ex-kingpin Harry-O.
“I don’t give a fuck, I tell ’em straight up, motherfucker: If you like that nigga, you motherfuckin’ racist,” Snoop Dogg said about Trump, his MAGA fans, and the president’s pal Kanye West in 2018.
That paragraph caught the attention of certain individuals and administration officials close to Trump, several of whom were extremely skeptical of his past embrace of moderate criminal justice reforms and some of the clemencies he had granted in his term.
“I was aware that the [Daily Beast] article caused a problem for Mr. Harris’ clemency petition, and I was asked by someone close to the White House to send a clip of a previously recorded message from Snoop where he commended Trump’s efforts on criminal justice reform,” Angelos confirmed to Rolling Stone.
Among those listed were Harris (who received a commuted sentence), Trump’s former top strategist and White House adviser Steve Bannon, rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black, and former prominent Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy.
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