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Linda Wilson-Gordon's avatar

Whatever the reason, he is not fit for office. The treasonous trifecta needs to be removed immediately.

Stephen Paul's avatar

So, telling us about it is fine, but how does one suffering from it get through it? That is, what can be done to address the effect? Is it incurable?!

Rich's avatar

Terminal idiocy pretty much incurable

Karen's avatar

Truly not fit for office. Relieved to see some dissention at least, but there will be so much damage done before he can be stopped!

Gaia’s Earth's avatar

His level of self-awareness is severely low due to his extreme flaws, he cannot help himself. As a malignant narcissist and pathological liar with deep criminal tendencies, he should have been considered mentally handicapped and unfit to hold the highest office in the country.

Steve Hammond's avatar

Your commitment to blind stupidity is commendable. But than as a liberal, no one ever said you were smart. Your whole fuc*ing party is imploding right before our eyes and you fuc*wits are powerless to stop it.

Concerned Citizen's avatar

I must admit, I always knew Trumpito's blind followers obviously had some serious issues of their own (ignorance (rational & irrational), lack of education, fear, racist, abandonment, etc.), but it's beyond sad and honestly scary to see how many people in my own country fall into this category. You, my friend, have proven the whole point of this article and sadly you will never get it. I mean, I'm genuinely concerned for the future knowing these babies are receiving guidance from people like you (and your fellow Stockholm syndrome victims). All you got from this article was reinforcement of your fears of being what, held accountable, or flashbacks of being bullied as a child because you stutter!? I'll wrap it up with this and I'll even slow it down for you a tad because it really doesn't get any simpler than these facts: 1. Trumpito does not care about you, 2. Trumpito will never care about you so stop, 3. Most of his supporters have more in common with the individuals you so eloquently described with your big, huge, words (for starters uhhh democracy), 4. Please, please, PLEASE, do not reproduce, it's a privilege not a right, 5. It's ok to use a dictionary, even if one wants words used to spread hate or whine like a child, it shows progression out of anal or phallic stages of development (this way we all know, this guy's just a dick), and lastly, 6. Education... It's a hell of a drug!!! Oh hell, I'll throw in a bonus for ya, 7. You will never be Trumpito because... refer back to facts 1 & 2.

A Monahan's avatar

There is also a second part to the Dunning-Kruger Effect, that knowledgeable people do not think they are that knowledgeable; they are smart enough to know that they don't know!

Paul Mazzarella's avatar

The only way I could do that was

Rich's avatar

He’s too dumb to know he’s stupid

RM Strongoni's avatar

Trump stopped growing emotionally and intellectually the first time he pooped by himself and yelled, “Mom I’m done”. Now four decades later, Natalie Harp has to answer the call.😃

PolicyViews's avatar

I’m not even sure the Dunning-Krueger effect applies here, because he’s not competent in any arena and never has been. He’s just always been wealthy enough based on family wealth to keep failing forward.

Queltique Godess's avatar

David Dunning wrote about this in an opinion piece in Politico in 2017. It's now 2025 and we dealing with an out-of-control train barreling down the tracks at our democracy and everyone living here. I do believe it was simply serendipity that Trump found he loved being the center of all the adulation of his supporters/fans - he had no desire to govern. This gave power and his personal emotional instability played right into the hands of nefarious players. The ultra-right wing Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society -before Trump jurists looking to advance hid their association with the Federalist Society and the Heritage Fdtn is just the progeny of the John Birch Society. And there's always Vladimir Putin. In 2024 the "Dark MAGA" billionaires in Silicon Valley saw an OPPORTUNITY in Trump. They all knew how to "play him" - get what they want and none of them care what happens to the poor souls that formed Trump's "base." Unfortunately this piece here doesn't give us any DIRECTIVES on how to "deal" with Trump's die-hard supporters. While getting rid of Fox propaganda (it's NOT "news") would go a long way, there might not be much any of us who can discern facts from nonsense can do but to rally the ambivalent to get off the fence and oppose Trump. This one photo haunts me - it's a photo taken of a group of Stalin supporters after Khrushchev published his report on the atrocities committed by Stalin (Stalin had died of a heart attack ~ 3 years earlier.) They were bent over wailing and hysterical. Remember Stalin lead the Russians to victory against Hitler - their bond with him was INTENSE. Many of the most ardent Trump supporters have had less than happy lives - for this reason they hang on to the "false hope" Trump gives them. They are completely delusional in their belief that "Trump understands us!" I do worry how they will handle it when the reality of the fact that "YOU'VE BEEN PLAYED" hits them. We shall be lucky if they are merely like the people in those photos grieving, bent up wailing in hysterics, over the loss of their hero, Josef Stalin.

Jeffrey Fosse's avatar

Occam’s razor is the rule of thumb that, when two explanations fit the evidence equally well, prefer the one that makes fewer assumptions. It doesn’t mean the simplest explanation is always true—just that unnecessary complexity should be avoided.

Trump being a genius is definitely not one of the explanations. I choose the author’s explanation. And the Trump is a savant mobster — that is his main talent.

Ted Preisser's avatar

I just read about this somewhere else! This is an interesting read. Thanks!

Tom Paine's avatar

Quite true but just as prevalent on the so-called “educated” Left.

Tom Paine's avatar

Oh and by the way the USA is a plutocracy politicians are paid actors and rule nothing. The system cannot be reformed so draw your own conclusions.

Samantha's avatar

Yes you just don’t let him do as he wishes since it’s most often wrong !!

Samantha's avatar

Not much it is a mental disease !!