1) Trump is NOT a Narcissist. He does NOT have NPD and IS NOT a nalignant narcissist 2/
THREAD: TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL PSYCHOPATH
I think we've had this exchange B4 yes? Ive said from t/start (despite all who vociferously insisted over& over hes a malignant narcissitic) TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL PSYCHOPATH (whos dementing but that's a diff thread) & have written extensive 1/
Are you saying he is not a malignant narcissist? A sadistic sociopath? Untreatable?
— Jane Dickerson (@jwdickerson) December 3, 2020
1) Trump is NOT a Narcissist. He does NOT have NPD and IS NOT a nalignant narcissist 2/
Lastly (but very importantly) narcissists ARE NOT DRIVEN BY SADISM
2) Trump is NOT a sociopath (someone who due to poverty & social oppression with few if
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which is driven by sadism
i.e. Trump is a PSYCHOPATHIC criminal
Trump IS NOT a sociopath. He does not now nor did he ever need to commit crimes to survuve. TRUMP IS DRIVEN TO CRIME BECAUSE HE ENJOYS 5/
All psychopaths have narcissitic features, however the source of those features (what causes them) is not narcissitic wounding.
Instead, what drives the criminal psychopath and Trump is sadism
The difference 6/
NPD is treatable
Sociopathy is treatable although it requires intensive support which includes gaining the education that allows one to leave poverty behind
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I hope that was clear. Its the thick down & dirty readers 9/
More from kateneuropsych Dr. Kate Shaw MA/MS/PsyD Auntie Fa
Personally, I don't use but I gotta ask b/as long time SA Counselor & Clinical Neuropsychologist,
What ARE these people so on re weed about? Theres NOTHING abt weed comes anywhere close to t/individual, 1/
State Senator Amanda Chase has come out against the illegalization of marijuana. She is running for the Republican nomination for Governor of Virginia and has courted the libertarians of the party but this a wedge ti separate them. pic.twitter.com/zUTakAeyKE
— Goad Gatsby (@GoadGatsby) December 1, 2020
relational, marital familial, societal and physical and mental health damage done by alcohol (ism) daily. PERIOD FULL STOP
& Research that was so long denied has found a plethora of bennies.
That's not to say no abuse occurs or is possible, (however, [stick with me here] 2/
I see a variety of WS groups currently abusing [t/great American symbol of home family & motherhood] MILK these days...
Hey, if it's a substance/any substance or something transduced or processes by your chemical brain [neurochemistry baby] use misuse, abuse addiction & 3/
deadly addiction is a thing, A BIG THING including "thought addiction," [we MH profs call this obsession] which seems a likely group DX for folks on the right who are virtually obsessed with weed as if it were Hitler, meanwhile they're tryna convince themselves he had a 4/
rational national plan on repeat. But I digress).
Bottom line: Cannabis Use/Abuse Disorder is far less (note t/word LESS) common, far less damaging both in t/short- & long-term & pop #s for Cannibis Use/Abuse are no where near those of alcoholics & the resulting death maiming 5/
The problem is that a lot of people on the left don't seem to realize just how much of the crunchy wellness space is taken up by various flavors of far right Christians, which made it a soft target for long game indoctrination.
— Dr. Kathryn Bright Christmas Lights \u2712\ufe0f (@KEBrightbill) December 20, 2020
Theres not a lot 1 can do abt this either. There are SOME divisions but not as many as one might like to think & there are an infinite number of fuzzy boundaries ie., as in vaccinations. This is a highly fluid & often volatile life stage to navigate married or single & 2/
things are muddy as hell (this is an area I've researched tracked, and personally experienced as part of that natural child birth community). Women are isolated by society and thats a problem on both the right and the left. Women are vilified & looked down on when they do 3/
have kids, and are pilloried if they stay home, go to work, if they breastfeed, for how long or not and are essentially cut off from an elder community that might help them navigate the enormous shift in their lives not to mention having to put up with petulant manbaby 4/
husbands who drag them via their own negative ideals, expections, insecurities fears angers hurts at the sudden usurping of their position as number 1 in a womans life when she has a baby, & especially the first baby. BOTH WHITE SUPREMACY AND FUNDAMENTALIST WHITE CHRISTIANITY 5/
More from Trump
1. Short thread - on the various claims we're seeing from Republican politicians over the last few days that the Democratic push for accountability is "divisive." Damn right it's divisive - that is what it has to be.
— Henry Farrell (@henryfarrell) January 10, 2021
I wrote a book a decade ago that used game theory to explore the ways democracies die and what that tells us about how and why they sometimes survive. 2/n
One implication of the formal model in that book is that normative commitments to democracy may matter less than expectations about the benefits and costs of trying to subvert democracy. 3/n
It's great when all the major players (ruling party, opposition party, and military) believe democracy is good in itself. If they don't, tho, then what matters most are their beliefs about how easily they can seize power and how costly it would be to try and fail. 4/n
I think it's pretty clear that many key players in the GOP don't see democracy as a good in itself ("we're a republic, not a democracy"). So that shifts their attention to their ability to usurp power and the costs of trying and failing. 5/n