I grew up with a horribly abusive sibling who is also a fairly textbook narcissist, so I have some insight into Trump’s behaviour, and also into the conflicted feelings a person can have in dealing with them. Particularly when they’re a family member, and there is some ingrained connection with them, both in terms of…

I was going to say, it’s pretty rich to try to trademark your name and end up sparring in court against the person you were likely named after.

You see the same thing in his business dealings - he always opts for short-term self-enrichment, and seemingly has no understanding that his mercenary business style threatens the long-term viability of his company. For instance, once he developed a reputation for refusing to pay the full cost of invoices to…

It’s been said time and again now, but textbook narcissism. And the bittersweet reality of dealing with narcissists. They’re pathologically selfish, yet desperate for approval from others. But their self-serving behaviour, often in pursuit of love and approval from others, prevents them from developing positive and…

I think that decimating the public school system is part of the long-term Republican strategy for ensuring their political survival. We already see how their success last election hinged on gullible people unable to identify the difference between real and fake news stories, and between true and false statements. An…

Scathing “America First” videos mercilessly mocking Trump (and, by extension, the US for voting him in) are currently all the rage on European comedy shows: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/02/03/germany_switzerland_denmark_belgium_and_portugal_join_the_netherlands_in.html

If only people who think their representative is going to vote against their wishes call them up, they’ll get a completely skewed perspective of their constituency’s values. Reinforce that people care enough about issues to call and make sure they’re acting the way you assume they will.

She also pointed out (a few days ago, I think) that not only has he not submitted any of the required paperwork, they haven’t done an FBI background check on him yet, and they’ve delayed his hearing four times now, and didn’t bother to reschedule a new hearing date the last time. She speculated that all signs point to…

Holy shit - that’s totally what they look like.

I feel the same way. At the same time that I’m horrified by every single thing he does, a voice at the back of my head is saying “just because his actions are exponentially more horrible, doesn’t mean it’s wrong to point out how horrifying those curtains are.” They’re just... where do you even buy curtains like that?…

People like Cat Marnell are part of the reason it’s so insane to me that people still want to claim the US isn’t a country with deep, deep class divisions that tend to be reproduced quite independently of a person’s actions. If Cat Marnell had been born to a working class family, she would have spent lots of time in…

I think the mistake a lot of people make is trying to read too much into Trump’s actions, and seeing strategy where there is none. I don’t think he has an end game. The man operates entirely on whims. (see: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/31/14442190/trump-is-no-evil-genius). The problem is that he has…

I mean, he floated Peter Thiel as a possible scotus nominee, and you’ve seen the clown parade that are his cabinet nominees, so this guy - horrible though he’ll be for anyone who isn’t a white, Christian, man - is a huge surprise to me. The most shocking thing the Trump camp can do this point is try to place someone…

It’s absolutely an act. When they did the interview re: Josh Duggar’s “indiscretions” her true feelings occasionally, and briefly, broke through on her face while Jim Bob was talking, and you could tell she knew he was lying and was super embarrassed,and a bit angry about it. I mean, I think she’s brainwashed, but…

Well, I suppose the only thing better than a metaphorical wall is a literal wall. Assuming you don’t care about wasteful government spending, which is apparently totally cool now.

That shit is hilarious to me. I mean, I still don’t think Trump will ever actually complete his ridiculous wall but it’s always been abundantly clear that he genuinely intended to build a literal wall. He has the linguistic skills of an elementary school student - this is not a man who uses complicated rhetorical…

It’s because people believe the lie that he is a good businessman, and the lie that government would be more efficient if run like a business and therefore concluded that a (not actually) successful businessman would be much better at running the government than people who know how the government works.

Well, I’m sure Trump asked Guiliani how to legally do that, but they haven’t come up with anything yet.

I understand a lot of underprivileged people voted for him because he promised he’d bring back factory jobs etc. I just don’t understand why anyone believed him that he could do that, or would. His entire life he’s never shown any indication about caring about anyone but himself, and he’s repeatedly stiffed his…

I was shocked to see that any non-white, non-male, non-rich people would be delusional enough to vote for Trump. So many things about people taking him “seriously, not literally” and I don’t understand why people genuinely believed he was just playing a character on TV and wasn’t going to do the things he claimed. I…