Nicker on 3/6/2024 at 00:18
Do you think that the person with NPD hopes or believes that, among their victims, they will find "the one" with whom they can forge a real, lasting relationship, or do they always see them as prey, to be lured, trapped and consumed?
demagogue on 3/6/2024 at 01:19
The analogy that I thought captured it well is that they see life from about 4 inches off the ground, the only thing that exists is the immediate need to project their ego or crush the immediate threat to their ego, and in Trump's case it's all instinctively transactional, and they're never going to get any perspective over the bigger meaning to any of it to face that kind of question.
I think they're going to believe that the other partner is of course out to use them, they're out to use their partner, and that's just the way life is. Better to be the strong one left standing than the weak one that gets crushed, and their partner is lucky to have them, what do they have without them? Something like that.
I know some things, but I know the BPD story (the emotional white hole that gushes everything outwards) much better than the NPD story (the emotional black hole that sucks everything in and gives nothing back), so I'd trust people that have long and direct experience.
Nicker on 3/6/2024 at 06:52
I went back to check out some of Sam Vakin's videos on narcissism and found this touching but disturbing gem. What is is like to suffer with narcissism.
Sam Vaknin is a self-aware narcissist. Also a PhD. in Physics with certifications in counselling and a sh*t-ton of other stuff, (
https://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/cv.html) according to his CV.
[video=youtube;KCthA6IZYWI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCthA6IZYWI[/video]
lowenz on 3/6/2024 at 16:46
False self (the self that you create to please the others to gain gratification) HAS a function. Typically during the childhood and then it evaporates but sometimes it can't, that's the problem (and it's a big problem in the ones who don't understand that it exists and why, see Trump and all the tyrant-type people).
The classic "psychostrategy" to cure narcissism is to learn to coexist with the false self and merge it in something "greater" and mature. But if there's 1) intelligence (better, "cunning") gained to please the others 2) missing empathy towards others (destroyed by the "discovery" and practice of winning manipulation thanks to the cunning).....it becomes a really dangerous scenario (->the psychopath).
Cipheron on 3/6/2024 at 17:22
Trump now claiming he never suggested to lock Clinton up now that there's any chance he could be locked up:
(
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/02/politics/fact-check-trump-false-claim-lock-up-hillary-clinton/index.html)
Quote:
During his answer, Trump said he had decided that imprisoning Clinton “would have been a terrible thing.” Then he added: “I didn’t say ‘lock her up,’ but the people would all say ‘lock her up, lock her up.’”
Yeah, it wasn't me, says Trump: points finger at
Trump supporters as the real bad guys. "Blame those other people - who came here to see me. People who promote terrible things, they are".
The rest of the article is just listing all the times he actually used the exact phrase "Lock her up" in very clear context.
Nicker on 3/6/2024 at 17:37
I just told people to go to Capitol Hill and fight like hell! I never told them to commit violence.
Starker on 3/6/2024 at 23:35
As people get older, their memory is no longer what it used to be. He's had difficulties remembering things for a while now.
Starker on 4/6/2024 at 12:16
Jon Stewart has a reaction video on all that conviction stuff, including Republicans threatening to start investigating the Clintons...
[video=youtube;qmxzQJt80XI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmxzQJt80XI[/video]
Nicker on 4/6/2024 at 13:06
Jon Stewart, always delivers the goods. His point about the press not immediately pushing back against the blatant lies in interviews, spot on.
Here's another peek behind the curtain of tRump & Company. Bad Orange Man using political donations to buy the silence and perjuries of his employees with promotions, raises and bonuses.
[video=youtube;AI3Dzj_ShKA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI3Dzj_ShKA[/video]
Someone in the comments observed; "Trump is like a well of darkness. How anyone can see him as a beacon of light is absolutely beyond me."
It's called an event horizon. The light his followers bathe in isn't emanating from the moral black-hole which is DJT, it radiates from final moments of the lives he consumes, as they are twisted, crushed and shredded.
Starker on 7/6/2024 at 11:33
Looks like Steve Bannon might be going to jail for defying a subpoena from the committee that investigated the January 6 attacks on the Capitol:
(
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/07/g-s1-3348/steve-bannon-report-prison)
Also, he still has a trial waiting for him in the state of New York for the wall building fraud he pulled off and was pardoned for federally.
