Thus, truth-telling critics are the bully’s true enemy — not the opponent. For they and they alone hold the power to defeat the bully’s clever tactics of metainfluence. And so it’s vital for those critics to be not just ignored, nor rebutted, nor, worst of all, appeased — but silenced and deterred, diminished to invisibility.
That is why Trump, unlike most political candidates, does not merely answer his critics with policy proposals — but instead quickly, and usually viciously, leaps to discredit them. The critic is portrayed as not just unreasonable, or wrong, or mistaken — but also a “loser” or a “failure”. In a different league than the contender entirely.
Metainfluence can take you only so far. It’s like walking a tightrope. Scratch that. It’s like pointing to a tightrope stretched over a canyon, and then telling the crowd that everyone knows you can walk it the fastest. Maybe, just maybe, the crowd believes you. But suddenly, from the back, a catcall rises, and catches fire. The simple pitfall for metainfluence is this: he whom the mob crowns the mob can just as quickly jeer, scorn, and shun.
Unfortunately, the majority of Trump supporters are too invested in him at this point to risk losing face by turning away. So, they'll march off the edge of the cliff with him. And, he will ridicule them, call them losers, if they dare question why he didn't build thatThe disappointing thing to me as that his supporters won't even require to commit to a position on so many things. He's still all over the place on many issues.
wall or impose those tariffs.
Trump is dangerous. We cannot support him, for any reason. The SC is not worth risking the destruction of this country by entrusting governance to this total fool.
This is for all the anti-Trumpers here who think the Donald doesn't have a specific and detailed jobs plan:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Chbb9-iUgAIUgiP.jpg)
OK, OK, I repent. :silly:
Thanks for posting this very profound statement, I have been looking everywhere for it. So much to ponder in what he said, just have to figure out where to start. Will try reading from the end and go backwards. **nononono* Still don't work.
Can anyone in their right mind think trump will is able to be cognitive with other world leaders? If ever there was a poster child for the Peter Principle it is Trump.
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Now is the time for CRUZ to come out with a DAISY AD. Using Trumps own words.
1. Nuclear power
2. transgender in bathrooms
3. mother who abort should be punished
4. Women in the Draft
5. (others I missed?)
The Creepathon meter at $39K and is stuck on stupid as the Trump supporters are.
:nono:
NSA Bulk Data collection (for your own security of course)
Ethanol Subsidies (Gov't knows best who the "winners" should be)
Eminent Domain Abuses (Casino Parking over citizens)
LOL! Ya think?
Yeah..........poster boy for the peter principal? you betcha. Sure makes even Joe Biden look good about now, hate to say that but true.
@Bigun
LOL! Ya think?
That is the true tragedy of the bully. Not merely that they prey on their victims. Nor merely that they prey on us to prey on their victims. But that in creating social ecologies of predator and prey, they diminish and reduce us, to stunted caricatures of our better selves.
This is the gist of it. Using Freudian terminology, Trump is cotton candy for the id. He appeals to the reptile brain and its instinct toward aggression, by using the simplest possible language and appealing to the basest of our inclinations. Trump browbeats the super-ego into submission through intimidation and threats. For those of us who have spent our lifetimes trying to elevate the civilization through education, it is disheartening to see.
Trump's success is a direct result of the massive dumbing-down of our society, and its burgeoning and predictable requisite need for a tyrant.
“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue.”
John Witherspoon, The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men, 1776
I liked both of these quotes, Earl, but the second one struck me as particularly prescient because I think the society has become slothful, lazy and undisciplined.
Trump is far more schooled in the socialist Saul Alninski's 12 Rules for Radicals, spelled out in his book Rules for Radicals than Obama ever was. Obama is familiar the book, but in comparison to Trump he is still in first grade, where Trump has graduated with a doctorate in comparison.
WOW! They were very wise men. Here we are in 2016, that "rotten materials" trying to be held together by a great Constitution which too many of the people hate and to many others do not understand.
Make comments about my intelligence all y'all want to - because I'm a Trump supporter - but, at least I know how to pick a winner!
:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:
Boy, you Cruzers sure are smart! That's why you're WINNING!......oh....wait....:hands: Besides Cruz who was born in Canada whose wife Heidi who worked at Goldman Sachs just said he was a immigrant. Cruz not eligible and if he is nominee Hillary and the media will take him out. Not to mention iCarly, look what they did to her in California when she ran for senate. They crushed her.
Keep it up with your insults and your breathtaking tone-deafedness - it just makes Trump go higher and higher! Woo-Hoo!!!
Pretty soon - he'll have enough numbers to go to the convention and win on the first ballot. We don't need no stinkin' second ballots!!
Cruz is crashing - watch him while you can - you might not get too many more chances to see him before he and Glenn Beck go off together for a much needed "rest". Someplace with lots of Cheetos and someone will always help pick you up when you fall.....a happy place!
Make comments about my intelligence all y'all want to - because I'm a Trump supporter - but, at least I know how to pick a winner!
:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:
I could not have imagined better examples of what neurolinguistic programming of the kind described in this very intelligent article does to people than what the pro-Trumps have posted here themselves.
It blinds them to the reality of their own manipulation, makes them automatically assume the validity of whatever notions have been implanted in their heads rather than arrived at by logical processes, and just as automatically causes them to regurgitate the attitudes and assumptions they have been provided by the manipulator.
And that is why Donald Trump scares the hell out of me - he seems to turn otherwise smart people into robotic, mocking bullies who all wind up sounding just like him.
I could not have imagined better examples of what neurolinguistic programming of the kind described in this very intelligent article does to people than what the pro-Trumps have posted here themselves.
It blinds them to the reality of their own manipulation, makes them automatically assume the validity of whatever notions have been implanted in their heads rather than arrived at by logical processes, and just as automatically causes them to regurgitate the attitudes and assumptions they have been provided by the manipulator.
And that is why Donald Trump scares the hell out of me - he seems to turn otherwise smart people into robotic, mocking bullies who all wind up sounding just like him.
Boy, you Cruzers sure are smart! That's why you're WINNING!......oh....wait....
Keep it up with your insults and your breathtaking tone-deafedness - it just makes Trump go higher and higher! Woo-Hoo!!!
Pretty soon - he'll have enough numbers to go to the convention and win on the first ballot. We don't need no stinkin' second ballots!!
Cruz is crashing - watch him while you can - you might not get too many more chances to see him before he and Glenn Beck go off together for a much needed "rest". Someplace with lots of Cheetos and someone will always help pick you up when you fall.....a happy place!
Make comments about my intelligence all y'all want to - because I'm a Trump supporter - but, at least I know how to pick a winner!
:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:
Boy, you Cruzers sure are smart! That's why you're WINNING!......oh....wait....
Keep it up with your insults and your breathtaking tone-deafedness - it just makes Trump go higher and higher! Woo-Hoo!!!
Pretty soon - he'll have enough numbers to go to the convention and win on the first ballot. We don't need no stinkin' second ballots!!
Cruz is crashing - watch him while you can - you might not get too many more chances to see him before he and Glenn Beck go off together for a much needed "rest". Someplace with lots of Cheetos and someone will always help pick you up when you fall.....a happy place!
Make comments about my intelligence all y'all want to - because I'm a Trump supporter - but, at least I know how to pick a winner!
:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:
:hands: Besides Cruz who was born in Canada whose wife Heidi who worked at Goldman Sachs just said he was a immigrant. Cruz not eligible and if he is nominee Hillary and the media will take him out. Not to mention iCarly, look what they did to her in California when she ran for senate. They crushed her.Ooh, the most conservative man in the entire U.S. Senate had a wife that worked for Da Banksterz! (redaction noted--sorry. JMF)
Do you have Adonis DNA and tiger blood in your veins, too? Or is that just the HIV talking?
You sound like Charlie flippin' Sheen.
Boy, you Cruzers sure are smart! That's why you're WINNING!......oh....wait....
Keep it up with your insults and your breathtaking tone-deafedness - it just makes Trump go higher and higher! Woo-Hoo!!!
Pretty soon - he'll have enough numbers to go to the convention and win on the first ballot. We don't need no stinkin' second ballots!!
Cruz is crashing - watch him while you can - you might not get too many more chances to see him before he and Glenn Beck go off together for a much needed "rest". Someplace with lots of Cheetos and someone will always help pick you up when you fall.....a happy place!
Make comments about my intelligence all y'all want to - because I'm a Trump supporter - but, at least I know how to pick a winner!
:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:
Do you have Adonis DNA and tiger blood in your veins, too? Or is that just the HIV talking?
You sound like Charlie flippin' Sheen.
I don't hear any fat lady singing! in fact I don't even hear her warming up!
Glad to see you out of your little hidey hole!
What kind of disgusting vulgar question is that? Are you an example of what Cruz is like?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Sheen#Meltdown
WINNING!
Gosh, you talk like your candidate too - three paragraphs to slog through what Trump could have said in one sentence.
:yawn2:
(http://farm1.staticflickr.com/7/8655038_0626ad55af_z.jpg?zz=1)
Donald Trump can't think beyond one sentence, and that sentence usually is "You're a failure and a loser!!!" because as he's discovered: that's all he needs. Because he's a winner and you're not.
What a piece of trash he is.
Donald Trump can't think beyond one sentence, and that sentence usually is "You're a failure and a loser!!!" because as he's discovered: that's all he needs. Because he's a winner and you're not.
What a piece of trash he is.
Mr. Trump reacts for all of us:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgxyK1eU4AAA1H3.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Sheen#Meltdown
In 2011, Charlie Sheen left the TV show Two and a Half Men (a big hit for him) and went on this long rant about how he was "winning" all the time and had Adonis DNA and tiger blood; not that indifferent to the kinds of speeches Donald Trump is making now. He even went on a "victory tour" and called the producer who fired him nasty names, often with anti-Semitic overtones.
A few years later he found out he was HIV-positive.
I'm sorry the pop-culture reference went over your head.
Your pop-culture BS doesn't impress me.I seriously doubt anything ever will.
Stop the personal attacks or I will close this once good thread downSorry, it got out of hand, but it sort of illustrates the point of the article.
Sorry, it got out of hand, but it sort of illustrates the point of the article.
Like the little boy that said 'Cruz Sucks' . Heard that one on Rush today.
400+ posts?
LonestarDream, you registered the same time as I did and you really hit the ground running.
I'm glad you see the moral collapse of this once-great nation is something worth laughing about, RiV.
So... do you like the picture? I think it's fabulous!!No.
So... do you like the picture? I think it's fabulous!!
400+ posts?
LonestarDream, you registered the same time as I did and you really hit the ground running.
That is the true tragedy of the bully. Not merely that they prey on their victims. Nor merely that they prey on us to prey on their victims. But that in creating social ecologies of predator and prey, they diminish and reduce us, to stunted caricatures of our better selves.
This is the gist of it. Using Freudian terminology, Trump is cotton candy for the id. He appeals to the reptile brain and its instinct toward aggression, by using the simplest possible language and appealing to the basest of our inclinations. Trump browbeats the super-ego into submission through intimidation and threats. For those of us who have spent our lifetimes trying to elevate the civilization through education, it is disheartening to see.
Trump's success is a direct result of the massive dumbing-down of our society, and its burgeoning and predictable requisite need for a tyrant.
Thank you. Trump hasn't tapped into anger, he has fomented an irrational anger that is giving way to hate.
Boy, you Cruzers sure are smart! That's why you're WINNING!......oh....wait....
Keep it up with your insults and your breathtaking tone-deafedness - it just makes Trump go higher and higher! Woo-Hoo!!!
Pretty soon - he'll have enough numbers to go to the convention and win on the first ballot. We don't need no stinkin' second ballots!!
Cruz is crashing - watch him while you can - you might not get too many more chances to see him before he and Glenn Beck go off together for a much needed "rest". Someplace with lots of Cheetos and someone will always help pick you up when you fall.....a happy place!
Make comments about my intelligence all y'all want to - because I'm a Trump supporter - but, at least I know how to pick a winner!
:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:
This is for all the anti-Trumpers here who think the Donald doesn't have a specific and detailed jobs plan:
This is for all the anti-Trumpers here who think the Donald doesn't have a specific and detailed jobs plan:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Chbb9-iUgAIUgiP.jpg)
That quote is so typical of Trump speak. No wonder he won't debate Cruz.
Notice, Trump never takes on anybody about policy, because he can't.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/yes-trump-can-beat-hillary-clinton/
This is for all the anti-Trumpers here who think the Donald doesn't have a specific and detailed jobs plan:
That reminds me of something President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho would say.
Savage cited the new Rasmussen poll of likely voters showing Trump with a 41-39 lead over Clinton nationally.The Rasmussen poll looks like an outlier for now with Trump still down by an average of 6.2 points.
The Rasmussen poll looks like an outlier for now with Trump still down by an average of 6.2 points.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html)
Rasmussen is notoriously unreliable these days:
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,204593.0.html
To you, any poll showing Trump leading is unreliable. :silly: Get used to President Trump.Dang you didn't get that last memo I see. Any poll helping Trump is not a valid site. :laugh:
To you, any poll showing Trump leading is unreliable. :silly: Get used to President Trump.
As you can see from the examples provided (if you bothered to click the link), Rasmussen has been unreliable for a very long time. Their methodolgy is questionable.
This is for all the anti-Trumpers here who think the Donald doesn't have a specific and detailed jobs plan:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Chbb9-iUgAIUgiP.jpg)
Nothing and people flock to their god.
That you even post something that outrageous is NUTS.
I could not have imagined better examples of what neurolinguistic programming of the kind described in this very intelligent article does to people than what the pro-Trumps have posted here themselves.
It blinds them to the reality of their own manipulation, makes them automatically assume the validity of whatever notions have been implanted in their heads rather than arrived at by logical processes, and just as automatically causes them to regurgitate the attitudes and assumptions they have been provided by the manipulator.
And that is why Donald Trump scares the hell out of me - he seems to turn otherwise smart people into robotic, mocking bullies who all wind up sounding just like him.