Tuesday, June 23, 2020

EU may ban Americans—thanks dotard Donald


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/world/europe/coronavirus-EU-American-travel-ban.html?referringSource=articleShare

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Trump's pandemic failing is now directly impacting his campaign

Trump's pandemic failing is now directly impacting his campaign
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-campaign-testing/index.html

Saturday, June 20, 2020

Research that explains why Trump is concerned about his IQ—A grandiose narcissist




Current Directions in Psychological Science - Volume 29, Number 3, Jun 01, 2020 

Article link

Abstract 

Grandiose narcissists typically pursue agentic goals, such as social status, competence, and autonomy. We argue that because high intelligence is a key asset for the attainment of such agentic goals, the concept of intelligence should play a prominent role in grandiose narcissists' self-regulation and social behavior. We review the relevant literature and report evidence in support of this claim. Grandiose narcissists consider intelligence to be an important resource that leads to benefits across life domains, they tend to maintain and defend illusory positive intellectual self-views, and they are extremely motivated to appear intelligent to other people. Thus, even though grandiose narcissism is essentially unrelated to objectively assessed intelligence, intelligence nevertheless plays an important role in the way grandiose narcissists think, feel, and behave. We discuss potential implications for social relationships and point toward avenues for future research.

Keywords agency, grandiose narcissism, intelligence, narcissism


Conclusion

Maintaining feelings of competence, autonomy, and con-trol is an important goal for grandiose narcissists. Because intelligence is helpful for the attainment of these goals, it plays a significant role in the way narcissists' think, feel, and behave. Narcissists consider intelligence to be an important asset that leads to benefits in the social world. They are highly motivated to maintain a grandiose self-view with regard to intelligence, which enables them to feel good; they defend this self-view against criticism and want to appear smart to other peo-ple. We hope that by taking narcissists' preoccupation with the concept of intelligence into account, research-ers, practitioners, and laypersons might be able to better understand why narcissistic bosses, ex-lovers, or presi-dents behave the way they do..

Trump Can it get any worse

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Lindsey Graham praises Joe Biden and calls Donald Trump a 'race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot' in new ad

Lindsey Graham praises Joe Biden and calls Donald Trump a 'race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot' in new ad
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/lindsey-graham-ad-trump-joe-biden-us-election-2020-republican-a9567211.html

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Trump the cartoonish dotard

Important group: The Lincoln Project

Any group that has Steve Schmidt as an advisor gets my attention.  Schmidt is X campaign manager for John McCain and is one of the most articulate straight shooting political intellectuals of our times.



Monday, June 1, 2020

Trump is yellow belly

‘We are leaderless right now!’ Trump supporters despair that he’s doing nothing as riots erupt across America

'We are leaderless right now!' Trump supporters despair that he's doing nothing as riots erupt across America
https://flip.it/sfeTON

This Is How Trump Wants to Be Seen


Trump's aides tried to get him to give a unifying TV address, but gave up because he was unwilling and they had no new policies to suggest

Trump's aides tried to get him to give a unifying TV address, but gave up because he was unwilling and they had no new policies to suggest
https://flip.it/8YFtHN

‘Let Them Have Eric,’ Screams Trump While Pushing Son Through Door Of Bunker

Lol



'Let Them Have Eric,' Screams Trump While Pushing Son Through Door Of Bunker
https://www.theonion.com/let-them-have-eric-screams-trump-while-pushing-son-t-1843831345

'I am outraged': Bishop overseeing church responds to Trump photo-op


Meacham: Trump is ‘drawing on a dictatorial vernacular’



Meacham: Trump is 'drawing on a dictatorial vernacular'
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/meacham-trump-is-drawing-from-a-dictatorial-vernacular-84207685904?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma
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