I really don't think he does. His pathology makes it so he's like a little kid without the sweetness: he just says what pops into his head. There's no real assessment of the situation in any depth. Just a reaction to the reaction of what he said/did previously.
He really IS crazy. He should never have had any positions of responsibility anywhere, let alone the presidency. It's literally impossible for him to behave in a way that isn't wholly self-interested.
It's endlessly horrifying to me that there are STILL people out there that think he's a genius.
As I watched him saying this today, I felt a burst of outrage rise in me. I am so tired of tfg’s rabid mob saying Biden is too old, senile, and a bumbling fool! tfg is only three years younger than Biden and he appears to be mad as a hatter! Oh please may he implode soon…
That's more horrifying to me than TFG himself, and even *more* horrifying are the people who bankroll and otherwise enable him while knowing bloody well that he's nowhere close to a genius. That would include most of the GOP -- the ones that aren't either frothing at the mouth or brain-dead.
But to tell a lie, one has to know what the truth is, right? That's why I asked the question. "La vérité c'est moi" means literally "I am the truth" (which echoes, tellingly, words attributed to Jesus). If one really is (in one's own mind) "the truth," by definition one cannot lie.
SJS, I am still thinking about your points as you are on to an important observation. I'm a JD not a MD but, I do have access to a pyscho neurologist, Phd, MD. Still working on it ....
Medical residents tell me that it is customary to name medical discoveries after their DISCOVERER. My proposal is to call this discovery " "SURGIS SYNDROME". See LFAA, thread today under 'JL Grahm' for additional clinical observations.
I'm forever messing with my own head so I'm guessing it's occasionally OK to mess with other people's heads. ;-)
It's interesting from the legal point of view too, isn't it? Someone who's incapable of telling right from wrong can use that as a defense. Right/wrong and true/false aren't the same, but IMO they are related -- someone who can't distinguish between right and wrong is probably going to have a hard time telling true from false. (And both dichotomies have a helluva lot of gray area around them.)
One thing we all must realize he try. TFG has motives, and he will say what needs to be said that moves that motive the way he desires it to move.
His main motive, as it’s been all his life, is MONEY. He hasn’t gotten his hands dirty one single day of his life. He’s been a “suit” ever since he was big enough for his daddy to put him in one. It’s been drilled into his head. Everything evolves around money. If he’s not making money off of a project, he gets rid of it. If he can’t make money off of this lie, he changes the lie. Everything he dues makes him money in one fashion or the other.
Case in point. Look at all of his past recent court appearances. On the first E. Jean Carroll case, which he lost and had to pay her $5 million dollars. His bad mouthing E. Jean Carroll right after the verdict netted him over $10 million dollars!!! His court appearances on later cases have netted him millions of dollars. All from his ‘sheep’ that he’s fleecing every single time that he opens his mouth and tells them to send money, sends them emails telling them he needs money, or his robocalls telling them his dad story and telling them to get the check in the mail/go to the website and donate, donate, donate!
That’s who’s sick, and needs a lot of help in this country. We need to lock TFG, and all his stooges up, throw away the key , and forbid them any access internet, electronics, telephones, computers, nothing. And, we need to make sure we have a lot of physiatrist trained and ready. They’ll have about 74 million patients right off the bat!
Actually, you can tell he’s lying if he wakes up in the morning!
Sill ... tfg's compulsive mendascity is stunning.
Does he even know what the truth is? With him it's "L'état c'est moi, la constitution c'est moi, la vérité c'est moi."
I really don't think he does. His pathology makes it so he's like a little kid without the sweetness: he just says what pops into his head. There's no real assessment of the situation in any depth. Just a reaction to the reaction of what he said/did previously.
He really IS crazy. He should never have had any positions of responsibility anywhere, let alone the presidency. It's literally impossible for him to behave in a way that isn't wholly self-interested.
It's endlessly horrifying to me that there are STILL people out there that think he's a genius.
As I watched him saying this today, I felt a burst of outrage rise in me. I am so tired of tfg’s rabid mob saying Biden is too old, senile, and a bumbling fool! tfg is only three years younger than Biden and he appears to be mad as a hatter! Oh please may he implode soon…
That's more horrifying to me than TFG himself, and even *more* horrifying are the people who bankroll and otherwise enable him while knowing bloody well that he's nowhere close to a genius. That would include most of the GOP -- the ones that aren't either frothing at the mouth or brain-dead.
Like those that believe in Hitler! It is totally amazing to me!
… a “stable” genius, at that.
I think he actually does believe every word he is saying, even as he makes it up out of whole cloth.
I don't think he cares if it is true. He only says what he says because he thinks it benefits him. Truth is meaningless.
I agree Susan, like all personality disorders, if it leaves his mouth it is true. He could probably pass a lie detector test.
Right, he just convinces himself it's true, because he can't possibly be wrong. It's part of his illness.
"You [tfg] don't know what the truth is".
Mendacity means lying.
But to tell a lie, one has to know what the truth is, right? That's why I asked the question. "La vérité c'est moi" means literally "I am the truth" (which echoes, tellingly, words attributed to Jesus). If one really is (in one's own mind) "the truth," by definition one cannot lie.
SJS, I am still thinking about your points as you are on to an important observation. I'm a JD not a MD but, I do have access to a pyscho neurologist, Phd, MD. Still working on it ....
Medical residents tell me that it is customary to name medical discoveries after their DISCOVERER. My proposal is to call this discovery " "SURGIS SYNDROME". See LFAA, thread today under 'JL Grahm' for additional clinical observations.
I'm forever messing with my own head so I'm guessing it's occasionally OK to mess with other people's heads. ;-)
It's interesting from the legal point of view too, isn't it? Someone who's incapable of telling right from wrong can use that as a defense. Right/wrong and true/false aren't the same, but IMO they are related -- someone who can't distinguish between right and wrong is probably going to have a hard time telling true from false. (And both dichotomies have a helluva lot of gray area around them.)
Yes, correct, yes correct, yes & visually true, alot of grey. :)
One thing we all must realize he try. TFG has motives, and he will say what needs to be said that moves that motive the way he desires it to move.
His main motive, as it’s been all his life, is MONEY. He hasn’t gotten his hands dirty one single day of his life. He’s been a “suit” ever since he was big enough for his daddy to put him in one. It’s been drilled into his head. Everything evolves around money. If he’s not making money off of a project, he gets rid of it. If he can’t make money off of this lie, he changes the lie. Everything he dues makes him money in one fashion or the other.
Case in point. Look at all of his past recent court appearances. On the first E. Jean Carroll case, which he lost and had to pay her $5 million dollars. His bad mouthing E. Jean Carroll right after the verdict netted him over $10 million dollars!!! His court appearances on later cases have netted him millions of dollars. All from his ‘sheep’ that he’s fleecing every single time that he opens his mouth and tells them to send money, sends them emails telling them he needs money, or his robocalls telling them his dad story and telling them to get the check in the mail/go to the website and donate, donate, donate!
That’s who’s sick, and needs a lot of help in this country. We need to lock TFG, and all his stooges up, throw away the key , and forbid them any access internet, electronics, telephones, computers, nothing. And, we need to make sure we have a lot of physiatrist trained and ready. They’ll have about 74 million patients right off the bat!