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(86,020 posts)
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 01:48 AM Jun 2018

Trump calls the 'elite,' "stone-cold losers." Says of his base, "We're the super-elite"

Daniel Dale @ddale8 4h4 hours ago

Trump scoffs at the "elite," calling them "stone-cold losers." This time he boasts about his base as "the super-elite" instead of just himself: "We got more money, we got more brains, we got better houses, apartments, we got nicer boats...we're the elite."


Amazing thread by reporter Daniel Dale:



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Trump calls the 'elite,' "stone-cold losers." Says of his base, "We're the super-elite" (Original Post) bigtree Jun 2018 OP
SUPER ELITE of the SEWER RATS. Cha Jun 2018 #1
And so many of them are living in double wides and having trouble making ends meet. argyl Jun 2018 #2
many will read it as 'master race' bigtree Jun 2018 #5
WHY Crutchez_CuiBono Jun 2018 #3
God he's a fucking idiot. smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #4
We are the oligarchy. lpbk2713 Jun 2018 #6
I just listened to a great podcast about mark david chapman Javaman Jun 2018 #7

argyl

(3,064 posts)
2. And so many of them are living in double wides and having trouble making ends meet.
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 02:06 AM
Jun 2018

Surely some of them will be scratching their heads over this.

That's something you'd say at a $10,000 a plate fundraiser, with eloquence this dipshit doesn't possess, than at a rally in Fargo.

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
3. WHY
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 02:19 AM
Jun 2018

are there never any crowd shots? Why are we taking his word for all these HUGE crowds? He proved he was a liar at the inauguration on that account.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
4. God he's a fucking idiot.
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 02:29 AM
Jun 2018

Do you notice how confident he is when he is in front of an audience of his moronic supporters? He thinks he is so charming and brilliant. He is in his glory. The reason is because all of the people in those audiences are so stupid that he knows that they will eat up every word that he says and will believe with their whole heart and soul that he is the messiah.

Compare that with how he is when he is in front of an educated, sophisticated, intelligent audience. He comes across as a brain-damaged gorilla. Because he knows that he can't possibly bullshit that kind of crowd. It is a very interesting contrast. It's like he is two different people. He knows he can't possibly measure up.

He makes me absolutely sick. I honestly don't understand how anyone can find him appealing. I am so sick of his bragging and self-aggrandizement. How can anyone admire this sickening example of perverted humanity? I will never understand it.

Javaman

(62,540 posts)
7. I just listened to a great podcast about mark david chapman
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 09:52 AM
Jun 2018

he was a loser from day one but he was always told by his mother that he would do great things.

so much so, that he believed that he would do "great things" inherently as if it was part and parcel of his personality.

as a result, he was a lazy slob who got angry at the world for not elevating him to greatness.

plus he was schizophrenic. that doesn't certainly help.

trump with massive father issues: doesn't like confrontation, folds like a house of cards when called out on his shit, will love anyone who flatters him to any degree (skewed sense of approval seeking).

and massive mother issues. she was cold and remote and cared only just enough. (narcissist?)

the way the orange asshole deals with things, strikes me much in the same way chapman dealt with things.

the orange asshole was born into wealth as was probably taught, by virtue of his DNA lottery win, he was better and smarter than everyone else. And was probably told that from a very early age and he believed it.

as a result from his parental issues, his deep seated knowledge that he is actually pretty stupid but was told otherwise all his life; stoked by hanger-ons and sycophants, he lives a conflicted life of trying to be better than everyone else when he knows deep down that he lacks even the basic tools of intelligence.

his "success" is only due to his money or his ability to convince people that he has money.

at the heart of the matter is this: trump, lacking inherent intelligence has had to live by his wits and thuggery to get by. He's much like a person who didn't learn to read but has an incredible memory to make up for it.

and because he has lived this way his entire life, he scoffs at those more intelligent, more learned, more insightful and certainly those with more wisdom as "losers". which only further inflates his already over inflated ego.

he is so far down his own personal rabbit hole, that for him to change would require years upon years of therapy, but alas, no one, least of all the American public, has the time for that.

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