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To: Sdgla who wrote (1202752)	2/20/2020 9:35:09 AM
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Yep, Trump just nominated the first openly gay same sex married Cabinet member. Must be a special day for you.

To: Sdgla who wrote (1202752)	2/20/2020 11:34:20 AM
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To: Sdgla who wrote (1202752)	2/20/2020 7:26:44 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader rdkflorida2 Respond to of 1583523

Do you think the Trump/Hitler comparisons are blown out of proportion or spookily accurate? Carrie Cadwallader, Political junkie I have shared this article before. Hitler was incompetent and lazy—and his Nazi government was an absolute clown show \| Opinion His government was constantly in chaos, with officials having no idea what he wanted them to do, and nobody was entirely clear who was actually in charge of what. He procrastinated wildly when asked to make difficult decisions, and would often end up relying on gut feeling, leaving even close allies in the dark about his plans. His "unreliability had those who worked with him pulling out their hair…" And He was obsessed with the media and celebrity, and often seems to have viewed himself through that lens. He once described himself as "the greatest actor in Europe," and wrote to a friend, "I believe my life is the greatest novel in world history." In many of his personal habits he came across as strange or even childish… He was deeply insecure about his own lack of knowledge, preferring to either ignore information that contradicted his preconceptions, or to lash out at the expertise of others. He hated being laughed at, but enjoyed it when other people were the butt of the joke (he would perform mocking impressions of people he disliked). But he also craved the approval of those he disdained, and his mood would quickly improve if a newspaper wrote something complimentary about him. Does that sound like anyone in recent memory? I think the Trump/Hitler comparisons are constructive. Hitler didn’t just wake up one day and murder 12 million people. He started small, by turning Germans against each other, suppressing the media and subverting the military and the courts. Kind of like a certain American “president” I could name.

To: Sdgla who wrote (1202752)

2/20/2020 7:33:19 PM

From: Brumar89

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Is Donald Trump the most self-confident President in United States history?

Jay Valenci, Stayed awake in history class

Self confident people never have to tell you how smart or how successful they are.

Self confident people don't bully those below them.

Self confident people don't resort to juvenile name calling.

Self confident people take responsibility for their mistakes and don't blame others.

Self confident people are willing to give credit to others for their success.

Self confident people don't surround themselves with shameless sycophants.

Self confident people aren't ashamed to seek the advice of experts.

Trump is probably among the least secure human beings I have ever witnessed. He is literally a textbook bundle of insecurity. Unfortunately his followers mistake his worst traits for strength. Nothing can be further from the truth.

Steve Harrison, lives in Brooklyn, NY

I don’t think anyone who paints his face with bronzer to look healthier, fluffs up his hair to hide his baldness, wears baggy suits to hide his obesity and shoe lifts to look taller can be described as self-confident. Just the opposite. It’s symptomatic of a man who is extremely insecure with his physical appearance.

The same goes for his attitude. Braggards are generally insecure people who lack confidence in their actual achievements. They are fearful of being judged as failures so they stave that off by boasting, gaslighting and even lying about their accomplishments to avoid being exposed as unexceptional, unremarkable, even flawed individuals.

Both together are indicative of low self-esteem, not self-confidence. I think deep in his psyche is the awareness, or at least the dogged memory of being told by an authority figure, that he doesn’t measure up to others which is why he’s so defensive and quick to viciously attack anyone who disagrees with him; also why he surrounds himself with obsequious toadies. His attacks are childish because I think his low self-image goes back to his childhood.

Narcissism and Self-Esteem Are Very Different

I’m not a shrink but my g/friend is a psychotherapist. She blames Trump’s emotionally unavailable mother and a nasty, demanding father for it.

No, I’d say that Trump is at least the most insecure president since Richard Nixon. That’s what makes him so dangerous.

To: Sdgla who wrote (1202752)	2/20/2020 7:45:04 PM
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@NatashaBertrand Breaking: Federal prosecutors have indicted a man for allegedly making a death threat against Trump-Ukraine whistleblower's lawyer @MarkSZaidEsq . Zaid says he received the death threat one day after Trump held up his photo/read his tweets during a rally. @Lifes2Short1959 Notice that Trump never ever Tweets out or speaks out in any way, shape or form AGAINST THESE CRIMES? He is the friggin' instigator of this country's massive rise in hate crimes & death threats (since Trump took office). 'All traitors must die': Feds charge man for threatening whistleblower attorneyThe man allegedly emailed the attorney in November, calling him a “traitor” who “must die a miserable death.” By NATASHA BERTRAND 02/20/2020 12:37 PM EST “All traitors must die miserable deaths,” reads the email to Zaid that was sent on November 7. “Those that represent traitors shall meet the same fate. We will hunt you down and bleed you out like the pigs you are. We have nothing but time, and you are running out of it. Keep looking over your shoulder. We know who you are, where you live, and who you associate with. We are all strangers in a crowd to you.” Atkinson has been charged with violating laws governing interstate communications, which prohibit “any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another” and is punishable by up to five years in prison. The indictment follows months of rhetorical salvos by the president and his allies against the whistleblower, whose purported identity has been posted on social media and even read aloud in the Senate chamber despite federal laws that allow whistleblowers to remain anonymous in order to encourage them to report wrongdoing. Trump has tweeted about the whistleblower more than five dozen times since September, accusing the person of being part of the “deep state” and alleging that he gave the Intelligence Community inspector general false information. Nothing in the whistleblower’s original complaint, however, has proven inaccurate. Zaid and his co-counsel on the whistleblower case, Andrew Bakaj, wrote a letter to then Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire in September raising “serious concerns” about their client’s safety following remarks Trump made at the U.N. accusing the whistleblower of being a “spy.” “You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason, right? We used to handle it a little differently than we do now,” Trump said, according to audio of the remarks obtained by The Los Angeles Times. To Zaid’s knowledge, the indictment is the first time an individual has been charged with making death threats against him, he said. But it’s far from the first threatening email he and his legal partner Bradley Moss have received since taking on the whistleblower as a client. “@realDonaldTrump thank you so much for the specific commentary about my firm last night,” Moss tweeted on November 7, the day Atkinson allegedly threatened Zaid. “I woke up to a ton of hate mail and death threats. And I’m not even on this case.” "It's not appropriate for anyone to threaten another individual's life, regardless of political views," Zaid said. "My job was to ensure the rule of law was followed in how whistleblowers are treated. That role should not be negatively weaponized by partisans." "I hope this indictment sends a message to others that such behavior will not be tolerated by a civil society that is governed by law," he added. Whistleblower protection advocates and national security experts have warned that the president’s attacks on the intelligence community employee who first raised alarms about Trump’s call with Ukraine’s president last summer could lead to violence. The issue of whistleblower protection was a central focus of the intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson’s confirmation hearing two years ago, where he pledged to establish “a safe program where whistleblowers do not have fear of retaliation and where they’re confident that the system will treat them fairly and impartially.” Seamus Hughes, the deputy director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, first noticed the recently unsealed indictment. politico.com Trump wants YOU to go to prison for him. Too bad you're too much of a sissy.