TL;DR: The US president is the walking talking definition of “Main Character Syndrome” (because he is quite possibly the biggest narcissist in recorded history). Because of this, he is risking the dissolution of NATO, and a possible global conflict, seemingly because Norway did not give him a medal. His letter to the Norway PM below:
Dear Jonas,
Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT.
We have debated the extent to which we can call these claims “lies” because the president truly seems to believe many of them.
This, to me, is probably the scariest thing. I told my wife awhile back that the difference between people like Mitch McConnell and MTG was that McConnell knew he was pedaling bullshit to get what he wanted. He just didn’t have any ethics. MTG (and Boebert, maybe Gym Jordan, and certainly Trump and plenty more) genuinely think that bullshit is true.
When that guy showed up looking for the child hostages at that DC area pizza place w/ his AR-15 and found out the place had no basement , McConnell privately laughed at the idiot people like him had created. The MTGs of the world figured he just had the wrong pizza place, but went on believing that prominent Democrats were harvesting the blood of children! If enough people like that get in charge of a country like the US, then all bets are truly off. That’s not hyperbole. They are the kind of people who can be convinced that a country can win a nuclear war, because God would be on their side.
I’m not saying we’re headed for a nuclear confrontation. It would have to be a means to an end for someone who can convince the President of the need to achieve that end, and I can’t think of any billionaires who need a nuclear war. Yet. Still, it’s important to recall that this president did once consider nuking a hurricane. I’m sure anyone on the right, and many on the left, will say he was just kidding. But looking at the context of that conversation, I don’t know if that assessment is fully accurate.
There are billionaires who seek nuclear war though. You can argue that Peter Thiel (knows about the antichrist) actually wants a large collapse because he has some technobabble belief that he’ll come out on top
There are certainly billionaires who want Curtis Yarvin’s stupid predictions to come true, but I haven’t seen any of them advocating for nuclear holocaust. Not even Thiel. Not saying I’d be surprised to see it. “Love, Death, & Robots” had a disturbingly believable post-apocalyptic skit that covered how some powerful people might think they can survive something like that.
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TL;DR: The US president is the walking talking definition of “Main Character Syndrome” (because he is quite possibly the biggest narcissist in recorded history). Because of this, he is risking the dissolution of NATO, and a possible global conflict, seemingly because Norway did not give him a medal. His letter to the Norway PM below:
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This, to me, is probably the scariest thing. I told my wife awhile back that the difference between people like Mitch McConnell and MTG was that McConnell knew he was pedaling bullshit to get what he wanted. He just didn’t have any ethics. MTG (and Boebert, maybe Gym Jordan, and certainly Trump and plenty more) genuinely think that bullshit is true.
When that guy showed up looking for the child hostages at that DC area pizza place w/ his AR-15 and found out the place had no basement , McConnell privately laughed at the idiot people like him had created. The MTGs of the world figured he just had the wrong pizza place, but went on believing that prominent Democrats were harvesting the blood of children! If enough people like that get in charge of a country like the US, then all bets are truly off. That’s not hyperbole. They are the kind of people who can be convinced that a country can win a nuclear war, because God would be on their side.
I’m not saying we’re headed for a nuclear confrontation. It would have to be a means to an end for someone who can convince the President of the need to achieve that end, and I can’t think of any billionaires who need a nuclear war. Yet. Still, it’s important to recall that this president did once consider nuking a hurricane. I’m sure anyone on the right, and many on the left, will say he was just kidding. But looking at the context of that conversation, I don’t know if that assessment is fully accurate.
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There are billionaires who seek nuclear war though. You can argue that Peter Thiel (knows about the antichrist) actually wants a large collapse because he has some technobabble belief that he’ll come out on top
There are certainly billionaires who want Curtis Yarvin’s stupid predictions to come true, but I haven’t seen any of them advocating for nuclear holocaust. Not even Thiel. Not saying I’d be surprised to see it. “Love, Death, & Robots” had a disturbingly believable post-apocalyptic skit that covered how some powerful people might think they can survive something like that.