"I study liars. I've never seen one like Donald Trump." - high rate of cruel lies
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-donald-trump-liar-20171208-story.html----
In Trump's first 298 days in office, however, he made 1,628 false or misleading claims or flip-flops, by The Post's tally. That's about six per day, far higher than the average rate in our studies. And of course, reporters have access to only a subset of Trump's false statements — the ones he makes publicly — so unless he never stretches the truth in private, his actual rate of lying is almost certainly higher.
That rate has been accelerating. Starting in early October, The Post's tracking showed that Trump told a remarkable nine lies a day, outpacing even the biggest liars in our research.
But the flood of deceit isn't the most surprising finding about Trump.
Both the college students and the community members in our study served their own interests with their lies more often than other people's interests. They told lies to try to advantage themselves in the workplace, the marketplace, their personal relationships and just about every other domain of everyday life. For example, a salesperson told a customer that the jeans she was trying on were not too tight, so she could make the sale. The participants also lied to protect themselves psychologically: One college student told a classmate that he wasn't worried about his grades, so the classmate wouldn't think he was stupid.
Less often, the participants lied in kind ways, to help other people get what they wanted, look or feel better, or to spare them from embarrassment or blame. For example, a son told his mother he didn't mind taking her shopping, and a woman took sides with a friend who was divorcing, even though she thought her friend was at fault, too.
About half the lies the participants told were self-serving (46 percent for the college students, 57 percent for the community members), compared with about a quarter that were kind (26 percent for the students, 24 percent for the community members). Other lies did not fit either category; they included, for instance, lies told to entertain or to keep conversations running smoothly.
One category of lies was so small that when we reported the results, we just tucked them into a footnote. Those were cruel lies, told to hurt or disparage others. For example, one person told a co-worker that the boss wanted to see him when he really didn't, "so he'd look like a fool." Just 0.8 percent of the lies told by the college students and 2.4 percent of the lies told by the community members were mean-spirited.
My colleagues and I found it easy to code each of our participants' lies into just one category. This was not the case for Trump. Close to a quarter of his false statements (24 percent) served several purposes simultaneously.
Nearly two-thirds of Trump's lies (65 percent) were self-serving. Examples included: "They're big tax cuts — the biggest cuts in the history of our country, actually" and, about the people who came to see him on a presidential visit to Vietnam last month: "They were really lined up in the streets by the tens of thousands."
Slightly less than 10 percent of Trump's lies were kind ones, told to advantage, flatter or protect someone else. An example was his statement on Twitter that "it is a 'miracle' how fast the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police were able to find the demented shooter and stop him from even more killing!" In the broadest sense, it is possible to interpret every lie as ultimately self-serving, but I tried to stick to how statements appeared on the surface.
Trump told 6.6 times as many self-serving lies as kind ones. That's a much higher ratio than we found for our study participants, who told about double the number of self-centered lies compared with kind ones.
The most stunning way Trump's lies differed from our participants', though, was in their cruelty. An astonishing 50 percent of Trump's lies were hurtful or disparaging. For example, he proclaimed that John Brennan, James Clapper and James Comey, all career intelligence or law enforcement officials, were "political hacks." He said that "the Sloppy Michael Moore Show on Broadway was a TOTAL BOMB and was forced to close." He insisted that other "countries, they don't put their finest in the lottery system. They put people probably in many cases that they don't want." And he claimed that "Ralph Northam, who is running for Governor of Virginia, is fighting for the violent MS-13 killer gangs & sanctuary cities."
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My deceased mother's next door neighbors are "tRump davidians" (better known as Baptist fundies) who believe everything tRump says. 
My sis & I will be glad when our mother's estate is settled so we'll never have to interact with them again.
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My deceased mother's next door neighbors are "tRump davidians" (better known as Baptist fundies) who believe everything tRump says.
My sis & I will be glad when our mother's estate is settled so we'll never have to interact with them again.
Sadly that's the way I feel about most folks down there and most Republicans actually.
Some examples:
-Various disorders that have a genetic component— specific genes associated with the disorders.
-The physical brain abnormalities found in schizophrenia and some bipolar disorders.
-Low levels of serotonin seen in mood and anxiety disorders.
Just my layperson’s devalued nickel’s worth. 
Trumpy chooses to create his own set of assertions (i.e., his "bubble"
FOR HIS OWN PROTECTION against challengers. This is a conscious choice. He's always had enough MONEY to buy a degree of legitimacy and to ruin those who dare call him out. Yes, he's lost billions, but his initial wealth and his late father's constant use of funds to bail him out is legion. He's thrown away billions because he insists on creating a myth for himself AS A BUSINESS MODEL. His money keeps him from being legally accountable. These are conscious decisions.
That Trumpy believes his own lies is also a conscious decision. He expresses psychosis when his creations not just conflate with the reality for the rest of us, but indeed dominate the spectrum of experience and perspective. The degree to which conscious volition determines Trumpy's actions are seen in his everyday maintenance of several lies at once. Trumpy must ask himself, on a regular basis, "Who am I?", to which he answers by reinforcing his own "brand" or marketing his persona. He must attempt, at every opportunity, to make his persona the person he really is. That he always must reinforce his brand indicates that it needs constant lying to maintain a degree of consistency that keeps his brand public and dominant. In other words, lying to himself is mandatory. If he doesn't lie to himself, his entire world collapses.
The ONLY person in the whole world that would do what putin wanted is tRUMP! Beyond words to describe tRUMP! Every filthy fucking word describes him! 
constant bail outs in his mind (even if kind of unconsciously), and in his childish mind, he thinks he'll be 'safe' from any accountability for as long as he will keep doing his 'new daddy' happy (or nodding...) 
