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kentuck

(111,079 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 11:54 PM Apr 2020

We don't understand the "code".

Michael Cohen told us about how Trump spoke in code. "His" people (Trumpers) understand when he is talking in code.

That is why they heard something different when he talked about injecting light and disinfectant into patients bodies. That is why they heard something different when he spoke of "liberating" MI, MN, and VA. They heard that it was time to hit the streets and protest. And they did.

They hear what they want to hear because they feel like they have always been a persecuted minority until Trump came along. He makes them feel good. He makes them feel like they are the majority in this country. They hear dog whistles that the average person cannot hear.

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We don't understand the "code". (Original Post) kentuck Apr 2020 OP
Yep, he is speaking to his cult in trumpcode. FM123 Apr 2020 #1
It's because I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2020 #2
Absolutely, Panther! SheltieLover Apr 2020 #7
It has to do with a pathological personality I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2020 #10
Yes SheltieLover Apr 2020 #13
Ha. tRUMP, reTHUGS and cultists don't know what persecution/prosecution is. Yet... abqtommy Apr 2020 #3
It's notable that you provided the "translation" for one, but not the other greenjar_01 Apr 2020 #4
They believe whatever he tells them to believe. kentuck Apr 2020 #5
Will there ever be a "code" to break them??? a kennedy Apr 2020 #6
I don't know but... kentuck Apr 2020 #9
Nope I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2020 #12
I think Trump just thinks bullshit stuff LeftInTX Apr 2020 #8
Code Brown Blue Owl Apr 2020 #11
Liberate MI MN VA was not a code... lame54 Apr 2020 #14
But we did not go out the very next day protesting... kentuck Apr 2020 #15
Wow! So now, "ignorant" is a code. dawg Apr 2020 #16

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,463 posts)
2. It's because
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 12:03 AM
Apr 2020

Pathology is the filter thier hearing goes through before it is comprehended, so the sounds are not heard like the people without certain pathologies hear it.

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
7. Absolutely, Panther!
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 12:20 AM
Apr 2020

We all have our own world view, almost like a uniquely tinted pair of glasses. With them, it is the cult leader... 🤮

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,463 posts)
10. It has to do with a pathological personality
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 01:07 AM
Apr 2020

They interpret thier worldview in such a way as to:


Greatly inhibit or even prevent the development of their ability to experience compassion, empathy or conscience, as well as certain emotions such as guilt or shame, as normals do -

Just as color blind people cannot see colors like normally-sighted people, those with these psychopathologies, especially in their more extreme forms, simply cannot access these capacities or generate or appreciate these feelings in the same ways as normals.

http://www.systemsthinker.com/interests/systemsthinking/humansystems/pathocracy.shtml

 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
4. It's notable that you provided the "translation" for one, but not the other
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 12:06 AM
Apr 2020

What exactly is it they hear when he talks nonsense about disinfectant and the like?

The reason Trump and his crew have spent the day sulking about and walking it back is because it sounds even to his own people like dangerous idiocy.

kentuck

(111,079 posts)
5. They believe whatever he tells them to believe.
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 12:08 AM
Apr 2020

They are a cult.

His message to them was that they did not have to understand what he was talking about but only that they trust him to know what is best for them.

kentuck

(111,079 posts)
9. I don't know but...
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 12:31 AM
Apr 2020

..the first step is to beat them at the polls.

Put them back in the minority for a long time.

LeftInTX

(25,258 posts)
8. I think Trump just thinks bullshit stuff
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 12:29 AM
Apr 2020

Like disinfecting blood and using UV. He sees something in a report about UV killing the virus, then stupidly he starts yakking crazy about putting UV inside a body...when it isn't feasible, but he thinks it might be cool if it worked, but it's not going to work. He talks like he's in a bar yakking to his friends about crazy hypotheticals and he forgets he's President of the United States...or doesn't realize he can't say those things cuz he's POTUS. (God I sound like Trump, trying to explain him!!) He's so immature!!!

kentuck

(111,079 posts)
15. But we did not go out the very next day protesting...
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 10:07 AM
Apr 2020

...and tempting fate as if it was all fake news.

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