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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 12:18 AM Feb 2021

Adam Schiff: As people lay dead and injured, our Capitol desecrated, Trump tweeted at 6:01 pm:


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Adam Schiff
@RepAdamSchiff
As people lay dead and injured, our Capitol desecrated, Trump tweeted at 6:01 pm:

“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away...”

Trump was knowing, willful, and remorseless.
7:59 PM · Feb 11, 2021
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Adam Schiff: As people lay dead and injured, our Capitol desecrated, Trump tweeted at 6:01 pm: (Original Post) soothsayer Feb 2021 OP
These are the kinds of things that make me wish I believed in hell. Maru Kitteh Feb 2021 #1
Donald Trump is a psychopath. madaboutharry Feb 2021 #2
That was possibly the most psychotic thing he posted his entire admin. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #3
He felt good about it. Bad things should Phoenix61 Feb 2021 #4
K&R, ... and still to this day he still is remorseless, could give a f**k uponit7771 Feb 2021 #5
Soon You Will Join Them In Prison Donald DanieRains Feb 2021 #6
The worst part is: DFW Feb 2021 #7
"viciously stripped away" nuxvomica Feb 2021 #8

TwilightZone

(25,427 posts)
3. That was possibly the most psychotic thing he posted his entire admin.
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 12:21 AM
Feb 2021

It's quite remarkable in its complete lack of humanity and his complete obsession with himself.

Phoenix61

(16,992 posts)
4. He felt good about it. Bad things should
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 01:44 AM
Feb 2021

have happened. Look what they did to him? It’s just the natural order of things. People who go against him deserve to be punished.

Malignant narcissists have an incredible need for revenge when they believe they have been wronged. Since everything is perceived as being personal and intentional this happens a lot. There’s no differentiating between little slights and big ones. They are all deserving of the same response.

DFW

(54,277 posts)
7. The worst part is:
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 03:54 AM
Feb 2021

There are over 40 members of the U.S. Senate, all Republicans, who fully agree with him.

nuxvomica

(12,409 posts)
8. "viciously stripped away"
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 05:19 AM
Feb 2021

Note how he inserts words that connote violence in inappropriate contexts. How could even the fanciful rigging he claims be considered to have been done "viciously"? This sort of wooliness is meant to raise the temperature of the discourse, and to excuse violence in response to the suggestion of violence.

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