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Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
Tue May 16, 2017, 01:59 PM May 2017

I'm always surprised that Boot Lickers never seem to tire of the flavour...

One would think that after a while you would get tired of the flavour of dirty leather boots, of cleaning up your masters excrement only to have him hurl it at you again. That doesn't seem to be the case with many.

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I'm always surprised that Boot Lickers never seem to tire of the flavour... (Original Post) Locut0s May 2017 OP
They live vicariously through the Master. haele May 2017 #1
In Trump's case I don't feel it's about wealth. But I agree... Locut0s May 2017 #2

haele

(12,581 posts)
1. They live vicariously through the Master.
Tue May 16, 2017, 03:05 PM
May 2017

Because s/he's rich, it must mean that crumbs from that table are better than eating a home-cooked meal with the rest of the community.
They can handle the "master's" things, and pretend they own them. they're surrounded by riches, even though they can't really partake. They have to dress up and be presentable at any moment's notice to serve the other rich folks - like all the other things around the mansion need to be spotlessly presentable - rather than wear clothes they want or clothes they can afford and interact with normal people and own their own actions.

Bootlickers live by a script; they don't have to think because they "represent" their hero masters; if they pretend hard enough and shut away enough of their own feel like they exist in a world that they otherwise wouldn't have any access to. It's like being high on a drug.

Haele

Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
2. In Trump's case I don't feel it's about wealth. But I agree...
Tue May 16, 2017, 08:00 PM
May 2017

I think it's about getting a taste of the power trip that Trump is on. It's difficult to understand though how they can repeatedly get back up and crawl to his side apologetically after he repeatedly throws them under the bus. All week his aids have been doing overtime lying and building preposterous stories to explain his behaviour. They fawn over him to the point it's sickening. And then he just turns around and throws them under the bus by denying the lies that they are using to protect him.

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