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applegrove's JournalThe difference between Putin and Trump, the first a sociopath, the second
a salesman: when some former American football player showed Putin his superbowl ring, Putin tried it on and then kept it without asking. When Trump is offered the purple heart of a us serviceman to keep, he keeps it. It was thoughtless to accept it. Trump is narcissistic but not nearly as mind bogglingly weird as Putin. Trump is laughable. When you laugh at Putin's behaviour it is because it scares you in places you did not know could be scared.
Apparently when Putin tried on the ring he said "I could kill somebody with this ring" then pocketed it and was surrounded by KGB as he left. ............ I guess they are alike because Trump said I could shot somebody and not lose any supporters. The difference is Putin said it to scare the beJebus out of the owner of the ring and freeze him, while putin left. Trump was just metaphorically bragging. The difference is Putin does kill people.
I'm not insulting dyslexics. We do some things better than regular people:
think in 3D, keep narratives separate, interconnectedness and dynamic reasoning. And seeing things others miss. It is simply a different way of perceiving the world. And a blank slate makes for great scientific observation.
What part do you not agree with? Dyslexics with high iqs make up a big
part of both NASA and MIT. I'm not saying Trump is one of them. But he is the typical businessman with dyslexia. Good at reading a crowd. Good at politics like other dyslexics like Churchill, Kennedy, Woodrow Wilson, Reagan, and both Bushes. Some of them were smart enough to think for themselves and do great stuff. Some of them, the Republicans, were spoonfed trickle down by the Right. As Trump will be.
Dyslexics like Trump learn things or figure them out. Then they relive them
with different assumptions. I'm sure Trump has been briefed about crimea being annexed by Putin. Or possibly he remembers it from the news in 2014. Then he looked at the situation with a blank slate or with other assumptions at the time he was being interviewed. So he forgot about crimea. It is what makes dyslexics so creative. They look at things at different times from different angles and with different assumptions and sometimes with a blank slate. Then, over time, we synthesize all these different takes to get a 3 D big picture. We toss things over in their minds in a three dimentional way. That makes us creative. And good at seeing things others miss. Good at science, business, arts, etc. But wrong at times. But right in pulling down the fictions of hypocrites: Trump pulled down the GOP fictions thay 1) the GOP is not racist 2) that the GOP economic platform of low taxes and no regulations helps workers. Trump should be a muse (as I'm sure his role in his empire is) or a second set of eyes. Not a president.
I predict more Republicans will be saying it. It is not just that Trump is
dyslexic and looks at things from varying perspectives and with varying assumptions as dyslexics do so some of what he says is wild (and sometimes right and sometimes wrong). He is also running a con. And using race to do it. And he lies. And he is so narcissistic.
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