Lieu to Trump on spending bill: You got rolled

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29. Why Lieu's "loser" "rolled" "great weakness" comments are REALLY SMART

Read Lakoff on the psychology of the president and his supporters.

https://georgelakoff.com/2016/07/23/understanding-trump-2/

Weakness is kryptonite for autocratic leaders. That's why Putin cultivates a bully personality and highlights his athletic prowess - to seem strong.

Check this review of Masha Gessen's book on Putin:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/feb/26/vladimir-putin-masha-gessen-review

The other word, zhulik, usually translated as "crook", is quite different: the zhulik is mean, treacherous, a cheat, a sneaky hooligan, a small-time rip-off merchant of primitive appetites without loyalties or wisdom. Nobody, not even a vor proud of his vorness, wants to be called a zhulik. As Hosni Mubarak, Muammar Gaddafi, Silvio Berlusconi and many others have found, the perceptive transition can be sudden and politically fatal. The man on the Volgograd trolleybus might support a tough, patriotic vor long after the liberals of Moscow had marched against him, but not a shifty, swindling zhulik only out for himself.

The autocrat wants to portray themselves as powerful and strong and their supporters love it. That's why showing what a weak loser the president is is so important. He has done exactly ZERO deals while in office. He keeps getting rolled by Dems and GOP alike. He's a corrupt loser.