Psychology of liars
No, you won't find answers here, just a few questions.
I read an article, or a Twitter thread, a few weeks ago about the buffoon's view of the world. Basically, it's a zero sum game. For him to win, his adversary has to lose. Cooperation is a mug's game (witness his destruction of treaties and alliances).
I don't think the post addressed the issue of how a pathological liar responds to statements by another pathological liar. Granted, all of this is fucked up, and to even discuss it seems to be to play a role in the normalizing of it. But, still, you have to wonder.
Putting aside the commentary from his cult followers, most rational observers around the world believe that Kim Jong un played the buffoon, and we already see it in some of the comments coming out of North Korea. How does the buffoon reconcile that with his own lies and specious claims? I'm reminded of a comment my almost 90-year-old mother made when my father was in an Alzheimer's facility. She said my father would be sitting on a bench speaking to another Alzheimer's patient. They were speaking utter gibberish. Nothing either of them said made any sense, either on its own or in the context of the conversation. But they were happy as can be, smiling, laughing. Weird, maybe, but this is how I see this so-called summit. Of course, only one of them is delusional. The other is a brutal dictator whose family has been in power for more than 60 years. But, still, they spoke gibberish to each other, nothing that either of them said made any sense, and they both appeared to walk away happy as can be.
Back to reality - we have an enemy agent in the White House, a complicit and traitorous Congress, and the future is looking bleak. How's that comment go about shining a turd? Can't be done.
