The underlying obscene insidiousness of Trump's response to the MAGAbomber

[Tommy_Carcetti]

It took me a few days to really process the MAGAbomber story and Trump’s response to it.

I knew it bothered me but I really wasn’t able to put a finger on why it disturbed me so much.

I think I know why now.

14 bombs (so far) were sent out, to prominent Democrats, by a genuine, bonafide Trump supporter.

The bomber’s van was covered in stickers supporting Trump and echoing his rhetoric against many of the intended targets.

One of the most prominent stickers read, “I am Donald Trump and I Approve This Message.”

Now, if I were in a situation where someone who claims to be a fan and follower of mine and literally acting in my name to threaten and terrorize others, I would be aghast and embarassed by that. I would do all that I could do distance myself from that, to say that’s not what I stand for. I would especially make sure to convey that message to the people targeted by these actions.

Trump never did that. Instead, he blamed the media, who by the way was also targeted by this terrorist.

He never called any of the targets to apologize or offer words of comfort or dissassoction.

He never even mentioned them by name.

Not once.

Two of the targets were former Presidents and he never mentioned them by name.

It’s just so incredibly unhuman. It’s so pathologically abnormal.

And that really disturbs me.

[Girard442]

1. We have to assume the worst: he's sending a message of approval.

[Left-over]

9. Do not forget the events that followed the "Reichstad Fire" in 1933

[Haggis for Breakfast]

22. Yes, silence IS tacit agreement

[lastlib]

2. You put it into words very well!

I have also had such sentiments, but haven't been able to verbalize it as you have here. Very well done, Tommy!

[PJMcK]

3. Well written, sir

Trump is incapable of seeing or experiencing anything except his own ego.

As you wrote, he's "pathologically abnormal."

It's infuriating and demoralizing.

[Achilleaze]

4. The republican-russians have the Tyrant* they want

...to prosecute their War on American Decency & Democracy.

* in this case a five-time republican draft-dodging coward, liar, and cheater with a long history of broken promises, moral turpitude, and gross manipulation of submissive lackeys.

[SimpleC]

5. Narcissistic Personality Disorder

I've mentioned it a few times...

trump has a mental disorder... he honestly doesn't understand the negative backlash he's getting and blaming it on others.

trump securing the gop nomination and then later gaining the office has just reinforced his core belief that he is indeed, perfect, and therefore above critism by people he deems below him.

The average layman just doesn't understand or see the true genius that he is. That's why he loves his rallies, dumb people show up to cheer his stable genius mind. <sarcasm>

The GOP support him mainly because they know he has no moral compass and they can hash together any law, kiss his ass a little, maybe stroke his ego, say it'll hurt Democrats, and trump will sign it without fail. He's an idiot, but the GOP believe him to be a useful idiot. Imagine being a legislator and having access to a rubber stamp approval for every lunatic idea you have.

You know trump doesn't read the things he signs, all indications point to the conclusion that he barely reads. His literacy level is about elementary school level.

trump is a tool, the people we really need to fear are the people around him who can and do read.

[Lars39]

6. And I'd add going on the offensive towards the intended victims.

[lark]

7. He is not a normal mperson, he's far less than a normal human, he's totally broken inside and out.

He's so extremely defective, he doesn't even understand what the words sympathy or empathy mean and has certainly never even felt a spark of one of those. He has a low cunning and is a manipulator, those are his only people skills. Otherwise, he's defective through and through, dispicable, sexual assaulter, misogynist, racist hater big time, fraud, cheat, criminal, traitor and most recently Russian asset. he's going to PA not for the victims, they told him not to come on the day of a funeral, but he's going because they said not to because he's not wanted, he's making a point for his raging minions that he and they can do what they want and we can't stop them. He revels in this all day while sitting around in his robe, watching Faux Snooze and eating KFC or McDonalds.

[geardaddy]

8. He's tickled pink that someone is acting in his name.

In his mind, it shows subservience to him and that gives him complete satisfaction.

[smirkymonkey]

11. He probably thinks he has some new-found power and it has made him

giddy. He can actually command people to kill for him. He can have other people wipe out his enemies for him. It's actually pretty terrifying.

[geardaddy]

12. Yes, it is terrifying.

In his tiny mind, he is God.

[Cha]

30. .. shit eating grin orange..

[geardaddy]

34. Exactly.

[geardaddy]

35. Exactly.

[geardaddy]

36. Spot on, Cha. n/t

[geardaddy]

37. Exactly, Cha.

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:nodding:

Sorry for all the responses. My computer went weird.

[Cha]

38. lol No worries.

[Javaman]

10. this is what happens when we have psychopath as president who is incapable of empathy. nt

[MyOwnPeace]

13. "They wanted me to call......"

IQ45 says, "We'll pass on that."

Says it all, doesn't it?

[Cha]

29. Fraud is a Sociopath. The brilliant

Democratic targets, though, were fortunate they didn't have to hear from that Psycho Asshole.

[mercuryblues]

14. I will add to that my opinion

on why he responded this way. trump is pleased that he was able to get someone to act in his name. He likes that power. He likes violence and fear. He thinks it makes him stronger, impenetrable.

Mueller's report will be out soon, the elections are around the corner and he needs his base ready to literally fight on the streets for him. These terror attacks and attempted assassinations show him he can get his base to take up arms on his command.

[marble falls]

15. They elected a true solipsist.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. and now he's distracting again

Even as the people in Pittsburgh mourn the murders by a right-wing terrorist, radicalized by Trump, Fox, and Limbaugh, he is attempting to push MAGAbomber and MAGAmurderor off the front page with idiotic rants and ramblings, including birthright citizenship nonsense.

[Caliman73]

17. He cannot EVER admit any mistake. It is exactly pathological.

Did you ever watch Happy Days? The Fonz, he was cool and in control, but one thing that always stood out for me was that he could never say, "I'm sorry" or "I was wrong" he would try, but the words would not come out, "I was wroo oo oo. I was wroo oo." and then the other character would let him off the hook. The Fonz was cool, but underneath he was scared and hurt. I think the back story was that his parents had abandoned him or something to that effect. Obviously that is a lighthearted comparison and Fonz was a good person underneath. Trump is not, but he has similar Trauma and cannot ever admit to being wrong, or mistaken in any way because he sees it as weakness.

When he is wrong, and it is constant, his response is always, "Who knew that --------- was so complicated, nobody knew" to which the average person says, "We all knew you idiot, that is why experts have been working on it for years!" but he can't say that he made any kind of mistake.

Admitting that his followers are responding to his rhetoric would be admitting culpability and that is weakness and that cannot stand in Trump's world. He thinks that denying obviously observable things is a winning strategy, and because of his resources, it has been.

[Harker]

18. "Pathologically abnormal."

Right up there among the best two word distillations of Trumpsky.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

19. Tommy, something that concerns me a lot is.....

that no one appears to be openly analyzing and exposing what it is exactly that triggers people like this bomber to feel compelled to act, and who it was that said things causing the trigger - Limbaugh, Trump, Alex Jones or whoever.

We all know what Trump is and have discussed it ad nauseam, and it's likely that suspect Cesar Sayoc is mentally ill in some fashion.

It seems to me there has to be a connection between repeated conspiracy themes and the dialog used by right-wingers that are responsible for triggering violence in those with certain types of mental illness or serious social or security inadequacies in their lives.

I suspect that teams of psychologists have analyzed this issue and may have connected the dots, but the public deserves to know what those actions and characteristics are for our own safety.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

20. Good follow-up article on the bomb suspect...

Bombing suspect Cesar Sayoc, lost and angry, found his tribe with Trump
By Linda Robertson, Sarah Blaskey And Martin Vassolo
Updated October 29, 2018 09:10 PM

Link: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article220730960.html

(snip)

Cesar Sayoc lived on the crummy strip-mall fringes of South Florida, sleeping in a van that stank of sweaty gym clothes, delivering pizzas on the graveyard shift and working as floorman inside a smoky, dingy gentlemen’s club where naked dancers gyrated mechanically for dollar tips from boozy customers.

Sayoc was always several rungs lower on the ladder than he aspired to be and exaggerated the caliber of roles he chose for himself. He said he was a Chippendales dancer, a champion bodybuilder, a professional wrestler, a popular DJ, a dry-cleaning business whiz and a veterinary medicine student who once played soccer for AC Milan in the Italian league.
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In South Florida, where the sun shines year round, dreams and schemes grow like hothouse flowers. It was here that a homeless ex-male stripper and Donald Trump fanatic concocted a mass mailing of pipe bombs that thrust an angry nation on edge into panic.

It was here that Sayoc finally found his true calling. His life changed two years ago at a Trump rally in West Palm Beach. He bought a red Make America Great Again cap, carried a poster mocking Trump critics and joined the boisterous throng in belligerent chants of “Lock her up!”

..........

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. Me too--can't believe how un-human he is.

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It can’t possibly be a carbon based life form. More like ammonia based.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

23. I was going to say methane.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

24. *heeee!*

[MontanaMama]

27. Thread winner.

[ET Awful]

25. The first thing I thought when I saw that "I am Trump"

sticker was "I'm Negan." Walking Dead viewers will recognize the line.

[Demovictory9]

26. He went right back to that "pocohontas" stuff

[Cha]

28. Fraud was asked by a reporter if he

was going to reach out to the targets and he said .. "I'll pass..".

Yes, he's inhuman.

[pioche4]

31. Precisely stated...and exactly what a lot of people feel

I'm hoping that his going to Pittsburgh will change some people's minds, although I'm sure those following him will just say his going was a most decent thing for him to do. I don't know how he sleeps at night, only a sociopath with no empathy at all, would be behaving this way.

[bucolic_frolic]

32. You can measure a man by the degree of empathy he exhibits

I have known one or two in my life that tipped that scale at zero. These are ugly ugly people

[mtnsnake]

33. Trump's reactions to almost everything are typical of the sociopath that he is

He has no conscience, no empathy for others, and no regard for the truth. His brain cannot function normally. That this lunatic became president is shocking, and that the GOP has enabled him from Day One is absolutely shameful.

[area51]

39. As far as I can tell,

Trump has no conscience.