Trump's finally lost it

He is the most powerful man in the world,where did I go wrong,is it money,confidence how do people like him end up in such positions?

 

I suspect the only reason he hasn't tried with China yet is that the USA would probably lose unless he decides to try to kill a couple of billion people in Asia with nuclear weapons and the resulting fallout.

 

I think people with sociopathic tendencies tend to be quite successful. You find a lot of them in the stock market etc... people who are very driven, cutthroat, lack compassion and empathy for others and just interested in reaching whatever goal they have set themselves regardless of how it may impact on others. They might take more risks than others too.

That's my take anyway. Either that or incredibly intelligent people who develop life changing products i.e. Bill Gates and co.

 

Titus your spot on ,some people would sell their soul for money and power

 

Simple cheap solution!

 

"To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
- Douglas Adams

 

Like that quote! Never read Hitchhikers before. Not sure if it would be my cup of tea.

 

There's someone at school who has zero empathy. It's quite interesting having a conversation with them as they are honestly baffled why people don't exploit any weakness they see to their benefit, in fact they see it as a weakness in others if they don't. At times, they also almost see it as their job to teach the other person a lesson if they have left a loophole to be exploited and think that they other would greatly appreciate the life lesson (as they would themselves). If you try and get them to emphasise by imagining that it is themselves in the weaker position then they explain/argue in great detail how they would never let themselves be in that position in the first place and the steps they would take to get out of it - not acknowledging at all that there can be powers outside of their control. If they cannot see an immediate value to themselves in any task they won't do it and absolutely refuse to work in a group (either they want to do it all as no-one will do it their way or they will do nothing because if you can someone else to do it, then why would you waste your own time? They don't see it as unfair making someone else do all the work as they just think that the others clearly don't mind or they won't do it, just like they aren't).

 

I've not read it for a while but I'll probably revisit it soon. The man had so many clever ideas. Well worth a read, IMHO.

 

I've naturally come across people who you would describe as having sociopathic/psychopathic traits in my work in mental health. It can be very unnerving at times.

 

Thankfully the constitution rules this out - if they can't hold an election his term still ends, and the leader of the house takes control (or whatever Nancy Pelosi's job title is).

He'll do literally anything to stop that happening

 

I'm working my way through Oolon Colluphid's trilogy at the minute.

 

Any responsible governing body would get shut of the buffoon. But I suspect they choose to let him look a bigger buffoon (his advisers, if he has any he listens to, must be in the same league or conspirators) rather than take any of the flack on themselves. Damage limitation.
Would need a brave person to put themselves at the forefront. Until the storm settles.

 

They had the perfect opportunity to turn against him with the impeachment but clearly put their party first ahead of the good of the nation.

 

According to research, 1% of the population are psychopaths, and 4% are sociopaths. That doesn't mean that they will go out and start killing people, but you can their lack of empathy all through their daily lives.

I worked with one last year (in Swindon). When it was announced that Honda (in Swindon) would shut, instead of concern for his friends and family and those of his colleagues who worked there, his response was that the bank we worked for "Should close their accounts before they get the chance to get into debt". He was also an ardent Brexit supporter, and was completely oblivious to the effects it was having on the Romanian woman he was working with.

I suspect a lot of the higher up members of the Conservative and Republican parties will be in one of these brackets.

 

Yep, it is a bit of a fallacy that they're all secretly serial killers. I've been on wards with people much bigger than me chucking stuff about, been in client's houses whilst they're acutely unwell and aggressive, but I've never felt more unnerved as when I had a chat with one particular bloke in a GP surgery a few years ago. I'm convinced he will kill someone some day.

People are like that because of how they've been treated in childhood, though through abuse and neglect. It can be very easy to lose sight of that.

 

And that person is the librarian right?

We have someone at work who is really nice but honestly the weirdest person you will ever meet for many of the reasons youve said

 

Sadly, an awful lot of them are being ruthlessly successful whilst doing it. The problem is that, to use a football analogy, by the time the players at Caring & Compassionate FC have lined up, the players at Psychos & Sociopaths FC have kicked off, raced downfield, put the ball in the net, shot the ref, nicked the whistle, blown for full-time, lifted the trophy, and jumped aboard the open top bus.

 

I'm not so sure that he spoke better in that other interview. The difference seems to be that he pauses more now and breaks up his sentences more. If you put pauses into that previous interview it would sound just the same as his current ones.
And I think those pauses and short sentences are deliberate because he knows people pay attention to his shirt bursts. It's what Tony Blair did but on a much bigger scale

 

I think that’s called ‘damning with faint praise’