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Are these photographs doctored, or did that actually happen?

There is a phenomenon called "self handicapping". And everyone does it a little at least a few times but it's typically a behavior that's considered poor.

Here is an example of how it works.

Let's say you have a big exam tomorrow. And you fucked around , didn't study. You knew about it weeks ago. You know you are going to fail it. But. Instead of spending that last evening cramming as much as possible to make up for procrastinating to maybe have a small chance of passing it, you decide to go to a bar and get shit faced.

The next day you don't even show up to class.

You blame failing the class on the alcohol. Instead of your inability to prioritize your education or your own intelligence.

It was the alcohol. Not your own ability to pass. You probably would have aced it actually. If you hadn't been hungover.

So this is a way to save face and preserve a sense of self superiority.

People who are narcissistic do this almost constantly. They never fail. No , not them. It's always some external cause that their plans didn't work.

They intentionally set up multiple barriers so that they can always fall back on those.

Trump does the same,

For instance. Tarriffs. He can claim he has a plan to fix the economy with tarriffs but Congress won't let him. So we won't ever know how great of a plan it was. It totally would have worked. It just needed a little more time.

But. often the obstacle isn't doing its job.

Example. Trump starts war. It's going badly. He won't pull out until Congress forces him. Then he can say "we were winning. My plan was great they just wouldn't let me see it through.

He wants Congress to stop it. He has wanted Congress and the supreme Court to stop most of the b.s. So he can claim they were good plans but someone else fucked it up.

He did this all through his first term too. It's how people like him function.

Is it still considered a disorder when it is someone's whole personality? If you removed the perpetual rage, the extreme narcissism and the bullying I think you would only find an orange stain on the floor where Trump was.

He recently stated that he wants to bomb Khark Island "Just for fun."

While this is a bald-faced lie to cover up for the fact that their earlier strikes weren't as successful as claimed, just think about what kind of lie he was willing to tell; to him, the idea of putting Americans in harm's way "just for fun" seems completely reasonable.

"Putin told me Zelensky's a bad hombre."

If Trump indeed suffers from a personality disorder,

Don't give him excuses, he's a sociopath.

No point reasoning with trump, no point pushing him away.

He is doing the smart thing - milking trump of every last drop of military aid that he can get.

At this point I think Zelensky just is doing whatever he thinks he can to try to stop any changes of the US changing sides and teaming with Russia

Meanwhile all of Ukraine's real allies took them up on this offer ages ago. I know for a fact that they've been training Canadians on anti-drone warfare pretty much since the war started. Ukraine has asked nothing in return for this, it's just the kind of thing you do for your allies when you understand alliances as bonds of solidarity that benefit both parties, and not something to be exploited.

At the same time, he's demanding "allies" commit ships to his stupid war.

I'm going to build the Trump Bering Strait Bridge, it'll be the longest bridge in the world, most advanced technology, nothing like this has ever been done before, it'll be beautiful, look - curtains!

Trump in a couple of months.

Hasn't he done that already? What is the US doing to help Ukraine at this point?

We all know that temporary relief is going to become permanent economic reintigration is going to become economic support is going to become military support.