Narcissism. Five Reasons why it tends to get more extreme with age.
The five points below are from an AI response to my question: Does Narcissism get more extreme with age?
1. The “Mask” Fades (Reduced Inhibition)
When younger, narcissists often maintain a charming or successful persona to gain supply (admiration, status). As they age, their ability to maintain this facade diminishes, causing their true, more hostile personality to emerge. Without the energy to keep up the pretense, they become bolder in their negative behaviors.
2. Loss of Narcissistic Supply
Aging often brings a decline in physical appearance, career status, or social influence, which are the main sources of validation for a narcissist. When they can no longer command admiration, they feel entitled to demand it, leading to increased anger, bitterness, and jealousy.
3. Entitlement and Rage in the Face of Limitations
Aging forces a confrontation with reality, which a narcissist finds unbearable. Health challenges or reduced control over their environment are often met with “narcissistic rage,” causing them to become more verbally abusive and demanding toward caregivers or family members.
4. Increased Isolation and Paranoia
Because they often alienate people over their lifetime, aging narcissists may find themselves alone, surrounded only by people they can still manipulate. They may become more paranoid, believing others are out to get them or steal from them, further isolating themselves.
5. Cognitive Decline and Entrenched Behavior
If cognitive decline (such as dementia) occurs, it can severely amplify existing narcissistic traits, making them even more irrational and difficult to manage. Rather than growing wiser, they become more inflexible and childish.
Why It’s Worse Even With Trump
Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants who will tell Trump what he wants to hear.
They were selected for this reason, and are the worst of the lot.
Racists Stephen Miller (deputy chief of staff), Kristi Noem (Secretary of Homeland Security), and Pete Hegseth (Secretary of War) are the worst of the lot. And they are controlling policy.
Hegseth defends blowing up people clinging to wreckage 2,000 miles from the US.
Kristi Noem called a Good a “domestic terrorist” and Trump said that she “violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer.”
Everyone in the Trump administration is a confirmed serial liar.
Anyone who watched those videos knows what liar Noem is.
This happened with Renee Good, as well. She was shot and killed in her vehicle by an ICE agent on Jan. 7.
There are hundreds of stories like those including a claim of “suicide” by the administration of a man strangled to death.
Trump is getting more extreme because of narcissism and the racist sycophants surrounding him are purposely feeding that narcissism.
A Word About Dementia
Democrats pretending Biden did not have dementia was an obvious lie. Everyone could see the lie.
Similarly, the onset of Trump’s dementia and the increasingly belligerent tone in his speeches are easy to see. The denial phase is coming up.
I suspect Republicans will be in the same place, with the same hypocritical denials by the end of Trump’s term, if not much sooner.
A Word About Morality
“I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the president of the United States.” Trump said these words in August to defend his decision to send National Guard troops to Chicago under the pretext of fighting crime.
Summary
Dementia aside, aging does not usually teach a narcissist humility. Instead, it strips away their defenses, leaving them a more intense, uninhibited, and volatile version of their younger selves.
This is compounded by the power of a president who is surrounded by sycophants promoting racism, conquest, and power. These are to a president who does not give a damn about the Constitution, and was already obsessed with power.
Related Posts
January 19, 2026: Trump “No Longer Feels an Obligation to Think Purely of Peace”
Trump states the obvious.
Trump Links Greenland Threats to Missing Out on Nobel Prize
President Trump added a new dimension to his increasingly aggressive pursuit of Greenland, telling Norway that he no longer needed to think “purely of peace” after being snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize.
January 18, 2026: We Are Now Bearing the Poisoned Fruit of Trump’s Self-Proclaimed Morality
Trump says his own morality is the only check on his power.
Trump has no morals and he is surrounded by people with no morals.
So yes, it’s getting worse and will continue to get worse.
Leftists always double down. Rules for Radicals.
Actually quite interesting. It explains some things with a family member that recently passed away. She was more of a silent narcissist rather than a rage-y one, but the pattern fits the elements above.
This is helpful in several dimensions.
He is getting worse and worse. It is clear.
Trump’s confabulation and the transparently childishness of much of what he says/thinks clearly already indicates disinhibition — a feature also notably present in Biden’s behavior.
One of the resolutions to a narcissism that cannot be maintained and defended, often in old age, is a break down of the personality and a retreat into delusion.
I see so much childishness in Democrat politicians. A lot of disinhibition there. A lot of confabulation as well. Simply, men cannot be women, no matter how may times Democrats say they can.
Spot on Mish. I’ve seen too many of these people in action. Unfortunately, some are people “close” to me. Meaning I don’t want to be in their orbit, you’re always in theirs, not the other way around, but I have to work with a few for a little while longer. But yeah, I have firsthand experience. These people don’t have real friends. They expect you to be their friend but they don’t have to be yours. You are expendable. They are sociopaths and more rarely psychopaths. Born or made they are difficult people. Steve Jobs was probably a narcissist but he made a good company, though he wore people out. But i think that sometimes works in business. If you don’t like it you can get another job. But someone like that should never, ever be in public service, period. But MAGA ain’t whatchacall educated. In fact, many of them are probably narcissistic themselves or at least more than willing to be foot soldiers. Now we’re in a pinch with potentially 3 years to go and a bunch of opportunists around him. Maybe if the democrats can get a majority this November the republicans can find cowardly cover. Power and money are strong aphrodisiacs. Some people are talking about invoking a limit on age in the future. How about just plain term limits or rank choice voting or public funding? We deserve more than the uniparty. State’s Convention anyone???
He’s just a terrible example of a human being. A horrible person, dressed in a suit so he is not arrested immediately. To be honest, I much preferred him to waffly Kamala and the awful Tim Walz before the election….and I think I was wrong. Kamala and Walz wouldn’t have done much, bad or good, Trump is doing lots and lots of bad and very little good. I supported deported illegal immigrants, I didn’t;t imagine what Trump wanted, a band of masked thugs shooting mother and unarmed people and stealing two and 5 year old kids. It is time to stop these demented 79 year old from being able to run for office.
It has descended into a choice between turds and pieces of shit.
The Monty Python skit went something like – I’m not a narcissist. Narcicism is a silly infatuation with yourself, with me it’s the real thing.
Watch for him to pull out the autopen LOL…..Its coming
Most of the so called political analysis these days is just an immature response to Donald Trump’s abrasive personality. There really is no discussion of his policies anymore. It’s all just personal attacks against him and anyone who doesn’t side with that will be called names or generally put down by Mish. Nothing but children on this site. Not intelligent discord.
Go pollute some other website then.
Your commitment resembles the kind of ideological conditioning seen in the Hitler Youth—an unwavering belief that persists even when reality contradicts it. In Germany’s final days, many young people were still prepared to fight despite the obvious collapse. That same refusal to acknowledge facts is what I’m seeing in your devotion to Donald Trump.
Oh Curtis. You know so little about politics. You know so little about Trump. It’s all a show my friend. It’s all about ratings. The more “likes” he gets the more he feels entitled. That’s why all the postings, late into the night. He needs affirmation like a heroine addict, literally. He needs to be the center of attention. If you knew anything about his personality/temperament beforehand, you would have seen his lack of morals. Now we’re all are stuck with an immoral person who will try to do what ever he wants, justifying it however he wants. And expect him to try to hang onto power or pardon himself and everyone in his administration for anything and everything. No accounting. Why do you think Biden pardoned his family and other dems? Wouldn’t have been about the retribution tour would it? If you understood his psyche you would have been able to predict his unpredictability. You should read his niece’s book. He doesn’t give a damn about policy…
Finally! Another person on this board has a very good understanding of who Donald Trump is and has always been.
Go support and pursue “liberal hunting season” somewhere else, Curtis
Yes, he is a narcissist! He is a billionaire who was born a multi-millionaire. He is now President of the United States, thanks to those who voted for him, fully knowing what he was. Even if there was such a thing as a “well-meaning” narcissist, even that narcissist, given the entitlement and power that Donald Trump has, would not be able to rein in their narcissistic impulses. The Presidency gives this particular beligerent narcissist the attention, the power, and the ability to force others, through coercion, to suck up to him and drown him in disingenuous compliments. He is now a beligerent narcissist, drunk on the power and attention that comes with the Presidency. He can’t get enough of it, and the more outrageous he behaves, the more attention he gets.
Oh no! The “racist” label is out…but now it’s meaningless.
TDS is getting worse with age, your age.
Looks like Trump probably had a stroke https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-evidence-proves-trump-had-a-stroke-doctor/
After a certain age you can’t fix stupid. You passed the that age long ago…
Government reserves the right to violence, through law enforcement.
When people oppose law enforcement, they put themselves at risk to law enforcement violence.
This has been true under every administration, and will continue to be so.
To observe that Trump and his administration is somehow different in this regard from previous administrations is intellectually dishonest.
People should not knowingly come carrying a firearm to where law enforcement is working, to engage in protest, obstruct, argue, or not follow instructions and orders.
Those that do so, should not expect to have all their rights come 1st, and the rights of the law enforcement come 2nd. Think about it.
Try thinking
They are. That is the scary part.
You are arguing with Nazi.
Damn National Socialist! I’m guessing everyone who disagrees with you is a Nazi. Right?
No just the ones who support murdering law abiding civilians in broad daylight and cold blood. Honestly it’s a bad look for you to support police state-style behavior like Pretti’s killing.
Sending a message: obey us or die. Nazis (and mafia) believe communication to the masses is best delivered via brutal violence.
When you oppose law enforcement, depending on actions taken, you take the risk being detained, imprisoned, or shot.
Again, depending on the actions you take.
The Feds are not there for you. They are there to enforce laws. Immigration laws, in this case.
Those that think, “forget immigration laws, I’m going to obstruct law enforcement agents”, will rightfully regret their law & order disrespect.
It was Pretti’s choice to be there, with his legal gun, to oppose ICE officers of the law.
No one is trying to “communicate to the masses”. One man’s stupid actions resulted in his untimely and tragic death.
Don’t be stupid. Watch this PSA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx12Rox91ww
Another Nazi apologist
Your thinking here goes about as deep as your many nonsense articles on self driving vehicles or your scolding about COVID hysteria. This post won’t age well either.
@Mish You article is full of passion and feeling, but without comparison to Obama deportations, ICE enforcement actions under Obama, or basic first principles analysis, just “empathy” for “social justice”.
Trump’s bedside manner and business interests are out in the open, instead of the media protection of the “10% for the Big Guy” type graft and fraud Democrats have been exposed for. Trump is perceived as being more “honest” that Biden, did you know?
He is having his “sycophant” administration carry out the illegal immigration clean-up from Biden, a platform he was elected on.
Get a grip and think of policies, not anecdotes from the street.
People in the country illegally, need to leave. Safest way is to self-deport. Otherwise, we should all thank ICE for doing a difficult and dangerous job.
Anecdotes? Wow. I’m guessing you live in the FOX “News” bubble?
Yes, one person’s reaction to a perceived threat (either a protestor’s or an ICE officer’s reaction) is an “anecdote”, not a Federal Government Policy.
If they were actually interested in “illegal immigration clean-up” they’d be in TX or FL where there are 10 or 15 times more illegals.
This is about retribution to states that didn’t vote for trump and keeping Epstein out of the public consciousness.
Minnesota is the current ICE focus, and for good reason.
Your theory of ICE retribution to distract from Epstein is rich, but imaginary.
That fact you consider whataboutisms as a pre-requisite for articles you read is confirmation you aren’t interested in the truth, only in furthering your chosen narrative.
The assess how “horrible” an activity is, why not compare precedents? This not the first time ICE is active, check out this truth. I do not even have a narrative. I only have respect for law & order.
You would make an excellent North Korean citizen
Because you do not respect law & order?
What ideal would you strive for? “no one is illegal” ?
What is wrong with America, the way it is? Tell us how you really feel.
Let’s dive deeper! Is this about following the law or about simply satisfying the racists in this country that voted for him, who are afraid of losing their precious “privilege” that white males in particular have enjoyed for 250 years? They bristle and make snide comments when they are around people speaking their native language or wearing their customary garb. By the way, I am white, I am male, and my ancestors have been here for over 300 years.
If the Administration were following the law, it would not be lying in wait at immigration courts for immigrants to show up for their court-set hearings. They would not be deporting people who have been here for years or even decades, working and paying taxes.
Who da “f” is racist here, dude? Accusations of “privilege” are something you learned in school during the past 20 years, not before. CRT is racism, as it is based on race. Race is irrelevant. Culture is everything. If anyone does not have a “hard-working” attitude due to their culture or whatever reason, they will become a social dependent, with their hand out waiting for hand-outs, from the rest of the hard-working people. Enough of this already.
If an illegal immigrant is hard working, they need to become legal. They should surrender to ICE and apply for legal status. How ICE apprehends them is irrelevant. Laws need to be respected.
You do understand that many of the people being ripped out of their cars and homes, as well as from courthouses, hospitals, Home Depot/Lowe’s parking lots, etc., have work papers. Many crossed the border illegally and applied for amnesty. That application put them in a system that includes being granted work papers while they wait for their day in court.
TBH, I do not know the details of the system you describe.
I asked for a examples of your claim:
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtNQ_5242f26d-6c87-481d-aa9d-50048ab5d2f1
There are low numbers and isolated cases, not wholesale racial profiling and deportation.
Are you saying that there should be like more due process, instead of instant El Salvador
teledeportation?You are all about licking Gestapo boots clean, aren’t you? Kicking people so many times every day can scuff the black polish on a leather jackboot, so there is always a need for people like you who are devoted to your job.
Kick people? I help people, in meaningful, tangible ways, all the time. Mutual aid the basis of all of my relationships. What about you? What about the protestors? Are you helping? Are they helping? Whom are they helping? Please help a refuge go through the immigration process. And stop being self-righteous and indulgent. Are you a union or party member?
So when ICE says you have a gang tattoo you should just let them take you to wherever, for however long, without letting anyone know, without contacting a lawyer, and maybe just send you to El Salvador? And then there’s actual law. If you’ve read such law you should know that suspension of rights requires martial law. Has martial law actually been established yet? Read the headlines. That’s a hard no. Bonus note: an ICE agent took an arrestee’s cell phone and deposited in a recycle kiosk for cash. I guess Trump isn’t paying them enough.
One person’s story does not make a Federal Policy. The media blowing the storm in a teacup out of proportion, and people eating it up, that is the problem. Errors can and will be made, and corrected.
These are not errors! This is Stephen Miller, and I’m just auditioning for my own show on Newsmax or Fox. They want all people who crossed the border illegally deported or even better, so scared that they “self deport.”
Taggart you seem like someone who might support the second amendment. What is illegal or wrong about someone concealed carrying a holstered weapon? He never brandished it, a fact you can see with your own eyes from watching a single video of his extrajudicial execution in cold blood. So obviously, you never watched and are blindly carrying the water for Trump like a simp.
That’s why I like major league sports from home, because of the replay. You can see the recording from every angle, debate it, call out the refs wrong call.
When ICE officers are working, someone who crosses state lines to purposefully obstruct their law enforcement activities, with a legal holstered gun, is taking undue risk of being in harms way.
I do not think Mr. Pretti should have been killed, and I am not defending the agent’s decision to use deadly force – but the agent was within his rights to assess the situation and use force at his discretion.
ICE protestors should be aware of these potential deadly consequences to their stupid actions.
Sorry, based on numerous videos, it appears Pretti was executed. He was restrained and disarmed before the first shot was fired into the back of his head. He collapsed to the ground only to be shot nine more times. This is not the America that I know. It looked more like a scene from Myanmar. Shame on us!
Seriously! Do you actually believe what you write? Law enforcement, no matter local, state, or federal, is first and foremost charged with protecting the public. In fact, the oath of every law enforcement officer generally includes “protect the public, serve the community, and uphold the Constitution. The only time law enforcement should cause harm to a member of the public is in self-defense or to neutralize a clear threat to the public. In the Pretti case, an officer aggressively shoved a female protestor, and they executed a disarmed Pretti and then shot him nine more times to make sure that he would never be able to tell his side of the story.
Save your breath. You are not going to get a Nazi apologist to ever believe that a Nazi is even capable of doing anything wrong.
“A narcissist never has your back.”
You absolutely nailed it with this post Mish. This is the reality we face today.
No wonder there are quite a few TDS claimants in these comments, when the truth hurts that much… .
THE extremists are the Democrat party that wanted to use illegal immigrants to control the Federal Government forever via a new voter block–as they did for 30 yrs with the Great Society of 1964 with Blacks
Fake account, dual anglo name, same talking points
After Corruption and fraud discovered and covered up—Democrat politicians are GANG members and their voters are totally brainwashed wanta= be gang members wanting some of the free stuff themselves
It’s not just Trump, it applies to most of the MAGA boomer base. There is a reason many “boomers” are referred to as toxic by non-boomers. It’s not fair to apply it to everyone but most of them fall into this category. It’s all related to mental decline and disease, the body just doesn’t have a good immune system past 75. Just another reason to leave until most die off then maybe come back.
But the good news is that China and EU may set a new world order. What a coincidence, the two places I plan on having homes, EU and Asia. Canada may join the EU too. Amazing quality of life with plenty of low cost goods and services and low cost electricity……and NO MAGA fools!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/23/china-europe-energy-alliance-deliver-new-world-orde/
Got exit strategy?
why not just be a nomad capitalist with no permanent home. much safer. which seems a big concern of yours. please take this as friendly advice. i wish you the best of luck
If your strategy is based on the hope that the direction outlined by Pritchard will occur, I suggest you start again. We already have the lowest cost in the West and a lot of joy it’s brought us.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Housing, food, healthcare autos, and everything else costs 10x more in the US than most of the world. But assuming you were right, you had the lowest cost in the West, those days are over with the clown in office. I honestly don’t care what new world order is formed, I have plans, backup plans, and backup plans on those.
The globalist WEF intends for everyone to own nothing and be happy. What exit strategy? No place to hide.
Also worth pointing out here that the old NRA maxim seems to have failed here. A good guy with a gun certainly didn’t stop the bad guys. What’s going to stop these cretins from expanding their war against liberal democracy to other cities and states?
Not a good example about stopping bad guys. You don’t go up against several ICE agents with a handgun, and he wasn’t attempting to use it. People bring it up when there’s a lone gunman.
Make it a triad of descriptors for Trump: demagogue, megalomaniac, and narcisscist.
Your focus on Trump and his personality (whatever defects there may be) is frankly ridiculous. This could have been done for equally egregious presidents and others in the recent past, but never was. How telling and foolish.
This is just more TDS
This is just for you.
https://i.redd.it/d65lk51xhjfg1.png
Contrary to the cartoon…one was armed
Just wait till next week.
Murdered for exercising his Second Amendment rights. Remember when the GOP agreed with what the NRA has said since Pretti’s killing? You probably don’t due to the Trump whitewashing your gave yourself, all so Trump and his cronies can get rich off you and me.
Here we go, the bullshit accounts all with the dual anglo names show up
Mish tripped the Russian troll farm again
YOU are the robot account Commie
Sure “William Jackson” lol
Go back to the pre-Civil War days, William, your mentality is firmly there already
I don’t understand, isn’t ‘Gerhard’ a German name rather than Anglo?
How many diapers has he already flung? The American People deserve to know.
Thank you, Mish.
He’s been chomping at the bit to kill American protestors since the day he embraced Tiananmen Square as an example of leadership strength.
His piggies get all excited and tell him how strong he is when he does that. You can find some of those piggies here.
Where are the right wing gun nuts? Aren’t they the ones that constantly espouse being armed to confront a tyrannical government?
Working for ICE.
Its time to become a gun owner, if you aren’t already.
90% of the 2nd amendment guys were always just acting. they are just cowards and bootlickers. i could smell that decades ago when i went to 2nd amendment debates and lectures at libertarian conferences. they are amerikans. they are cowards.
To be fair, it isn’t fun when people shoot back.
“They may become more paranoid, believing others are out to get them.”
For *any* politician, a significant portion of colleagues *are* out to get them, often in the most devious ways imaginable.
Nice piece, but you neglected a key point. This administration is setting the standard for the one that follows (just as the Dems’ lawfare and contempt for disagreement laid the groundwork for Trump’s behavior). Assuming we get through the Trump years without overt dictatorship or catastrophic war, what sort of politics will greet 2029?
Possibly fewer than 50 states, the way things are going.
I bet a few pals in 2018 that by jan 20, 2029 a few states would effectively secede. no need for war. send money for the us navy and highways etc……..kind of like we were for century or more. when most people only paid state taxes and not fed taxes. i think i’m correct. the federal government is bankrupt financially and morally. so easy to create CA or TX currency. especially with everything electronic……in fact CA had script printed instead of cash for their contractors….. in panic of 2008. which traded like currency. seems like when most big empires go bust, their states peel away. i think it will be mostly peaceful. perhaps civil wars in some states. like ukraine after ussr crumbled. like MN now……………it’s good to see the people of LA and chicago and MN and NYC etc………fight back on the streets and with their voices. seems inevitable to me. gold and silver to the moon from that of course. i think Trump defaults on foreign owned tbills. maybe he does a debt jubilee and let’s people NOT pay the bankers their notes on houses and credit cards. he’d be king of magaland i’d sort of guess. Mar A lago his castle. will be like the vatican for nazis
If a state does secede, and I’m not in it, I’m going to feel very left out.
I understand your point, but consider this: questioning what would happen if states chose to secede is quite complicated. What kind of government would they have in such a case? For instance, imagine two people armed with guns—if one shoots the other, who determines who is the aggressor and who is the victim? Fortunately, the United States has an independent judicial system (despite the MAGA-leaning Supreme Court) that aids in resolving disputes by interpreting the constitution and relevant precedents. For many, trusting an independent judiciary is essential for feeling confident in our governance and society.
Indivisible – states agree to never secede when they join
Can we selectively default on Tbills? Problem with division it this is basically an urban vs rural issue with the suburbs 50/50. People might end up needing to relocate. Abortion is a big issue and gerrymandering would eliminate minority representation. Talk about oppressive…
Seriously – Democrats lawfare- Trump attempted to overturn and election by illegally submitting his own elector slates, he then incited an insurrection and violent assault on the Capitol to stop the orderly transition of power. He illegally stole classified documents and obstructed justice, threatened witnesses, co-erced witnesses (Nauta). His hush money conviction – possibly never elected president in 2016. The absolute immunity cases was a travesty and I bet your right nut that had it been a Democrat not Trump the Extreme Court would have been unanimous in vetoing the absolute immunity ruling. God like powers to the President
It is why we are here – this felon was never jailed for his crimes. He thinks he’s untouchable.
He ran to stop legal proceedings claiming they infringed his 1A right and stymied Ty stolen documents case with Aileen Cannon running interference.
No the Dems did not engage in Lawfare – the Biden DOJ and the States tried to apply the laws correctly to a felon like any ordinary citizen. There are a few people sitting jail thanks to Trump, deservedly so.
A very ridiculous and unrealistic assumption…
Do the democrats have anybody that outright deranged? Is that Wiener guy still in the game?
No his was cut off a while back
John you’re just making the anti-Trump argument. First off, team Trump should not be doing all these things, but yeah, the chance it boomerangs on them should be enough to not do it for one’s own selfish interests, even if they want to casually disregard if not disrespect the law.
Well he will make a mistake, right?
Yeah, Iran. This could be coming within the next few weeks. There’s a lot at stake.
I agree that is where we are headed. Horrible, catastrophic mistake.
I too am disappointed in Trump in so many ways, especially the bullying & war-like stance in every direction re trade/foreign policy. And the fact that is where his emphasis is, rather than America First.
But I have a suspicion that his throwing restraint to the wind might stem to a significant degree from the gauntlet he came through: The Deep State neutered his 1st term and put its weight on the scales to throw the 2020 election. The grotesque lawfare he and everyone who in anyway tried to represent him faced was something no American has ever endured. The Mockingbird media has lied about Trump 24/7 for 10 years. It isn’t beyond imagination that being the victim on that scale of attack might create one who just doesn’t give a shit anymore.
without his starring role for many years in apprentice, the nit wits in amerika would probably not loved his schtick. he was a great teeeevee star.
Donald Trump hosted “The Apprentice” and “The Celebrity Apprentice” for 14 seasons on NBC, airing from 2004 to 2015. The show premiered in January 2004 and ran for 11 years, significantly boosting his national profile before his 2015 presidential campaign announcement.
OMG
Someone who actually ‘gets it’. I just can’t believe it, an individual who can actually think!!!
As a side note, one has to be bemused by a man from Wisconsin, who goes to Minnehaha with a rapid fire loaded piece along w/2 loaded clips; and walks into a crowd of screaming nitwits and a sizeable crowd of armed cops and expects to actually come out alive. WOW. I gotta admit that after being raised as a youngster in the deadliest projects in San Francisco I have perhaps become too cautious; ya know after having more than one instance of a loaded piece shoved under my nose and seeing guys shived to death next to me….well that will do it for ya!
…and love the discussion about Borders. Its about Politics, OK?
Welcome, mr Reasonable Nazi. Do share your pre-packaged wisdom.
And that’s our report from our correspondent on the lunatic fringe…
This MFer has been getting away with this shit his entire life. Almost never held to account. And an excuse for every time things go wrong. He’s been giving it to people his entire life. His failures and immorality have hurt a lot of descent hardworking people as well as bankers and businessmen. He has no respect for anyone. His successes are his and his failures are everyone else’s fault. He’s “throwing restraint” to the wind because people are rightly standing up to him. Actually he’s never had restraint. He’s simply a glutton.
excellent topic. i read the book “sociopath next door” years ago. about 4% of humans are. and when they age, they lose it. many suicide themselves as they are alone. they have always been alone, really. the man that understands trump the best is the author Wolf, who bannon and trump allowed to sit on couch for 6 months in first term, in the oval office and take notes for his book. trump has only one goal in his entire life. to be in the limelight. bad or good, does not matter. now he has many of the 8 billion humans follwing him……daily. i think he’ll kill himself or be left alone by the SS and some crowd will mussolini him. butler PA was and obvious case or the SS looking the other way to let a useful idiot take a pot shot at him.
I thought Rush Limbaugh’s only desire was money. Then I learned that he said he wanted to be the most listened to man on radio. He probably would have been a nothingberger in talk radio if the FCC had not canceled the Fairness Doctrine. Funny, no one talks about that dirtbag anymore. Same will be for Trump unless he ironically starts WW3.
OK, so how are you going to fix the problem you perceive? Write more articles about how crazy Trump is?
nobody is fixing this. you, me, or mish nor anyone on this blog or in this crumbling evil empire.
So then stop writing about something you can’t change. It just sounds like unending whining after a while and accomplishes nothing.
So never complain about government overreach? Just eat the shit sandwich and like it?
You can complain but when it becomes a daily or hourly thing, then it is nothing but TDS.
So you will just complain non-stop about people who complain. To each their own I suppose.
What did you when Biden caused 3 apocalypses?
Dude you forgot your hysteria meds again
Why do you think that it’s his duty or sphere of influence to fix the problem himself? Mish has made suggestions on many occasions re: better courses of action. Or as I’ve suggested, take Bob Newhart’s advice: “Stop It!”
The world is full of “We need….”.
When you have a problem, the first step to the long road to recovery is to admit you have a problem. Pathetic sycophants who can’t take this first step are destined to misery and victim blaming.
The world knows Trump is a problem. But they keep feeding him.
Trump loves attention. All the media has nothing but Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump… day after day after day. I guarantee that you can turn on any news channel and something Trump did or said will be on discussion every single hour of the day!
None of this has served to effect any change whatsoever. Trump basks in his notoriety, in how often he is mentioned. When he starts to fall out of the public’s attention, he says or does something outrageous to get right back into the news stream.
All of you focusing on what he does are being played.
You do have a point. But he is the President and has a lot of impact on the world today. When he is out of office is when we can stop talking about him.
Jojo, feel free to sit back and casually laugh at the last chapters of the crumbling of the once great USA. Some of us care about it more than that.
“This happened with Renee Good, as well. She was shot and killed in her vehicle by an ICE agent on Jan. 7.”
The agent acted in reasonable self-defense. Good accelerated and HIT the agent who was standing directly in front of her SUV. This is just objectively undeniable. Furthermore, the agent had been the victim like this in a similar situation previously. And Good and her lover were there purposely to obstruct and harass law enforcement. Not deserving to die, but not at all innocents.
There is plenty to criticize Trump for without straying from the truth, like someone with TDS.
This is really a loathsome post, blaming the victims of what I think are intentional murders. Despicable.
Agents are taught not to put themselves in harm’s way unnecessarily. Like standing in front of a car! Maybe he didn’t get the notice because they were short on training time.
He was circling the SUV. He was only there momentarily. The agents are under constant harassment by the Renee-Good-type and Antifa Minnesotans.
The poor defenseless ICE agents together always in packs (too dangerous to be alone), with nothing but body armor and other agents to protect them, carrying submachine guns. And these Minnesotan creatures seem to think they have the right to assemble and protest and even have the nerve to brazenly yell at them! The poor abused Gestapo, who can blame them for occasionally executing one of these evil citizens getting in their way, right?
Trump is a modern day Caligula. A loathsome degenerate willing to wreck everything. We will never recover from this.
we hope you are correct, here.
More deranged, disgusting, sinister and personally driven.
Tim Walz talking points again.
Critical thinking skills at work again.
You should try it.
I’ll go ahead and say it: Trump is a candidate for being the Antichrist.
One of the key features of the Antichrist is that he is able to deceive Christians into supporting him.
He is seen by the majority of Christians as someone who is restoring morality. (You can’t make this stuff up)
THAT IS CLEAR THINKING. AND SOLID GOLD COMEDY. THANKS FOR THE CHUCKLE. I’M GONNA WEAR MY CROSS UPSIDE DOWN FROM NOW ON.
It actually wasn’t intended to be humorous. Trump is considered to be a defender of Christianity. He was instrumental in getting Roe vs. Wade overturned. In this bizarro world, he’s considered a saint by many.
sure pal. i get the lunatics might believe that. but i just don’t see some 2000 year religion being serious on a planet billions of years old. no offense. i was raised roman catholic. it just seems like hocus pocus drinking blood and bodies and worshipping a person being tortured to death. yea. he’s for sure leading the christians in a derivative cult called MAGA. and bamboozling them good and hard. in one of the books about him, i think it was cohen his fixer, he described the scene in trump tower board room with the christian pastors praying over him and trump said afterward, he couldn’t believe how crazy dumb they are. he’s a bad man. takes advantage of everything and everybody he can.
I was a little apprehensive about the term “extreme,” but since it essentially applies to a person and their psychology, it seems defensible. However, in the political sphere, this is increasingly debated. There’s supposedly a “reasonable” faction in the center, opposed by “extremes” on the left and right. This view has been demolished by modern philosophers and sociologists, for example, the Englishman Tariq Ali, who uses the concept of “extreme center” to designate this central tendency.
Narcissism is a common NYC thing. In that highly competitive environment, one must project above everyone else to get their foot in the door and promotions throughout their career. Nice guys finish last.
There is also the bit of wisdom, “The older one gets,the less of a deterrent life in prison becomes.”
yes agree. as a native new yorker. my dad used to joke, a ww2 vet who did really well on wall street. he used to tell me if in public like an elevator or lunch, to add 3 zeroes on everything i might discuss that involved money. and see the reactions of those narcissist money hungry people. my coop cost me 86million in brooklyn in 1988 for instance.
Calm down, Mish. You’re a successful and respected man. You don’t need to be envious of Trump’s much greater success. Remember that there is an element of luck as well as elements of ability and hard work in any career. N. N. Taleb said so.
On deaths under police guard etc., I get the impression that there must be some unmentioned provision in the rules governing coroners courts that says that the coroner is obliged to bring down a verdict of suicide if the government so decrees. There have been too many instances, going back many years, not only in your America but also here in Australia, and in other parts of the English-speaking world, of suspicious verdicts from coroners courts in political cases. When Kennedy was assassinated, I was a kid, in an isolated part of Australia, and one of my main contacts with the world was the monthly ‘Reader’s Digest.’ I noticed then that there was an extraordinary propensity for valuable witnesses to fall out of windows just before they could be interviewed by the F.B.I.
There is a war on. It isn’t a ‘civil war’ of the sort imagined by excited people over the past few years. It is a war between more-or-less civilized, mostly white people on the one hand, and savages on the other. The American Government was deployed on one side: now, under Trump, for the time being, it is deployed on the other. Only time will tell how it plays out.
You tend to be rather self-righteous about your political morality. You are obviously highly skilled in economics, but can I ask if you have read people like Machiavelli and Nietzsche? I don’t think you are qualified to talk about morals in politics unless you have. You can’t just glance through that stuff: you have to think about it.
I’m not sure about the white people qualifier. Plenty of white people are willing to destroy Western society. Other than that, I agree.
i double that thought. plenty of white societies and people have been savage. no need to list them. we all know. oz is one of my favorite countries. melbourne and perth area, my favorite.
Trump exudes weakness. He had been robust to all manner of criminal behavior. Not to covering up. It signals weakness & animals detect weakness. – N. N. Taleb
He always looks like he just went poopy now.
This makes as much sense as saying that someone has to devoutly practice a certain religion and go to church to be moral. Morality is something instilled from a young age, and practiced in how you go through life and treat others.
I have thought about it, and it didn’t take long: you are either deeply racist or a troll pretending to be such, talking of savages. My advice would be to stop talking down to others about morality. No one will take you seriously.
Of course I’m a racist. Every decent person is loyal to his own kind. Even a wolf is loyal to his own pack. It’s only degenerates trying to hold together an empire which they originally cobbled together by conquering other races, that pretend to not be racist.
I know there are some part-Negroes in America that are so good that it’s very hard to say that they don’t deserve a place in civilized society. But that doesn’t alter the fact that trying to force people to be loyal to a mishmash of races is a big mistake.
I have sometimes been amused, back in the days when I used to read propaganda like ‘Time Magazine,’ about how ‘Time’ would profess to be horrified when some Chinese-race researcher was discovered to have been sending secret stuff home to Red China. What did they think he would do? He has to be loyal to his own kind. Very few are not – at least, very few except white people who have swallowed the propaganda of the Christian and Educationalist religions.
Here we go, dual Anglo name fake account
Eh, I read Machiavelli, Nietzsche, when I was an undergraduate. Along with MLK, the Federalist papers, etc, etc.
We’re not missing people in politics who know Western philosophy.
We’re missing people who have principles and tell the truth.
Trump has neither.
I didn’t ask whether you had read Machiavelli and Nietzsche: I asked whether Mish had. I don’t know you and I don’t know whether you can think. Mish can think, at least about economics, and I was suggesting that it looked to me as if he had a gap in his knowledge when it came to political philosophy. If you read those writers as an undergraduate, and it was part of your course, I would be inclined to expect that you will have been thoroughly mentally crippled by other mental cripples, and your opinions aren’t likely to be coherent, let alone right.
There are still plenty of people who have principles and tell the truth, but you won’t find them in the “learned professions.” They will be plumbers and carpenters and mechanics, no doubt engineers, maybe a few doctors who are more interested in being honest tradesmen than in being politically correct. Education is a religion and it exists, like any state religion, to cripple minds and produce cogs for the wheels of industry.
Did not see the question.
But the answer is no to both.
The question is in the fourth paragraph of a four-paragraph post above. Maybe you shouldn’t be too confident about your knowledge of political morality, even though you may be a whiz in economics.
When I was a small-time bullion dealer many years ago, I learned that the best suckers, if you wanted suckers, were doctors and lawyers, because they were highly skilled in their own fields and were inclined to over-estimate their knowledge of other things. Also, of course, they had money to throw around.
I suppose by now I have scattered enough clues around that some of your Australian readers will be identifying me.
So, you see people as just suckers? I guess you were suckered a lot? Maybe we should just get this race war on until there’s only one on this planet? Of course then they’ll have to be a war on blonde people. Then blue eyes. Then red heads. What do we do with the mixed breeds? You know, the ones with one drop of white blood in them. As an educated person I will tell you that genetic diversity is actually kind of important for the preservation of the human race. Not to mention wisdom. I have not read the two authors you mention. I did take the time to notice that they are both white. Do you travel to learn or just scuff at the savages? There are civilizations/cultures that have been around for 1000’s of years. You could probably learn something from them too. In America the races are mixing. What we here really need to understand is that it’s not a left/right thing but a class thing, same as it’s always been. I will be glad when your kind is gone. But, maybe we’ll all be gone once the anointed ones kill everyone off with robots or have them just make slaves of us all.
Friend, I don’t think I was suckered quite as much as most people. I was suckered for a while, sure. I gave people the benefit of the doubt. But I was lied to in Sunday school, I was lied to in school, and I gradually learned to disbelieve the lies. What was perhaps harder was finding out what was true. I found that writings that have stood the test of time are apt to be best. You don’t read what smart-aleck modern economists say about Adam Smith, you read Adam Smith. You don’t listen to what your Sunday school teacher says about Darwin, you read Darwin. And so on.
I won’t bother to reply to your silly remarks about race wars. All wars are race wars to some degree. Somebody loses. I like best your reference to yourself as an “educated person.” That is a dead giveaway. It’s a bit like announcing yourself as a clergyman in the old days, and expecting “benefit of clergy.” You only get it from fools.
Since you’re apparently not smart enough to read Machiavelli or Nietzsche, I guess there is no point in advising you to read Ludwig von Mises. He was white, too, but I understand he was Jewish. There has been some good stuff written by Jews. There has been some good entertainment written by part-Negroes (“The Three Musketeers”). There was a part-Chinese British subject who wrote some really exciting detective-adventure stories with the brand, “The Saint.” It was a long time ago, and I think the “saint” may have been the name of the character. The character outshone the author, as with Sherlock Holmes. But in general, real advances in knowledge are produced by Europeans, if you include European Jews. Maybe that slight tinge of Middle East genes gives an added kick to their intelligence. Being Jewish keeps them outside of the sick influence of the Christian clergy anyway. Nietzsche managed to overcome that: his father and both his grandfathers were Lutheran clergymen.
Be patient. He will be gone soon.
Vance would probably like Trump to resign (or die or be removed) around January 22, 2027. Biden should have quit on Jan 22, 2023.
exactly correct on both narcissists.
Regardless of what happens with Trump, I think Vance has made a grave error defending him and speaking out directly in support of ICE actions and foreign policy. If the economy and foreign military adventures go as badly as I fear, it will be a mountain for him to climb to get elected. But he also faces the Kamala question : would you do anything differently than your predecessor? He can lie and say he would, but then the question is why he didn’t say something or at least help steer it in a better direction. Or he can do what she did, double-down and hope people are scared off more by the opponent (my god we could be looking at Vance vs Newsom). I hope both R and D fall apart enough to where we can see a reasonable third party emerge.
It reminds me of when khrushchev was “elected”. Someone asked him, “where were you during Stalin’s reign of terror?” He simply answered by asking him the very same question.
Sooner the better but there has to be alternative to attack dog vance who would likely be no better or possibly worse.
If both Trump and Vance meet their demise simultaneously after Jan 3, 2027, we’d have President Hakeem Jeffries.
ha ha. now that is a nice twist for the crumbling evil empire.
Today? Today it would be Mike Johnson.
Nobody likes Vance. He can’t lead them.
I think the narcissistic personality got this ball rolling but he is getting bolder because republicans are enabling him.
And the Supreme Court has done little to rein him in, the military strikes were in the short run were well carried out and appeared to be effective so he is convinced the military can do anything, the stock market is holding up, bond market not collapsing, poll numbers a little shaky, corporate CEOs continue to pay the bribes and kickbacks, (sorry donations to a good Trump cause), but until the people begin to stand up in significant numbers in red and purple states or there is a major crisis there are no roadblocks. It is scary.
Excellent analysis and I agree with your synopsis 100%.
The Bonds are a bit shaky Hence the rise in PMs.
I believe personality disorders generally get worse with age.
He just might want to blow it all up just to watch the world burn.
The man of peace blows up the world. Sounds just like the antichrist.
He waits for his bluff to be called.
The same could be said about decadent nations.
NIHILIST ASSHOLES WILL ELECT NIHILIST ASSHOLES. WE HAVE BEEN AT NONSTOP WARFARE WORLD WIDE SINCE 1898. HAT TIP TEDDY AND THE ASSHOLES IN AMERIKA.