Statement from California's top election official re: Mr. Trump's "reckless tweets"

[kpete]

https://twitter.com/AlexPadilla4CA/status/803075782922813440

[mindem]

1. Trump is an embarrassment to the country,

he is childish and stupid. We have ended up with the Jethro Bodine of presidents and a repuke party that puts itself before the good of the country. Welcome to the shithole.

[rzemanfl]

15. I am stealing "the Jethro Bodine of presidents."

We live in a kleptocracy, so tough beans. I will reconsider if you PM me the copyright.

[mindem]

16. Go for it, shout it from the hills

At least the Clampett family, including Jethro, were decent folks. Drumph doesn't even qualify on that front.

[riversedge]

27. oh, Jethro had a big heart and would not hurt a flea. Trump is soulless and will hurt anyone

who gets in his way.

[2naSalit]

33. More like Snidely Whiplash.....nt

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

49. Snidely Whiplash was a kitten compared to Trump n/t

[pangaia]

38. Make that a klepto-kakistocracy...

[rzemanfl]

39. I may be a thief, but I am not incompetent. n/t

[lastlib]

48. I prefer to think of him as the Major Hochstetter of presidents.....

(Hogan's heroes, the bumbling, incompetent Gestapo agent.)



"Vott iss thees man doink heeere??!?"

[3catwoman3]

2. Everything about him, absolutely...

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...everything, is inappropriate and unbecoming.

[BlueMTexpat]

24. a million or so! eom

[Cary]

3. Unfortunately our national tragedy has only just begun

We need to fight like hell.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Nothing will change

autistic CEO disorder

[Danmel]

8. Lay off the autism jokes

He is not autistic. He is a sociopath. My nephew has autism. I have many friends with children on the spectrum.
Call him what he is-a malignant narcissist.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. It's not a joke

adults with mild autism can be very rigid in their own minds, blocking
out other people

I sometimes think I have 8% of it

[pangaia]

40. Assholes can be very rigid in their own minds, blocking out other people.

Sociopaths an be very rigid in their own minds, blocking out other people.
Fundamentalists can be very rigid in their own minds, blocking out other people .
Psychopaths can be very rigid in their own minds, blocking out other people .
Narcissists can be very rigid in their own minds, blocking out other people .

Your use of autiism is regretful.

[kcr]

45. Knock it off. You don't know what you're talking about.

Quit insulting people with autism.

[KewlKat]

20. I've been saying malignant narcissist for months.

Glad someone else agrees.

[Grey Lemercier]

5. Trump is trolling to further ingratiate himself to his base and beyond

the more people respond, the more his legions of goons buy into the us v them paradigm. It is classic trolling and he is winning. He also is further reinforcing a post factual world, where all object truth is spun away with further lies heaped upon lies. This muddies the water to the point were anything can be falsely defined, anything challenged, and the entire system managed and controlled.

[steventh]

11. tRump and KellyAnne Conway are masters of obfuscation

using this technique (among others). Thanks for articulating it so clearly. He's crazy like a fox. I do not underestimate him.

[Grey Lemercier]

13. superb article ......Vladislav Surkov, remember that name, epicentre of this shit

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028310492

[Baitball Blogger]

19. Nailed it.

[Boomer]

26. You're describing results, but not the cause

Trump is not trolling. He has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. There is no strategy in his behavior beyond the very simple need for attention. At any given moment, he will say whatever will get him attention with no concern for the consequences. The consequences are irrelevant, truth is irrelevant. All that matters is that he is the center of attention (good or bad, doesn't matter).

For someone with NPD, the past (immediate or long term) is not important. The future (immediate or long term) is also not important. They live in the moment.

Trump is utterly predictable if you realize that he doesn't have some master plan. If someone else is getting attention (like Pence or Christie), then Trump will erupt to get the limelight back on himself. He is completely uninterested in "ingratiating himself" with anyone. A narcissist barely recognizes that other people exist. He simply wants their attention, right now.

[Grey Lemercier]

30. he and his whole modus opetandi are well beyond simple NPD

The entire Operation von Trumpf is hyper- sophisticated neuro-linguistic audio-visual programming. Everything is anything, truth as an objective value is being subverted and drowned out in a seemingly randomn endless drone of cacophony thats is absolutely deliberately and far from random. Trump himself is just the bloated bass tuba in the orchestra, an orchestra playing constant dissonant tunes, all weaved together to boggle and enrage, first one side, then the next, till a psychological loop de loop is achieved and all are right back at the same focal base point, but now further down the road to perdition and divide. It is master class, it is insidious, and it is carving the tendons of rational thought and democratic underpinnings from not just the body politic but society itself.

[vlyons]

32. I don't think Trump is winning

He may be pleasing his base to haters and stupids, but he is definitely making sane people raise their eyebrows in alarm and disgust. Over and over he keeps proving that Hillary was right about an unfit temperament.

[Grey Lemercier]

35. thats all part of the game, a shitstorm of clutter and confusion

It is a form of cognitive displacement, played out for hundreds of millions worlrdwide and at home.

[lillypaddle]

6. EVERYTHING he does

is inappropriate and unbecoming of any decent human being.

[spanone]

7. His reckless tweets are inappropriate and unbecoming of any human being,

[bucolic_frolic]

10. By the way

Trump supporters are very nervous about the recount, constantly
reminding that he is the president-elect, and that he had a victory
in the election

With nothing to lose I hope us recount enthusiasts go for it with all
we have. A true accounting of the results is in order

[KPN]

22. True. Trump would not be stiking out against the recounts

if his campaign were 100% comfortable.

[bucolic_frolic]

23. Which begs the question

what are they trying to hide?

DT told us the election was rigged all along

[3catwoman3]

25. "DT told us the election was rigged all along."

It was - for him.

[Coyotl]

43. That's a dog whistle to loyalist to do exactly that, rig the election.

It provides a rationalization and justification for loyalists to rig the election ... if we don't and the opposition does .... yata, yata.[center]

Retweet this at Trump so all his followers see it:
https://twitter.com/jqjacobs/status/803005703480741888

[2naSalit]

34. I strongly agree with you

I suspect fraud and I am sure the five oligarchs who own all the media are in on it, as evidenced by their behavior in all this... if we do not take on this assault to our nation with all we have, we will thereafter have nothing left but to submit to the ruler.

[world wide wally]

12. I wish I could say, "ignore him. Maybe he'll go away"

But I'm afraid it's a little too lat for that.

[KingCharlemagne]

14. "Troubled" is a major understatement. - nt

[smirkymonkey]

17. What an embarrassing joke of a person.

[cbdo2007]

18. He speaks for everyone who supported/voted for him - all those in Congress, etc.

[KPN]

21. Booyaa Alex Padilla!!

We all need to seize whatever stage and opportunities we have speak out and against Trump's un-Presidential behavior. We need to let him and his supporters know that we are not going to go away, that we are not going to submit. We must drown him out if necessary.

[erinlough]

28. I write my congress person every day....

Since the "election" I have written once a day pointing out the absurdity of the minority president elect and the GOP complicity in this mess. I don't even have to work to find the next embarrassing thing the idiot does, I suggest it, its cathartic. By the way he is GOP.

[SunSeeker]

29. That's putting it mildly.

[MrModerate]

31. "Reckless." That's just exactly what I was looking for in a president this time. n/t

[annabanana]

36. "unbecoming" won't mean a thing to him..How about classless?

He has NO class. He is vulgar, coarse and all his creations are ugly and gross.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

37. I've come across sore losers before

But this is the first sore winner.

[Hekate]

41. KnR

[joewicker_TX]

42. If there was so much voter fraud

Then I say we throw out all the election results and start over. He thinks he doesn't like the results now, let's see what happens....

[Maraya1969]

44. I think they are terrifying. This guy can't control his own Twitter account and you want to give

him the nuclear codes?

It is fucking mad! I hope saner people are realizing how much of a time bomb he is and stop him from destroying everything!

[Dorian Gray]

46. Like that tweet!

[Barack_America]

47. Boom. Retweeted.

Epic.

[Ligyron]

50. In reading the article, I'll admit to being played myself.

I thought there was a strong possibility that Trump was perhaps just a stalking horse for the Democrats.

The picks for his cabinet put an end to that idea.

we're fucked.