Couple of Bern group toons for today

[n2doc]

[Half-Century Man]

1. Love the top one. nt

[RoccoR5955]

2. Thank you! n/t

[Cassiopeia]

3. Thanks for the early laugh.

Both great.

[greymouse]

4. I never paid much attention to Donald Trump

I thought he was just vulgar. Am I the only person who now thinks he is certifiable insane?

[MrModerate]

5. I don't think he's nuts . . .

Sociopathic, maybe, but not dysfunctional.

I think he's convinced himself he can a) win and b) do the job.

Does that make him mad?

[Boomer]

8. He's massively dysfunctional

Donald Trump is a textbook example of someone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. This makes him patently unqualified for elected office and a danger if he were in the White House.

People with NPD are incapable of rational thought. Their entire focus is on supporting their internal vision of themselves as magnificent and infallible and garnering as much attention as they can get, any way they can get it. They are incapable of admitting error because that would contradict their self-image, so they will either completely deny facts or they will claim victimhood: They didn't make mistakes, it's just that other people were unfair to them, mean to them.

Sound familiar?

Trump's behavior is tiresomely predictable. He will do or say whatever brings him attention, because he needs attention they way we need oxygen. He will shore up his grandiose image of himself with complete fabrications which he doesn't see as lies because he's incapable of withstanding reality.

That people keep treating him like a rational person, and expecting that rational motives will eventually kick in to moderate his behavior is really discouraging. And dangerous.

[BernieforPres2016]

7. Not insane, just a sociopath schoolyard bully gone wild

We're talking about a guy who constantly belittled his older brother, who eventually committed suicide, and then cut off medical care to a severely handicapped infant nephew in a dispute over his father's estate. A guy who raped his first wife in a fit of rage and publicly humiliated her and his children by publicly carrying on an affair with Marla Maples. Who referred to lifelong residents of Scotland whose crime was living next to luxury golf courses his company was constructing in Scotland as "living like pigs". And so many more things.

[Boomer]

9. No, he's not a sociopath

He has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Yes, that's a thing, and it's different from being a sociopath, although some of the results aren't all that different.

[BernieforPres2016]

12. I am by no means expert on those types of disorders

And will accept your verdict. I'm sure you're right. He is certainly as big a narcissist as I've ever seen. He is obsessed with what people say about him. There is a reporter who called Trump a "short fingered vulgarian" in print over 20 years ago, and he says Trump still sends him pictures of himself with his hands circled and a note saying "See, not so short!" In the days before the internet, Trump used to employ somebody who scanned through a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, clipped out everything that mentioned Trump, and handed the clippings to him in a file every day for Trump to read through. Anybody who said anything negative about Trump was likely to hear from him or his attorney, often with a threat of a lawsuit.

I believe Bernie is correct that Trump is a pathological liar. Trump claimed they were expecting a crowd of 25,000 last week to the rally that he cancelled in Chicago because of protestors, and it was being held in an auditorium with a capacity of 9500. Trump inflates virtually everything by a factor of 2 to 10, including his net worth.

[greymouse]

16. that sounds right

The Times has an article quoting his butler about him, and it includes a painting of Trump, so far from what he really looks like that it's baffling that it is in plain view instead of up in the attic as a Mistake. It's like I had someone paint my portrait and it looked like Marilyn Monroe with a few of my facial features.

[Major Hogwash]

10. Wow, I didn't know all of that.

Thanks for posting.

[hedgehog]

6. K&R Thank-you!

[Duval]

11. These are great, n2doc!

I look forward to your toons. They brighten my day.

[SoapBox]

13. Poignant.

Thanks!

[Divernan]

14. If I never see another pants suit again, it will be too soon! Shudder!

Forever associated with HRC.

[warrprayer]

15. Kick and rec. n/t