At some point, a narcissist’s whole shtick implodes. Their fragile, porcelain facade cracks in too many places. They lose control of the narrative. They double down on increasingly unbelievable things.
And then the monument topples and the pigeons finally scatter.
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There are always a few diehard hangers-on but they lose the crowd.
It has been so long with Trump - and his cult is so brainwashed by a propaganda machine bigger than him - I had more or less given up on his implosion ever coming.
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It feels like we’re finally there though.
His routine has run its course.
It has been too much for too long; and it has been too much all at once.
His debate tantrum was eye-opening to people usually tunneled in on watching only Trump with no one beside him as contrast.
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People suggesting there is a massive conspiracy where Trump - an impulsive idiot - is ingeniously pulling off a long con and faking COVID while hundreds of people at the White House and Walter Read are all super secret accomplices...
Hello? Did you hear how that sounds?
Seriously, if you are so twisted by your feelings about Trump that you think an entire staff at Walter Read is playing along with a moron’s long scheme (to do... what exactly?) it might be worth taking a long walk in the fresh air today.
That’s QAnon-level irrational.
Trump’s admin leaks like a fucking sieve.
The guy did everything possible to get himself a case of COVID.
It’s a miracle he didn’t have it earlier.
It doesn’t take 286-dimensional chess to accept that an idiot played with fire and is now being treated for burns.