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PCIntern

(28,405 posts)
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 07:17 AM Monday

Hey MSM...this is important: no bullshit...

I am so good and goddamned sick and tired of the MSM literally sanewashing this situation. They are approaching this situation with a lethal combination of fear, feigned ignorance, stupidity, fake medical ethics, and contrived concern for the Nation.

We are witnessing a narcissistic collapse of gigantic proportions due to the grotesque psychological makeup of the voting public which has read and watched too many heroic portrayals of criminals, psychopaths, sociopaths, and terminally neurotic creepy people. Think: Tony Soprano, Dexter, Walter White, and the like.

For those who do not believe that this applies to them, consider the scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho wherein you have just witnessed a horrifying murder of a naked woman in a shower and (ostensibly) the son of the murderer is attempting to dispose of the body by sinking her car with her corpse inside, into a swamp. At one point the car stops sinking and the son is frightened that it won’t submerge further AND SO ARE YOU. Both he and you are relieved when it begins descending again. You have now identified with the murderer and her “accomplice”. Hitchcock understood that entirely.

But the scaffolding which supports these individuals is variously fragile and incomplete and once it collapses, the inner personality, now supported by metaphorical cobwebs also implodes. This is what is happening right this moment.

I include the following, edited from Wikipedia. It’s time to wake up and stop pussyfooting around, MSM. The diagnosis is clear and obvious and always has been, you were too busy getting ratings to care about the outcome. Well, here you are and you cannot deny your complicity in all this. And you’re included, Jake Tapper, whose only true claim to fame is that he once dated Monica Lewinsky before she was polishing President Clinton’s knob. “Read this and weep”:


What Is Narcissistic Collapse?
A narcissistic collapse occurs when a narcissist’s fragile ego is threatened, leading to an intense reaction that masks deep insecurity. Signs include severe rage, paranoia, depression, or sudden withdrawal/isolation. They may display extreme impulsivity, gaslighting, self-destructive behaviors, or play the victim, often lasting days to months.

Key Signs of Narcissistic Collapse
Narcissistic Rage & Aggression: Outbursts of anger or hostility, often when their superiority is challenged.
Withdrawal & Isolation: Disappearing from social media, ghosting friends, and withdrawing from daily responsibilities.
Victim Mentality: Pity-seeking behaviors, complaining "Why is this happening to me?", and blaming others for their downfall.
Gaslighting & Paranoia: Intense distrust of others, creating imaginary scenarios, and manipulating reality to make others feel insecure.
Self-Destructive Behavior: Increased substance abuse, reckless driving, gambling, or excessive spending.
Depression & Anxiety: Intense fear of being forgotten, severe anxiety, and emotional, physical, or financial breakdown.
Public Breakdown/Shame Spiral: In some cases, the "mask" falls off, revealing their inner turmoil through public outbursts of rage rather than just private ones.

Causes of a Collapse
A collapse happens when a person’s idealized self-perception ("false self&quot cannot be maintained, often triggered by a loss of power, a failed relationship, a damaged reputation, or a professional setback.

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Hey MSM...this is important: no bullshit... (Original Post) PCIntern Monday OP
Those are very important points. We are in for a rough ride. bucolic_frolic Monday #1
I hadn't heard of "narcissistic collapse" before, but that really describes it. Spread it far and wide. Vinca Monday #2
I like the part about self destructive behavior if limited to the... NNadir Monday #3
Remember the incessant Buddhist Temple Clinton Gore scandal? 617Blue Monday #4
Thank you, PCIntern. Bumbles Monday #5
Dr. Bandy Lee blames the American Psychiatric Association for MadameButterfly Monday #9
Well done. cachukis Monday #6
K&R spanone Monday #7
But hate is such great clickbait. usonian Monday #8
Biden would pause for breath, and the M$M would spend four days discussing his fitness for office Orrex Monday #10
Oh, but he has; numerous times... SonOfNebanaube Monday #26
Impossible. Orrex Monday #27
I'm glad you blamed Fake Jake LSparkle Monday #11
May I Suggest A Very Minor Revision modrepub Monday #12
True. Is hoping for a quivering, weeping, puddle too much? Joinfortmill Monday #13
I used to believe Scubamatt Monday #14
Yes. It's not only what they cover, but what they don't. Boomerproud Monday #20
The Doomsday clock is Set to 85 seconds before midnight on January 27, 2026. chouchou Monday #15
Something else on the subject Tranquil72 Monday #16
The President of the United States cannot be ignored. PCIntern Monday #28
Literally the story of the century that MSM is ignoring. nt wiggs Monday #17
Ex-actly. PCIntern Monday #18
Its not just the MSM pimpbot Monday #19
It's unfathomable how much time they spend on Tiger Woods and celebrity bullshit Mysterian Monday #21
More column inches for Tiger than insane tweets. PCIntern Monday #22
I'm not sure collapse happens for anosognostics. Mblaze Monday #23
Well, unlike Biden BaronChocula Monday #24
K&R red dog 1 Monday #25
If he does have a "public breakdown," the media will be forced to cover it FakeNoose Monday #29
WOW! Thank you! This is an important post that covers new ground for me. You've gone further and deeper... liberalla Yesterday #30
it makes me cringe Skittles Yesterday #31

bucolic_frolic

(55,273 posts)
1. Those are very important points. We are in for a rough ride.
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 07:28 AM
Monday

By placating him all along, they've only given his illness room to maneuver. The sycophant wackjob underlings feeding their Rapture mentality are only making it worse. Soon, many citizens will glow.

Vinca

(54,043 posts)
2. I hadn't heard of "narcissistic collapse" before, but that really describes it. Spread it far and wide.
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 07:34 AM
Monday

I honestly don't know what we're going to do. The media is ignoring it. Half of Congress is apparently dead. The Cabinet?????? Most of them are worthy of the 25th, too.

NNadir

(38,120 posts)
3. I like the part about self destructive behavior if limited to the...
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 07:51 AM
Monday

...individual experiencing the collapse.

617Blue

(2,509 posts)
4. Remember the incessant Buddhist Temple Clinton Gore scandal?
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 07:53 AM
Monday

Weeks and weeks of NYT legacy media attention to that.

Bumbles

(442 posts)
5. Thank you, PCIntern.
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 07:53 AM
Monday

Last edited Mon Apr 6, 2026, 09:27 AM - Edit history (1)

Many of us have seen this coming and been warning about it for years. His narcissism and his lack of empathy/sadism have always been front and center. I have never felt more helpless and hopeless in my eighty-three years, and I, too, put much of the blame on the MSM. Trump knows the end is coming and he doesn't give a damn about anybody else. He's going to take us with him if he can.

MadameButterfly

(4,070 posts)
9. Dr. Bandy Lee blames the American Psychiatric Association for
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:36 AM
Monday

telling the whole profession they weren't allowed to diagnose a public figure when Malignant Narcissism isn't diagnosed in a private clinical setting anyway--it is diagnosed from observation which we have all had plenty of opportunity to do in the case of Trump. They created a scenario where the people with the most expertise to assess Trump's mental state were the only people not allowed to speak up. While at the same time understanding that Malignant Narcissism is contagious--in that the people around such a person start to take on his behavior. When this person has access to vast media, that means an unprecedented number of people have been exposed. The Psychiatric profession has studied Malignant Narcissism and understands the trajectory of this condition, that it gets worse with power and with time, and yet they have imposed silence while an unsuspecting public was duped.

I'm not impressed with MSM but they have been reporting this as politics when it should have been science, and the scientists were awol.

Orrex

(67,153 posts)
10. Biden would pause for breath, and the M$M would spend four days discussing his fitness for office
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:51 AM
Monday

As long as Trump doesn't quite visibly shit his pants on camera, they act like he's the picture of mental and physical health.

LSparkle

(12,198 posts)
11. I'm glad you blamed Fake Jake
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:55 AM
Monday

If he and Dana B had even tried a teeny tiny bit to FACT CHECK the sonofabitch in that pivotal ‘24 debate, we might not be stuck back with the turd in the punchbowl.

Yes, FACT CHECKING — that’s the job of REAL journalism. Instead we and the country got an EPIC fail by the asskissing stenographers at CNN.

modrepub

(4,119 posts)
12. May I Suggest A Very Minor Revision
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 09:04 AM
Monday

When referring to the main stream media (MSM) I prefer the acronym M$M as it is more descriptive of the said organization. It survives as a $ generating system keen to maintaining your attention via clicks therefore their revenue stream regardless of the damage it does to its consumers.

Some refer to this system as late-stage capitalism. I'm not sure I like the term. True capitalism is a symbiotic relationship because the producer and consumer both benefit from the transaction. What we are seeing more and more these days is something where chaos is produced to benefit manufacturers at the expense of consumers. At some point this system becomes unsustainable since transactions are no longer balanced.

Scubamatt

(310 posts)
14. I used to believe
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 09:55 AM
Monday

that our media was reasonably fair and balanced (except for Faux news); the Trump years have exposed how corrupt the Fourth Estate is - saying anything or everything to avoid exposing the corruption of the right, while hyper-focusing on any minor imperfection of the center-left, with "the both sides do it" mantra. If we ever take back the government, we had better focus on dismantling the right wing echo chamber that the media has become. Use the antitrust laws and the fairness doctrine to try return media to something that reports facts, not advances the agenda of one side through selective framing and reporting.

chouchou

(3,165 posts)
15. The Doomsday clock is Set to 85 seconds before midnight on January 27, 2026.
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 10:01 AM
Monday

Trump is pushing the God-Damn thing to 7 minutes after midnight.
Do you hear us?...Senators and Representees?

Tranquil72

(23 posts)
16. Something else on the subject
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 10:03 AM
Monday

…from a cognitive therapist at UC Berkeley. Has some useful suggestions for setting boundaries around narcissistic behavior at Trump’s level. She argues that overreacting to his button-pushing is in fact counterproductive…

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jocelynsze/psychologist-how-to-stop-trump-narcissist?origin=bf-yahoo

PCIntern

(28,405 posts)
28. The President of the United States cannot be ignored.
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:20 PM
Monday

He is not your ridiculous uncle or co-worker.

pimpbot

(1,174 posts)
19. Its not just the MSM
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 10:34 AM
Monday

Social media is configured to enable this type of behavior. All these short soundbite type posts that provide almost no value or context to the topic discussed.

I look around when I go out, and everyone is glued to their device. Many have earbuds in even with no device in hand. Sure, its not all bad, but unfortunately a majority of it is.

Just this morning I was reading a post on here about college kids that can't function without AI. The techbros are winning.

Mysterian

(6,523 posts)
21. It's unfathomable how much time they spend on Tiger Woods and celebrity bullshit
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 10:56 AM
Monday

when the fucking country is falling apart. The propaganda masters are in complete control of what we see and hear in the mass media.

PCIntern

(28,405 posts)
22. More column inches for Tiger than insane tweets.
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 12:02 PM
Monday

Or whatever you want to call his gabble degook.

BaronChocula

(4,581 posts)
24. Well, unlike Biden
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 01:47 PM
Monday

this specimen heads the contingent of white men devoted to the preservation of white male privilege. Every institution in America knows that they are powerful and vindictive. This one in particular. So don't expect the MSM to really do their job until he's dead.

FakeNoose

(41,743 posts)
29. If he does have a "public breakdown," the media will be forced to cover it
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 09:37 PM
Monday

In fact, it will become a feeding frenzy in no time.

They really hate Chump but they're also scared to death of him. Once it's obvious that he can do nothing to harm the media, then they'll help take him down and spread the word everywhere.

liberalla

(11,119 posts)
30. WOW! Thank you! This is an important post that covers new ground for me. You've gone further and deeper...
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 12:12 AM
Yesterday

It's scary as hell, but oh so important!

The Collapse information explains so much. Thank you again.

Skittles

(171,855 posts)
31. it makes me cringe
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 03:47 AM
Yesterday

all the crap we heard about Hillary's emails and Hunter Biden's laptop but NOTHING about this absolute LUNATIC playing "president" of the United States

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