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Miles Archer

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Wed May 14, 2025, 04:32 PM May 14

Dahmer, Gacy, Bundy, all operated on one frequency with singular objectives. Sort of like Trump. [View all]

I thought about that a few minutes ago.

I was thinking of George W Bush. My "political awareness" began after i picked up Al Franken's "Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them." I'd never heard of Karl Rove before that. I never gave too much thought to that Wizard of Oz "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" thing.

I've had a standard go-to line for Trump..."He only cares about what he can eat, spend, or fuck." That seems harsh, and the aging hippie dude in me wants to look for more than that, but I don't believe there IS more than that. He's a malignant narcissist, sure...he's starved for attention, no matter how much he gets, but his endgame is that he wants food, money (and the things money can buy) and sex without any commitment or consequences on his part.

And no, raping E Jean Carroll wasn't "sex." I don't believe rape IS "sex." I believe it's a pathological need to dominate and humiliate another human being, and sex is a means to an end in that regard.

DAHMER had a SCRIPT. He really didn't color outside the lines of that script.
Neither did Gacy.
Neither did Bundy.
Neither does Trump.

I know you keep seeing criticism of various media figures who want to uncover the clandestine secrets of Trump's masterful gave of 3-D chess.

And, at the same time, the responses, like "He's really playing checkers, and he's just eating the pieces."

Trump is not a complex individual. You can see how easily he's triggered by the slightest criticism, and if hyperbole ceased to exist, so would his ability to communicate.

I have this concern that society / the media keeps building him up and up and up into some sort of mythical, mystical demonic entity.

And in reality, he's just a morbidly obese, spray tanned, combed over 78 year old pig.

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