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Kit Gruelle's avatar

Donald Trump's entire adult life has been all about retaliation/retribution/revenge. He is absolutely consumed by it. He eats, lives and breathes it. I work with abused and battered women. The one feature that is utterly consistent is the warped mindset of abusers: they ALWAYS feel victimized and use that sense of victimization to justify abusing their partner/family. Trump's family was FUBAR, and now the entire world is paying for it.

What frightens me most is knowing what many abusers do when they lose the control they crave and feel completely entitled to: they burn everything to the ground (metaphorically speaking, mostly). I see Trump and the 1/6 insurrection as his/their example of losing control.

Abusers see their wives/partners/children as personal possessions to do with as they please, kind of how Trump regarded the presidency. Abusers often stalk and kill the women who have the audacity to leave them. We all know Trump is addicted to surrounding himself with people who just say yes to him all the time, no matter how wrong/foul/immoral/obnoxious/corrupt his idea is. He can't handle being told no.

I put nothing past Trump and his shit-flinging, ammosexual goons.

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

I've often wondered whether -- aside from how badly his parents fucked him up -- there wasn't some specific pathological incident that led to his being shipped off to military school.

Buggering the neighbor boy. Assaulting a housekeeper.

Butchering a dog or cat.

This dude is fucked up in ways that all point to ancient, rooted perversions.

Someone knew, maybe his brother.

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