On Sun, Mar 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM Terren Suydam <[email protected]> > wrote: > > *> At this point though, Trump is presumably more powerful and wealthy >> than Putin. And at this point, they could probably release the pee tapes if >> they exist and it wouldn't even move the needle. * >> > > *You're probably right about that, even after watching the pee pee tape > hardcore Trump zombies will still believe Trump is the second coming of > Jesus. After all, everybody has seen the "grab them by the pussy" Access > Hollywood tape, but that didn't prevent Trump from winning the presidential > election after that. Two times in fact.* > > >> *> So why does he still seem to do Putin's bidding? * >> > > *Putin must have something on Trump that is far worse than the pee pee > tape. I know that sounds like a deranged conspiracy theory but I'll be > damned if I can think of another explanation for Trump's bizarre behavior.* > > >> *> **Maybe it's even worse than we thought - because he wants to.* >> > > *I don't think so, even a man as stupid as Donald Trump must know that > cozying up with Vladimir Putin will not increase his popularity, and I > don't think there's a human on this planet that has a larger ego than > Trump, so he can't enjoy playing the part of Putin's lapdog.* > OK hear me out on this one. Gonna put on my armchair psychologist hat for this one. In psychology, a well understood phenomenon is that as adults, we often (unwittingly) recreate relationships that we had as children - especially those with unresolved or traumatic conflicts - in order to redeem ourselves. As an example, if as a child, a parent was an alcoholic, you might marry an alcoholic to try (again, below the level of self-awareness) to get that partner to love you in the way you needed as a child, because some part of you deep down holds the belief that it was your fault that your parent drank or didn't love you the way you needed, and a lot of our adult behavior is a desperate attempt to prove that those beliefs are not true. Trump's father was famously a brutal man. Perhaps, Trump's attraction to world leaders and embarrassing subservience to them reflects the above dynamic - that on some level, if he can get these strong-men dictators to respect him, it would redeem his own inner-child's desperate need for love and attention from a father that was incapable of providing it. Honestly, I think the above is more likely than what you're suggesting - that Putin has something far worse than pee tapes. That's because Trump acts this way to other strong men, and also because what we both already agree on - that there's virtually nothing left that could actually cancel him. Thanks to AI, even incriminating video footage of him sexually abusing a child could be dismissed as fake. Terren -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAMy3ZA8PJbm0iO%3DtsnPeR0rsiwtsM7s1i5Oatv1BfFL4B9mjvg%40mail.gmail.com.
