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Profane Language Inside Robert Mueller is dead. Donald Trump Is Still A Cunt open.substack.com/pub/ifloz/p/ro…

@black13830 archive.today/Q73G0

They're not trying to hide anything, are they? "Unredacted briefing blunder reveals hidden Cook Strait ferry costs." thepost.co.nz/politics/36096…

@carr_fj Oops! A tad officious.

No way this is a high tackle. Unbelievable

@SunnyGrove_Dave @bryce_edwards What do you think these 'lobbyists' you have listed charge?

@bryce_edwards What about Union lobbyists? What about the plethora of lobbyists working in public funded institutions like NZCER and various NGO's Will you uncover who they are and what their aims are? they seem to weild huge influence when Labour sit on the Treasury benches

@bryce_edwards We not only see the "same pattern we see in supermarkets. In banking. In insurance.", we see it in the the supply of materials to the construction industry.

@AndreasHeuserNZ @bryce_edwards I take it you are completely ok with what are effectively hidden taxes on electricity consumers?

1. High profits do not equal market failure. What do "fair profits" look like, and how would you decide what is fair, Bryce? 2. Where has "breaking up the gentailers" happened? You say it isn't radical, so where? 3. Aside from Duncan Garner's and Simon Bridges' takes, what evidence do you have? 4. Don't "high" profits feed Crown dividends, which fund public services? In your alternate scenario, how much would prices fall, and would that fall offset the claimed lower dividend from the lower profits?

@Dunleavb BS

@Rugby_Scoop Obvious engagement bait is obvious. The ball left Menoncello’s hands forward, therefore it’s a forward pass. Stop trying to create engagement for your blue tick - yes I get the irony that I’m adding to it, but hopefully this will stop others

#RugbyScoop | ITALY COMPLETELY ROBBED! There’s no way this is not a try. Hollie Davidson should overrule the TMO here based on the evidence of physics. The assistant referee is also in a good position to make the call.

@DrHelenFry Yes, my father was a fighter pilot. He served in the Royal New Zealand Airforce in the Pacific theatre. He primarily flew P40s and later Corsairs.

Do you have a family member who served in the Second World War?

@Norma5387953815 3591

99.9% will fail..!! Tell me the number that is bigger than this..??

@martinerick @RoyRogers_HTMS All the same, it's great to see this music alive and well and so well performed.👍

@martinerick @RoyRogers_HTMS Indeed, Gypsy Jazz, Gypsy Swing, Swing Manouche, Hot Club de France, but never #Bluegrass.

x.com/RoyRogers_HTMS… Just discovered this killer cover of the Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong classic “Who Walks In When I Walk Out” by AJ Lee & Blue Summit, featuring Sully Tuttle on vocals. Filmed in a lush forest with sunflowers decking out their instruments—pure bluegrass magic! If you’re into folk-Americana vibes, check out their lineup: AJ on mandolin, Sully and Scott on guitars, Jan on fiddle, and Sean on bass. Who’s your fave bluegrass band right now? #Bluegrass

@bryce_edwards Thanks very much for that. As the son of a Ministry of Works engineer (and the brother of another), the loss of knowledge and expertise in this country in that space has not only been horrendous but extremely wasteful economically. It's even better on Substack.

@officer_Lew @TheBrancaShow Bullshit!

WATCH🚨: Country’s top expert (@TheBrancaShow) self-defense law weighs in: Officers were wrestling an armed suspect when “GUN!” was yelled after one was spotted. Settled law lets officers rely on each other’s reasonable perceptions—no need for personal confirmation. Once a firearm shows up amid active resistance, the standard is clear: reasonable belief in imminent deadly force. It was met here. Freeze-frame critics ignore real-time chaos. The law doesn’t demand officers wait to get shot. Tragic? Yes. Lawful? Absolutely.

@ShawnBl68530703 @ryangrim Indeed. It appears that they have strayed a little from the border. Maybe have them rounded up, tagged, logged and sent back to the border.

@p_muzzer @ryangrim I think these were actually border patrol agents.

Drop Site obtained harrowing footage of the latest killing which appears to be from the perspective of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk

@Landeur To be clear, I do not believe it is blue shirt-tail who fires the first round.

@Landeur Sorry, but I believe you have misconstrued the sequence of events. If you view the other angles, the shooter has already drawn and is shooting the victim in the back almost immediately on Grey Coat removing the weapon. Here is a slo-mo of that other angle: x.com/ryangrim/statu…

I've slowed this down. In the huddle, one or more ICE officers shout 'GUN'. This caused another officer to draw his sidearm. Another officer removed the man's sidearm, and then walked away, but it was discharged negligently (see for yourself). The Sig P320 is notorious for NDing, but typically only when dropped. That then triggered the other agents to think that the man on the ground, Alex Pretti, had begun shooting, so they neutralised the perceived threat. If this is what happened, it's an incredibly unfortunate accident in Minneapolis.

@ryangrim Have the NRA commented on the infringement of the victims' 2nd Amendment rights yet? More importantly, are they rallying the well armed militia?

@ryangrim Is there any difference between the ICE officers in black, as this person is, as opposed to khaki/beige? I was wondering if rank or duties are defined by uniform, though on further reflection, if I were they, I would not wish to stand out.

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@setupspawn Absolute leg end. 👍

Netflix doesn’t tell you this

@Avesta_____ @VladVexler Would you be so kind as to clarify something for me. I don't recognise the individual you have attributed realism in foreign policy to. So, here's my question, this is TACO you are talking about or a Trump from an alternative universe?

We Need to Talk About Trump’s Narcissism Trump’s unchecked narcissism is destabilising global politics, yet we refuse to analyse it seriously. Every relationship Trump has - with Putin, Starmer, Macron, Zelensky - is shaped by his narcissism. For Trump, every act - from cutting taxes to pouting - is designed to satisfy his need for narcissistic supply. The kind of narcissism I am talking about is not a personality “trait” like greed or vanity. It is a personality disorder: a deep denial of mental and emotional reality which leaves Trump relating to the world with a child’s view of adult capabilities. We usually avoid discussing the mental disorders of public figures. But this taboo is no longer defensible. As our democracies decline, we risk electing increasingly disturbed individuals. When someone holds the power to dismantle democracy or start a war, the public has a right to scrutinise their psychological condition. Narcissism and Power: the Oval Office ambush At the heart of narcissistic personality disorder is an insatiable need for narcissistic supply. There is positive supply - for instance, receiving adulation. There is negative supply, sometimes called sadistic supply - the need to be seen as omnipotently destructive, to command a kind of dark admiration. Recall Trump’s theatre of cruelty with Zelensky in the Oval Office. Trump demanded gratitude while calling Zelensky a dictator, blaming him for Putin’s invasion, and scheming to extract Ukraine’s natural resources. This was about sadistic narcissistic supply: being seen across the world as the master of Zelensky’s misery. Narcissists divide people into two groups: people they idealise, and people they dismiss. In Trump’s mental world, Putin is idealised. Trump invites Putin into an idealised society of his own creation. Zelensky, on the other hand, is in the non-idealised group. Zelensky does not meet Trump’s needs for narcissistic supply, and therefore, for Trump, does not exist. During the Oval Office meeting, J.D. Vance sensed that Trump was running dry on narcissistic supply. His intervention from the sidelines framed Zelensky as ungrateful and disrespectful, creating a new dynamic in which Trump could torment him - converting frustrated narcissistic need into the satisfaction of sadistic narcissistic supply. Putin Stabilises Trump’s Inner World Narcissism is often misunderstood as simple self-obsession. This is wrong. The opposite of narcissism is not care for others - that is the opposite of sociopathy. The opposite of narcissism is authenticity, and by extension, growth - being real and looking inward to find a steady self inside. My philosophical hero Richard Wollheim called this “seeing in”. When Trump looks inside, he finds nothing. There is no “I” there. Only a false self that craves narcissistic supply as a means of self-regulation. Because Trump has a false self, he cannot grow. He lives the same day over and over. He accumulates no lessons or burdens. When Trump is exposed to human suffering, he recognises what is shown to him, but has no correlate emotional response. Trump doesn’t carry anything - whether it’s Ukraine, Gaza, or even Melania. Narcissistic Submission For the narcissist, life is theatre organised around perceptions of authority. Trump either dominates - staging spectacles of humiliation and control - or submits. When he submits, he aligns himself with special figures so he can bask in the fake glory he attributes to them. I call this “narcissistic submission”. Psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas talks similarly about “the narcissistic contract’: “I promote you as exalted”, welcome you into my “world of idealisation” and then “bask in the radiant light of the idealised object”. If you’ve encountered narcissists, you know they often exaggerate others’ achievements so they can bask in their glow. This explains why Trump rolls out the red carpet for Putin. Trump is not interested in the real Putin. He is incurious about him. But he is attached to an idealised image of Putin, soaking up its radiant glow. Criticism of Putin is therefore not merely a political problem for Trump. He experiences criticism of Putin as an attack on himself, an undermining of the idealised world on which he depends for self-regulation. Trump’s Manipulability Trump is easy to manipulate because his false self leaves him without true direction. He is not goal-oriented. Trump holds very few steady beliefs, most of which he has maintained since the 1980s. Beyond those, his mental life is not organised around beliefs but around fleeting dispositional states which come and go. If something promises to feed his narcissistic hunger, he will pursue it. The ideal manipulator of a narcissist is a non-narcissistic psychopath - somebody strategic, goal-oriented, and unburdened by a false self. Unfortunately, Putin fits this description to some extent. Putin may not be a psychopath. But he is a master of sociopathy with pronounced psychopathic traits. His narcissistic tendencies are there, but they do not amount to a personality disorder. This creates an asymmetrical relationship. Trump uses Putin for emotional self-regulation. Putin uses Trump to achieve real political goals in the world. Worse still, Trump’s narcissism appears to be amplified by forms of neurodiversity, including traits commonly associated with ADHD. Neurodiversity itself is not the problem - many of the most ethical and capable individuals in history were neurodivergent. The danger lies in the interaction: when narcissistic pathology is combined with ADHD traits, the result can be explosive. In Trump’s case, this interaction intensifies the liabilities of his narcissism - heightening impulsivity, contrarian reflexes, and an inability to disengage from fixations once they take hold. Let’s now draw some lessons. Lesson One Our culture amplifies narcissism, sociopathy, and even psychotic thinking. Social media floods us with tragedy, fuelling both sociopathic detachment and a psychology of moral disgust at the ghastliness of the world that makes us want to depart politics. Post-truth politics weakens our grip on reality and fuels psychotic patterns of thought: when we find reality so unbearable that we destroy the world in our minds in order to bear it. This helps explain the psychological appeal of Trumpism. In turn, consumerism twists our search for truth into self-obsession, normalising and amplifying narcissism. We shop for the news that matches our identity. This transforms politics because societies that are sick elevate sick people into positions of power. Lesson Two We rarely link personal psychology to large-scale problems. The psychological professions focus on private life and ignore politics. The professional study of politics largely ignores psychology. We urgently need more psychological insight into our relationships mediated by the institutions we share. When our institutions get sick, they corrupt mass psychology, which further corrupts institutions. Left unchecked, this cycle accelerates. Lesson Three Many of the daily messages we are exposed to online are psychically destructive. They leave us feeling unsafe, powerless, and lost - with a fractured sense of reality. This generates another vicious cycle: destructive communication disinhibits us to produce ever more destructive communication. Segregated mental and factual worlds multiply, in which destructive acts no longer appear destructive at all. Lesson Four Don’t vote for narcissists. They distort reality and use you for their gain. They act malevolently when it suits them and endanger your country. It is indeed true that most leaders have narcissistic traits. But most do not have narcissistic personality disorder. This distinction matters politically and should not be used as an excuse to vote for narcissists. And don’t vote for psychopaths - a warning that will become even more important in the 2030s, as post-truth authoritarian buffoons like Trump give way to colder, more disciplined authoritarians like Orban. The Ideological Dimension Everything above concerns psychology. But psychology is not the whole story. Trumpism and Putinism are two versions of the same global ideology. Both embrace a monarchist, “might is right” worldview, with elements of fascisation. Both approach the world as a market in which everything can be bought, and what can’t be bought, can be taken by force. I discuss the ideological link between Putinism and Trumpism in a dedicated video, and a video version of the psychological argument in this essay is also available on YouTube.