Saturday, January 08, 2022

Malignant Narcissism

German social psychologist Erich Fromm coined the term "malignant narcissism" in 1964, describing it as a "severe mental sickness", "the quintessence of evil and the root of the most vicious destructiveness and inhumanity".

Malignant narcissism combines features of narcissism, psychopathy, and sociopathy. Some signs and symptoms of malignant narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder:
Persistent fantasies about beauty, brilliance, and unlimited success and power

Unable to handle criticism

Tendency to lash out if they feel slighted

Likely to take advantage of others to get what they want

The expectation of being treated as superior, a grandiose sense of self-importance, a belief that they are "special" and unique
A constant need for attention, admiration, and praise
Lack of empathy for others and an unwillingness/inability to recognize the needs and feelings of others 
Having no remorse for hurting others and no interest in apologizing unless it benefits them

A sense of entitlement and an expectation of special treatment

Tendency to monopolize conversations and/or mistreat those who they perceive as inferior

Tendency to blame others for their own bad behavior

Seeking to win at all costs and not caring about the pain they cause others—or may even enjoy it and experience it as empowering

2020 . . . Back When "Everything Was Going Beautifully"

Trump Interviewed By OAN's Christina Bobb, Who Also Helped Organize The January 6 Insurrection
Seth Abramson, Proof, June 14, 2021:
[On January 6, 2021, Rudy Giuliani's suite of offices at the Willard Hotel in D.C. included a "war room" or "command center". It included "25 to 30" individuals, including members of Giuliani's legal team.] According to the Daily Beast, a key member of this team on January 6 was former Department of Homeland Security employee and current One America News (OAN) propagandist Christina Bobb, who is presently helping fund a fraudulent post-election "audit" in Arizona. Proof can now confirm Bobb as the sixth entrant into what Trump lawyer John Eastman has called the president's "war room" at the Willard. . . .

Bobb appears to have confessed to her presence at the Willard Hotel, on January 12, 2021 telling a podcast interviewer, Michael Farris, that right as the joint session of Congress began—approximately 1 PM on January 6, well over an hour before the first windows were broken at the U.S. Capitol—she left the Cannon House Office Building because "I needed to leave and get to another location to meet up with the rest of the legal team." Not only is it now clear that this other "location" was the Willard, and that "legal team" referred to the Trump lawyers we now know were congregating at the Willard on January 6—including Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman—but Bobb's admission contains four other critical components:
1.  Bobb considers herself to have been part of Trump's "legal team" on January 6 . . .

2.  Bobb had previously agreed to be in the Willard Hotel "command center" during the march on the Capitol, suggesting that the center was intended to be uniquely functional during whatever chaos was expected to ensue on Capitol Hill . . . [Bobb said] she "needed" to leave her post as an OANN "reporter" at the Cannon House Office Building in order to make a scheduled "meeting" with the president's legal team.

3.  Bobb clearly feels discomfort about disclosing the logistics of Trump's strategy on January 6—as in an interview in which she rather openly preaches sedition against the democratically elected government of the United States, she refuses to say exactly where the president's legal team was meeting during the insurrection, calling it just "another location." . . . It remains a distinct possibility that Oath Keepers and other militants were inside Trump's Willard Hotel nerve center on January 6, making it as important a location for the FBI to thoroughly investigate as almost any other location in the whole of the insurrection timeline. . . . [S]he tells Farris that "I don't want to get too specific [about what I'm doing for Giuliani]", but she does say that her role is to "get the truth out to the American people", offering a hint about what she might have done on January 6.

4.  Later in the interview, Bobb [states] "there were other groups that were known to have infiltrated [the U.S. Capitol mob] intentionally to frame Trump supporters. . . . [Supporters of Trump] obviously weren't trying to break in [to the Capitol]. They were invited in . . . and then framed for it. It's all part of the [Democrats'] plot." . . .

His Crowd
Because . . . January 6 Committee Investigating Whether Trump
Oversaw A Criminal Conspiracy (Note: There's Mountains Of Evidence)

MAGA World

It Saves Time
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
~Joseph Heller, Catch-22
He became simply a mouth that uttered, a hand that signed, whatever was demanded of him. His sole concern was to find out what they wanted him to confess, and then confess it quickly, before the bullying started anew.
~George Orwell, 1984
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