Eta: we ought to be able to use this info to our advantage. Else the fate of this beautiful country will be as one of his bankrupt casinos.

Any differences to note?

Putin is everything Trump wishes he could be. Trump has no idea what he is doing from one day to the next. He just likes being in control and looking powerful.

Though he is truly dangerous to us all, I think a smarter and younger Trump would be even more dangerous.

He doesn't want anyone else involved in making decisions, even though others do the actual work while he golfs. He's a micromanager, but unfortunately he's stupid and ignorant and doesn't want to learn anything or take anybody's advice, so he does his micromanaging on the basis of what he thinks, based on what he wants to happen and whatever he might have picked up on Fox "News." But in his addled mind nobody but him should be managing anything, and whatever he decides is correct and must be done. During the eighteenth century there was a concept of the enlightened despot, an authoritarian leader who ruled on the basis of Enlightenment ideas based on science and logic, and who strengthened his authority by improving the lives of his subjects. Frederick the Great exemplified the enlightened despot, writing that his "principal occupation is to combat ignorance and prejudice ... to enlighten minds, cultivate morality, and to make people as happy as it suits human nature, and as the means at my disposal permit." Trump is the polar opposite of an enlightened despot. He's a crooked real estate developer turned benighted despot whose principal occupation is to further ignorance and prejudice, to corrupt minds, cultivate violence, and to make people as unhappy and himself as happy as possible.

A typical American large company CEO...

consisting entirely of Trump and his sleazy kids, and just a few employees to help handle (or cook) the books. That way Trump had total control over everything. In a large corporation there's a board of directors and many layers of management; the CEO delegates everyday decisions down the chain of command. A successful corporation isn't micromanaged. The CEO and the top executives might be greedy, heartless bastards but they don't manage like Trump does.

And they can be let go, at least at most public companies. Still, overpaid, too much power, and often detrimental to those under them.

We've missed you!

Good way to introduce themself.

Easy to spot when they make it that obvious.

That's why he turned Russian, to have enough money
to be a nazi and never show weakness.

Especially if you add another "T-word" (Trump).

"Trump" and "Trouble" both start the same way - at least with the same two letters.

I find it helpful to read other people's takes on the issue, especially when it involves the donald. Cuz sometimes it just feels like being sucked down into a whirlpool where it's hard to breathe and scary to try to guess how we finally get out of this.

AFAIK, he thinks of nothing else.

wound up in bankruptcy or essentially salvage

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior



https://www.choosingtherapy.com/signs-of-a-psychopath/

20 Signs of a Psychopath: Traits & Characteristics

At least he scores high on something!

Which should be a statement on the average intelligence of American citizens. Somebody has to be in the bottom half of their class.

the Federal Reserve. I wish I was making this up.

... long before he ever ran for President. As I understand it, according to Johnston and others, Chump would waste massive amounts of time obsessing over "carpets and drapes" and other tiny details of his hotels ... but meanwhile he was defaulting on major stuff like making sure the employees got paid and the doors stayed open.

Chump was never a micro-manager, he was just too lazy to put the time in on actually managing his businesses. Aways it was someone else's job to handle the important stuff, and most of them including his own brother were fired for petty and unfair reasons. The few who didn't get fired were people who knew how to play his games and stay on his good side.

Of course we all know that "The Art of the Deal" was a load of hogwash, and Chump never wrote an actual word of that book or any other. The ghost author Tony Schwartz has already blown the lid off that story.

From what we've heard about Chump's first term in the White House, we know that he didn't do much actual "work" as President, other than show up for the TV cameras and sign blank sheets of paper that he pretended were bills. People like Peter Navarro and Stephen Miller (and others) made up for the huge deficits in Chump's management style.

It's quite possible that the dementia and sundowning was going on during his first term, and the White House staffers did a good job of hiding it from the press. OR maybe this term the media is actually doing its job (finally) by reporting how bad it really is.