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In reply to the discussion: Look at what Dear Leader has done to the Oval Office since Biden left: [View all]UTUSN
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Obvious, his lifelong craving for acknowledgment, insatiable about wanting what other/exemplary people got from their talent and accomplishment - he craves OBAMA's/GORE's Nobel Prize, HITLER's Time Mag cover, presidency (the persona) of Andy JACKSON.
**** He can't make any *ORIGINAL* thing, so he took over Mar a Lago from Marjorie Meriwether POST, and the KENNEDY Center, and can't compose wonderful music so does the D.J. thing of blaring Nessum Dorma and YMCA and Do You Hear the People Sing?
He's the birds that take over other birds' nests.
***ON EDIT: How it has been noted since 2015 how he appropriates historical slogans that were successful (obviously for other people), such as "America First" (for isolationist, Fascist Charles LINDBERG), even MAGA (used by RAYGUN? ) , and whatever many other catch phrases that his string-pullers can scrounge up for him (since he has zero knowledge of his own). He's basically about *marketing* - getting suckers to buy into his crap.
***ON EDIT: Add another appropriated aspiration: He has a replica of the World Cup on display in his office junk. See Post #10 for a graphic.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_parasitism
.... is a subclass of parasitism and phenomenon and behavioural pattern of animals that rely on others to raise their young. The strategy appears among birds, insects and fish. The brood parasite manipulates a host, either of the same or of another species, to raise its young as if it were its own, usually using egg mimicry, with eggs that resemble the host's. The strategy involves a form of aggressive mimicry called Kirbyan mimicry. ....
Mafia hypothesis
There is a question as to why the majority of the hosts of brood parasites care for the nestlings of their parasites. Not only do these brood parasites usually differ significantly in size and appearance, but it is also highly probable that they reduce the reproductive success of their hosts. The "mafia hypothesis" proposes that when a brood parasite discovers that its egg has been rejected, it destroys the host's nest and injures or kills the nestlings. The threat of such a response may encourage compliant behavior from the host.[19] Mafia-like behavior occurs in the brown-headed cowbird of North America, and the great spotted cuckoo of Europe. The great spotted cuckoo lays most of its eggs in the nests of the European magpie. It repeatedly visits nests it has parasitised, a precondition for the mafia hypothesis. In experiments, nests from which the parasite's egg has been removed are destroyed by the cuckoo, supporting the hypothesis. An alternative explanation is that the destruction encourages the magpie host to build a new nest, giving the cuckoo another opportunity for parasitism.[19] Similarly, the brown-headed cowbird parasitises the prothonotary warbler. In other experiments, 56% of egg-ejected nests were predated upon, against 6% of non-ejected nests. 85% of parasitized nests rebuilt by hosts were destroyed. Hosts that ejected parasite eggs produced 60% fewer young than those that accepted the cowbird eggs.[20] ....
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