I think we agree, but if he’s asking everyone he comes across to investigate Biden…
…I’m investigating Biden, right now! 
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It turns out that the rest of the people he comes across, he’s asking to investigate Mueller (or his investigation, anyways). Given the recent revelations (e.g. Australia, UK, Italy…), that’s possibly not even a joke.
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Well, some sort of CSA anyway.
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It is only the stratified society that makes the upper echelons fearful, not of exploiting the lower echelon, but of being considered one of “those people,” who are cut off from polite society.
It is an unintended effect of egalitarianism that he cannot be shamed by anyone’s disapproval. Mr. Trump is a perfect storm, feeling neither guilt nor shame – a type of the unrighteous judge who fears neither God nor man.
He’s an oblivious, egomaniacal sociopath, not a freakin’ force of nature.
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You could have saved some letters with “asshole.”
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Really? Because King Charles the VIII was notoriously fearful of being shamed? Stalin? Mao? Caligula? Ivan the Terrible?
Shamelessness is a common trait of authoritarian leaders, who always exist in stratified societies. Pretty sure that having power over other people (as Trump has had their entire life, having been born into wealth) encourages shamelessness and seeing other people as having equal standing as you discourages it.
(Not that a case as abject as Trump could be explained by any single factor)
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Well, that’s quite poetic… but I think just calling him a ‘scumbag’ is closer to saying it all.
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Got “there” before me!!!
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He spent his Presidency trying to disprove anyone on Twitter being mean to him and saying he cheated. If he didn’t fear looking weak or inept at business, he wouldn’t have done 98% of the things he’s done to cover his inadequacies.
He fears a lot, and right now I suspect he’s especially shook.
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The mere fact that we are having this discussion for good reasons, i.e. it is at least a remote possibility that an administration might not go along with the transition of power after they lose an election or reach their term limit, is another ‘check’ on the failed state bingo card.
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Problem there is that Scott’s already suffered time dilation effects, so it would mess up subsequent experiments.
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We all experience time dilation effects when we drive or take the train- this would need to be quantified to determine the extent of any effect before excluding the results.
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There is a difference in addressing the idea because a few fringe nuts are talking about it and dealing with it after the president has made public statements to that effect. In May the president tweeted that two years of his presidency had been stolen (he originally misspelled it as stollen if you want to have an easy hook for searches) and retweeted Falwell’s declaration that he should get two extra years to make up for it. In February the president’s former attorney testified before congress that given his experiences working with Trump, “I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power.” In March of 2018 the president praised Xi Jinping’s elevation to president for life saying, “President for life… I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday.”
That being said, I still think we have enough democratic norms in place to prevent that being an issue, but when the head of a country regularly talks about extending their term past its legal limits, it isn’t an idle conspiracy theory. IT is a matter that needs to be tracked closely.
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Being bald, they can’t be used for twin studies of presidency induced greying.
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Depends…
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You’ve checked that they’re bald everywhere then?
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Only Gabby Giffords can answer that question.
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