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Polly
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Well educated liberal, passionate business professional, proud mom of three fabulous grown offspring that I raised pretty much solo. Leadership is one of my passions.
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bubblespolly.bsky.social
Is it me, or is Morning Joe avoiding the weekend events completely? Military Parade was an embarrassing disaster. No Kings kicked ass. Scarborough is a Trump ass kissing pussy.

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June 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
bubblespolly.bsky.social
Well yeah. What I need to understand is 1) what the hell is wrong with people that are willing to follow this “lead”; and, 2) how in the hell do you get rid of this kind of leader, or at least minimize the damage of their rein?
m-b-petersen.bsky.social Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · Apr 29
Trump has every single hallmark of a dominance-oriented leader - and this may make him want to take everyone with him if he goes down in flames.

I was interviewed for @nytimes.com on the topic of Trump’s personality along a number of other experts.

Article here: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/o...
Trump embodies the leadership qualities of a specific type of politician, according to Michael Bang Petersen, a political scientist at Aarhus University in Denmark, whose work I have often cited. Petersen wrote in an email: Research indicates that, at a very general level, there are two types of leaders. Leaders who win prestige in exchange for providing community benefits and leaders who operate via dominance and, hence, use fear and intimidation to force others to recognize their status. It is often difficult to assess people at a distance, but Donald Trump has every single hallmark of a dominance-oriented leader. He seems aggressive, self-centered, norm-violating and strategically uses fear to force people to defer. Psychological research has shown that people who are drawn to dominance as a status strategy often have antisocial personality dispositions, including being low in empathy and high in narcissism. Petersen wrote that research he and his colleagues conducted focused on a particular destructive aspect of the psychology of dominance, what we call a need for chaos. We have consistently found that when dominance-oriented individuals face threats to their status, they react with fierce aggression. Psychologists have long known about so-called narcissistic rage, but we have found that when the feeling of threat becomes strong enough in such individuals, this rage can turn into a destructive drive when the person essentially just wants to watch the world burn. There is a risk that strong resistance would trigger a psychological desire to escalate the conflict much further. In a well-functioning democracy, such desires in a president would be balanced by strong institutional checks and balances, but the current risk is that Trump’s personality can shape government policy and reactions much more directly exactly because he has intimidated substantial parts of those checks and balances into submission and that the advisers in the inner circle may be afraid of speaking against him.
April 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Tina George (@tinageorge2701) on Threads
Yep. All of this lays at his door
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April 30, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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corgwynmom.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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retiredatc.bsky.social
This theory is an interesting one. Hmmmmm????
March 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
Lock him up?
mattgertz.bsky.social Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · Mar 24
Pete Hegseth in 2016: "The people we rely on to do dangerous and difficult things for us rely on one thing from us: That we will not... be reckless with the dangerous things they are doing for us. That's the national security implications of a private server that's unsecured."
March 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
me waiting for the “but her emails” crowd to find their tongues
March 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
bubblespolly.bsky.social
Seems to me any one of us can be scooped up guys with guns and put on a plane to a prison where this administration will pay for us to be held.

The constitution has been pissed on by the administration.

ANY of can be next.

What are we going to do about it? Something needs to be done.
March 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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avindman.bsky.social
Awesome quote. Great joining you for this discussion.
karaswisher.bsky.social Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Mar 18
Today I did a cyber security panel taping for @onwithkaraswisher.bsky.social and @avindman.bsky.social and I discussed the attack we both get from Musk online (his are worse than mine). Both of us ignore it and this epic quote explains why.
March 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
bubblespolly.bsky.social
POTUS is so confident he has the judicial branch in his back pocket. He told Roberts he “won’t forget”. What did that imply? It’s frightening that the future of our democracy is dependent on SCOTUS, given the questionable ethics and the blatant political influence of the conservative justices.
March 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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“Pearl Harbour should never have picked on Japan.”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 14
Trump on Ukraine: "You don't want to pick on somebody that's a lot larger than you."
March 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
bubblespolly.bsky.social
The office of the POTUS has fallen so far. It pains me to see the POTUS speak, especially when he badmouths other people, blames prior office incumbents, and resorts to name calling. It’s like having a 5th grade bully that loves the sound of his own voice in office.

Classless. Embarrassing.
March 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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March 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM