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| The striking parallels between Trump and Howard Hughes | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 7 2017, 09:53 AM (556 Views) | |
| Attaburnsinhell | Feb 7 2017, 09:53 AM Post #1 |
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Trump is exhibiting strange behavior An admitted germaphobe. He spends most of his days in the WH watching television and wearing a bathrobe He grew up under the shadow of a cold, dominating father who left his son a fortune. He took that money and built businesses with it, some successful, others failed. He wants to be known as a guy who builds big things He cultivated an image of a wealthy playboy ladies man, needing to be seen with beautiful women, but could not nail down a stable relationship and was divorced twice. His latest wife seems to prefer to avoid him. He obsesses over women's appearences, their body shapes and how they dress He is obsessed with celebrity, wanting desperately to be in their company He surrounds himself with flunkies and yes men and his own personal security team He has a deep hatred of the press The most important quality he demands is loyalty to him He is drifting off into a world of delusion and is a pathological liar He has no close personal friendships He exhibits malignent narcissism Is there a precedent to this person? Yep Howard Hughes His father was the wildcatter Howard Robard Hughes, his mother the Dallas heiress Allene Gano. When Hughes was four years old, his father patented a rotary drill bit able to penetrate thick rock, which revolutionizing oil drilling. He shrewdly decided to commercialize this himself thereby creating start-up capital for Howard Jr’s subsequent vast empire. Howard Jr. showed engineering ability himself, setting up Houston’s first wireless broadcast system when he was eleven years old. Hughes’ early life was shaped by his mother doting on him with excessive concern about his health, his teeth and his bowels. Hughes appears to have been introverted from an early age, characteristics that were exacerbated by this mother’s worries. She is said to have disapproved of the young Hughes making friends in the belief that other people were disease carriers, thereby giving him an excuse to escape social pressures. Hughes was married for the first time in 1925 to Ella Rice, a Houston socialite. By 1927 this marriage was failing, no doubt in part as he kept her at home isolated for weeks at a time. Following this he was linked romantically variously to Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Jane Greer, Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth and Janet Leigh By the 1940s Hughes’ obsessive tendencies were becoming apparent and during the production of ‘The Outlaw’, which featured the barely covered breasts of its star Jane Russell, Hughes was obsessed with a minor flaw in one of Russell’s blouses, and wrote a detailed memorandum on how to fix the problem. He contended that fabric bunched up two seams, giving the distressing appearance of two nipples on each of Russell’s breasts. To remedy this he designed a complicated cantilevered bra; Russell never wore it. In 1952 Hughes purchased RKO Studios and immediately cut the staff there from 2,500 to 600. His management over the next two years, which involved shutting down productions for weeks at a time to try to control dust, or to check the staff’s credentials to sift out communists, eventually lead to the studio’s downfall in 1955. In 1966 Hughes became one of the richest men in the world when he was forced to sell his shares in TWA making him $547 million. In the same year Hughes and Peters moved to Las Vegas, although by this time, due to Hughes’ phobias, they tended to communicate by notes rather than by meeting. On arrival in the city, having reserved the top two storeys of the Desert Inn for 10 days, Hughes then refused to leave. The matter was finally resolved by Hughes buying the hotel for twice its valuation price. In 1968 Hughes was still living in the Desert Inn, where he is reported to have seldom slept, instead spending the night watching old movies. Occasionally, he would nod off and missed parts of the film being screened. In the age before video recorders, he bought the Las Vegas KLAS-TV so that he could have the chunks he had missed rebroadcast. Towards the end of this life, Hughes’ business holdings were overseen by a small panel dubbed ‘The Mormon Mafia’ because of the many Latter-day Saints on the committee. Although Hughes was not a member of the church, he considered them trustworthy. In addition to supervising day-to-day business operations and Hughes’ health, they also went to great pains to satisfy Hughes’ every whim. Remaining financially canny, Hughes moved hotels every 180 days to avoid personal income tax and during a visit to London Hughes Hughes fractured his hip during a nocturnal bathroom run. He refused to accept specialist advice that he exercise to get better, instead opting to remain bedridden, which led to his living in increasing squalor and filth. Keep an eye on Trump When he starts growing his nails, wearing kleenex boxes as slippers, and keeping jars of his own urine around.... Edited by Attaburnsinhell, Feb 7 2017, 09:57 AM.
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| PATruth | Feb 7 2017, 10:53 AM Post #2 |
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Successful people always frighten the left. If he was a textbook psychopath and made his money selling influence as the Secretary of State or a community agitator and race pimp he would be a liberal hero. Move along, it's another atta post, nothing to see.... |
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| Attaburnsinhell | Feb 7 2017, 11:20 AM Post #3 |
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Has Trump snapped the tether? His claim that media “doesn’t want to report” terrorism suggests he’s lost contact with reality Trump did a dozen things last weekend that would have provoked a crisis — for a normal president. He's not normal President Trump is almost completely disconnected from reality. I wish I were just being hyperbolic and partisan, but I’m not. It’s difficult in this age of snappy internet takes and outraged social media memes to fully emphasize how dangerous it is that the president’s mental health is this shoddy. Based on his most recent public statements via Twitter and Fox News Channel, it should be obvious to anyone, even many of his voters, that his cheese has leaped from his cracker and is currently in an endless death spiral into the abyss. In the last 72 hours alone, Trump has defended Vladimir Putin’s lengthy roster of political assassinations by telling Fox News audiences that America is responsible for similar deaths. He has attacked James Robart, the “so-called” federal judge appointed by George W. Bush who ruled against the president’s Muslim ban (or is it?), preemptively blaming Robart for any future terrorist attacks. He has threatened to somehow “defund” California — the entire state! — without explaining what that might mean. He has insisted that any polling data indicating that he’s unpopular is clearly fake news. And as we recently learned, Trump signed an executive order placing Steve Bannon on the National Security Council without actually reading the order first. Again, all that news dropped over the weekend — a weekend during which Trump was supposed to be on vacation at Mar-a-Lago. Any one of the above news stories would have erupted into its own news cycle, dominating headlines and triggering numerous congressional hearings — that is, if the president in question had been Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. Hell, George W. Bush was never this addled and mentally unstable, at least in public. Trump’s ruling party, however, doesn’t care. As long as Trump’s approval numbers remain above 40 percent and as long as he signs what they feed him (Congress hasn’t delivered any real legislation yet), they’ll continue to excuse, if not backstop, his obvious psychological instability and rank incompetence. Naturally, the question of the year — the question GOP leadership is publicly ignoring — is whether Trump is mentally fit to deal with a major crisis. Is he fit to make life-and-death decisions that could impact millions of lives, American or otherwise? Given everything we’ve observed so far, the obvious short answer is: No chance in hell. Trump appears to be operating on a different and more twisted plane of existence than the rest of the world. If someone were to tap into his mind and create an illustration of what’s going on in there, it would have to look like a Hieronymus Bosch painting. He’s this close to talking to shadow people and frantically tweaking VCRs in the White House residence. Trump isn’t experiencing the same truth and reality the rest of us are. He’s gone bye-bye. http://www.salon.com/2017/02/07/has-trump-snapped-the-tether-his-claim-that-media-doesnt-want-to-report-terrorism-suggests-hes-lost-contact-with-reality/ |
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| PATruth | Feb 7 2017, 11:37 AM Post #4 |
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If it's from salon you can be sure it's 110% bullsheit. Salon is almost as bad as motherjones or rawstory. More liberal pollution.. |
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| Attaburnsinhell | Feb 7 2017, 11:52 AM Post #5 |
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Donald Trump Family History of Alzheimer's Returns as Campaign Issue Disease Hereditary; Is He Showing Signs? By Keith Girard, September 23rd, 2016
http://www.theimproper.com/142684/donald-trumps-family-history-alzheimers-campaign-issue/ |
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| Attaburnsinhell | Feb 8 2017, 08:28 AM Post #6 |
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Now even those around Trump are realizing he is mentally ill! Trump’s Own Team Is Alarmed By His Conduct http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-administration-leaks_us_589a45f1e4b04061313a1fbb?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009 |
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| Harambe4Trump | Feb 8 2017, 10:12 AM Post #7 |
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https://youtu.be/A9DHw9xdAys |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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