A Malignant Narcissist at a Convention

Lessons in avoiding self-gaslighting.

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With A Malignant Narcissist in a Debate being so positively received, Part II demanded more time to meet understandable expectations. Then all hell broke loose about Biden’s aging and with trump supposedly getting shot in the ear by a Republican with an assault rifle.

I am not saying it did not happen. I am just saying that this was exactly the kind of event that court determined pathological narcissist Alex Jones would say was put on by “crisis actors” to help the Dems, and if we know one thing about trump, he is always a crisis actor who will shamelessly create, exploit or try to orchestrate any fact, fiction or illusion to his own advantage.

Ergo, this piece was going to be A Malignant Narcissist in a Debate Part II, but with three weeks being a lifetime in politics, and with virtually every principle, concept and conclusion applying across the timeline with the consistency of the malignant narcissist’s pathology, it became clear that this piece needed to transcend the debate and move on through to the commonalities of the horrific reality of having…

A Malignant Narcissist at a Convention

Lessons in avoiding self-gaslighting.

Why does anyone listen to this fool?

As we have observed, everything seems wrong with this election. Down is up, wrong is right and an obvious malignant narcissist was supposedly running equal or far ahead of a lifelong caring person, calm statesman, and who despite superficial signs of aging, was likely the best person to guide us through these dark times.

Yes, there are plenty of things to be unhappy about but considering most of our major institutional pillars such as the media, academia, and rule of law have failed us, trump angling to be king, and our illegitimate Supreme Court consistently making rulings for him and our oligarchs that essentially are saying, “yes, your majesties,” it is no wonder that Joe Biden (who like Gandalf in Lord of the Rings) has paid a very heavy physical toll for standing up to several great evils of the world by saying,

“You shall not pass!” - Gandalf the Grey

Literally every single time trump is treated like a normal human worthy of respect and not the psychologically disordered, damaged and now demented egomaniac he again showed himself to be at the debate, at his shooting and at his long and boring klan rally convention speech, I repeatedly ask myself how is it that the vast majority of humanity, our leaders and worst of all experts in the U.S. media seem to have little to no real grasp of what malignant narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths really are, what they are really up to, and all the other insidious ways they negatively affect and hinder every society trying to be just and civil to everyone.

You would think a free press would notice one of our two major political parties is unjustly and antisocially trying to destroy democracy and take over our free country. It seems kind of important for every person and certainly those who have jobs in the “free press” to know and report that people with narcissistic disorders are the ones who repeatedly commit the greatest evils, and could likely destroy humanity in an attempt to rule it due to their compulsive psychological arrogance, rage and/or insecurities.

Remember when trump cut the U.S. assistance for the Chinese labs that managed viruses like Covid, that ended up killing millions.

For those just beginning to understand the dangerous psychological disorders that are hunting our democratic societies, trumpism is mostly the same type of psychopathic and/or sociopathic malignant narcissism in disguise, that has repeated itself generation after generation, since the dawn of humans, as discussed in What is Evil?

No matter which direction life or politics turns, narcissists normally thrive in negativity, trauma, despair and chaos. This is often due to that being their most familiar mental state, so they both cause these negativities and are drawn to them, which is part of why narcissists of a feather flock together. This also seems connected to why many are so addicted to trauma porn. To the sadistic and schadenfreude narcissists like trump, each instance is just getting their next fix of narcissistic supply.

Like so many addicts, most are trying to dull their pain, feel strong when they feel weak, or are trying to bring order to their chaotic lives. For most narcissists, their pain comes from living the unhappy existence of an empty and purely selfish person. However, since misery loves company and likeminded dark worldviews will come together in common, selfish and transactional cause, this is how they create the illusion of having “friends.”

While most of us are trying to be civil, narcissists are always poisoning our well of goodness and senses of common cause and community to initially hide their own disorders. If that succeeds they move onto their next logical step of trying to take over the world, or at least as much of it as they can grab and they will keep grabbing for more until they run into a firm barrier that stops them. They are trying to fill bottomless pits of emptiness inside themselves from without because they cannot or will not see that the key to happiness comes from within.

From Debate to Convention

When CNI published the last minute rapid response Triggering a Narcissist before the debate, it was mistakenly not noted that trump would also try to trigger Biden, mostly because it did not seem he would have any opportunity, when in fact he had more than we realized every time his mic and camera were off.

This point was made clear when a missing post-debate fact came out of his Stephanopoulos interview. There Biden revealed trump heckled him when his mic was cut, and he let that throw him off. How is it that no one at CNN thought to stop this dishonorable behavior by trump or think it was not worth reporting, since it would have greatly contributed to throwing Biden off, just as it would make anyone struggle?

This unreported information from a psychological perspective is exactly the kind of thing narcissists do to hurt people’s public image. If it was not true, CNN would have reported after Biden’s ABC interview that they saw no evidence of trump’s bad behavior when his mic was cut. This does prove that much of what was portrayed as Biden’s aged confusion and weakness had a lot to do with a narcissist distracting him, as anyone would be.

In looking back at the debate with this psychological lens, Biden’s stunned looks of confusion and disbelief were mostly natural responses to the insane ramblings of a demented narcissist. Indeed triggers are their standard weapons. They say some crazy or evil lie and when the sane person reacts with righteous anger or stunned disbelief, the toxic abuser points to the reaction and says, “See, I’m not the crazy one,” which is more triggering.

If what Biden says happened (100% consistent with him being an honest man and trump’s malignant narcissist behavior), not only is it a huge and new red flag of bad moral character for trump to secretly distract the person he was supposed to be debating, it is just as big of a red flag that CNN reported nothing about it.

What a sign of epic failure for “journalists” Jake Tapper and Dana Bash to not at least report after the fact that trump was secretly distracting Biden, and how that would have obviously greatly contributed to Biden’s loss of focus and blank stares of disbelief beyond the normal reactions to the toxic sewage and lies coming out of trump’s mouth when his mic was on.

trump is certainly well trained in knowing when the camera is on him and what he can get away with when it is not. It seems obvious in hindsight that off-camera heckling is to the ears, what a laser pointer is to the eyes, so it is surprising that it is not just as much against the rules, but then no rational person expects any normal human of any character to secretly and arrogantly heckle the President of the United States during a debate.

In other words, yes Biden faltered and was confused but it was far less a sign of his weakness or age than was apparent. It was mostly about him being toxically abused with lies and nonsense, and how almost everyone gets distracted and confused when being gaslit by a malignant-type narcissist.

How this connects to the convention

Maybe this is a confession, maybe it is revealing the wisdom of CNI philosophy, but I didn’t watch the debate or convention, and never planned to because I knew exactly what trump’s psychological playbook would be and what his Party of Flying Monkeys were going to do at the Republican Convention because trumpism is Narcissism.

Indeed since trump seems to show every sign of being a malignant narcissist, and Republicans seem to show every sign that they are a party of, by, and for rich and powerful malignant-types, and that the Republican maga base appears to behave exactly like henchmen, minions and flying monkeys in virtually every situation, what is there for anyone who knows these things to see?

The truth doesn’t matter, reality doesn’t matter, all that matters is when trump says jump, virtually every GOP henchmen conservative monkey minion says, “How high?”

In a debate, it was obvious Biden was destined to be buried in mountains of insane lies, and either he was prepared to trigger the narcissist in the debate and watch him meltdown and crumble, or he and his team would foolishly try to fight an irrational person on a rational battlefield.

CNI also informed me that it was going to be more of the same kind of MKUltra cult mind control tent revival at the convention. That is all trump and the Republicans ever have because the truth, facts and reality are all against them.

Why would I ever want to watch something that I knew an orange creature groomed and trained to lie, trigger and gaslight people to get what he wants and to feel like a “big boy,” was just going to do more of the same due to being a one-trick pony?

At one point I did turn on the debate with the thought of catching the mood due to hearing online Biden was struggling. As I switched it on, trump was speaking and I am not sure if it got clicked off or said “nope” first, but I lasted about three seconds.

If it was worth a lot of money to me, perhaps I would watch, but a firm self-care rule of the CNI philosophy is never self-gaslight unless it is absolutely necessary, and there is absolutely nothing about trump that has ever been necessary beyond giving the world a modern poster child for a malignant narcissist, replacing hitler.

Certainly there is nothing to be gained by watching a trump debate, a convention or just about anything that involves a malignant person like him, his henchmen or their flying monkeys, because we know in essence exactly what these narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths will do and say. The very important exception to this rule can be found in When to Believe Narcissists.

Indeed empirical psychology is almost infallible when it comes to predicting the behaviors and outcomes of malignant-types at a debate, a convention or in power, so all of our energies should be focused on stopping these dark passengers instead of self-gaslighting. We should not listen to one more word of their gaslighting than is required to defeat them, but defeat them we must, because they can never stop trying to take over anything and everything until stopped.

In these times of great psychological shock and trauma at what a small cabal of rich-wing nut jobs, narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths gaslighting us as they try to steal our freedoms and country from us, we must be mindful to not self-gaslight.

Cheat Code: Once you discover someone is a malignant narcissist, almost all of their words should become meaningless and empty, which means you never have any need to hear another word out of their mouth ever again.

Yes, once you understand the psychology fairly well, you can often predict with amazing accuracy what someone with a particular pathology and disorder will say and do, because it is often like clockwork that they will say or do whatever their disorder says will happen. These behaviors can be that textbook with enough training.

CNI Mantra: The world beats us up enough, don’t help.

A few debate notes:

No matter how Biden performed or it was perceived, this debate was doomed to be painful and hard to watch because the pathological liar was allowed to gaslight the world via CNN’s clownish, non-serious and toxic setup.

Even Joe Biden would have said this election isn’t about Joe Biden. It is about everyone who believes in freedom, democracy and rule of law, because as broken down in trump’s nazi-narcissist paradox, trump either unwittingly confessed to being a malignant narcissist, a nazi or both a few months ago.

The debate did reveal who is completely unfit while everyone was distracted by Joe’s audio and video. In terms of content, Joe Biden told the truth for the most part and trump told somewhere between 50-300+ lies, depending how you measure.

To escape this nightmare, the American people must finally see the GOP. Step #1 is really not hard. Next debate, Trigger the Narcissist so the cult can see their leader meltdown on live TV as the fragile, baby-man fraud he was, is, and always will be.

A few convention notes:

If you did self-gaslight and were wondering wtf trump was droning on and on about at his convention speech, a grandiose narcissist like trump will do or say almost anything they think they can get away with to acquire the narcissistic supply they compulsively need or crave, unless there is a firm barrier they perceive is blocking them.

Since trump compulsively needs and craves attention, his conscious mind was telling him he was the entertaining god king whose every word was charismatic law, while his unconscious mind went on and on trying to convince everyone of his self-perceived greatness. By all accounts outside the cult, he merely exposed more of his cognitive decline and malignant narcissism.

Conclusions

Seriously, why would I (or anyone) watch a debate with trump or the death knell of the Republican Party with their coronation of the malignantly narcissistic orange clown donald, the first of his name, king of the fake alphas, and the Russia bots and the insecure men, lord of the groomed and co-narcissists, protector of the liars, murderers and thieves.

Game of Thrones clowning aside, knowing trump is a malignant narcissist should inform everyone that he is going to fill up every second of every event with toxic nonsense. Therefore, there is virtually nothing to ever be learned from watching Joffrey, oops I mean donald, in anything from a CNI philosophical perspective, and it is all essentially self-gaslighting.

Game of Thrones fans will know Joffrey as the sociopath who became king.

As has often been said and proven, Republicans are great at running for government but terrible at running government. They are currently at the peak of utter shamelessness by saying and doing anything to get elected, all to hoard more money and power for themselves. Therefore, it is now no coincidence that virtually every behavior of trump and the Republican Party like the above perfectly aligns with scientifically established traits, behaviors and symptoms up and down the scale of clinical-level narcissists.

Indeed one of the most intelligent and healthiest things you can do for both your own peace of mind and to counter narcissism is to not self-gaslight. Of course for those still working to overcome their own triggers, that is the most intelligent and healthiest thing for you to work on and conquer at the moment.

Hopefully recognizing that the same kind of malignant-type narcissists who installed your trauma triggers are the same types trying to take over America and the world will accelerate your healing curve, and you can help everyone recognize the need to rebel against these proto-fascists, psychic vampires and dark siders, before they turn our free world into the dark narcissistic dystopia they all fantasize about. Thank you Joe Biden for standing up against so many evils for a lifetime. Now it is up to us!