American president angles for top diplomatic award while world watches his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

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    9 hours ago

    I just can’t imagine being so immune to shame that I call to nominate myself for the Nobel Peace prize. Especially if I had raped children and it was widely known.

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      His psychotic parents deliberately never instilled any sense of shame, guilt, consequences, empathy, etc. in him. He is a remarkably broken human, an actual psychological specimen. He should be locked up, and studied by scientists. Very few people have had an upbringing that was literally tailored to create a psychopath.

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        He’s a sociopath - just like the rest of billionaires. Having that much wealth, no matter how you got it, and keeping it, is already an act of great violence against many. But these people employ special psychologists and therapists to “get rid of” what’s left of their conscience. They’re essentially training themselves (and their children) to be psychopaths from a very young age. Even the ones who were actually born with something of a morality compass will have gotten rid of it by the time they need to step into the family company’s hierarchy.

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          I often call the Sociopathic Oligarchs, but I’m finding that more and more of them have graduated to being Psychopathic Oligarchs, including the Traitor-in-Chief.

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      Well Obama (not bad guy, but had not really done anything Nobel price worthy) and Kissinger (really bad guy who had no commitment for peace, guite opposite should it be opportune for his view of US foreign policy) got the price also. Soooo from that point of view it isn’t too crazy from Trump’s view to desire one.

      Of course takes guite shamelessness to propose oneself of course, but yeah. Wouldn’t be even close to first time someone not deserving got Nobel peace price. Which is sad, since on the other hand very deserving people over the years have gotten it. Giving it to non deserving people diminishes the recognition it gives to the deserving ones.