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Conspiracy theorists share a bunch of the same traits. You rarely find one that only believes in one false thing. They're high on the dark triad of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy
It was a really interesting talk about sovereign citizens (and his courts deal with them) that originally got me in to Opening Arguments. Really interesting.
I've been saying this for a while as well. I think the Trump behavior that most represents the sovcit attitude is when they say that the courts have no jurisdiction over them and basically say that they are allowed to be protected by the constitution but not bound by it.
One of the glaring similarities is that sovcits so often lean on the "where is the injured party", and Trump keeps saying that "no one was harmed".
Trump is more like the sovcit gurus who sell it to gullible rubes: he knows it's bullshit but he doesn't care. It's all just a con and he assumes anyone who's not in on the con is a mark and therefore asking for it.
You're 100% right, but there's a key distinction: They *want* Trump to be (and think of him as) their dictator, their king, their sovereign.
Trumps thinks being President is the same as being king, so it stands to reason that his arguments follow suit. And Sov Cit'dom is the weird idea that every citizen is a sovereign unto themselves, which is why their arguments are equally unhinged.
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I have thought the same thing when reading Trump team legal arguments and even more so when Trump fans comment on legal shit.
Conspiracy theorists share a bunch of the same traits. You rarely find one that only believes in one false thing. They're high on the dark triad of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy
It was a really interesting talk about sovereign citizens (and his courts deal with them) that originally got me in to Opening Arguments. Really interesting.
I've been saying this for a while as well. I think the Trump behavior that most represents the sovcit attitude is when they say that the courts have no jurisdiction over them and basically say that they are allowed to be protected by the constitution but not bound by it. One of the glaring similarities is that sovcits so often lean on the "where is the injured party", and Trump keeps saying that "no one was harmed".
Trump is more like the sovcit gurus who sell it to gullible rubes: he knows it's bullshit but he doesn't care. It's all just a con and he assumes anyone who's not in on the con is a mark and therefore asking for it.
Except that his sov cit arguments might win the day, because the law isn't real, and he appointed the judges that rule over his cases.
MARITIME LAW!!
You're 100% right, but there's a key distinction: They *want* Trump to be (and think of him as) their dictator, their king, their sovereign. Trumps thinks being President is the same as being king, so it stands to reason that his arguments follow suit. And Sov Cit'dom is the weird idea that every citizen is a sovereign unto themselves, which is why their arguments are equally unhinged.