Patton Oswalt on dealing with bullies

May 28, 2026 4:48 PM

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He understands. Hear his message!

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dump doesnt hate himself. He is incapable of that much inner thought. He is a sociopath.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I LOVe Oswalt! I just dont understand why it takes a comedian to say this. It is SO obvious! Why is it so extremely rare to see political commentators saying this?! I am so sick and tired of this bully.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I was the smallest kid in my high school in Grade 9 and was bullied badly...until I kicked one of them in the balls so hard he was walking funny more than a week later. I did it in a crowded hallway and all the girls laughed at him, especially when he cried "Mommy!" as he lay on the floor. One of the guys on the fringe of the bullies told me a couple of years later that they didn't know if I knew how to fight or was just batshit crazy but either way, the physical bullying stopped.

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

He does suck. He’s a

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"in the long run it will pay out."

I sure hope so, Patton. I really, really hope so...

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

History bends toward justice.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Very sage advice and I do agree

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Shit, I don't need a payout, I'll gladly insult that orange shitstain FOR FREE

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Bullies usually die young. They burn out with all the hate. Some you just have to wait longer.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He loves himself way too much to entertain the thought of hating himself.

If you showed him a person who was exactly like him in every way, but merely *wasn't* him, he'd spend every waking moment hating that guy.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Patton is awesome

2 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Never capitulate to bullies. If you give them an inch, they will take a mile.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Trump literally has zero respect for anyone in his cabinet because they all suck up to him. He knows and they know he can fire them immediately so ass kissing incompetent clowns is the equilibrium

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or do the mamdani approach somehow and have him praising you.

2 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Trump's a new yorker, born and raised. He's just star struck meeting the mayor of new york no matter who they are.

2 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

I would argue that everyone that bends the knee to the orange authoritarian is getting their loyalty rewarded - exactly as designed. Otherwise why would they need to bow in the first place.

Every donor gets a pardon or favorable deal or whatever quid pro quo they all for, as long as they make Donnie tiny hands look good and keep supporting him in the media.

Oswalt totally missed the mark here, it's an exception that swearing fealty isn't rewarded.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 30

It’s rewarded with more demands, and more fealty, which will extend for the rest of his life. The party base is fiercely loyal to him, but only him. He’s done nothing but humiliate his potential successors, and businesses that have profited the most have only been protected from the backlash because of his authoritarianism.

In the meantime, those who push back have thrived, and don’t rely on his cult of personality for longterm success.

2 months ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 3

Is like to see some citations on how those that pushed back have thrived, as even multinational law firms and corporations with almost unlimited resources canned after the first that from the DOJ, and literally anyone that stood against him or his cronies is targeted? ABC? Harvard? Over a dozen major law firms?

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I work for one of the many law firms that pushed back, which resulted in it becoming a top-20 firm rather than top-50 worldwide.

If you wanted citations, you’d have looked for them instead of doubling down here though.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Somehow Trump Returned"

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It's unfathomable, that it takes people so long to grasp this. Nearly all off us had to deal with bullies at some point in the past. Placating, appeasing, none of that shit EVER works. Many of us learned this in school. Yet for a decade, people have been trying to pander to this orange clown, in hopes that he would ease off. The only thing he understands is getting put down. That's it. Hit him back, harder each time, and he runs away. It's the only thing that works.

2 months ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 2

The other way to deal with a narcissist is to just ignore them. Let them know that they don’t matter or exist.
Unfortunately, it’s not feasible to deal with this case that way, so we have to do it the way South Park does it: mock his teeny tiny penis

2 months ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

And everything else about him.

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The correct way to deal with Donald Trump is in fact from South park, but we need to look at the treatment of the character Kenny in the first few seasons

2 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Weird it's almost like violent opposition to fascism is the only historically viable solution to dealing with it or something

2 months ago | Likes 124 Dislikes 1

fascists: "noo, but if you're violent you're just the same as me, which gives me the excuse to exterminate you and your people!!"

2 months ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Tolerance is a social contract. We all agree to be nice to each other. If you stop following that agreement, then it's rules no longer apply to you and nobody is under any duress to be nice to you.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

treat people the way they treat others... always works ^^

2 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

agree. off with their heads!

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Kind of like king Midas, except it's crap instead of gold.

2 months ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

King ShiteAss

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

"Mierdas Touch", as someone here put it.

2 months ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

it actually has a name: Sidam Touch. I only found out because I was calling it the Golgothan Touch, after the Golgothan Shit Demon from Dogma (KEVIN SMITH IS THE MAN!) When I got edumacated.

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I was gonna say "shitfinger" but yours is a pun.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"Because he hates himself." Explains every behaviour.

2 months ago | Likes 244 Dislikes 2

Deep down he knows he a loser.

2 months ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

But that thought will never reach the surface for him. He's had far far too much success being that shitty to ever reflect and find that out...

2 months ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 1

Yeah, you can't love yourself when you rape children for fun. Like, that isn't a healthy mind. No matter how many golden statues you have built of yourself, you know you're going to hell and diserve it. This is why so many pedos are drawn to religion, they are afraid because they know their doing evil, they think the church will protect them or forgive them. And of course, they meet others just like themselves there, a community forms.

2 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Sadly not enough to 86 himself...

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It’s why he scuttles every deal he makes: Trump is a horrible person that cannot fathom mutual benefit; if he negotiates an agreement with you, and you’re happy/profiting — then he assumes he’s the one that got screwed in the deal — and then breaks the deal. … Iran knows this …

2 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I just think it's even worse than that. I don't think he has the capacity to hate himself cause hate would require knowing what love is, and he's never experienced that.

I'm not pitying him, but it's pitiful.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well to be fair, quite a lot of people hate him too

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well shit, he and I agree on something.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Must be a fine line between loving yourself and hating yourself then. What about him suggests he hates himself? It's like saying Johnny Bravo actually hates himself. Maybe, but his behavior seems like it would also be consistent with unearned, unfathomable, bottomless narcissism.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

"Narcissistic individuals are actually really hamstrung by insecurity and shame, and their entire life is an attempt to regulate their image," says Ramani Durvasula, a licenced clinical psychologist and professor at California State University, Los Angeles. "Narcissism has never been about self-love – it is almost entirely about self-loathing." https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210414-why-some-narcissists-actually-hate-themselves

2 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Stare in a mirror long enough and you'll start noticing all the imperfections.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The very next line..

"It's long been established that there are two types of narcissists: "vulnerable" ones, who have low self-esteem and crave affirmation, and "grandiose" ones, who have a genuinely overinflated sense of self."

"A new study from New York University shows that grandiose narcissists might not be considered narcissists at all, because their behaviour could resemble psychopathy – a related condition in which people act with no empathy in self-serving ways."

This one is Trump.

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This one is not...

"The research team suggests vulnerable types are the true narcissists, because they don't seek power or dominance, but rather affirmation and attention that elevate their status and image in the minds of others."

Call it whatever you want, but Trump loves himself.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Trump is the kind of man that cannot find joy outside of himself.
He cannot look at others having fun and say “Good for them”.
He always thinks “That should be me.”

2 months ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 0

You say that like you think he can find joy anywhere, including in himself.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Trump seems to enjoy raping children.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's called sympathetic joy. Trump has no capacity for it. Fucked up brain.

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

He always thinks "Those people are stopping me from that being me." There is no balance with that guy. Everything that someone has, even joy in his mind, means an equal amount of that same thing was taken from someone else, namely him. His cronies all believe the same thing. They believe if more people are given freedom and equality that there will be less for themselves. Sorry, morons, it doesn't work that way.

2 months ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

They think they have less freedom when others get more because they're not longer able to persecute and discriminate against the types of people they don't like and/or want to be lower than themselves on the social hierarchy.

2 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0