As we go through the final 30-some days, the window to try to stop Trump from stealing the election is closing. And @SpeakerPelosi intends to stand firm to make sure no action is attempted. Her anti-#DoSomething mean girls are bullying harder than ever about it.
I had to unfollow two people the other day, because they thought it was great that someone posted a tweet saying #DoSomething Democrats, people in opposition to the CA-12 candidate, should be hit in the head. They didn't even get that it was *real* voter intimidation.
They don't think of Nancy Herself as an actual *candidate* who has to *be voted in* and *might lose*. She held that seat for 33 years, by making sure no other democrat was ever another option. Until now. And her fans don't know how to handle it, that she's normal, not a god.
Imagine the intoxicating level of a power like that, you sit for 33 years and no one ever, ever challenges you. You see these other reps, those peasants, who have to face challengers, come and go, but you sit pretty, above it all, because before crowdfunding you were the shit.
I am just saying, although it looks more and more like she's either compromised or bribed, it's also possible that living in a bubble where everyone kisses your ass and your power goes unquestioned for 33 years might also warp a person's perceptions and thinking ability.
Nobody would come out the other end of that a very rational person.
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ICYMI, a recap of the latest front in the culture war, a non-medically-trained clinic admin worker, who stole patient files for a personal database she took home and kept after leaving the job, then gave to an anti-trans blogger. May seem trivial but this is a cusp event IMHO.
It looks like rationality is starting to break through in this area, and the fact that this worker committed numerous serious and intentional HIPAA violations, against children, seems to have shocked people who normally just ignore the anti-trans bigots.
And this story involves one of the persistent myths of the right-wing, like "kitty litter for kids who identify as cats." But this one is "kids are identifying as attack helicopters." Boomers think these things are real and apparently they will steal your medical files over it.
Pollyannas are out here like "Jim Jordan's so-called FBI whistleblowers are just kooks! He's got nothin'! Ha! Got 'em!" and so we must once again repeat that things don't have to be true in order for fascists to act on them. They believe whatever they would need to believe.
Do they want to go on a violence spree, smashing up anything they consider woke and brutalizing "woke" people in the streets? Yes, they fantasize about it often, it's the reason why they're eager for civil war, so they will get to do that.
What would need to be true in order to justify a violence spree where they get to tear their "woke" neighbors from their homes and execute them in the streets? Mole children? Librarian groomers? A trans agenda? Antifa fascists? Whatever will work, they will say they believe.
Past people used to be fascinated by royalty because they wore a lot of shiny things, and people didn't get to see shiny stuff often.
But now people are fascinated because they act like the Jerry Springer show. King and Queen NPD attacking their own offspring, early and often.
I bet a lot of therapists would agree that you're not going to wind up with a healthy family if you start with the premise that one family member is anointed by God and matters more than everyone else, who have no right to even object to anything they decide.
This is why they should abolish the hereditary monarchy and have all these roles filled by trained actors.
Right-wing men have been claiming that feminism/"the woke agenda" have been ruining their dating chances my entire life. I knew a guy in the 90s who was mad that he couldn't find a woman willing to vow to "obey" him. I guess they call that TradCath today.
Now, that particular guy, he was also a Libertarian, so he actually wanted a woman who would vow to obey him for religious reasons, but also be OK with him growing weed in their linen closet, back during Weed Prohibition. So he had it a bit harder than the other trads.
Because, you know, the priests thought of that, you can't just take a woman and tell her to obey you in any old thing, with their blessing.
The Tories are lying to the Brits about what happened to all their vegetables and whose fault the food shortage is. While the Murdoch-type UK tabloids focus on whether the Black duchess will celebrate her son's birthday or the coronation his grandfather planned for the same day.
The so-called royal family continues to model THE most unhealthy family dynamics possible, while insisting that their entire purpose is to be role models to inspire the country. Healthy families don't ignore kids' birthdays, or tell family members their security is their problem.
Kate allegedly thinks nothing of just shamelessly explaining that she wouldn't hug her sister-in-law because they don't know each other that well. Lady, you are sisters now. Your children are cousins. She knows you like that.
I'm still mad at this. This was the line before the 2020 election too, when he was already threatening to reject it if he lost. "If we win BIG then he can't do that!" Because they were thinking of genteel lawsuits about recounts, not armed militants attacking the Congress.
Sure, if the only dispute possible was demanding a recount to try to change fewer than 1000 votes, just make sure your lead is so big no recount could affect it. Bam! Now they HAVE TO accept it! Well turns out No, they just call the entire election rigged. Duh.
It's not just a failure of imagination, an inability to process that people with very different worldviews than yours are going to see options you're blind to because you would never do them and choose not to imagine what kind of person WOULD do them. It's also projection.