The opening of this @wethefifth Patreon is so in my wheelhouse it’s nuts. Not appreciating that people will make up stories of abuse for status/sympathy betrays either an agenda or a lack of imagination/1 patreon.com/posts/special-…
Want examples? Meet Laurie Recht, who accused her neighbors of committing hate crimes against her. A security camera caught her painting the swastikas herself. Unchecked, she evolved into a Munchausen-by-Proxy mom who murdered her 14 year old daughter/2 wweek.com/portland/artic…
Meet Laura Albert/JT Leroy, who, after suckling off people's time and money and love and concern, told me it shouldn’t matter that she was a 40-something woman and not a teenage transgender HIV+ hooker. “Maybe it allowed you to have compassion by proxy.”
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The husband in my book told 1000s of lies in which he was ever the victim, often of his wife’s running through their $$ (he was spending it.) She had serious issues; still, after he'd convinced everyone she was the villain, she threw their kids of a bridge amazon.com/Bridge-True-St…
People basking in unearned sympathy are often rewarded, as are those who cover it! What w/ media ready to sic its fangs into whatever supports their version of you being the despicable person o’ the day. NB: I cannot link @TaylorLorenz’s part in Clubhouse sitch bc she blocked me
Speaking of media fetishizing despicable person 'o the day, I've been contacted my many law enforcement spouses, mostly in PDX, who say, do you have any idea what our lives have become? How we're doxxed and have people yelling outside our homes and our kids are jeered at school?
The response to which, well, I don't have to guess; I've been told, essentially: If an employee does not want to be trapped in the fire we are setting in a police station, she should not be working there
Over the weekend, there were huge outcries of concern for Secret Service agents forced to chauffeur his drive-by for fans, a drive I think was fucking garbage optics idiotic but anyway, lots and lots of hair-on-fire concern for their Secret Service employees!
"Secret service officer wife here," was DM I received on Sunday. "I hate what Trump did. But I'd love to get out the talking point that no one gave a shit about my husband's safety when the protestors were spitting in their faces for weeks on ends. This is exhausting."
"Multiple things can be awful at once. My husband worked for W, Obama, and Trump. When they hate Trump's policies, they scream and shout and throw things at the SS. When Trump puts the SS in danger, suddenly the left cares gravely about my husband's safety."
Someone called me a conservative on this hellhole of a site (I take it back! I love you Twitter!) I am far from. Broken record time: It's the journo's responsibility to report what she sees and what people tell her. Not doing so is not only disingenuous but dangerous. That is all
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