Enough With The Cutesy Titles, People Are Dead: US Politics January 2021 pt 2

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/01/15/biden-begins-presidency-with-positive-ratings-trump-departs-with-lowest-ever-job-mark/

lol xp

It’s come to this.

Parler turns on Trump. pic.twitter.com/brWpuhTywf

— Jim Brown (@JimBrownski713) January 16, 2021

In case anyone didn't click through to the thread of interview excerpts with the Secretary of Defense, here's another:

Miller was also asked about his visit to U.S. Northern Command and he said this to say pic.twitter.com/x9c2SvWrrA

— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) January 15, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/16/politics/fact-check-dale-top-15-donald-trump-lies/index.html

saying he was going to the capitol with the insurrectionists and then going home and watching it on tv shouldve made the list

Bumble, Tinder and others are freezing out rioters with help from law enforcement — and, in some cases, their own photos. Other app users have taken matters into their own hands by striking up conversations with potential rioters and relaying their information to the FBI.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/16/siege-dating-app-bans/

Re that Parler post, back at the start of Trump’s term I thought that would be the most natural way for the GOP to shrug him off once he became a disaster: He was not really a Republican. But it seems too late now for that to really take hold, not least because his base has made clear they are much more Trump people than they are “Republicans.”

Is there a reason we’re not calling Boebert Q-bert by now?

https://i.insider.com/5a96c069aae605ba008b45c7?width=1136&format=jpeg

The whole "omg he lies all the time!" thing is so annoying. Of course he does! He's a psychopath!
Lukewarm take: the kind of people who get into high(ish) ranking social positions - politicians, political journalists etc - didn't generally grow up in the grip of sociopaths, as the majority of people from that type of background spend way too much of their lives just holding their psyches together and don't get the chance to be successful. They all see the likes of Trump for what he is, and aren't surprised by the lying at all. But no-one listens to them, so you get this endless outrage that someone could be that mendacious, and the ones that could be holding him to account fall into the same trap over and over again.

I never dealt with a psychopath on intimate terms, but his lying is obviously compulsive, continuous, and consciously designed to deflect any possible consequences for his selfish actions.

The weirdest thing with Trump, setting him apart from even most politicians, is how he lies about things that don't matter at all. He'll lie about what he had for breakfast, whether or not he's ever owned a ping-pong table, or who his favourite character was on Happy Days.

It's not weird when you see it through the lens of him rewiring reality for as many people as he can, at which point he's controlling them.

“These people deserve the right to seek a partner in one of the few ways we have to socialize during the pandemic, and seek love,” said Liz O’Sullivan, technology director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a New York-based nonprofit group fighting discriminatory surveillance.

liz o'sullivan should shut the fuck up

I need to seek love imo

S.T.O.P. in the name of love.

The whole "omg he lies all the time!" thing is so annoying. Of course he does! He's a psychopath!

Feel like it's reasonable for the Toronto Star and CNN to report that the President's lies are not true. Other outlets not doing so seems to have had the occasional deleterious effect.

Is there a reason we’re not calling Boebert Q-bert by now?

― epistantophus, Saturday, January 16, 2021 6:10 PM (fourteen minutes ago) 

Haha I tried yesterday but gave up after two image link fails

Q-bert is up there with Y'All Qaeda for perfect nickname.

The quote that sic posted from acting secdef Miller puts me in mind of the "just four guys in a room jamming" "back to basics" band trope.

Like, we wanted just to go back to basics, two generals in a room talking about killing people. Just like in the old days before Zoom and Teams made everything so sterile and clinical.

BREAKING: @realMikeLindell and @MyPillowUSA are using the promo code “QANON” for discounts on products. @FBI designated QAnon supporters as “conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists.” Supporters of QAnon were involved in the domestic terrorist attacks on the U.S. Capitol. pic.twitter.com/zx9P37cyLP

— Michael Brodkorb (@mbrodkorb) January 17, 2021

Not sure that merits a BREAKING tag

BROKEN: would work better

I've had the TV off all day (for a change), so I laughed when I turned it on and CNN's ticker at the bottom had a headline about Trump "demanding" the names of the Republicans who voted for impeachment so he could look into primarying them. It was the definitive laziness of that that made me laugh--like these names were buried deep in some secret vault, and someone would have to spend hours trying to uncover them. Unless he was he banned from using the internet altogether.

Maybe he could get his son Barron to restart the router

Of course he does! He's a psychopath!

I'm not sure he's a full sociopath but almost certainly a pure narcissist.

The Wikipedia entry on NPD kind-of has him nailed. It's practically a checklist of Trumpian personality traits.

"People with NPD exaggerate their skills, accomplishments, and their degree of intimacy with people they consider high-status. Such a sense of personal superiority may cause them to monopolize conversations,[10] or to become impatient and disdainful when other persons talk about themselves.[7] When wounded in the ego, either by a real or a perceived criticism, the narcissist's displays of anger can be disproportionate to the nature of the criticism suffered;[10] but typically, the actions and responses of the NPD person are deliberate and calculated.[7] Despite occasional flare-ups of personal insecurity, the inflated self-concept of the NPD person is primarily stable.

To the extent that people are pathologically narcissistic, the person with NPD can be a self-absorbed control freak who passes blame by psychological projection and is intolerant of contradictory views and opinions; is apathetic towards the emotional, mental, and psychological needs of other people; and is indifferent to the negative effects of their behaviors, whilst insisting that people should see them as an ideal person.[7] To protect their fragile self-concept, narcissists use psychosocial strategies, such as the tendency to devalue and derogate and to insult and blame other people, usually with anger and hostility towards people's responses to the narcissist's anti-social conduct.[11] Because their fragile egos are hypersensitive to perceived criticism or defeat, people with NPD are prone to feelings of shame, humiliation, and worthlessness over minor incidents of daily life and imagined, personal slights,[10] and usually mask such feelings from people, either by way of feigned humility, or by responding with outbursts of rage and defiance, or by seeking revenge.[7][8] The merging of the inflated self-concept and the actual self is evident in the grandiosity component of narcissistic personality disorder; also inherent to that psychological process are the defense mechanisms of idealization and devaluation and of denial.

[...] the psychological inability to tolerate disagreement, contradiction, and criticism, make it difficult for persons with NPD to work cooperatively or to maintain long-term, professional relationships with superiors and colleagues."

Yep.

Not seeing the original of that xpost code yet, but

@realMikeLindell
There is still hope!
Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuyjj_aNcD4

speaking of diagnoses, i remembered this advert the other day (northam is an MD). what a world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDonPK5bJoM

My least favorite current Twitter thing is when non-journalists write tweets that start with “BREAKING”

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Pelosi better stop with the sad faces and get on board with the God-killing agenda, that's all I'm saying. I didn't vote for half-hearted God-killing.

bout time the dems stepped up w a bold agenda

finally, a Democratic plank I can fully support

Needs more ambition

We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god

— Stev D (@Stev_D) October 21, 2014

Is that God at the top of the poster? Or just some other evil democrat?

Wow u think god is an evil democrat?

update on the SecDef who cannot speak English:

Acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller ordered the director of the National Security Agency to install on Saturday a former GOP political operative as the NSA’s top lawyer, according to four individuals familiar with the matter.

It is unclear what the NSA will do. The agency and the Pentagon declined to comment.

just take a week vacation lol

ok, here's the situation room

the brazenness of trying to install Devin Nunes' dude as permanent staff.

longest pause between entries in weeks

Good sign, no?

everybody was away taking a dump

longest pause between entries in weeks

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, January 17, 2021 10:42 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Good sign, no?

― pomenitul, Sunday, January 17, 2021

a relief

Good Morning!

Pentagon refuses Trump request for military-style farewell parade to accompany his White House departure

73 hours....

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SCIENTIFIC and ELECT and FUTURE and PRESIDENT and OPPORTUNITY pic.twitter.com/uFXW6lMXKb

— CSPAN 5 (@CSPANFive) January 17, 2021

https://twitter.com/CSPANFive

THANK and DRUGS and AMERICAN pic.twitter.com/YEY48ZJLHO

— CSPAN 5 (@CSPANFive) March 20, 2018

Man woman camera

the future will prevail