@polarberry, deal! Same goes to invite for checking out The Netherlands of course ?
To everybody else, hope T doesn't end up like Nero and ppl actually take away his power. I've seen AOC voicing concern about his meds and him still being in the WH.
@mas1581 it's all good :) This thread is super long and Allyn has posted way more than me.
Who's excited for the debates tonight? Did y'all catch that power move Pence is trying by insisting they be seated? She's still going to wipe the floor up with him.
@writerjenny I heard someone on MSNBC the other day suggest that sitting could actually work to her advantage. This person said her challenge is going to be to come across strong without sounding like a *itch. Being seated may soften her. And that it is a challenge strong women face. IDK but I have decided to imagine her at her absolute career best tonight .
sorru I don’t remember who on MNBC made these remarks.
All beings deserve grace. I hold that grace for him should he accept it.
Beautifully said, @dolphinspirit ?
@mas1581 It's perfectly possible that T was given orders to take the nuclear option, but it's simply true that this was inevitable. The best political minds and thousands of mental health professionals predicted it. A malignant narcissist with antisocial personality (sociopathy) inevitably worsens, becoming even more destructive later in life. Far more so when they're thwarted and their sources of narcissistic supply are drying up.
T may not yet be facing physical death, but everything he values—winning (at all costs), power, and total sycophantic adoration (even if attained by coercion)—is about to be taken from him. He fears this utterly.
Still, it was a foregone conclusion that he would unravel psychologically and rage/resist/destroy as they're carting him out.
As @writerjenny points out, Nero is the model here. Whether it's strategic or not, it's deeply rooted in the personality profile. But however bad it gets, however successfully he destroys vital infrastructure, I trust that we will transform for the better.
I LOVE what Ana Navaro said on the View today: "23 people and Stephen Miller contracted the Coronavirus!"
and Sunny Hostin said (in reference to the debate tonight) that "Kamala Harris should bring up to Pence how he's on the Corona-virus task force, yet the POTUS contracted the virus!"
LOVE IT
When I look within T. I see a a toddler who was abandoned, dismissed and not nurtured. I see his young self screaming when he doesn’t get his way. A part fearful of being a loser or ridiculed. I see a man using cruelty to feed his sense of aliveness and being the killer he was taught to be. I see a man who cannot empathize except in a manipulative way. I see a man who is beginning to doubt his instinct. He is a man desperate to get more not lose and willing to do anything. He underestimated the illnesses he has, they will make his usual navigations more difficult.
All beings deserve grace. I hold that grace for him should he accept it. Others who have been triggered or harmed by his policies and cruelty also have access to grace should they accept it.
Mary Trump talks about the trauma she says he experienced. It was enlightening
34 have been infected in the White House staffers and other contacts
News just broke about more victims connected to the super spreader outbreak at the White House:
The head of White House security office, Crede Bailey. He is reported to be gravely ill with covid-19 and has been hospitalized since Sept 26 (source: Bloomberg news)
Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Gary Thomas announced today that he is infected. Apparently he was at the meeting that the CG admiral who was confirmed yesterday attended. Source: Press release from the USMC
And ABC is reporting that an internal FEMA memo shows at least 34 people connected to the White House, more than previously known, are currently infected by Covid-19. Source: ABC
EDIT: I see @jessi1978 provided a link to the ABC story just above this. Great minds think alike and all. :)
SO this is interesting! I Limericked it quickly!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/07/health/nejm-editorial-political-leadership-bn/index.html
Let’s hear it for the Journal of Med
Who pointed out: Trump made his bed
Through their medical sconce
They condemn the response
Of the leader whose out of his head.
The commentator is not very good. Kamala looks like a perfect Goddess. Pence looks sick, his eyes are red and too much makeup. Kamala slay!
I’m truly annoyed with the commentator.
share the love and light
Have to ask, has anyone noticed Pence's left eye when he looks over to Harris? It looks like he has pink eye developing as the debate progresses.
This is from about 15 minutes ago but another one to share :-)
An ode to the fly in Mike’s hair
How long has that damn thing been there?
When he moves his head
That fly must be dead
That old man gave the insect a scare!
Side note: I wrote 22 limericks in real time responding to their “sort of” answers tonight. ?
While the one above is a fun one — the last two are dark - both about Pence and his answers to the transfer of power question:
And here comes the transfer of power.
This could be our nations dark hour
When the question was posed
Mike Pence’s eyes glowed
When really, they should have been sour.
Okay guys, you heard it here first.
According to Mike, the opponents are worse
But notice that he
Refused to be
Committal, that damn power thirst.
@share. Someone tweeted the gods honest truth: What did you expect would happen? Flies are attracted to manure.
A friend shared this about the fly on his head : https://trustedpsychicmediums.com/spirit-animals/fly-spirit-animal/
Seemed pretty on point .