Yes. When challenged a narcissist will often seek to deflect by spewing random irrelevant thoughts. You then get redirected to dealing with the bullshit and the original point is forgotten.

One more line for the obituary of the Washington Post.

Then run someone against the party's recommendation. @aoc.bsky.social was actively opposed by the party in her first run and managed to win and become influential.

You mislabeled "Scotland" as "Yorkshire" several times on that map.

What is it with fascists and big rockets, anyway?

Well, they have been mean to him personally, and he of course equates that with the country. In his mind, L'état, c'est moi.

One small correction: he was a priest in the Anglican Catholic Church, not the Catholic Church. It's a conservative schism of the Episcopalians.

I see what you are trying to say, but a strong argument can be made that those who did not vote were OK with whomever. There are obviously circumstantial exceptions, but anyone who did not vote out of apathy did not vote against the winner. In fact, it can be argued that they voted for Trump.

May I suggest an edit or two> "So much prestigious reporting is just journalists cosplaying as experts."

He's the Temu version of Albert Speer. And Bannon is starting to look like Ernst Röhm.

I'm not quite disabling them, but I am using them a whole lot less. And with enough web browser tweaking to ensure I don't see 90% of the ads that actually give Zuck money.

Well my days of not having aTikTok are certainly coming to a middle.

I'm meeting with my doc to go over test results next week and decide on next steps.

To paraphrase Harrison Ford on Star Wars: “it ain’t that kind of book, kid.”

Narsil was hella sharp.

I have seen several infographics that show that in most states the highest paid *public* employee is a university sportsball coach.

I am only accessing Facebook on my laptop using a browser with FBPurity installed. After much tweaking, I am pretty much only seeing friends and accounts I follow.