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» Posted By Questinia On April 26, 2020 @ 5:07 pm Anxious For Trump Presidency to Begin…So it Can End [img]http://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/putin-trump13.jpeg[/img] » Posted By Questinia On November 23, 2016 @ 7:18 am Letter from a Friend of a Friend I’m concerned how “belligerence” will be defined. You know, I had a Trump supporter see me today and he was literally wearing a brown shirt. Not just a shirt that happened to be brown but a shirt in the style of a *brown shirt*. He was giddy with delight that now he felt he could make ethnic jokes. The funny thing is he knew Trump when Trump was a boy and said he was the kind of kid you just wanted to smack across the mouth because he was so smug and entitled. This man may have no love for Trump but he felt, probably like so many others, this smoldering disdain for all the changes that occurred over the past forty or so years. A social Luddite. Trump represented for him the middle finger to the “chattering classes” who are too too urbane and prescriptive. » Posted By Questinia On November 14, 2016 @ 3:52 pm We’d all be in a better spot if Sarah actually listened to Phyllis and stayed home! » Posted By Questinia On November 14, 2016 @ 3:36 pm I didn’t write the letter, Nirek. Should I be so articulate! » Posted By Questinia On November 14, 2016 @ 3:19 pm Hiya, kes! That ad is a sentiment that is superficially appealing, it’s a part of the art of the con, the love-bombing of an ultimately self-interested suitor. One can’t separate the ad from the man. The ad was designed specifically to make us “fall in love”. Or at least get close enough to get our pussies grabbed. I really liked the term “internalized misogyny” in the letter. All the women who somehow, perhaps epigenetically, subsume themselves subserviently. It’s that gender-based tendency that in it’s extreme, I think, allows for Sharia Law to persist. So there’s this echo and response from the most backward of us to the most backward of them. » Posted By Questinia On November 13, 2016 @ 2:57 pm Trump chose the audience he could get. The low-hanging fruit who would most readily go for the snake oil. From my perspective the best way to deal with Trump is to know who he is psychologically, as he reacts in stereotypical ways and patterns. This is, in other words, the repertoire and vocabulary of his defense mechanisms which ultimately make up his persona and identity. Consequently, he may be the type of guy who now wants to be liked by people he *actually* admires. He wants high ratings from those he respects. I’ll bet you his connections to the NYC Russian “organized businesses” and oligarchs were curried and based on admiration that he did not get from his native peers (who tended to humiliate him), which is an admiration more-so desired. His actions and thoughts need to be continually monitored and judged from here on. Not by the MSM but by us. His need for approval might actually favorably shape his policies. » Posted By Questinia On November 13, 2016 @ 2:45 pm There’s Only One Affirmative Response To Trump’s Victory…Warren 2020 This is so true, especially with the giddy-for-power Giuliani, Mr. 9/11, as AG. Obama led with the power of influence, this group believes in the power of control which is ultimately weaker and more polarizing. Ultimately, dangerous. America has been sucker punched. We need to shake it off before we fracture. (You are so fluent and thoughtful, Adlib, have you ever considered going into politics?) » Posted By Questinia On November 12, 2016 @ 10:42 am I think it’s only natural to sooth with a surrogate like Warren but instead of thinking of the corpus of the DNC or a 2020 candidate we need to monitor the snot out of this administration. The best candidate will come out of the process. This person will have to understand the patterns of behavior and thought processes of a person like DJT. DJT won because he employed classical tactics of the narcissist to gaslight, stump, and free-associate into tangential reality to mesmerize and disorient . He used menacing tactics and probably won in no small way due to the internalized misogyny of women. Whatever entity enters into a watch-dog dialogue will need to include at least a good part of that chorus of disenfranchised whites. Trump is susceptible because he is very insecure, his identity is an amalgam of defense mechanisms. He can be played just as easily as he seems to play people. What is important here is to remain conscious, vigilant, and in reality by not being intimidated into a dissociative trance of dreams and self-soothing false optimism. Trump is a direct product of what some of us were told to expect in the years following the trauma of 9/11. In order to navigate the present one must prognosticate the future. Cap’n Trump may appear to be a black box but he shouldn’t be something upon which to project our fears. Rather, he is a shallow and simple conjurer with a limited repertoire of tricks. » Posted By Questinia On November 11, 2016 @ 9:23 am Trump Wants to Change US to USSR (United States Serving Russia) This whole Putin-Trump narrative presages something quite dangerous I think. By throwing his own country’s leadership under the bus, enjoying pleasure of mutual flattery masturbation, and aligning himself more with the autocrat, Trump sets himself up and the nation to a potentially awful future dynamic. Two narcissists who get easily offended, once the mutual flattery takes a turn, will become angry at each other for not getting their narcissistic needs met and will be much more apt to strike out violently at each other because they feel injured. This toxic romance is by far the scariest Trumposity I’ve seen. » Posted By Questinia On September 10, 2016 @ 6:31 am Donald Trump’s Hair to Part From His Campaign Hiii Adliib! Dyeing! What a pompadour bouffant!! » Posted By Questinia On August 28, 2016 @ 12:46 pm Asked whether this split ends up being permanent, Donald’s hair brassily upbraided ” Cilia later”. » Posted By Questinia On August 27, 2016 @ 8:35 am Huffington Post Finalizes Its Divorce From Its Bloggers HP is self-genetically modifying to merge with FB as part of the larger hyper-corporatization afoot. They become larger and less susceptible as we become more identifiable and targetable. » Posted By Questinia On June 5, 2014 @ 4:17 pm Breaking the Back of the Baggers I’m so embarrassed. I just googled McCarthy Cruz and the comparison has been made a million times. I agree with choicelady on this one, kes. Lou Costello is too cute. » Posted By Questinia On October 16, 2013 @ 7:49 pm I’m sure it’s been said many times before but Ted Cruz looks an awful lot like Senator McCarthy from his eponymous “era”. » Posted By Questinia On October 16, 2013 @ 6:55 pm “A-Sot’s Fables” By John Boehner: “The Cowardly Fireman” The sequel can include Boehner’s turning into stone and crying Nioboehner’s Except In Boehner’s case it wouldn’t be stone but terra cotta. » Posted By Questinia On October 15, 2013 @ 8:29 am I will check it out, tx, kes. Anything with humor. Fortunately, health care has its rewards as you know. No existential guilt here. » Posted By Questinia On September 16, 2013 @ 2:55 pm Well, but I think I’ve stumbled upon a new kind of math where I seem to work more and…you can guess the rest! The null set! Health care, as you know, yeesh… » Posted By Questinia On September 16, 2013 @ 2:33 pm Wonderful account. » Posted By Questinia On September 16, 2013 @ 1:34 pm My dearest POV. Am thinking of KQ (one of my first fans at HP, co-founder at Free Range Talk and here at POV) and all of you. I had a very similar experience to choicelady. He connected in a real way to all, from his incisiveness to his endearing occasional irascibility. Thinking of his wife!!! They had both endured his chronic ill-health at his relatively young age. I wondered how he managed to stay so involved, vibrant and with such good humor. His heart!!! (He said I gave him headaches when I argued, affectionately of course). Thank-you AdLib for the tribute. Your building and maintenance of POV, together with the irrepressible Kalima (!) was a great place for KQ. I didn’t know about bito. Wow. The unseen hardships that exist behind the screen. » Posted By Questinia On September 16, 2013 @ 9:16 am America and Democracy Are Not For Sale Boys I realized after the second debate when the media did not handily call the “winner” Obama that they were out of their minds and shouldn’t be listened to. But none of us really are in the position to gauge what is “real” are we? We feel we can transcend and get a better view through massive intake of granular and meta info but that can only lead us farther astray. The big issue for me was the clash of national consciousness and whether we were a small and frightened people or a group of people who possessed the desire for the kind of country that was reflected in someone like Obama when we first voted for him. We are the change and we are more in charge than we may think we are, at least of our own take on things and how we respond to them. » Posted By Questinia On November 9, 2012 @ 3:49 am The Media Empire Strikes Back (with post-election memes)! The media voice with its myriad social media inputs and outputs is a voice of what-ifs, anxieties, hypotheticals and political hypochondria without a core discipline of investigative mettle to distinguish whether any of those neurotic assumptions are valid. They routinely ask EASY questions on both sides. Rachel Maddow may be the exception. But it seems she has few guests she can spar with. The big joke is the assumption that the GOP will soul search. I agree, they will double down on their manipulative branding nature and continue to externalize blame leaving themselves utterly un-self-examined. Perhaps the only “conservative” media voice that appears to reflect is David Brooks who has ben making forays into the psychological in his more recent editorials. I doubt many of the GOP read him or use him. Rigid, mean, petty people who tend not to update their files and who are entrenched in the ways they defend themselves against psychic pain don’t all of a sudden have crises of consciousness and then seek novel, i.e. more healthful and new approaches to figure things out. They will go about handling it the way they usually do. But then it is up to us people to remind them and stay as involved as we were when we righteously and indignantly marched to vote and waited in line to have our voices heard. » Posted By Questinia On November 9, 2012 @ 3:34 am Periodic Table of Dangerous Elements: Final 2012 Edition Radioactive decay! » Posted By Questinia On November 2, 2012 @ 10:16 am Romnium + 47%ium = Mormonite + H2S » Posted By Questinia On November 2, 2012 @ 7:43 am Huckaboson! » Posted By Questinia On November 2, 2012 @ 3:20 am What if Michelle had said it? “I am concerned about Barack’s Emotional Stability.” Romney seems to have an “as-if” personality: people who possess a veneer of conviviality and “concern”, superficially appearing to have responses that suit the situation but with tendencies to having hostile tendencies when frustrated. Romney doesn’t seem to have emotional depth to weather anything outside of his rehearsed emotional skill set. » Posted By Questinia On October 12, 2012 @ 8:50 am What Would You Like to See From Dems and Obama at the DNC? That fractal comparison was a nod to your son 😉 » Posted By Questinia On September 5, 2012 @ 11:34 am I’ve also heard from a very good source that there was an arrogance emanating from the new administration that basically communicated ” we don’t have to try to relate to you because we know you’re with us”. So there was an estrangement that occurred between the newly elected and those who were seminal in doing the organizing, particularly from iffy states, in this case Pennsylvania. Actually rising stars in the Democratic party. » Posted By Questinia On September 5, 2012 @ 11:33 am I wonder why the GOP women use a color palette from Travolta and Saturday Night Fever. » Posted By Questinia On September 5, 2012 @ 9:58 am That sea-foam and coral, fractal McQueenesque number was like wow. » Posted By Questinia On September 4, 2012 @ 11:56 pmComments Posted By Questinia
I’ll just crawl beneath my crossword puzzle now…
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Lucky you to be out of it and onto other things!
So glad to hear about your son, kes.
With all their bluster, I suppose all of the elements can be combined exergonically? Hopefully after 11/6 they’ll go endergonic into oblivion. Love this KQ!
Michelle is like the nectar of the American spirit borne from over two hundred years of FORWARD.
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