Lord Liaden

You wouldn't be your endearing self if you didn't.

So many job applications, so many rejections, if I'm not ghosted first.
 
My cats are old and sick. I may lose them before the year ends.

I for one hope Donald Trump lives to 120. It's the only way I won't be bombarded with assassination cover up theories. "Heart attack? Impossible! Release the autopsy long form!"

I think my favorite boy band of all time is probably The Beatles. 

Overly obscure reference: read the first sentence in the Wikipedia article for "Trolling".

3 Republicans joined with the Democrats in the Arizona House to repeal the 1864 abortion ban.  One down, one to go.
 
This might be interesting.  State Senate and House seats are all up for election.  The primaries are end of July.  In the Senate, there are 3 Republican incumbents with challengers.  The House is trickier, as it looks like they use the same districts...but there's 2 representatives for each district.  The vote on the ban here...for or against...may become material in the primaries.

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"

I can't tell you how much it pleases me that Joe Biden, and other Democrats, have finally taken the gloves off and are going after Trump and the MAGA Republicans, calling out their BS, showing what buffoons they really are. It's long overdue. You can't stick to the high road when your opposition is wallowing in the mud. You have to sling some mud yourself. It doesn't hurt that the mud the Dems have to work with has some sharp rocks in it.

If you haven't checked out the Osmonds, trust me, you're missing out.
 
And I think that's about as far from politics as we can get. 😏

I can't tell you how much it pleases me that Joe Biden, and other Democrats, have finally taken the gloves off and are going after Trump and the MAGA Republicans, calling out their BS, showing what buffoons they really are. It's long overdue. You can't stick to the high road when your opposition is wallowing in the mud. You have to sling some mud yourself. It doesn't hurt that the mud the Dems have to work with has some sharp rocks in it.

In case you missed it:
 
 

Yeah stuff tends to go on cycles, I think its premature to say Hero is dead.  Its alive as long as players keep playing and content keeps coming out.  Games that were "dead" have had revivals recently and are more popular.  I suspect that role playing games will see a resurgence at some point.  Who on earth could have predicted that board games would be hot again?

Alcoholics Anonymous?

I disagree. There is no heir apparent to Trump. If there was, with all the detrimental developments that have swollen around him, an heir would have appeared by now. And there's no MAGA hierarchical command structure for someone else to step into when Trump is gone, like Stalin after Lenin. The alliance between corporate elites, white supremacists, and evangelical Christians that Donald Trump forged is not natural. There was no such mass movement in America for him to have seized control of. He inspired it, and its disparate elements are invested in him and him alone. There are many other greedy, ambitious, evil people, who could do much harm, but they don't resemble Trump, and they can't replicate his brand of success. Donald Trump is a unique phenomenon. Thank God.

A very good description of Donald Trump. Also fits well within the symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder. At the time Van Vogt came up with his "Right Man" definition, NPD was probably not widely known outside the medical community, if it had even been diagnosed yet.
 
Per that Mayo Clinic description of NPD symptoms, note, "Have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, humiliation and fear of being exposed as a failure," and, "Withdraw from or avoid situations in which they might fail." Donald Trump's massive ego is also an overcompensation for massive insecurity.

Warning, this is a news item, so it contains irrelevant material. The first third is relevant to this topic.

"There's a giant, blind cockroach, and it doesn't run away like normal cockroaches. There's a gigantic blind cave spider."

Beneath the plains of the Nullarbor lies an underground world formed over millions of years

Trump and his cult reminds me more and more of what A.E. van Vogt called "The Right Man"
 
 

The three biggest urban areas in Canada -- Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal -- are major centers for international film and television production. Calgary also sees a lot of that work. Canadians often spot familiar landmarks from those cities in movies and shows supposedly set elsewhere.

You're welcome!
 
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