So it's only barely March and Trump is already basically bent over on the front steps of the Kremlin with his butt cheeks spread, shouting, "Take me daddy!"
I expected him to bend over for Putin, but even cynical as I am, I didn't expect him to do it so completely so quickly.
I thought it was too far of a jump too, but I couldn't think of anything in the middle.
Eleventy seems more like a modifier - like it still needs a quantity. Eleventy thousand or eleventy million or whatever. That would fit in the middle though.
A bajillion.
Undoubtedly sort of.
It's not so much "closet homosexuality" as that sexuality is a spectrum, which means that most people have some greater-than-zero amount of attraction to their same sex, which is a problem for desperately insecure bigots, and he's a desperately insecure bigot.
For the majority of people, the portion of their sexuality that's focused on their same sex is not significant enough to justify defining themselves as anything other than heterosexual - it just is, or possibly just was, a source of occasional thoughts or fantasies or, in some cases, experimentation. In fact, it's quite possible that, not particularly concerned about it, they've never even consciously realized that some portion of their sexual attention is drawn to their same sex.
However, for the "incel" personality type, like Tate, that amount greater-than-zero of attraction to their same sex can be a cause for overwhelming shame. It's not enough for them to be heterosexual overall - their insecurity and self-doubt and need to puff themselves up demands that they be 100% straight manly men. And they aren't. Never mind that that portion of their attention that's focused on their same sex is near certainly insignificant in and of itself - to them its mere existence is an existential threat to their already shaky self-images, so they feel a need to, and often do, put an outsized focus on stamping it down and making every effort to pretend it doesn't exist at all. Which ends up warping their personalities, and ironically enough making them even more focused on homosexuality than they would've been had they, as most people do, just not worried about it in the first place.
So yes, sort of.
I don't pretend to know one way or the other.
He's clearly working for the benefit of Russia, but "asset" implies an official, essentially employer/employee relationship, and there's no knowing if that's the case or not.
Not that it much matters really - whether he's working for Russia's benefit because they literally own him or working for Russia's benefit because he's a desperately insecure narcissist who idolizes Putin, it works out to pretty much the same thing in the long run.
Here's the full text of what I said, including the part you inexplicably left out:
For the record, I do think that Putin manipulates Trump, and pretty brazenly at that, but I don’t think that he controls him. Trump’s ego is far too bloated for that.
And that's specifically because, in point of fact, a bloated ego makes a person easier to manipulate, but not to "control." They reflexively rebel against direct control, because it's a threat to their ego, but they're relatively easily manipulated, because all anyone has to do is frame things in a way that will appeal to their ego.
Did you really not grasp the distinction I was making there?
What the fuck are you on about?
For the record, I do think that Putin manipulates Trump, and pretty brazenly at that, but I don't think that he controls him. Trump's ego is far too bloated for that.
I meant pretty much exactly what my metaphor implies - Trump is weak and insecure and desperate for affirmation, and he idolizes Putin, so he wants his approval.
AND Trump is also greedy and self-absorbed and trying to please his greedy and self-absorbed cronies and patrons - that's painfully obviously why he's trying to swing this mineral rights deal alongside trying to effectively hand Ukraine to Putin.
It's possible for more than one thing to be true at the same time.
The Toddler-in-chief hoping that daddy Putin will pat him on the head and tell him what a good boy he is.
Shh!
Don't let the Republicans know that their cynical attempt to further depress voter turnout is going to disproportionately affect their own supporters!
Some kind of dark ages - yes.
I suspect it will be considered the Lunatic Age or the Misinformation Age or the Willfully Ignorant Age or something like that, since its most distinctive characteristic, in retrospect, is likely to be the oddity that the creation of the most efficient and comprehensive information-sharing system the world has yet seen led pretty much directly to a worldwide epidemic of ignorance, stupidity, irrationality, and insanity.
Yeah - we hear that same tired song and dance over and over again.
Funny though that when Democrats held the majorities, they somehow couldn't manage to accomplish much of anything, and blamed it all on the Republican "obstructionists."
If the Republicans really could obstruct them then, then they could obstruct the Republicans now.
Or if they really can't obstruct the Republicans now then the Republicans really couldn't obstruct them then.
Either way, they're liars.
No - Trump's EPA doesn't need to "look around" and see the truth because it's not that they're somehow failing to see it.
They're lying sacks of shit who are fully aware of the danger and just don't care, because their job is to serve the interests of a handful of wealthy and powerful sociopaths who also don't care.
That's the real truth, and it's the American people who need to see it.