He is saying, “I forgot one of my knee pads, do you have a spare?”
BARELY A WIMPIER 2020
How long before he’s claiming wimpier is whimper in French?
Naw, Trump voters are forced to pay lip service to the libs or protestors will pull them out of their cars and punish them for a bad vote. (That’s only half a joke, one of my deplorable relatives believes this after listening to more Tiborasaurus Rex videos)
Everything sounds like a whimper in French heyooooooooo
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Why can’t these alphas just deal with the beta soy boys? #snowflakes
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I am reading through Don’t Think of the Elephant and the fundamental differences in framing is enlightening. As we so often opine, for Republicans, cruelty is the point. Their way of viewing the world assumes that everyone MORAL uses punishment to correct people by bullying them into doing what you want.
Of course they’re afraid libs will use the same tactics. Which entirely misses any kind of nuance or empathy for how other people think, but as you’ll see, people who cultivate this mentality are deliberately diminishing any opportunity for compassion and empathy.
There are two frames theorized in the book: strict father vs nurturing parent
The strict father model begins with a set of assumptions: The world is a dangerous place, and it always will be, because there is evil out there in the world. The world is also difficult because it is competitive. There will always be winners and losers. There is an absolute right and an absolute wrong. Children are born bad, in the sense that they just want to do what feels good, not what is right. Therefore, they have to be made good.
What is needed in this kind of a world is a strong, strict father who can:
• protect the family in the dangerous world,
• support the family in the difficult world, and
• teach his children right from wrong.What is required of the child is obedience, because the strict father is a moral authority who knows right from wrong. It is further assumed that the only way to teach kids obedience—that is, right from wrong—is through punishment, painful punishment, when they do wrong.
That is, if people are disciplined and pursue their self-interest in this land of opportunity, they will become prosperous and self-reliant. Thus, the strict father model links morality with prosperity. The same discipline you need to be moral is what allows you to prosper… This is linked to a general metaphor that views well-being as wealth.
In this model there is also a definition of what it means to become a good person. A good person—a moral person—is someone who is disciplined enough to be obedient to legitimate authority, to learn what is right, to do what is right and not do what is wrong, and to pursue her self-interest to prosper and become self-reliant…
When the good children are mature, they either have learned discipline and can prosper, or have failed to learn it. From this point on the strict father is not to meddle in their lives.
Lolololol at that last line. It is starting to make sense now 
Consider what all this means for social programs: It is immoral to give people things they have not earned, because then they will not develop discipline and will become both dependent and immoral…
In the strict father frame, it is quite simple. What you have to do is reward the good people—the ones whose prosperity reveals their discipline and hence their capacity for morality—with a tax cut, and make it big enough so that there is not enough money left for social programs.
So yes, for people who follow the strict father model, cruelty is the point. Police are automatically in the right because they are the stabilizing force, the strict father who cannot be wrong because they are enforcing what is right.
It is just kind of startling for me to think of it in these terms and feel a kind of intuitive validity for my personal experiences. I see now how I have year by year been slowly discarding the strict father model, which I now see as inhuman and abusive, for the nurturing parent model.
And it is strange to think how people in the strict father vs nurturing parent model have a fundamentally opposed view of the world. One sees a power hierarchy as fundamental to society. God, father, mother, children, nature. But look at the very phrase nurturing parent, which is deliberately gender neutral.
When I see a person manifesting individuality and emotional intelligence, I see signs of enhanced well-being, but someone in the strict parent model sees a person dangerously close to falling from the path. They must be bullied and punished until they return to the fold, ready to obey.
I’m not going to opine on the whole book itt, just thinking about it out loud for the concepts I think others will appreciate trying on as a political lens. (Or may already be using without those terms)
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Are 300K people really going to a MAGA rally or is the real number 5K?
I mean the place only holds like 11k but wouldn’t be surprised if 15k showed up.
200k getting tickets are probably bots.
There’s a reason rich families are often dysfunctional. Obscene wealth is often generated through amorality, narcissism and bullying. Great entrepreneurs usually make terrible parents.
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I could argue that those tactics work much better on people who think like Republicans than people who think like Democrats.
I agree. I think that is one of the takeaways.
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SLEEP DONNIE SLEEP
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This is actually a good dunking on the Lincoln Project.
These are platitudes meant to disguise the choice voters actually face in November, between a party that has gone all in with Trumpism and another that has not. Every American is free to decide which choice they prefer for the next four years, but nobody should be under the illusion that a different option is on the table.
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I love that Trump’s campaign manager refers to his supporters as a data haul.
Imagine if they were not stone headed stupid, they might be offended.
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Think the building holds 8k.
Plus Tulsa is in the middle of nowhere. The two biggest metropolitan areas closest, Kansas City and Dallas are both over 200 miles away.
I am sure they will have a million plus people there.
Plus all the trump supporters protested so they could go back to work. They can’t be taking time off from their reopened jobs so soon.