Relax. KellyAnn was just commemorating the Revolutionary War airline stewardess outfit.
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Elevation 6,969 feet. A little cannabis should help with the hypoxia.
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The very best authors of intrigue and the absurd could not conceive of such twisted material. Maddow did an extensive piece on this fiasco last evening…More effective education with emphasis on critical thinking has got to be a priority …this stuff is beyond Barnum…
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He was Sherlock Holmes. Too bad the studios didn’t have the budgets for real movies with scripts and sets to build around him.
And I thought I was a purist about the cannon until I saw the Cumberbatch Sherlock which was so well written, edited and acted.
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If you really read his stories with a fresh eye, he opens many of them just like a film script would. Draws you right into the world and settings.
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I bet her finances could use some looking into.
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Someone do a safety check on George Will.
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CPAC
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Her bizarness it really on an elite level…
Suspect that she holds the
Sante Kimes Chair of Grift and Fraud.
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I’ve written some really good satire. People like Ballarin are satirical characters who have come to real life.
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Well, at least she wasn’t holding a wedding.
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I’m fascinated by this. I’m pretty much persuaded that a lot of them simply don’t have any clinical form of mental illness that makes them delusional. But something—identity fusion comes to mind—makes it possible for them to easily believe stuff we normies think of that way. The idea that Trump in particular and the hard right in general must be right about everything and can never be at fault requires them to grasp at any straw, no matter how absurd. It’s preferable to facing what they’ve done to themselves and the society. We view them with a contempt we might not feel for a mother who can’t believe her child committed a heinous crime that he or she obviously did commit, but the mechanism is the same. The reality is too painful, so you leave it behind. Don’t take that as sympathy, by the way. They can all go fuck themselves.
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who says she didn’t ?
just like …
is there anyway to be sure that it was also not used as the location for “BOOGIE NIGHTS II”?
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My son and DIL wrote a great twist on “The Wedding Crashers” by crashing their wedding in four unauthorized public venues in one day including an art museum and a bowling alley.
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“High Bob!”
Drink!
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Perhaps but I tend to think of the mechanism as more dissociative, a detachment from the consequences of reality but more for emotional release than self-defense: like the fans at a wrestling match, yelling at the heel while belief is suspended and reflection minimized so the actual consequences in policy and lives are effectively ignored rather than actively denied.
They are (mostly) clinically sane I suppose but what gets me as much as their indifference to the suffering of people-not-like-them is the utter vulgarity of their beliefs. My reaction to them as much as anything is sheer astonishment that an adult could not only find but give public credence to the idiocies of a Trump or Q and not be institutionalized.
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I loved Enola Holmes, and thought Millie Bobby Brown was brilliant. Helena Bonham Carter is a goddess.
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There are a number of interesting points in that comment but for myself I’m just trying to figure out a way that lots of people can believe absurd stuff when clearly they aren’t all suffering from schizophrenia or some other obvious mental disorder. Proper social scientists and other professionals will be grappling with this for several decades, so I’m not going to insist on any answer I can cobble together here in my own amateur armchair, that’s for sure. But there has to be something there. This didn’t occur for random and varying reasons among millions of people. I’m going to keep learning about this relatively little-discussed concept of “identity fusion” because I just have an intuitive sense it can help explain this craziness.
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