In these parts, we call it the ‘Hefner Special’.

87. H W Bush is 94.

I’m pretty sure evil is a longevity elixir, unless something intervenes.

Kissinger was 99.

Right, most of them are like that.

He’s objectively a christian, but not by their idealised definition. They can’t see they’re also all of those things, because they’ve perverted the meanings of right and wrong, ‘good’ and ‘evil’, and what morality is.

Hopefully, yes. We’ll see if he (or, more honestly, the Heritage Foundation) is cogent enough to play his death smartly: rather than try to make Vance a replacement, they should make him trump’s standard-bearer.

Paint trump as a martyr; like Jesus, an absent saviour, with Vance in the role of Peter or Paul. That would be the smart thing, and could potentially work. Trump becomes a saint, with Vance his prophet, and that could get the MAGA movement behind him. We’ll see.

Someone who says ‘Strumpf’ is clearly not a serious person.

It’s a party in your pants!

On the plus side, many fascists have tried to use Hitler’s playbook and it hasn’t worked, because one needs the perfect combination of narcissism, shamelessness, idiocy, and perverted charisma to make it work, and that’s exceedingly rare. Vance has very little of that. He’s a bog-standard fascist, and cannot carry a movement.

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Eh. Trump isn’t a christian by their definition now. He could find Krishna on his deathbed and they’ll still make pilgrimages to his grave, expecting him to rise up as their saviour.

They don’t care about his beliefs or actions. All that matters is their own fear, anger, and hate. That’s all this has really been about. Not ideals, not standards, and certainly not reality.

🧪🧴 🧪🧴 🧪🧴 🧪🧴

He’s still batshit, just in a better-tailored suit.

The good news is the MAGA crowd don’t have fanatical loyalty to him.

Yes, but the fact he feels the need to say this aloud means it’s on his mind, and that’s potentially good news.

🤞

I parented a teen boy. Sometimes, no matter what you do and no matter how close you were before puberty, a switch flips outside your control and they won’t talk to you anymore. We were a typical family, no abuse, no fighting, nobody on drugs, both parents with 9-5 office jobs, very engaged with school and etc.

Thankfully, after riding it out (getting him therapy, giving space, respect, and support), he came out the other side fine. But there were a few harrowing years during that phase.

I went through a similar phase in my teens. If AI was there to feed my issues, I might not have survived it. Teenage hormones are a helluva drug.

Yep, I was gonna say, as a child of the 70s/early 80s, I was a totally unsupervised latch-key kid. The paedophiles loved that. It was a predator’s paradise. Most of us knew kids our age who either vanished or died by misadventure, and many of us were assaulted in some way.

I don’t like helicopter parenting, either, but anyone who sees the Wild West of the 80s as some sort of ideal either has a faulty memory or is deluding themselves.

It smells like green.

Neat. There should be a class-action suit by people like me who literally can’t vote in person (disabled, homebound). We can’t vote otherwise.

This takes away my vote. I’ve no doubt they’ll do this, and we can’t effectively protest against it, so they’ll walk on us like the carpet we are. We literally can’t resist.

Why pay when you can blackmail? It’s probably a bit of both, but given trump’s known proclivities and the fact Putin was a KGB agent before he took power, I’d be shocked if he doesn’t have even more dirt on trump than the US does.

Money can be outbid, but blackmail is forever.

e: and no, we’ll likely never see it. Kompromat loses its value once it’s published.