Today's Tweet

Along the lines of: Bill Gates walks into a soup kitchen, and the Average Personal Wealth goes up to several hundred million dollars, but you've still got a room full of homeless people plus Bill Gates.

Fun with arithmetic.

If I give 10 apples to one person and no apples to nine people, the average person has one apple.

Why are nine people mad at me? https://t.co/ezQWsReU6i

— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) October 23, 2017

Perspecticide

This is from the viewpoint of a personal relationship, but it seems obvious that it pertains very much to what 45* is up to.

And of course, this is nothing new. It bears repeating though, because nobody's immune to this shit.

So here's your booster shot.

Lindsay Dodgson, Cult Education Institute

Living with a controlling or abusive partner is confusing and draining. They blame you for things that weren't your fault, or that you didn't even do, and you become isolated from your friends and family in an attempt to keep the abuser happy.

The way you see the world can also completely change, because it may be dangerous for you to know the truth.

Lisa Aronson Fontes, a psychology researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of "Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship," told Business Insider the word for this is "perspecticide."

She said the word, which basically means "the incapacity to know what you know," was first used in the literature on the brainwashing of prisoners of war, and has also been applied to people in cults.

"In an abusive or controlling relationship, over time the dominating partner changes how the victim thinks," Fontes said. "The abuser defines what love is. The abuser defines what it appropriate in terms of monitoring the partner. The abuser defines what is wrong with the victim, and what she needs to do to change it."

Over time, the victim — or survivor, if that is your preferred term — loses sense of what their own ideas, goals, and thoughts were. Instead, they start taking on those of their dominating partner.

"Through perspecticide, people give up their own opinions, religious affiliations, views of friends, goals in life, etc," Fontes said. "I am not talking about the natural mutual influencing that occurs in all intimate relationships — this is much more nefarious and one-sided."

Today's Poe

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a stirring defense of Donald Trump’s chief of staff, General John Kelly, the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said on Friday that it was “unpatriotic in the extreme” to offer irrefutable video proof that a four-star general lied.

“It is unpatriotic enough to accuse a four-star general of lying,” Sanders told the White House press corps. “But to make available a video that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that that general lied is unpatriotic bordering on treasonous.”

Poe's Law:

Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers or viewers as a sincere expression of the parodied views.[1][2][3]

Today's Tweet

"...numskulls..." - (former) sheriff Clarke is kind of the new Sarah Palin in 45*'s GOP, and is thereby considered a leading light.

It's going to take me a good long while before I can let John McCain off the hook. It's not completely his fault, but he gave in to the pressure from the stoopid wing of that party when he knew better - and he said it: "...there is a dark side to American populism".

The numskulls running the DNC haven’t figured out that a message of destroying American traditions won’t sell. #MAGA https://t.co/clEmiEQZ2Q

— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) October 23, 2017

Today's Lesson

It's a big machine. Fuck up part of it and run the risk of fucking up the whole thing.

This is truly incredible.#nature #SundayMorning #October1st pic.twitter.com/j21OkF5dGL

— Fredon Moniteau (@FMoniteau) October 1, 2017

Today's Pix

Today's Tweet

We are witnesses to the most ruthless attack on a president...in American history.

President Kennedy was unavailable for comment.

“We are witnesses to the most ruthless attack on a president & the people who voted for him...in American history." -@DLoesch #NRA pic.twitter.com/rcPAKMVJI0

— NRATV (@NRATV) October 20, 2017

Today's Tweet

Good guy Kelly starts to reveal his feet of clay

Today’s winner https://t.co/igsdhqiQyx

— Mike Roberts (@eVilleMike) October 20, 2017

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Today's driftglass

Asking for several gazillion friends - whatever happened to that Greenwald guy?

You know, that guy who I used to write about from time to time and point out that he lied kind of a lot about really big, important issues? Bit of a thin-skinned asshole and monumental hypocrite whose automatic response to any criticism from anyone was all-out, knives-out attack? Who divided the world neatly into "People who agree completely with Glenn Greenwald" and "Drooling, jackbooted Obot servants of tyranny?"

Yeah, last I saw him he was stooging over on Fox News with his BFF, Tucker Carlson:

.@ggreenwald on media: I think what it is, more than dishonesty, is really warped incentive scheme bolstered by this very severe groupthink pic.twitter.com/CXIl2On7CY

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 18, 2017