US Politics

The speaker doesn’t need to be a member.
One magat nominated Trump.

Can you imagine believing that Trump has the ability to be speaker of the house? 😂

Watch from 13.30, I like what he did

https://youtu.be/JLOAQjjKJbM

Nice although Blackalicious did it better.

Need to see him rap battle McCarthy - be a total bodybag.

Marjory Greene is still a Trump fanatic, and there are others.
The House is a weird juxtaposition of people who want to do good things vs people who are trash.

The House is a weird juxtaposition of people who want to do good things vs people who are trash.

That's always been the case and not just in the U.S., although they do provide a particularly loud and colourful drama. Few years before their civil war, a southern congressman nearly killed a northern senator with a cane in the Senate house. Trump would have been right at home there. In the Democratic party, as it was then.

U.S. politics has been like this more often than not.

RIP Diamond of Diamond & Silk fame who has died from the non-hoax form of COVID

Much as it would be nicely ironic, is there any evidence that it was COVID?

Went into hospital around Thanksgiving with it

Allegedly, but I suppose she was never going to send out a statement saying she had a disease that doesn't exist.

Non-hoax COVID sounds lethal, Is anyone doing anything about it?

Nothing, they invented hoax covid to install 5g trackers in citizens and siphon billions of tax payer dollars off to the liberal elite cabal while doing nothing about non-hoax covid.

NO PERFORMANCES OF MRS. DOUBTFIRE NEAR SCHOOL PROPERTY OR BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 1AM AND 12 NOON ON SUNDAYS.

https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1613609765065588740

Wait til they hear about The Krankees.

Shakespeare's fucked.

But on the plus side, they will dispose of Mrs Brown's Boys...

The George Santos story has reached the point where he's been ID'd as performing in drag himself whilst he lived in Brazil as 'Kitara Revache'.

Also stole money from a Gofundme set up to save a veterans dog.

It just gets more and more wild. Truly insane. I don’t know how he can maintain in his position. It’s outrageous. And that has absolutely nothing to do with him being a drag performer.

I have a feeling he is just a compulsive liar and it might even be a condition. He does fit in perfectly in the current Republican Party.

compulsive liar

I listened to a really interesting talk on this years ago that I've forgotten most of.

Iirc a key component is lying when there is no gain. Ie lying for a gain is logical, regardless of whether it is moral. However, compulsive liers lie even when there isn't a conscious link to a gain/avoidance of pain.

I've known quite a few of those and it utterly baffled me, doubly so when it's so obviously clearly a lie, like why even lie about that and surely you know none of us believe it. Regularly coupled with stacking a lie on top of the previous lie like I wouldn't remember the previous version of the story

Here’s one of my favourite vids of a weird unnecessary lie that was obviously going to get found out instantly:

https://youtu.be/vWPVvGH_dlo

Iirc a key component is lying when there is no gain.

No logical gain to the rational observer.

There's no consensus on this but some clinicians make a distinction between compulsive and pathological liars, with the latter a specialised type of the former. For the latter, a lot (but not all) of the lying has a focus and goal, manipulating the people around them for clear aims, and they can be very effective because the basic condition has made them so practised at lying. I suppose you could say they're the ones who have learned to game their condition. Santos would likely fall into that category; he's gotten pretty far despite a chunk of the Net and media laughing at him. He'd have found it a lot easier in the days before the Net and 24 hour news.

Well this could have legs

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