Poke a bear w a sharp stick often-enough & long-enough and it will try to claw your face off... & most people will blame the bear for the completely “unprovoked” attack & just won’t be able to fathom why it would, all of a sudden, do such a thing.

ALSO, for some people the only way they can feel good about themselves is if they can make others feel bad about themselves...

EXACTLY. Just because the outside looks a certain way does not mean the person’s mind agrees... In documentaries you always hear [grand]parents lamenting the loss of their [grand]son. & I think ...But honey, you never had a son, the doctors were wrong about that the entire time.

and yet when the kid hits teen, parents wonder why they aren’t believed anymore... “drugs are bad,” “smoking will stunt your growth,” “alcohol is bad” ... kids will figure out they’ve been lied to... at some point... most of ‘em...

Why he feels the need to accuse an amorphous group of “lots of other people” of colluding to rig an election he won is totally baffling to me.

idk, I fear he has plenty of venom left... or maybe I’m just confusing vitreol with venom....

Well, just some people... apparently.

Because each ass-hole thing begets another ass-hole thing... & each is incrementally more ass-holely than those before it... Sort of like how we got from Reagan’s “evil empire” to 45's “Gosh, golly gee, I sure hope he likes me...”

So... replace “doll” with “prostitute” & it really isn’t that much different...’cept that the prostitute can clean herself [hopefully] between clients...

She’s there (& only exists, at this point) in an effort (however successful it might be) to give him some sort of moral? credibility.

I’m not sure it’s men they have a low opinion of... After all every man can be tempted, TEMPTED I SAY, into sin because of the evil ways of the female sex...

...the pettiest, smallest, emptiest, most dishonest, most malignant shit-for-brains...

Funny, I always find that the tinfoil-wrapped potato is done cooking when I get it out of the oven, smash it a bit, & the middle doesn’t resist...

I had the realization recently that it was more likely that more than half the people on the planet were dumber than average.

I will always be amazed how dying can turn even the most vile of assholes into an absolute saint.

Yes, the best reason to just say NO and no more, is that you aren’t giving them anything to pick apart & argue against you that your reasons aren’t valid or good enough for you to not do what they want you to do/be.

No, I wasn’t/am not really interested in taking to/with him (much less at anyone, ever).

Yeah, don’t care for small talk much, just not that interested in others’ drama... but I can do it for politeness sake (I guess). Tho I do this retreat thing once a year w/ about 200 others & shared a cabin w someone I’d not really had any interaction with before.... He said that I “intrigued him” WTF I swear he…

I’ve long thought that the whole idea of “god creating man in his own image” thing was the wrong way round.

My first reaction: Gee, shouldn’t the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES actually not ever have any free time??