Thank you for articulating it better than I can! The idea that this is a “reset” to something instinctive— which is also somehow synonymous with “natural” or better... No.

Ooh, pedant alert! Crawling itself isn’t actually a “milestone” for babies— it’s somewhat culturally-dependent, even. There is evidence to suggest a correlation between not crawling and other motor skills difficulties later on, but it’s not necessarily causative.

That tweet calls for this:

People. People.

Frankly, this was one of the reasons I wanted her to win the primary*. She has game and organization on a level mere mortals cannot imagine.

It’s even “little” things, like crowing on message boards that Trump got more people in one of his rallies than Hillary did, QED. Critical thinking skills: lacking.

In fact, people who have had to deal with capital-N Narcissists talk about this in exactly those behavioral terms— the “extinction burst”:

Exactly. How often am I catcalled (or worse) when my husband is standing right next to me? Vs with a girlfriend? Vs alone?

I actually found him reasonably pleasant, if a little impatient with questions from the audience (like he’s heard it all before, and he doesn’t make that a secret). He was really nice to me as a contestant, but it was over a decade ago.

Yes, thank you. Like if I could be totally objective about his looks, Trump is not attractive, but not 100% terrible when graded on a “this man is 70 years old” curve. He is more attractive, physically, than Bernie. It’s hard to say that, but even given the tan and weave, I’d say that’s true, visually.

I had the same thoughts.

I didn’t think NPD was contagious, but here we are.

He’s such a POS.

Yay! I’m hitting refresh way too often, but ME’s 2nd district just turned blue, too!

I absolutely believe this.

Nylon.

Yeah, Baby, give me Utah, Baby.

50 Shades of Grey— the book— came out 6 years after Trump was taped.

Vixen. :)