I wonder if Jan would feel the same way if she had a legit emergency situation, but there were no doctors available because they were tending to that funny looking rash I got from a spider bite that one time.

Feels really like the main culprit in all this is the hyperpresence of the media, of which the Ringer article qualifies (but this one doesn’t, in particular, IMO). From the moment AD signed to Klutch, the writing was kind of on the wall; speculation started immediately.

Ahh, the classic Gabbo defense.

I’m pretty sure it gave me a brain tumor. And I welcome the hallucination of a better world it will create.

Damn yo.

Self-delusion is a powerful fucking drug.

I didn’t take the question as meaning “divisive = white supremacy,” because of course it wouldn’t be on Meet the Press. But a fun read nonetheless

Re: the last bit

Even though the latter half was the second item of a series, you’re damn right.

Damnit, you’ve turned nearly-indiscernible sarcasm into an art.

That’s excellent; hopefully it’s situated to avoid splashback from particularly vigorous streams.

And (off camera) Dennis Reynolds!

I don’t know if I’m impressed or horrified that you had this at such quick disposal, but I’m definitely something.

You must have a constitution of steel to tread through that minefield. Although, as you note, sound-minded people don’t have to worry about absorbing any of this gobbledy gook, or projecting persecution narratives onto them in order to make sense out of it.

And a certain SCOTUS Justice, I’m sure.

But he doesn’t care about winning. Doesn’t care SO LOUDLY.

And so troubling when it doesn’t work...

She drove, because my eyes had glazed over as I hallucinated a horde of demons feasting on the carcass of a shriveled lamb that symbolized all that I thought was good in the world.

“I don’t really care if people like me or not” is the rally cry of a sociopath. As is getting so riled up about a generally innocuous question about a blatant and obvious COI.

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