Thank you for such a clear explanation, I too know from personal experience. I wouldn’t be surprised if Ivanka is not aware of the scars she bears. I didn’t know for decades - I drank the kool-aid and blocked out the bad parts, and was dear old narcissistic dad’s minion/champion. However, we all have the choice to be…

Dave Coulier definitely looks like the creepy uncle who dated underage (or very close) girls. Alanis was around 17 and he was early 30s...

I am assuming he has a companion book that tells men to wait 90 days before expecting to bang? Or is that just silly of me?

That poor journalist was on an episode of Leah Remini’s A&E expose. Her story is horrifying - and even worse because nothing permanent resulted from what she went through, that organization continued to thrive, grow stronger, more forceful, and somehow bizarrely even re-gained tax exempt status AFTER what they did to…

Leah Remini’s Troublemaker was good, detailing her experiences as a child brought into that organization and as an adult. The similarities between cult tactics and abusive relationships are fascinating and explain how people get hooked, blaming themselves, etc. She is determined to take them down. Her current expose…

Absolutely that’s why they’re doing it. He’s been allowed to roam free saying heinous things, outright lies, and nothing and no one keeps him in check. He’s still doing it. He has to be held accountable for being a pathological liar, for at least one of his lies.

Lol. Plus teflon with electrical cords. We’re all fortunate nothing worse than melting happened.

“...with few close friends and few meaningful one-on-one interactions beyond the family members” - oh, like the lack of both meaningful relationships & emotional intimacy found in sociopathy? It’s all right there, right out in the open. He’s not hard to figure out if we’re paying attention.

I see your plastic fumes & raise you an electric skillet - I once destroyed one at former boyfriend’s parents’ house. They told me to turn on the oven, did not tell me to check for/remove skillet that was always stored in the oven. I felt awful but my family never used the oven as storage, how would i know?

He even made money during the campaign, with his office-space rent scheme - despite fewer staff, the Trump Tower rent increased from $35,000/m when he was self-funding his campaign to $169,000/m when donors were funding it. Straight from donors into his pockets. While he shouted “Crooked Hillary”. Classic sociopathic…

Thank you, once the veil lifts, it’s a whole new world. This case is unspeakably horrific and I hope all the children receive appropriate therapy, the two keeping that secret & denying their reality have been traumatized as well.

Of course he had surprisingly a lot of women in high ranking positions - all the better as a cover for sexual harassment. Victim’s self-doubt or friend: “oh he totally didn’t mean anything by that, he has all those female executives”. And Dov himself, “see, I respect women, if I didn’t respect women would I have them…

Everyone thought my father was a great guy. But he had anger issues and a need to control and spanking was an outlet. I hid when anyone was being “spanked” because he had no self control and I couldn’t handle their screams. His issues caused a lot of residual damage to our adult lives, that not everyone is ready or…

Some are creative. My father’s tactic was to not give as much disinterest and intolerance towards me, with just enough random Pavlovian nice gestures to keep me on his side, and create hurt feelings in others. He still managed to create just as much of a lack of bonding and resentment - when I finally saw the light,…

The ABC news link mentions the father found him “in the mother’s house”, so it’s possible he didn’t live there. The other 2 siblings have clearly been emotionally abused, they knew their brother was in there, and had spoken to him through the door, yet didn’t say anything for at least a year... There are no words,…

I can’t stand him. I find him disingenuous to the extreme. On SNL I figured he was high all the time, his eyes seemed so out of it. Now I see disconnected dead eyes, that are identical to my personality-disordered ex - who was great at being a funny guy to charm people, and also had substance issues.

That needless irrelevant dragging is more subtle, but just as desperately narcissistic as cheetolini - if Ben can’t be the best, and the only, then at least he can be the First, and also the more evolved one who brushed his teeth & doesn’t have unfortunate urinal habits... Ugh narcissists

I second your recommendation of Brody’s critique. I found it after I saw the movie & was desperately searching for anyone else who felt like I did coming out of it. His words connected with me and captured why the film did not.

THIS, exactly. I was fighting to stay awake. It was excruciatingly slow-paced and SO long, I kept hoping it would end. I didn’t find their “not professional slick singer/dancer” thing endearing, I found it awkward and distracting from what might have been magical numbers (maybe?). I’m tired of hearing of how it was a…

I’m surprised he’s so critical of a show that he is still involved with.