Where’s the requisite Vimes quote about boots?

Housing is cardboarded enough of late. You get good windows and great insulation even as your walls/foundations crack within the first 5 years. (Popped into the private group for the new subdivision down the way at the edge of town…the pics and complaints are not pretty. Oh. And the land they built on. The construction people had to redo an entire road between houses with people already in them because water cracked that road and bubbled up through it.). This is going to be a regulations battle going forward. I don’t think we want less regulation on these cardboard subdivision houses.

Repubs are going to scream that DEMs are preventing houses from being built by keeping current regulations in place. While DEMs are like ya, safety, find another way. Run on the problem, don’t find solutions.

I am keen to hear about this federal land thing the VP candidates touched on.

Yes he did. But he sold it to people who don’t know better. This is probably why no fact checking was in the rules.

(Which, how is that even allowed to be a thing?)

He also, and this reads to your point, sells it to “non elites” (the non-degreed) with his dismissal of Wharton college economists. He acknowledges their PhDs, then says they lack common sense and wisdom, which has been a key byline for the Republican Party as a whole, echoing back years.

PhDs are snobby fucks who lack common sense. Listen to me instead.

The book smarts vs common sense, like they’re mutually exclusive is a very common, much repeated sentiment among working class Midwesterners. I was so mad that he got that right, not in the sense that it is correct, but that it will swing people his way.

I don’t like him at all, but he was articulate and not at all unhinged. He also hammered on the magic words that T somehow failed on: she’s been in office, where are her changes? (Yes, the VP job is a minimal role unless you’re Dick Cheney, but it works as effective perception management on most people.)

Walz looked like he was sweating into his suit when the debate started, but then warmed up.

The ending on Vance’s refusal to admit Trump lost in 2020, or to answer the question on whether or not he’d certify was really damning.

Cluster B. NPD is not known for empathy.

There’s a sound bite of him at a recent rally talking about how much he hated paying overtime and how he would avoid it.

He doesn’t care.

You’re cool. I’m happy to hear it. Economics and the stock market are my least favorite and least understood topics.

I’m just tickled to have this better understanding of tariffs and inflation from all the political commentary. Economists keep showing up on podcasts.

“Decomposing tangerine” is appreciated as well. His Cluster B brain is also 80yo brain and doesn’t appear to be weathering life very well of late.

The tariff is paid by the car dealer and passed onto the consumer. As one example.

Consumers pay it, not the overseas manufacturer.

No. He’ll encourage the guy. Pretty sure Vance is going to go full Cheney, but internally, with social policy, while waiting for his handlers to tell him it’s 25th amendment time.

I was just listening to him today. The segment on how republicans who claim pro life are really just anti woman.

So relevant, that guy. And missed.

Cluster B is heavy into projection. Not surprising.

No, it’s you doing this and being this toxic shit, accuses Cluster B. Pretty much always.

Exhausting nonsense.

Can we not elect any more Cluster B personality disorders going forward? Please.

Their hopelessly entrenched in an alternative reality basic approach to the world is toxic enough on the regular lives scale. With the presidency we get crap like this.

I don’t think there’s been one since Air America. Al Franken hung out there. Rachel Maddow.

He’ll take the bait. That’s what Cluster B personality disorders do, especially NPD. She’s playing him. And it will work.

I read a news article that billboards were placed around the debate venue criticizing trumps crowd sizes. So he went into that debate pre-baited.

She has his playbook. We all do. It’s called the DSM-5-TR. Cluster B.

I can never get more than a 1.2 space between paragraphs. I can put in 2, 7, 12, return spaces between paragraphs and the post always reverts to 1.2. And that reads a lot like a wall of text.

New paragraph to demo the best that Memmy/Apple device can do with a simple return space after a paragraph. So, I do the dot because it forces the paragraph breaks I want.

No, that’s because it is repetitive. I’m keen on voting for her, but I can’t watch her any more because of it.

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It’s the same words every single time. It’s like a broken record skipping on the same 15 words and I just can’t listen to it any more.

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It’s like trying to play the next episode of a tv series. It’s labeled as episode 4 and the first 3 minutes looks new, everyone’s dressed different, but then they all launch into the same scenes and dialogue of the first 3 episodes. Like someone cut those 3 episodes into pieces and reassembled them for episode 4. And episode 5. And episode 6. And so on.

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It’s awful. And obvious.

The only new thing during Oprah was the I’ll shoot you with my gun if you break into my house. Like she’d be faster than SS. Even so. That’s the only memorable thing from the Oprah thing because it’s the single piece of new dialogue.

Look. This is how Cluster B personality disorders work. And how utterly exhausting they are. Notably, borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder. We all know Trump is the latter even if he isn’t officially diagnosed.

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Anyone who has ever been in a relationship with Cluster B, be it familial, friendship, or romantic knows this is true about trump. And has probably been screaming on the inside, due to additional exposure, for 8 yrs.

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What’s killer about this guy and his Cluster B is the press. The mains like NYT, NBC, etc, not fringe stuff like new republic and others that we often post to lemmy and Reddit, don’t just say it outright. Don’t just say there’s something mentally off with all he says and does. We should have had a blasted wall, a boundary set against this level of delusion, but instead we’ve had nearly a decade of “let’s explore this”, leading us down the lane of what is, yes, the perceptions of untreated mental illness. That’s what a Cluster B personality disorder is: untreated mental illness. Not the lock you up kind (barring a BPD trip down SA/SI, which is a hallmark of that disorder, but that’s off topic for a Trump discussion). The press isn’t reporting misinformation, but they have enabled his mental illness and pulled us all into an unwelcome relationship with it by never placing healthy boundaries on it. It’s like they wanted a society of Cluster B co-dependents. They have helped create this exhausting reality via their own codependency.

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And it’s fucking exhausting.

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So what we have is this exhausting, societal level gaslight that feeds into a Cluster B personality disorder’s reality, instead of reality. This statement about Google? “Normal” for Cluster B. Utterly expected and within the operating procedures of Cluster B.

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Typically, a person finding themselves in a relationship with one of these nightmare personality disorders goes no contact to get healthy again. They have to. It’s the only way. For a decade we haven’t been allowed to go no contact.

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I’ll conclude by saying the obvious. If you’d finally like to go no contact on this Cluster B relationship, vote for Kamala Harris.

Both are meh compared to home. Dough is flour water yeast. Touch of corn meal for roll out. Add time. That’s it. Cheap and easy.

Reclaim the Pizza Hut crust of 30 years ago by preheating a #8 or larger iron skillet with oil in it, carefully dropping in your rolled out crust, making sure it has a nice edge, and building your pizza. And your crust won’t taste as sugary as subway bread.

You have money to spare, pizza oven for the thin crust.

Dominos is better these days if you have to choose.

Those would be REALLY good for backs of bathroom stall doors.

New stickers on gas pumps and front/center of bathroom stall doors.

“Remember, your vote is private. You can lie about your vote and that person in your life will never know who you voted for.”

56 sheets of inkjet/laserjet printer paper for $16.99 on Amazon. I get it, sticky notes are less defacing but probably special order.