He Seems Incoherent Because He is!

 I am not going to make this so  much about the OWL.  But she posted something idiotic on her blog today.  Essentially she is one of the people who still give credit to orange Hitler's incoherent communication style under the label he uses for it.  The weave.  

Maybe I have spent too many hours reading psychology texts, and keeping up with the revisions and new editions of  The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, (currently Fifth Edition, to fall for that shit.

Add to that my BA in one of the story telling arts, Theatre.  And all the Communications and Video and Lit classes taken, and it is easy for me to get to the point.  An incoherent communication style, is evidence of an incoherent communication style.  Which itself is compelling evidence of a person having an incoherent mind.  

Particularly as his mental state, said casually and not as a credentialed professional's diagnosis, is demented and deteriorating.  I have to wonder about anyone still buying into that witless drivel about how its a deliberate choice.  He's the president of the fucking USA!  He isn't an avant garde, Hip Hop playwright and or beat box poet.  Perhaps not under Article II specifically, but as national chief executive, it is at least within the reasonable expected duties to be able to clearly articulate things about the nation and his administration of it's affairs, instead of doing "art."

No one should think why can't he do both?  There barely is enough time in the day for even more able people to do "the job."  And this bitch has less talent than a bucket of vomit.  So he fails at both, far as I see.

I am reminded of a sweet, and very attractive girl who worked on the same case with me, years ago.  Our office was located near NYC's Madison Sq. Park.  A lot of homeless people and otherwise mentally dysfunctional folk could be found there, any given day.  So one day we were talking about those kinds of people.  She mentioned to me something about how she liked talking to them.  I, a former family court lawyer who had several clients with issues, previously, could and did not agree.  I said flat out, I try to avoid them.    I literally actually backed away from her, to make a visual point.

Now I an not going to say only crazy people want to talk to crazy people.  But most of the people I know who do are either licensed mental health professionals, or people like lawyers who have a professional reason.

Not all that long after that chat, she got fired.  Her work was usually below quota, but one day she managed to not do any work at all.  I ain't saying she was crazy.  She wasn't incoherent.  But girl was not really living deeply enough in the usual reality most people I know exist in.

As if she had her own version of the weave for how she perceived life, significantly different than the reality based people have.

I am trying to be polite.  She was cute, and nothing but nice to me.  But yeah. Just past eccentric I would have to say.  The kind of difference the current version of the DSM would place on a spectrum you would not want to be, if being considered mostly normal matters to you at least.

Some people just don't give a fuck.

Oh, and one last thing.  orange Hitler is bat shit crazy, and on the bad side of the spectrum for several of these disorders.  Nevermind.  He is pushing 80.  A very unhealthy man, who likely has some organic brain problems that we likely will never know about, for sure.

I will actually thank the O.W.L. for a change

 I did a net search for, "People who are huffy and don't know it's not a good thing."  The OWL triggered that because, today she posted a link to the Oscar's nominations, with the following huffy, to my mind at least, comment:

"I don't think I've ever been less interested in the nominations. I haven't seen or been interested in seeing any of these movies. "

I am reminded of those tiresome, right wing idiots who pretend the earliest years of SNL were the only good years.  Fucking imbeciles.  Likely their dislike of the show goes back to the Reagan era.  Because they are fucking  imbeciles who hate their psychopathic, political figures being mocked.  But I digress.

But my search led to some good amusement.  I got a link for the definition of "huffy" on Urban Dictionary.  And I suppose there have been fakes for years.  I remember seeing specific people being called out, so yea.  It's not a reliable source.  But as there were at least three wildly divergent,sex  fetish themed definitions, I am thinking all were fugazys.

But I was amused.

Last note.  I am willing to guess there might actually be some actual humans who give a fuck what the OWL thinks about contemporary cinema.  Not me.  Not for that.  Not for any topic.  When she gets huffy like that, it makes me think she is something of a watered-down Karen.  Not likely to have a full meltdown in public over stupid, ridiculous shit.  But yeah. Likely often thinks like that.  And posts it on her blog with no self-awareness that . . . passive-aggressive, Karen style huffy remarks are not a good thing."

Just Too Much Going On

 

Republicans Fucking are not Better at the Economy.

 Republicans are bad for the economy. Beyond rational doubts.

It boggles my mind how anyone can believe Republicans are better at the economy.  No matter how well I understand on an intellectual level, the capacity for delusion among puny earthlings.  I still don't get it, emotionally.   Not only does someone have to ignore decades of recorded facts, and the mountain of data.  But for most of the fools who support or are members of the GOP?  They have to deny the reality of their own lived lives.

This is not a post about The OWL, however

 I did find the article I will post about on her blog.  She,  the OWL, posted the conclusion.  As if she sort of agrees with it.  I do not.  I got notes.

MagaBabe drag experiment

In a nutshell, the first person account is pretty much what I chose for my link text.  Young anti fashionista, East Village immigrant Brit donned a Maga Babe costume and makeup, and reached a mind blowing stupid conclusion:  I am calling out the bullshit because her youth and ignorance made her believe the ordinary was non conformist.

"I’m moved by a strange affection for the Magababe — if not as a political entity, as a person. In liberal youth culture she is a genuine radical: she doesn’t care if the cool kids hate her. She is unapologetically sexy and feminine; her president is in power and so is she. Though her values are not mine, I respect her brashness as the ultimate non-conformist."

I am calling out the bullshit because her perspective is so narrow and tiny.  To my cusp of Gen X mind, she seems to be so stuck in her identity and "tribe" that she doesn't seem to get the point.  In the world of business, working in offices, being a relative  fashion conformist is the rule.  

Ever heard of dress codes?

My first career was in performing arts.  I worked for a year at a theatre that did a lot of classical music performances.  If I was on call to do any on stage in front of the audience, work like moving chairs and music stands, I had to dress like a businessman.  If the work call did not require that, I dressed like any other not business person;  jeans, t shirt, kicks.  And I always had a folding knife in a belt holster.  The rule in NYC was if you were in the "trades" you were allowed.  I spent a year at the CBS main building, but as one of the facilities staff.  I wore a uniform that was color coded so people would know which department I was from.  After that  I worked as a paralegal, evening shift, at a white shoe, corporate law firm.  I did not have to wear jacket and tie, but there was a dress code.  No jeans. No t shirts.  No sneakers unless all black and not at all fancy looking.

I will stop there.  The article is interesting to me more because what we learn about the writer's mind, than the experiment.  She is so young.  And has such a tiny understanding of the world and the people in it.  And the rules of fashion in the workplace.  And in NYC there are still many many people who show up to work, following a dress code.

Remember the line about dressing not for the job you currently have (at your office.)  Dress for the next higher job that you want there.  That world yet and persistently endures.

The Meme. And Other Thoughts.

 

I am not a marxist, nor even a declared socialist.  But I am an anticapitalist, because that shit sucks.  I don't believe it can be eliminated merely by government,  I sincerely believe that technology has to get to a point where capitalism no longer is a viable part of human society.

That being said.  I am still frustrated with a friend.  Who, despite my telling her I have worked on litigation involving the retail food supermarkets' supply chain, not only at POS but distributors and even specifically all aspects of the meat industry, poultry specifically.   So I have spent about 4 maybe more than 5 years of my life reading those people's internal corporate documents.  She still refuses to accept that food deserts are a real thing.

No matter how many times I said, based on my experience in reading internal corporate communications and other documents, I know for a fact how much a handful sort of monopolistic corporate entities control the distribution system.  In other words, the market?  Hell, never mind the fact that a few monster-sized supermarket holding companies own the majority of well-known regional and national bigger-name chains. 

She just would not accept the plain fact.  If you live in the wrong neighborhood (without a car?)  You are fucked.  Meaning your choices are limited, and your power as a consumer is non-existent.

But that is how capitalism works guys!  

Liar Liar! Nazi Pants on Fire!

 

So I was watching an annotated clip from Abby Phillips' CNN panel show.  and as an aside.  The format is part of the national problem.  Either seriously and in real time fact-check the domestic nazi's lies, or you are too substantially validating the communicated lie.

Anyway.  The lie that was being repeated in this clip.  That drug dealers are terrorists.  I bothered to search.  And unfortunately, the specific statute that allows the Federal government to designate terrorists is written recklessly too broad.   And the current administration is taking advantage of that.

Unhinged from objective fact, and reason, and rationality, is how I describe what they are doing with calling ordinary drug dealers terrorists.  See below, how International law defines it.

Big difference.

I am reminded of the Apartheid era issue over the South African law criminalizing being a communist.  Whatever they said was evidence of being a communist, was evidence of being a communist.

Fascism, plain and simple.