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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 1d

He doesn't think he's winning unless someone else is losing. And we're the "someone else." I wouldn't put it past him to try to launch the nukes, so he can claim to have "won" the final game.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 1d

And those 400 have cut themselves off from the rest of us, making it much easier for them to see us as an expendable "other." The longer this goes on, the more they'll regard themselves as a separate - superior - species, more deserving of life.

sche.es

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 1d

The answer is simple: Trump just hopped into his medbed and it healed him right up.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 1d

Our chi raises a hellstorm of barking if he so much as suspects that anyone anywhere may be eating.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes, "Three Monkey" Johnson, not seeing, hearing, or speaking about his evil party.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately, most cops appear to feel "threatened" by everything. They're human chihuahuas.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 1d

Once we accepted the crime of eating other sentient beings, our moral decline was assured.

It was a short road from torturing and killing them to torturing and killing each other.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 1d

He figures he stands a better chance of getting Satan's job than God's.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 2d

Like any religion, the magic didn't work because you didn't believe hard enough.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 2d

Fat, jolly and with a raging case of type 2 diabetes from all that sugar.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 3d

It's wording straight out of those "What's your RealAge(TM)" scam websites.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 3d

The biggest risk the oligarchs face is the proles getting sick of them and hauling out the guillotines. They want to cull us before we get the chance.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 3d

A plane that's so tackily decorated it was unsellable, so the Qataris just wanted it gone.

TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 3d

"Kid" "Rock."

TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 3d

Here in Nevada there's such a doctor shortage, I had to sign up with a DO. So far, he's been pretty good and hasn't tried any of his woo woo on me.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 4d

Agreed. Unfortunately, we've created a society that rewards ruthlessness and self-promotion, so sociopaths and narcissists thrive.

TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe so. I also wonder if there's a difference between narcissists who don't get external validation and those (like Trump) who do. I'd guess the latter group totally lose touch with reality, because their boasts magically seems to work out for them. They must start to think they're God.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 4d

While each brag and boast is conscious, the impulse to constantly self-aggrandize is an overwhelming compulsion. So definitely exhausting.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 4d

That's consistent with narcissism. They actually hate themselves and need to constantly puff themselves up to be able to function.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 4d

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11. I give up on the whole sick scam and keep using 17 year old chair I bought on eBay. It causes me daily pain, but nothing like the pain of dealing with these cunts.

Over a year wasted, with nothing to show for it. "health care" my ass.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 4d

(2/3)

6. Multi-month approval process ensues.
7. Annual plan renewal with slightly changed name and benefits.
8. Entire process starts over.
9. Multi-month approval process ensues.
10. End of year deductible and out-of-pocket maximums reset. Chair which would have cost me $0 now costs $8k.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 4d

Adventures in American Healthcare (1/3)

1. Doc prescribes new wheelchair.
2. Insurer requires in-network vendor.
3. Multi-month approval process ensues.
4. Insurer approves chair, but vendor no longer in-network. Huge out-of-pocket cost threatened.
5. New in-network vendor chosen.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 7d

How has he made it to 80 without someone throwing him out a window? I know he's rich and surrounded by security, but even they must get sick of listening into his shit 24/7.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 9d

All the would-be journalism majors became "media studies" majors instead, so they spend more time on hair and makeup than investigation.

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TepidLatte ♿ @tepidlatte.bsky.social · 9d

Thirtt years ago, a joke doing the rounds asked the difference between God and Larry Ellison. The punchline: "God doesn't think he's Larry Ellison."

I'm sure he's even less humble today.