Good place to invoke the Chotiner-ism!

"I refuse to pretend we're both dumber than we are."

They are going to approve it but with strings attached, i.e bans on funding to facilities that provide trans healthcare and additional restrictions on abortion access.

They'll then message the Democrats into accepting the strings. "Democrats are threatening your healthcare to kill/mutilate babies!"

(6/X) Every time you hit a narcissist, they get weaker. Sometimes they hit you back in some way that hurts you too and IRL it is sometimes best to just avoid the narcissist. But when the narcissist is president, you just have to him him every opportunity you get.

(4/X) "Dems will lose the shutdown because parties in their position aways do" but that only holds with a normal president, not with a narcissistic sociopath like Trump.

There's a tendency to think Trump's personality disorder is all upside but that's not true.

Or regional. I'm in your age bracket and this whole dynamic played a large role in my repression and preventing me from transitioning.

It's not about academics being jerks at all, it's about the recurring mode in which they are jerks.

Sure, except the stereotypes of the two former don't make accusations of being what they are into indictments of themselves.