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1. White Riot How racism, grievance, resentment and the fear of diminished status came together to fuel violence and mayhem on Jan. 6. By Thomas B. Edsall "There is no question that out-and-out racism and a longing to return to the days of white supremacy were high on the list of motivations of the pro-Trump mob that ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6." — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/opinion/capitol-riot-white-grievance.html ****************** 2. "A senior Federal Reserve official on Tuesday made an unusually direct condemnation of how Black Americans are treated by law enforcement, saying if rioters at the Capitol building last week had been Black, they would not have come out alive. “If those were Black militants, armed militants, storming the U.S. Capitol, I think they’d all be dead right now,” Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said at one of a series of events that the Fed system has been hosting on racism and the economy. “That is the most stark example of racism and disparities in our society." — https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/12/federal-reserve-official-capitol-riots-racism-458349

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea must by skibum's definition be both a democracy and a republic --can't be an authoritarian state. Because as we all know words always have the exact same meaning in every context and all throughout history 😄😄 Like Sidney Powell and Lin Wood ski only practices in the court of the absurd

"Stripe Inc. will no longer process payments for President Trump’s campaign website following last week’s riot at the Capitol, according to people familiar with the matter. The financial-technology company handles card payments for millions of online businesses and e-commerce platforms, including Mr. Trump’s campaign website and online fundraising apparatus. Stripe is cutting off the president’s campaign account for violating its policies against encouraging violence, the people said." — https://www.wsj.com/articles/stripe-stops-processing-payments-for-trump-campaign-website-11610319116 Parler: Good riddance to websites for insurrectionists and those who are willing to betray democratic principles for their personal emotional satisfaction and selfish motives. Move to Brazil. See if Bolsanaro will welcome will welcome you 😄😄

What a moving personal statement from Arnold. As a proud 'normie' and liberal I'm supposed to be part of the 'hate America' crowd and a failure as a patriot unlike those Magats who pretend to be patriots only when it suit their selfish desires. Guess I'm not a cynical, fearful white nationalist God-fearin' wannabe American fascist so I can't understand their twisted reasoning. Newsflash: "Stripe Inc. will no longer process payments for President Trump’s campaign website following last week’s riot at the Capitol, according to people familiar with the matter. The financial-technology company handles card payments for millions of online businesses and e-commerce platforms, including Mr. Trump’s campaign website and online fundraising apparatus. Stripe is cutting off the president’s campaign account for violating its policies against encouraging violence, the people said." — https://www.wsj.com/articles/stripe-stops-processing-payments-for-trump-campaign-website-11610319116 I wholeheartedly approve this move. About time we stop babysitting this defective and dangerous personality by cutting him off from $$ and executive power. Just like other countries worked to rid themselves of authoritarian strongmen and those who supported and enabled them.

25 "^ I don't think he's going to run again actually I believe he will disappear after the inauguration and he'll hide from all of the lawsuits and bill collectors that will be chasing him I might be wrong but I don't think he will be around after 1/20 that's my bet." I wish but not likely. He may not run or succeed but he's going to get even with those he believes screwed him by not remaining loyal and winning him another term so he could grift more from the gullible citizens who supported him. In 2005, Donald Trump flew to Colorado to give a motivational talk at Loveland's Bixpo 2005 Conference. “I have to tell you about losers,” Trump told the audience. “I love losers because they make me feel so good about myself.” AND ***“I love getting even when I get screwed by someone—yes, it is true…Always get even. When you are in business you need to get even with people who screw you. You need to screw them back fifteen times harder…go for the jugular, attack them in spades!”*** [“I love losers because they make me feel good about myself”: Tony Kindelspire, “‘The Donald’ Makes an Appearance at Loveland Bixpo.” Daily Times-Call (Longmont, CO), September 15, 2005.] That's been his 'philosophy' lifelong..not gonna change now.

⬆️impeachhment seems better than these endings but I'm not an antisocial-narcissistic character disorder like donny --- maybe he'd prefer a 'heroes death' 😄 The Authoritarian Playbook has no chapter on failure. It does not foresee the leader’s own people turning against him, from military men to young people he indoctrinated ... It has no pages on how to deal with becoming a national disgrace... Its discussions of how to control minds and exploit bodies do not extend to the deterioration of the leader’s own. Aging and the ebbing of virile powers is difficult for leaders whose “entire sense of self is bound up in being revered,” ... For the strongman, such outcomes are unthinkable and yet ever-present. They fuel behaviors that make him feel safer and brush away thoughts of mortality. That might mean persecuting more enemies, firing more truth-tellers, hoarding more women and riches, or consulting astrologers (many are superstitious) about his fate and his legacy. ... Trump’s desire to stay in office indefinitely reflected the same fear of meeting a bad end, losing immunity from prosecution, or becoming a nobody. “You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you,” said the president, who showed familiarity with the anxieties about irrelevance that spur authoritarians’ demands for loyalty and attention, especially in the end stage of rule. It’s not surprising that most authoritarians leave office involuntarily. They are supremely ill equipped to handle the downward arc of leadership and life. They have trouble abandoning personal traits like hubris, aggression, and greed that served them to stay in power, even when these become self-defeating. More [strongman] rulers are toppled by elites than by popular revolutions, especially in situations of economic or military distress. While they may last longer than other kinds of authoritarians, 80 percent of them are booted out of office eventually. Mussolini was mortal enough to the Communist partisans who captured him and his lover Petacci on April 27, 1945, and shot them the next day. On April 29, their bodies were taken to Milan’s Piazza Loreto, where someone with a sense of gallows humor placed a scepter in Mussolini’s hands. ... Now Italians paid him back for his betrayal of their trust, urinating on his corpse and beating it until the famous face was almost unrecognizable. To end the spectacle and allow more people to see he was really dead, the bodies of Mussolini and Petacci, along with those of other Fascist officials, were suspended from a gas station before being taken to the morgue. On Hitler’s birthday, April 20, the Soviets bombed Berlin as the Allies surrounded the capital. Days later, the fashion house of Annemarie Heise received a request for a couture dress, which was delivered under fire to the Führerbunker. Eva Braun wore it with Ferragamo black suede shoes at her wedding on April 29, the same day that Hitler heard the news of Il Duce’s death and macabre display. On April 30, he and Braun took cyanide, and he shot himself in the head. Fulfilling his desires that his death not become a “spectacle,” aides incinerated their bodies in the bunker’s garden. Hitler escaped Mussolini’s public humiliation, but his ashes, taken by the Red Army, ended up the property of the Communists he had so hated. Exile was inconceivable to Gaddafi, who at first was stunned by events so at odds with the state propaganda about his popularity that he had come to believe. “All my people love me,” he told CNN’s Christine Amanpour early in the conflict. “They will die to protect me.” As the uprising intensified, his shock turned to rage. Consistent with the strongman mentality, he saw the revolution as a personal betrayal. “I am not going to leave this land,” he told Libyans on February 22, vowing to “cleanse Libya . . . house by house, alley by alley, and individual by individual.” ... Gaddafi’s death resembled Hussein’s and Mussolini’s rather than the Führer’s. On October 20, NATO bombs destroyed much of Gaddafi’s convoy as he tried to reach his native village. National Liberation Army fighters found him hiding in a sewage pipe and dragged him out of the earth. “What did I do to you?” Gaddafi cried as he was beaten and shot multiple times. His body was taken to a cold storage room in Misrata for display to the public. Some Libyans drove hundreds of miles to see with their own eyes that he was dead. From: Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Nov 2020, W. W. Norton & Company My favorite is Mussolini's ending. Imagine that happening to trump and melania and maybe the adult kids 😂

⬆️⬆️ to really play-act SJG, spice, you need to develop a full-blown delusional org😊

Some people initially recover but experience recurrence of some symptoms in the long term, such as bouts of otherwise unexplained fatigue or episodic headaches of a type they had not had prior to initial infection. You didn't mention this in your report so I assume none of these folks had longer term symptom return. Can you confirm this?

"From what I could tell, Lasorda seemed like he loved the game and had fun with it." That seems to be the gist of the Times articles about his death

nicespice: "The testosterone lifeboat forum is posted on SJG’s profile" SJG openly advertised his [then] new site here on many forum posts. Of all his posts there the following are the most revealing because they are the most openly personal. [Remember how adamantly SJG refused to reveal some personal info here. Blustering about separating his private, personal life from his 'online self'. "Privacy walls...firewalls, etc."] Here his usual paranoid defenses broke down [briefly] and he shows us his underlying anxious, fearful person: "Apr 3, 2020 at 4:54pm by Admin This shelter in place order hit me like a sledge hammer. How first of all, ***I never take questions about my affairs. I rarely even offer much. But what has just happened forced some changes, so the post is past.*** 1. My public office is gone. 2. My residence is screwed up and will change. My public office was a retail operation I was a principle in. We got shut down by the shelter in place order. My residence was communal. Not good during this kind of an order. So I was offered a chance to hide out in the mountains, in a shack, no electricity, telephone, or internet. But as a that time I though I had COVID-19, I took it, and I slept for over a week. Two weeks there total. Today, I am not sure about COVID-19, but it does not matter. I let people make an in kind buy out of my share in the retail op. They need to marshal their resources to make it pull through. So I will have a new office and a new living space soon. Now I am in a trasitional space, another associate, the people who will make up my organization. Never wanted to live like a bourgeois. Especially not after my divorce. Still inspired by the super cute black girl I was making out with at New Century. So lots are changing, and for the better. I am not alone, I have partners, colleagues, comrades, something I never had while married. [...] Apr 14, 2020 at 5:26pm sjgliveson on Apr 14, 2020 at 5:26pm [...] Manic thinking, it happens some times. Like try to think about X1, but thoughts get invaded by X2, X3, ... Xn. I think what is happening is that one's world view is changing, and so one needs to re-evaluate all kinds of past experiences and plans. I see this as positive. Most extreme time was when I graduated from college, last final exam. Supposedly studied all night, but I was unable to sleep or study. All just thinking. I had always wrote HP Calculator programs to do the math. So I sat down for the 3 hour exam. Had it all done in about 20 minutes. Went around the programs and checked my work by pressing the buttons manually. Looked it all over again. Nothing to do. 40 min past, turned it in. Aced it and got an A for the entire class. BUt the real question was, what was I to do with my life next, and this was what all the manic thinking was about. Everything changed. This corona shelter order, destroyed my living and working set up. New arrangements set, but can't really implement until things go back to normal. SJG" His remaining testosterone posts show the sealing over of this breakdown and rebuilding of his pre-pandemic personality functioning. Lots of intellectualization, sticking mostly with technical stuff.

As of 4hrs ago: Alive..but far from healthy..... "Mr Pingel told media outlets he mistakenly announced Roberts' death based on information he received from her partner. But a call from the hospital confirmed that she was still alive on Monday morning. ***She remains in the ICU in a serious condition, he said. "It does not look good," he told the PA news agency."*** — https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55528352