A treble-walled oversize tank, for starters.

And, obviously, 24-7 monitoring. None of that orange puss outside the berm.

And what's worse, it's been allowed to happen. Every day it gets worse. The November elections are too far away to save us. Action is needed now to stop this evisceration of our democracy.

I am really not liking this white trash comparison

That sucks all of the joy out of everything.

Characteristics of Psychopaths
1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Completely void of conscience and empathy
3. Adept at manipulating others
4. Willing to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willing to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willing to use force, intimidation, and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willing to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Completely lacking any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions cause
11. Rationalize their own immoral behavior
12. Attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own bad conduct
13. Will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Display utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of others
15. Exhibit pathological lying, will compulsively say anything without any concern for the truth to advance their own agendas
16. Able to fake normal human emotions and empathy with the exception of joy, laughter
17. Have a distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Totally fail to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strongly believe that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

https://psychopathyis.org/stats/

is because it's coming from the right wing and targeting the Mr. trump. The very labels they cry over when directed at them are the very labels they themselves use when convenience calls for it.

are generally in his cult. Trump tells them they're intelligent and it's those educated "elites" who are the problem.

P.T. Barnum (or David Hannum) was correct.

The protestant religions of England have a habit of considering themselves "the correct" religion I don't know what goes on in the rest of Europe, but I sort of suspect that it's similar.

It's more than a bit amazing how they took Luther's Many ideas about the need for reformation and thenbroke it into fragments around picking an choosing amid bits of ideology that distinguish between the bad "them" and the good "us

My heritage on my mother's side is from Britain, Scotland, and Ireland so I'm one of the folks in the stone soup commenting on what we swim amongst, rather than someone saying you've got to make the social soup with (or without) rutabagas.

Liberalism is characterized with tolerance, and the US seriously needs to lean into all the tolerance that can be mustered.

We need to move away from special "entitling" rules of the haughty "correct", and move toward peaceful coexistence among the "prickly pears" who can recognize that an enforced homogeneity by the "Social Masters" is actually not a good thing, but a suppressive thing that holds us back from social progress