When the going gets tough...

Canugghead

dmchicago said:

Happy retirement, Karen 😂
Edit: and Kitty

HeavyG

This is one of those "find the differences" kind of puzzles...

SamIAm2

I'll play - the Howler isn't wearing a pendant.

nolaegghead

I can’t tell the difference.

Legume

fishlessman

Marjorie is a compassionate conservative republican. Catch up😁

Botch

The Zoom folks are missing out on an opportunity.  I don't know how many cameras are used in the SotU, but wouldn't it be cool to set up your computer screen to feature the President with the Vice and Speaker in the background, plus 6 or 9 more panes that you could "select your congressman".  
I wouldn't call it "political theater", it was much too embarrassing for that.  But fascinating (and telling) video nonetheless.    

JohnInCarolina

oops

JohnInCarolina

JFC

HeavyG

The GOP just wants to bring back the good old days...

Gotta maximize profits!!

dbCooper

One way to fund a political campaign...

https://cuencahighlife.com/photos-on-adults-only-website-help-elect-model-as-first-female-mayor-of-guayas-province-city/

Canugghead

Wonder if a stormy campaign like that would work elsewhere 🤣

HeavyG

There was an Italian porn star elected to the Italian parliament a few decades back.

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1625549837763547167?s=20&t=GdS11-xC0tW7l9Na_OnAQA

dmchicago

last call vibes.

Canugghead

Any chance one or more of those flying objects came from her backyard neighbour?

JohnInCarolina

dmchicago said:

last call vibes.

The comments are great.  “You can take the girl out of the trailer park…”

lousubcap

Hang on for the stereotype comments...

But "the fruit never falls far from the tree." 

Edit for some associated intellectual insight-

"In the 1950s, the psychologist John Bowlby coined the term attachment to refer to the bond formed between an infant and its caregiver. He argued that this formative connection would go on to shape how an infant related to and bonded with other people for the rest of its life. His theory eventually led to the establishment of three different attachment “styles”: securely attached (describing people who are generally open and trusting); anxiously attached (describing people who “long for closeness but are paranoid that others will hurt them, and are thus preoccupied with validation,” as Faith puts it in her story); avoidantly attached (describing those who, “driven by the same fear of abandonment, keep others at arm’s length”); and disorganized, an honorary fourth type which combines anxious and avoidant traits and is a more recent addition to the taxonomy.

Attachment theory was once the provenance of psychology 101 lectures and perhaps also the psychotherapist’s couch. But today, the framework’s tidy behavioral-identity labels make it a natural candidate for online virality. Attachment theory has crossed the threshold into Gen Z memedom: In a Vox article published earlier this week, the writer Allie Volpe cited an attachment-theory TikTok that’s been viewed nearly 6 million times. That 37-second clip depicts a woman’s descent through a cascade of imagined worst-case scenarios after she wakes up to find that her boyfriend hasn’t texted good morning—“what dating someone with an anxious attachment style can look like,” the text above her head reads. If the video’s more than 3,600 viewer comments are any indication, the sketch strikes a chord.

This new popularity has brought with it a serious misconception about the framework: Many people seem to believe “that one’s style is set in stone during childhood, determined by connections with early caregivers, and doomed to play out in every relationship thereafter,” Faith writes. But the reality is much more complex.

In 2021, The New York Times attributed attachment theory’s renewed spotlight to the 2010 self-help book Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—And Keep—Love.(Anecdotally, I can vouch for this book as the catalyst for at least one of my fellow elder-Millennial friends’ recent, enthusiastic preoccupation with the three main types.) But even the book’s authors are inclined to position attachment as more of a fluid tendency than a hard-set trait—as Faith explains, a “working model” that you’re constantly updating:

Amir Levine, a neuroscientist, Columbia University psychiatrist, and co-author of Attached, told me you can think of an attachment orientation as a working model of the world: a set of beliefs that are constantly put to the test. Those beliefs stem largely from the interactions you’ve already had—but your subsequent interactions keep shaping your expectations, which means that your working model can keep evolving.

In an excerpt, published in The Atlantic, from her 2022 book, Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—And Keep—Friends, the psychologist Marisa G. Franco elaborated on how our attachment styles can change based on each new relationship that comes into our lives:

We develop our attachment styles based in part on our early relationships with our caregivers … But attachment isn’t all our parents’ fault. Although early experiences with caregivers establish expectations about how we’ll be treated, these expectations likely evolve in other relationships. And they shape those relationships in turn.

None of this is to say that our formative relationships don’t stay with us. Some negative experiences, unfortunately, may stick with us forever. But as Faith points out, they aren’t determinative of our ability to form new connections. She writes, “You’ll likely meet people you can count on, and hopefully you’ll start to believe that you can count on yourself too.”

Quite a Tuesday ride-and I'm only in LEO.

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1626382493480878080?s=20

lousubcap

^^^^ How sweet it is!  Not like a revelation but now out there.

HeavyG

Both Hannity and Carlson have admitted in a few other court cases that most of what they say is bullsh!t. Not surprising that the election claims were any different.

Dominion (and separately Smartmatic) should deservedly be awarded the billions they are suing for and I'd hope the court would throw in a few extra billion in punitive damages (if that might apply in this case - dunno).

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1627337356540801027?s=20

I’m sure Marjorie has a lot of black friends!

JohnInCarolina

lousubcap

Anything for the publicity.  Maybe she is wound up having read how she was gullible in the Fox News, "Stop the Steal and "The Big Lie" propaganda machine. 

dmchicago

She certainly understands divorce.

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1627741842056876037?s=20

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/cam_joseph/status/1628080030633930772?s=20

HeavyG

https://twitter.com/JoJoFromJerz/status/1628101118747082758?s=20

nolaegghead

Pretty soon rainbows will be removed from physics textbooks because they brainwash kids into wearing boas, believing in unicorns or whatever the fear du jour.

Legume

Idaho is trying to criminalize administration of mRNA vaccines.  Would those be the ones TFG fast tracked ?