Ugh. I am so sorry you had to deal with this human tick — but it does offer the proof of your point: it's envy and inadequacy driving so much of MAGA, not politics and not even, really, beliefs or any kind of future vision.
From 2016-2017 to today, media outlets have pushed stories about "understanding the Trump voter," and demanded that all of us do the same. "No thanks" then, "Hell no" now. It soon became obvious to rational America that racism and white supremacy, not economics, was a driving factor in the MAGAt cult. But you're correct, TC, they're The Seething Inadequates.
Of course, and Trump and his fawning media are claiming the country is actually being run by Obama because Biden's got dementia. Got to keep those racists agitated at all costs lest they lose interest in showing up for rallies and coughing up dough for Trump's causes and merch.
Trump fulfills the often quoted definition of an alcoholic or drug addict as "an egomaniac with an inferiority complex." He's also a bully, a cry baby, a cretin, a coward and a loser as you point out. All these descriptions add up to Thom Hartmann's scary metaphor in his last post calling Trump, "the poisonous snake slithering around under the table" terrorizing all the guests at the dinner party. Speaking as one of the "radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country," I think it's time to stop complaining about this nasty pest and eliminate him along with the entire fascist GOP that's so enamored with this "human tick" as Jan M. Flynn calls the Orange Menace. That's the next right move for we, the people if we intend to preserve the crumbling foundations of our Constitutional Republic. I'm also one of those military veteran "suckers" that draft-dodger Trump rails against and even though I'm now an old man, I'd sign up for duty tomorrow morning if our Commander-in-Chief decided to make a revolutionary move and go after all the insurrectionists still at large. It makes me sick when this country's major media treats a loose stool like Donald Trump as a legitimate candidate for office.
what you're saying reminds me of a conversation I had during the 2016 campaign. my "friend upstairs" was talking to a genuine "loser" friend. this guy is a never-remotely-successful "screenwriter" whose major claim to fame is that he's the guy who turned Heath Ledger on to heroin. great work, right? my friend had been trying to tell me that his "very reasonable" guy was having "genuine doubts" about voting for the "that bitch of a corrupt Democrat." I was feeling ornery enough to ask if I could talk to him. so I got on with the schmuck and told him that I had a way of saving us both a lot of time and trouble by asking him one question. the question was "do you consider D***** T**** a viable or even plausible presidential candidate?" his answer was "I think I'll just have to hold my nose and vote for T****." my response was triumphant. "BEAUTIFUL," I said, "thank you SO MUCH. you see?...you just saved me a lot of energy and grief because now I know you're a fucking asshole and I don't have to waste my time on you." I NEVER say that kind of thing, but saying it just felt so GREAT and I figured I'd also gotten a good story in about a half minute.
my upstairs friend thought I behaved very badly. in fact, pretty much everyone to whom I told my "good story" maintained (and continue to maintain) that I was the asshole for being so rude and childish. and some of these people know very well when I am, in fact, being an asshole because they've known me a very long time.
but at no point have I ever agreed with them. good manners are a lovely thing, but in their place.
in 2016, my response to poor George (that's this schmuck's first name) might have seemed a little extreme; it was also a LOT prescient. and, from this vantage point, ridiculously mild.
People were amazed when I cut off friends I had known for years, after they turned up in 2016 with red hats. I went out to Chino that spring to do a presentation at their First Saturday event. When I saw the majority of the crowd was wearing red hats, I turned to the museum staffer in charge of the event and told him he'd need to get a different speaker, because I wasn't going to be there when the event began. As I left, I told him "Don't plan on me returning." I haven't been out there since, and I had been a regular presence out there for 40 years. The fact that after Ed Maloney died in 2015 (founder of the museum), the atmosphere changed for what I consider the worse helped with the decision.
So long as they believe in the Constitution, the rule of law and our constitutional democratic republic, they're golden. The laws of aerodynamics also apply to politics: the eagle can't fly with just one wing.
I’m sorry you and others have had to face these morons, but also thrilled that you can and will stand up to them, since you have the ability to do so. Take a few of these goons very publicly and seriously down, and the behavior will taper off.
Envy of those they perceived as being given success they were prevented from achieving, yet in reality, they were never prevented from achieving anything, nor did they appreciate the effort put forth by those who did succeed. Well , that’s mostly true, but definitely not true with male or white privilege, or “legacy” admissions, which typically favor these types. I remember these self-absorbed whiners from high school, from college, from professional school, in sports, and in my daily work. I’m a physician because it was handed to me? No, I worked my ass off, then and since. No, they will never learn, they just continue to feel entitled for absolutely no reason on this planet.
one of the reasons I love doctors as much as I do is the reason you mentioned: every doctor got to be a doctor by busting his ass. consequently, every doctor has to KNOW a shitload of stuff.
it takes a great deal of bad shit to happen before I'm ready to dismiss a physician as incompetent. but then you come across folks like those "Doctors for America" (the ones whose logo is the American flag draped over the caduceus) or the Surgeon General of Florida. or the several Major Dick Psychiatrists I met during an internship at Payne Whitney, who seemed to think their job description included insulting social workers on a daily basis. many years later, a psychiatrist friend who'd also worked there, told me that at the end of med school, the Psychiatrists were considered socially inferior to everyone but Dermatologists. this was true in Payne Whitney...until a patient showed up with crabs. I quite enjoyed watching the shrinks shrink when they began to consider the implications of coming home and trying to explain what is ordinarily considered to be a sexually-transmitted condition to their significant others.
whatever I say about the wretched vibe at Payne Whitney, I like to add that Allen Frances was always the exception...a really good guy.
The Seething Inadequate picked on the wrong guy when he picked on you TC. “And he’s been dead silent ever since”! Wow! The lesson was finally delivered!
So glad you "took on" your harasser because they are usually the type who expect their mere aggression to cow you. We've got fight or flight instincts just like our lower primate pals. Give the stalkers and harassers the fight and they'll take to flight. You proved this to be true.
I seem to recall this episode, but can't remember the guy's name. Then again, there were so many of those so-called "patriots" in our scale modeling hobby that I stopped going to IPMS chapter meetings. I'm glad nothing came of his threats and you were able to stay safe.
If I envy anything about you, it's that you can get a model built much faster than I can, and to a high standard! I never could get one done in less than a month.
Excellent writeup today TC. I can't believe you had to go through that shit. He sounds like someone else we know and I hate to name. It's a wonder he hasn't had a stroke yet. His life is so screwed up and he just keeps going like the EverReady bunny. Just some real sad, sick people. I never knew there were that many of them out there. WTF?
it's funny...whenever people talk about TFF, they tend to mention all his "energy."
not me.
all we ever see of the product of smoke, mirrors, lots of Adderall and god knows what else. I will say that last night, they seem to have found a wonderfully effective cocktail; today in court, it had worn off.
Loved watching Hunter Biden & his attorney sitting right there while these yahoos are accusing him of ignoring a suppoena! Sure did give the Dems a lot to say.
Any one who has been around a child in the terrible twos recognizes the behavior. The need to get his way or else a meltdown. Even denying things he said that we were witnesses to. 14th Amendment Section 3 is so clear yet we are holding our breath for fear manbaby will get his way yet again.
Yet it’s politics that they will use as a vehicle to lord their smirking evil over people who still have some humanity. It’s hard to believe the lengths these losers will go to to one up somebody they are honed in on. Chump is the loser leader who can fix it all for them. Payback time from the halls of government. You are one powerful enemy for those who think stalking and stealthy action are great fun and games. I don’t want to find out if I have the strength to respond to such targeted evil. And evil is what you faced and what many others face in this climate of payback for being a competent human being. Pandora’s box has been flung open, how to corral the monsters that have been enabled and entitled?
"rump has had his nose pressed to the glass door that will never be opened for him by the 'elites' on the other side. His envy of his betters has powered him like a personal nuclear reactor. Trump gains his followers from the fact that he is actually the Biggest Loser of the bunch of them. His envy of his betters is theirs." Excellent. What a NIGHTMARE you went through/are/will be going through! Anyone who dares to speak up -- Rick Wilson, as you mention -- is threatened. Mitt Romney said that almost all of the repugnicant Senators who voted against impeachment admitted to doing so BECAUSE THEY FEARED FOR THEIR, AND THEIR FAMILIES', SAFETY!!! And they are supposed to "lead" us?!!!
They are out there, aren't they.....? Sorry you had to deal with these once and future incels. I had a much, much milder encounter many decades ago. I did the technical research for an Airfix armor kit, the 1/32 "Rommel's 'GREIF' halftrack" back in the 1970s. Airfix told me some guy over there claimed Airfix had stolen his drawings to make the kit and demanded royalties. They had to go to court with my original plans on vellum to prove they had not "stolen" anything. I got off easy.
I laughed out loud. I deal with people like this the way I used to work on a car - try for the simplest solution first; escalate as necessary to achieve success.
I had a pretty good idea you were NOT gonna be on the side that considered ME the ASSHOLE. I was even wondering if you KNEW poor George based on the hints I provided. I realize this speculation indicates that I'm a Hollywood rube, since there are probably fifty thousand guys out there who answer the same description, minus (I suppose) the Heath Ledger dope thing, which didn't work out so well. for either of them.
Ugh. I am so sorry you had to deal with this human tick — but it does offer the proof of your point: it's envy and inadequacy driving so much of MAGA, not politics and not even, really, beliefs or any kind of future vision.
Green money and green envy
From 2016-2017 to today, media outlets have pushed stories about "understanding the Trump voter," and demanded that all of us do the same. "No thanks" then, "Hell no" now. It soon became obvious to rational America that racism and white supremacy, not economics, was a driving factor in the MAGAt cult. But you're correct, TC, they're The Seething Inadequates.
Of course, and Trump and his fawning media are claiming the country is actually being run by Obama because Biden's got dementia. Got to keep those racists agitated at all costs lest they lose interest in showing up for rallies and coughing up dough for Trump's causes and merch.
Exactly. They especially hate accomplished and successful blacks. Obamas were an affront to the racists idiots in 2008
Trump fulfills the often quoted definition of an alcoholic or drug addict as "an egomaniac with an inferiority complex." He's also a bully, a cry baby, a cretin, a coward and a loser as you point out. All these descriptions add up to Thom Hartmann's scary metaphor in his last post calling Trump, "the poisonous snake slithering around under the table" terrorizing all the guests at the dinner party. Speaking as one of the "radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country," I think it's time to stop complaining about this nasty pest and eliminate him along with the entire fascist GOP that's so enamored with this "human tick" as Jan M. Flynn calls the Orange Menace. That's the next right move for we, the people if we intend to preserve the crumbling foundations of our Constitutional Republic. I'm also one of those military veteran "suckers" that draft-dodger Trump rails against and even though I'm now an old man, I'd sign up for duty tomorrow morning if our Commander-in-Chief decided to make a revolutionary move and go after all the insurrectionists still at large. It makes me sick when this country's major media treats a loose stool like Donald Trump as a legitimate candidate for office.
what you're saying reminds me of a conversation I had during the 2016 campaign. my "friend upstairs" was talking to a genuine "loser" friend. this guy is a never-remotely-successful "screenwriter" whose major claim to fame is that he's the guy who turned Heath Ledger on to heroin. great work, right? my friend had been trying to tell me that his "very reasonable" guy was having "genuine doubts" about voting for the "that bitch of a corrupt Democrat." I was feeling ornery enough to ask if I could talk to him. so I got on with the schmuck and told him that I had a way of saving us both a lot of time and trouble by asking him one question. the question was "do you consider D***** T**** a viable or even plausible presidential candidate?" his answer was "I think I'll just have to hold my nose and vote for T****." my response was triumphant. "BEAUTIFUL," I said, "thank you SO MUCH. you see?...you just saved me a lot of energy and grief because now I know you're a fucking asshole and I don't have to waste my time on you." I NEVER say that kind of thing, but saying it just felt so GREAT and I figured I'd also gotten a good story in about a half minute.
my upstairs friend thought I behaved very badly. in fact, pretty much everyone to whom I told my "good story" maintained (and continue to maintain) that I was the asshole for being so rude and childish. and some of these people know very well when I am, in fact, being an asshole because they've known me a very long time.
but at no point have I ever agreed with them. good manners are a lovely thing, but in their place.
in 2016, my response to poor George (that's this schmuck's first name) might have seemed a little extreme; it was also a LOT prescient. and, from this vantage point, ridiculously mild.
People were amazed when I cut off friends I had known for years, after they turned up in 2016 with red hats. I went out to Chino that spring to do a presentation at their First Saturday event. When I saw the majority of the crowd was wearing red hats, I turned to the museum staffer in charge of the event and told him he'd need to get a different speaker, because I wasn't going to be there when the event began. As I left, I told him "Don't plan on me returning." I haven't been out there since, and I had been a regular presence out there for 40 years. The fact that after Ed Maloney died in 2015 (founder of the museum), the atmosphere changed for what I consider the worse helped with the decision.
So long as they believe in the Constitution, the rule of law and our constitutional democratic republic, they're golden. The laws of aerodynamics also apply to politics: the eagle can't fly with just one wing.
Wish I had said that
Me, too.
I’m sorry you and others have had to face these morons, but also thrilled that you can and will stand up to them, since you have the ability to do so. Take a few of these goons very publicly and seriously down, and the behavior will taper off.
Go undercover to some extent
I think you're on to someting Tom. If you can name it, you can own it. What happened to Rick really pisses me off too.
Envy of those they perceived as being given success they were prevented from achieving, yet in reality, they were never prevented from achieving anything, nor did they appreciate the effort put forth by those who did succeed. Well , that’s mostly true, but definitely not true with male or white privilege, or “legacy” admissions, which typically favor these types. I remember these self-absorbed whiners from high school, from college, from professional school, in sports, and in my daily work. I’m a physician because it was handed to me? No, I worked my ass off, then and since. No, they will never learn, they just continue to feel entitled for absolutely no reason on this planet.
one of the reasons I love doctors as much as I do is the reason you mentioned: every doctor got to be a doctor by busting his ass. consequently, every doctor has to KNOW a shitload of stuff.
it takes a great deal of bad shit to happen before I'm ready to dismiss a physician as incompetent. but then you come across folks like those "Doctors for America" (the ones whose logo is the American flag draped over the caduceus) or the Surgeon General of Florida. or the several Major Dick Psychiatrists I met during an internship at Payne Whitney, who seemed to think their job description included insulting social workers on a daily basis. many years later, a psychiatrist friend who'd also worked there, told me that at the end of med school, the Psychiatrists were considered socially inferior to everyone but Dermatologists. this was true in Payne Whitney...until a patient showed up with crabs. I quite enjoyed watching the shrinks shrink when they began to consider the implications of coming home and trying to explain what is ordinarily considered to be a sexually-transmitted condition to their significant others.
whatever I say about the wretched vibe at Payne Whitney, I like to add that Allen Frances was always the exception...a really good guy.
The Seething Inadequate picked on the wrong guy when he picked on you TC. “And he’s been dead silent ever since”! Wow! The lesson was finally delivered!
So glad you "took on" your harasser because they are usually the type who expect their mere aggression to cow you. We've got fight or flight instincts just like our lower primate pals. Give the stalkers and harassers the fight and they'll take to flight. You proved this to be true.
I seem to recall this episode, but can't remember the guy's name. Then again, there were so many of those so-called "patriots" in our scale modeling hobby that I stopped going to IPMS chapter meetings. I'm glad nothing came of his threats and you were able to stay safe.
If I envy anything about you, it's that you can get a model built much faster than I can, and to a high standard! I never could get one done in less than a month.
Excellent writeup today TC. I can't believe you had to go through that shit. He sounds like someone else we know and I hate to name. It's a wonder he hasn't had a stroke yet. His life is so screwed up and he just keeps going like the EverReady bunny. Just some real sad, sick people. I never knew there were that many of them out there. WTF?
it's funny...whenever people talk about TFF, they tend to mention all his "energy."
not me.
all we ever see of the product of smoke, mirrors, lots of Adderall and god knows what else. I will say that last night, they seem to have found a wonderfully effective cocktail; today in court, it had worn off.
"energy"?? The orange sadist looks like a bloated balloon that is losing air rapidly.
Hopefully.
And the SOONER the better!
Loved watching Hunter Biden & his attorney sitting right there while these yahoos are accusing him of ignoring a suppoena! Sure did give the Dems a lot to say.
Any one who has been around a child in the terrible twos recognizes the behavior. The need to get his way or else a meltdown. Even denying things he said that we were witnesses to. 14th Amendment Section 3 is so clear yet we are holding our breath for fear manbaby will get his way yet again.
Trump reportedly had a terrible twos - his mother was too ill to care, so his meltdowns were, and still are, successful.
Yet it’s politics that they will use as a vehicle to lord their smirking evil over people who still have some humanity. It’s hard to believe the lengths these losers will go to to one up somebody they are honed in on. Chump is the loser leader who can fix it all for them. Payback time from the halls of government. You are one powerful enemy for those who think stalking and stealthy action are great fun and games. I don’t want to find out if I have the strength to respond to such targeted evil. And evil is what you faced and what many others face in this climate of payback for being a competent human being. Pandora’s box has been flung open, how to corral the monsters that have been enabled and entitled?
"rump has had his nose pressed to the glass door that will never be opened for him by the 'elites' on the other side. His envy of his betters has powered him like a personal nuclear reactor. Trump gains his followers from the fact that he is actually the Biggest Loser of the bunch of them. His envy of his betters is theirs." Excellent. What a NIGHTMARE you went through/are/will be going through! Anyone who dares to speak up -- Rick Wilson, as you mention -- is threatened. Mitt Romney said that almost all of the repugnicant Senators who voted against impeachment admitted to doing so BECAUSE THEY FEARED FOR THEIR, AND THEIR FAMILIES', SAFETY!!! And they are supposed to "lead" us?!!!
They are out there, aren't they.....? Sorry you had to deal with these once and future incels. I had a much, much milder encounter many decades ago. I did the technical research for an Airfix armor kit, the 1/32 "Rommel's 'GREIF' halftrack" back in the 1970s. Airfix told me some guy over there claimed Airfix had stolen his drawings to make the kit and demanded royalties. They had to go to court with my original plans on vellum to prove they had not "stolen" anything. I got off easy.
not that it's remotely likely to be an issue, but remind me not to piss you off, Tom.
EVER.
I laughed out loud. I deal with people like this the way I used to work on a car - try for the simplest solution first; escalate as necessary to achieve success.
I had a pretty good idea you were NOT gonna be on the side that considered ME the ASSHOLE. I was even wondering if you KNEW poor George based on the hints I provided. I realize this speculation indicates that I'm a Hollywood rube, since there are probably fifty thousand guys out there who answer the same description, minus (I suppose) the Heath Ledger dope thing, which didn't work out so well. for either of them.