With historically accurate cyclops, scylla, charybdis, sirens and ghost of Agamemnon…

So much little man energy…

Tell a narcissist that he’s the most important person and he’ll follow you anywhere.

It’s always projection for conservatives.

Only because it’s still a bit too soon to push for legislation to prosecute women for backtalking.

…reality isn’t something that can be bound to any one idea or perspective. Reality for, say, a cow is going to be a hell of a lot different from reality for any human being, and neither perspective is any more or less valid than the other

I’m reminded of the anecdote of Samuel Johnson’s reaction to the assertion that idealism could not be refuted - he kicked a large rock and said, “I refute it thus.”

When I said that reality has a left-wing bias, I meant reality. Not the beliefs or subjective experiences that all too many erroneously promote to the position of nominal facts, but actual, demonstrable facts.

Like, for instance, vaccination prevents disease. Climate change is real. Doctors are not part of some international conspiracy to fool you into wasting your money while keeping you away from the miracle cure Ivermectin. Trump lost in 2020. Transgender people are going to continue to exist no matter what your personal opinion of the matter might be. Society is healthier, stronger and more stable when the gap between rich and poor is narrow and everyone is guaranteed food, shelter and medical care. And so on.

In all of those cases and many more, the left wing position corresponds with the actual, demonstrable facts, while the right-wing position does not.

That’s exactly what I meant, and all that I meant.

I get what you’re saying, but I think “reality” actually works better.

Granted that reality is not a conscious agent and thus cannot itself be biased, the simple fact of the matter is that reality corresponds much more with left-wing pronciples and viewpoints than it does right-wing principles and viewpoints.

And yes - it can just as accurately be said that left-wing principles and viewpoints are more rational than right-wing, as demonstrated by the fact that they better accord with reality.

But that puts the focus on the person holding the view, and their rationality or lack thereof, and people (especially right-wingers) tend to dig their heels in when it’s suggested that they’re irrational, and their immediate tendency is to simply attack whoever makes that suggestion rather than actually considering the possibility.

By shifting the focus to reality itself, one is effectively saying, “Hey - don’t look at me. If you have a problem with it, go take it up with reality.”

Reality has a left-wing bias.

Of course it is. When was the last time clean air slipped Trump a big fat bribe?

Just the most recent reminder that the President of the United States is deranged.

Or in other words, sanity.

And with that, it’s complete. The United States is not dying - it’s dead. The government is under the control of open fascists, the rule of law is a thing of the past, democracy is dead and the Constitution has been wadded up and thrown away.

They’ll be bulldozing corpses into mass graves before long.

It’s as if some notable proportion of humanity suddenly switched to eating nothing but vaguely food-shaped plastic, then a study concluded that that might have negative effects nutritionally.

No shit?

Nobody should ever forget that by leading the DNC efforts to fraudulently nominate Hillary Clinton in 2016, Wasserman Schultz arguably bears more responsibility for the election of Donald Trump than any other person outside of his campaign.

I propose that the acronym DOJ and the names “Department of Justice” and “Justice Department” be entirely eliminated from any and all discussion of the US government.

The entity formerly known as the Department of Justice DOES NOT EXIST. It is wholly and completely gone, and has been replaced by an entirely different entity with an entirely different purpose. That entirely different entity needs an entirely different name - one that better reflects its entirely different purpose.

Maybe Department of Authority Abuse?

Department of Corruption and Malfeasance?

Department of Trump’s Vengeance?

Department of Stop Talking About Epstein?

Department of Assholes?

I’m honestly sort of surprised he didn’t try to stick his hand down her pants.

Doing his bit to serve his real constituency.

And it illustrates the advantages of dealing with a delusional narcissist - once you set aside your tendency toward truth about reality and instead just tell them whatever ridiculous fantasy they want to hear, they’ll go along with anything you say.

I don’t doubt this for even a second.

I can just see him laying on the floor of the Oval Office, pounding his little fists and kicking his little feet and crying, “But I want to expeeeeeeeeeeel him!!”