yall are so fucking weird about gnc people. a woman wears a suit and she's "conforming to the patriarchy". a man wears a skirt and he's Secretly A Trans Egg. have you considered It's Fabric
I’m listening to the book Regime Change by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan which is about what they’ve pieced together about the first year of the Tonald Drump presidency and what happened in private from a bunch of interviews they did with people who were in the room in these meetings and whatnot.
Anyways something I didn’t know but is not surprising to me is that apparently Drump at least partially picked his cabinet members based on who he thought looked good on tv.
I’m listening to it instead of reading it btw because I had an audible credit leftover and my dad couldn’t buy it for us to share because it’s already sold out. You can’t get it online right now. But if you’re willing to read the kindle version or listen to the audiobook it’s really interesting.
They kind of do juuuust a little too much editorializing I think in order to give the book a more coherent narrative for a mainstream audience but other than that I think it’s really interesting. Nobody else has this kind of look into what’s going on behind closed doors in that stupid ass whitehouse.
I think this book so far confirms to me what I’ve suspected for a long time.
That being that Drump is actually really good at understanding people and societal norms and actually has a lot of emotional intelligence. He just uses that power for evil.
There also seems to be a lot of infighting in this administration behind the scenes but Drump likes drama so he actually encourages it. It’s known to basically everyone in his inner circle that he’s constantly trying to pit JD Vance and Marco Rubio against each other, trying to get them to compete for his endorsement for president in 2028.
Hearing about how Drump talks to Putin and other dictators also reminds me of how salesmen often fall for common sales tactics.
I also know this isn’t happening but every time a private meeting with him is described, because of the way he’s portrayed in this book I imagine him eating popcorn the entire time. Like he’s looking to be entertained and to make good television.
There’s an incident described in this book where an oil executive describes how they can only drill in this one marshy region of Alaska during the winter when the ground freezes solid enough for them to drive equipment out there and after the meeting Stephen Miller was like okay what do we need to do to get you your oil faster
And the oil executive was like you can’t change the laws of physics man this is an issue out of our control and Stephen Miller was like no really just tell me what you need and we’ll get it done.
Like kissing ass to the point where they’re offering to break the laws of physics I guess.
@anthropologist-on-the-loose get peer-reviewed because your shared experience with the subject of the painting really heightened the emotional impact of this artwork for me ( An impact which was already high tbh. The idea that Pompeii was built by generations, buried by generations, uncovered by generations. What if I just started screaming and never stopped. )
Outdoor in sun perfec t place for president to do speech! Outdoor very warm very soft put old man on green lawn under sun. Put old man in warm sun. no problem ever in warm sun because good view and audience can see long speech. Nice podium outdoor sunny perfect place for old president can trust warm sun to give nice view to President good luck to President. friend sun.
okay so, guy at work, who i find out afterwards is famous at this place for being a sex pest, comes up and starts with what i also learn is his favorite opener to conversations where he’s going to be a sex pest, namely: “Do you know where the term ‘blow job’ comes from?”
and here he made his first fatal error. his moment of hubristic sex pesting. because of course i know where the term blow job comes from, i love learning about sex and the history of sexual terms! i know so much about oral sex that i could write a book on it!
his second error: approaching a little autistic freak with what he intended to be an uncomfortable sex question that would make me feel weird and gross. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I Have Never Misjudged A Man’s Intentions So Incredibly In My Life. because i did not realize he was trying to harass me. because i love talking about sex facts, albeit not usually at work. unless. someone prompts me. my coworkers are the kind of people who are generally online enough to know terms, but not exactly what they mean, and they realized they could ask me a while back and get good answers without the resulting awkwardness because i do not experience shame. i am primed to answer questions like the one he has proposed.
So I Answered It.
and well, really, what happened is that I began answering it, then realized the answer required a bit more context. I mean, you can’t just say “oh, well, the term first appears in writing in the 1940s” without first explaining that ‘blow’ by itself already had sexual connotations for centuries, and then, really, are we talking about the origin of the term or the origin of the act. and well we have a ton of literature and art depicting fellatio throughout human history, did you know a lot of it was men performing it on other men? oh, that reminds me, there are a multitude of latin words for oral sex performed on penises, and hold on let me quote you the entirety of catullus 16 from memory and explain it’s fascinating insights into the roman world of homosexuality-
i do not know how to turn any of this ^ off, by the way. i’m sure some people out there have a switch that disables their infodumping mid-speech. i do not. and i also didn’t realize he wasn’t looking for a real answer until my other coworker explained so hours later. he could not excuse himself from the conversation he started, and i made a conservative man at least 30 years older than me to listen to my catullus recitation. i will sodomize and facefuck you, indeed.
anyway, i think i got a bad grade in being sexually harassed. my pro tip is maybe don’t start with what a very autistic individual will misconstrue as you earnestly asking them to explain sex to you. the special interest shield will cause splashback damage.
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