BOY, she’s one tough little narcissist.
Alas, story is false.
"Through my tenure on the House Armed Services Committee,” she wrote, “I had the chance to travel to many countries to meet with world leaders.
" I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. I’m sure he underestimated me, having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants (I’d been a children’s pastor, after all).”
"We look for loneliness inside our heads when its source lies all around us, in the destruction of collective life, the erosion of communal bonds, the ruin of civil society, the squeezing of public spaces"
What #Hester said about #Abbott is absolutely disgusting and unacceptable - still: what else can you expect from a man who’s donated £10million to a political party which is deeply corrupted and riddled with #Racism, #Islamophobia, (real) #AntiSemitism, #Misogyny, illegal #DrugUse, #Narcissism and any number of other unmentionables?
A few years ago, Obama humiliated Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner. People laughed AT Trump. He was publicly humiliated. His racist blood was boiling. Tonight, Jimmy Kimmel publicly humiliated Trump at the Oscar’s. The audience cheered when he said it was “past your jail time”. I wish more people would do that. It’s Trump’s weakness. #Oscars #TrumpForPrison
Good for Andrew Scott, halting his "Hamlet" soliloquy speech until a man in the audience put away his laptop, on which he was typing away while the play unfolded, totally oblivious to the fact that Scott had halted the performance as the oaf typed.
What are people thinking?
Obviously, that they are the only people in the world, and no one else matters.
The idea of #smalldickenergy does not really address the issues surrounding the toxic online presence of Andrew Tate.
As an extremely popular online personality, Andrew Tate is nonetheless a damaged person. But he is speaking to millions of other damaged young men and boys. He is a product of (and producer of) capitalist objectification and socio-normative expectation under the guise of "being a man". He exhibits Absent Father Syndrome and needs help. Not that every family needs a father. But the conditions of separation from the father determine the development of the child. Some children however are better off without their father in their lives.
Tate moved to the UK from the USA with his mother after his parents divorced, when he was 11. He was the oldest of three children. His mother raised them alone, while she worked full days in a school dining room in Luton, England (a town where only 12% of boys read books - https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/dec/17/boys-literacy-schools-ks3). Tate rarely saw his father, the Chess Grandmaster Emory Tate, who died in 2015 in the USA at the age of 56.
Today, Andrew Tate is 37 years old. He currently has 7.1 million followers ( up from 3.4 million a year ago) on X (he was banned but Elon Musk, another trauma merchant of masculine identity, had him reinstated when he bought the company), where he peddles advice on how to "escape the work consume die cycle" and "escape the Matrix". He also runs "Hustler's University" where he sells courses, promotes the "War Room" (a male social network that costs $5000 to join) and manages various OnlyFans sites (he's a pimp). He still lives in Romania (amid allegations of rape) and is worth $370 million as of September 2023 (it was $350 million in December 2022). On 29 December 2022, he was arrested in Romania along with brother Tristan on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organised crime group, prosecutors said. The investigation and charges are ongoing.
When a young man matures without positive male role models and under traumatic circumstances, this can result in violent reactions to stress and emotions, resistance and hate towards authority, aggression, early rates of sexual encounters, transference of the mother's negative talk about the father, and pressured ideologies to become the breadwinner (1). This is precisely how Andrew Tate expresses himself.
In a podcast, Andrew has talked about his mother Eileen. He said, “When I first started making money, I retired my mother. I called her up and said, look, because she was still a dinner lady, she was washing dishes and I said fuck that off.” He further added, “Quit, I’ll triple your money. You stay home. And when I told people I did that, they go, you don’t think it’s weird that you look after your own mother? Like she’s a grown-up.” It is easy to see Tate is not interested in empowering or liberating his mother.
Andrew concluded by saying, “Isn’t that as old as the human time where the sons make money to look after the parent? Isn’t that the way it’s supposed to be? I don’t know. I thought that was normal. To me, it was like the western attitude towards the whole thing was so skewed”.
The controversial figure went on to say, “I usually saw my dad about once a year when he would visit and I remember one time they had a massive argument.”
There is a crisis of masculinity in many western cultures. It's more often constructed as a (very confused and contradictory) ideology by 'men' like Tate. The results are misogyny, violence, hate, objectification (and dehumanization) of women, and more.
@didgebaba Like it often is with populist type ideas, people like Tate get ”the feeling” right but the reasons behind the problems completely wrong.
Most commonly the slip already starts with looking for #blame instead of reasons. Next it goes into saviour-complex #narcissism. And finally, action for action’s sake and grandiose obsession with a plot starts borderlining #fascism.
To be clear, I’m not saying Tate is a fascist. But people like him are perfect tools for those who are.
#Trump’s ‘#dictator’ remark jolts the 2024 campaign — and tests his #GOP rivals on debate day
The former president’s remarks came on the eve of what may be the final GOP primary debate of the 2024 campaign.
Trump parried. #Hannity probed. He again asked Trump whether he was indeed “promising #America tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?”
“Except for Day One,” Trump said.
Were Trump’s initial remarks a Trumpian jest? A threat? A promise?
Psychologists take a look at energy vampires ~ Clinical and interpersonal research in psychology has started to look at energy vampirism as a social phenomenon.
“… the economist who has been embraced as a guiding light by the global institution tasked with shepherding humanity through the climate crisis, who has been awarded a Nobel for climate costing, who is widely feted as the doyen of his field, doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”