July 26, 2021

Shock emails that could prove Manchester City DID cheat

Fresh evidence appears to show Premier League champions had millions funnelled into the club by Abu Dhabi to help inflate their income



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-9821921/The-smoking-gun-emails-prove-Manchester-City-did-cheat-Premier-League-FFP-rules.html#

It was late morning on Tuesday April 12, 2011, when a senior executive within the sports sponsorship team at Etihad Airways composed an email to a business contact working in the 'partnerships' department at Manchester City. It was a month before Manchester United under Sir Alex Ferguson would win their 19th English top-division league title, surpassing Liverpool's record of 18. Chelsea would be runners-up on 71 points that season, just ahead of City, also with 71. City, then managed by Roberto Mancini, had extended their wait for a first title since 1968 to 43 years, but with a core of influential players including Joe Hart, Vincent Kompany, David Silva, Yaya Toure, Gareth Barry, James Milner and Carlos Tevez — joint winner of the Premier League Golden Boot along with Dimitar Berbatov — they appeared to be knocking on the door of a real renaissance.



A Football Leaks hacker said Sheikh Mansour's cash injection was disguised as sponsorship

The Etihad exec began their email: 'Dear [XXX] … there seems to be some confusion about an outstanding balance of the sponsorship fee for the 2010/11 season.'

The Mail on Sunday knows the identities of both the sender and the principal recipient of the email but neither works for the same company any more and both moved to different spheres of business. 'As you are aware,' the writer continued, 'Etihad's commitment is for £4million and the remaining balance (£8m) is handled separately by the [UAE] Executive Affairs Authority. Please can you clarify this to your accounts department and pick it up direct with the EAA in due course. Kind regards.' To put this into context, The Mail on Sunday has been told — and has seen corroborative paperwork — that Manchester City invoiced Etihad for £12m for the 2010-11 shirt sponsorship deal, but the invoice had a hand-written annotation that Etihad themselves were only due to pay £4m that year.

Further to that, sources say, and documents show, is that the City-Etihad shirt deal at the time — signed by City's then CEO, Garry Cook, and Etihad's CEO, James Hogan — would cost Etihad £4m in the 2010-11 season, having cost them £3m the season before, and then £4.5m in 2011-12. The EAA, who were picking up the difference between the headline £12m in 2010-11 and the £4m Etihad were paying, are according to their website 'a specialised government agency mandated to provide strategic policy advice to the Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, His Highness Sheik Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces'. Correspondence seen by the MoS and supported by contemporary paperwork suggests Etihad were not in fact paying the amounts City were invoicing for but a UAE entity serving Sheik Mohamed was. City have allegedly benefited from abnormally high sponsorship details from entities based in the UAE, in deals that appear to have contravened FFP rules. If money was being funnelled into City to artificially inflate their income for years, that would be a problem.



Etihad were not in fact paying the amounts City were invoicing for but a UAE entity was

And various emails and documents obtained by Football Leaks and/or this newspaper suggest that happened. The Premier League announced an investigation more than two years ago but that has so far been delayed by City's actions in court. City have declined to clarify multiple issues around this. Fast forward to early summer of 2014 and a source close to City emailed the MoS and claimed that Etihad's 10-year £340m sponsorship with City was not in fact mainly funded by Etihad but rather through Etihad and that a state entity was picking up most of the tab. Around the same time — and this is when City had just been found guilty of breaking UEFA Financial Fair Play [FFP] rules for the first time — the Mail on Sunday was made aware of some disquiet within Etihad's sports sponsorship team about the airline's relationship with City. A source who knows an employee on that team said the airline's targeted sports sponsorship deals to then had followed the same formula. This involved relatively low spending on tie-ups with teams or venues in places where sports franchises were either on Etihad flight paths to major airports (Harlequins rugby, both codes, on the Heathrow flightpath; and in Melbourne, in football and Aussie Rules, on the Melbourne flightpath), or would be in flight paths (tie-ups in New York soccer, and three sports teams in Washington, all of which happened).



The email from the Football leaks archive at Der Spiegel, as seen by the Mail on Sunday



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absolute FUCKERS

they already stacked the CAS 3 judge panel last year (2 of the 3 on the CAS panel had City ties and they ruled 2 to 1 over and over in City's favour, allowing them to slither off the noose, in part with an ultra dodgy 'the transgressions are time-barred' ruling), and now are proven to have been lying all along

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July 26, 2021

Tunisia's PM sacked after violent Covid protests

Source: BBC

Tunisia's president has sacked the prime minister and suspended parliament, after violent mass protests nationwide on Sunday.



Anger over the government's handling of a massive recent spike in Covid cases has added to general unrest over the nation's economic and social turmoil. President Kais Saied, who was elected in 2019, announced he was taking over. His supporters erupted in celebration, but opponents in parliament immediately accused him of staging a coup.

Mr Saied, an independent, has had a long-standing feud with the man he has removed, PM Hichem Mechichi. Mr Mechichi has the backing of the largest party in parliament, Ennahda.

Tunisia's revolution in 2011 is often held up as the sole success of the Arab Spring revolts across the region, but it has not led to stability economically or politically.

The recent coronavirus surge has fuelled long-standing public frustration. The health minister was sacked last week after a bungled vaccination campaign.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57958555

July 26, 2021

The 34 Best Tacos in Los Angeles

LA is a mecca of Mexican cuisine.

https://www.thrillist.com/eat/los-angeles/best-tacos-in-la-los-angeles



Throughout the last decade, LA’s taco scene has evolved considerably. The city offers many regional styles, like the steamy domain of tacos al vapor; smoky, fully-dressed tacos from Tijuana; airy, crunchy fish tacos that hail from Baja; and the magnificence of Sonora’s massive flour tortillas, plus all the unique styles that blend this varied heritage with chefs’ perspectives from growing up in LA. The Alta California movement, a hybrid cooking style that pairs traditional Mexican cuisines with California sensibilities and ingredients, has taken root at a number of taco spots included on the list below. Simply put, in LA, tacos represent a rite of passage and a symbol of joy. The city has no shortage of fantastic taquerias, and this list is here to help you find one for any and every occasion. Honestly though, tacos need no occasion: eat plenty and often because that’s the guarantee of our beautiful city—tacos are always nearby. Here are our 34 favourite taco spots across various LA neighbourhoods:









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July 26, 2021

The Gamma variant is NOT new, it's just been known by a more common name (P.1 aka Brazilian variant)

I am seeing so much confusion lately over all the variants.

Hopefully this post clears a lot of this up.

Delta is the first variant that is NOW almost exclusively identified by the Greek letter nomenclature. Delta is the Indian variant, but the media is trying to take away geographical stigma.

Lambda (the Peruvian variant and newest Greek letter-denominated one as well, but Lambda is far less discussed atm) was the next that has been getting this treatment.

Now it is Gamma's turn (as Gamma is now starting to finally rapidly spread and gain footholds elsewhere).

This re-naming has lead to older variants now being identified by their Greek letter names as well and causing mass confusion.


There are currently 8 Greek letter named variants still listed (11 total Greek letters used, but 3 variants, Epsilon, Zeta, and Theta, have fallen off the lowest category listed, VOI).

Variants get the Greek letter name once they become a VOI (variant of interest)

There are currently 4 VOI¨s and then 4 VOC's (variants of concern, the next step up)

There is one final, highest rating. (VOHC) Variant of High Consequence. None have reached this level so far.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/variant-info.html






here is a chart for the current VOI and VOC's

Lambda is the newest, from Peru, the one I have been most worried about after Delta

https://www.who.int/en/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants/







Peru is getting crushed by Lambda, by far the highest death rate in the world atm.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/




I have always used the Pango names, not the Greek letters, BUT Delta has changed it for me.

Now I use both if not talking about Delta until people start to catch on (and hopefully me using both aids in that).

The Pango lineage nomenclature is being used by researchers and public health agencies worldwide to track the transmission and spread of SARS-CoV-2.

Perfect example is the one I started this OP with: P.1 aka Brazilian variant aka Gamma. P.1 is the Pango lineage name.





here is the Greek alphabet

Again, you you will notice that we have used 11 Greek letters, but only 8 are in the VOI/VOC charts

that is because the Epsilon, Zeta, and Theta variants have fallen off the lowest level (VOI aka Variant of Interest)

July 25, 2021

World Number 1 Golfer John Rahm Withdraws From Olympics (COVID positive AGAIN, twice in 2 months)

https://www.beinsports.com/en/olympics/news/rahm-withdraws-from-olympics/1724048







He is fully vaxxed btw, he had both jabs the 1st time, back in June, but was not out of the 14-day post 2nd jab window when he caught it the first time.

July 25, 2021

After 11 Minutes in America, I Got Hit by the Crime Wave

I spent most of the pandemic abroad. It didn’t take long after I returned home for someone to try to rob me at gunpoint.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/us-crime-wave-guns/619516/



Before the blessed release of full-dose vaccination, I spent much of the pandemic in Norway and Canada, dodging COVID-19 waves and rising violent-crime rates in American cities. Both of my hideout countries managed infection well, and their residents very rarely kill each other. (Today Norway marks the tenth anniversary of one of the exceptions to this rule.) But I missed America, so earlier this month, back I came, over the Rainbow International Bridge from Niagara Falls, Canada, to its sister city of the same name in upstate New York. A Customs and Border Patrol officer waved me in at 12:10 a.m.

Eleven minutes later, a man tried to rob me at gunpoint.

I was in a rented Toyota Corolla, driving with three family members who were also returning to America: a woman and her two children, a 9-year-old and a toddler. Soon after we crossed the bridge, the toddler’s diaper began emitting a horrendous stench, and we looked for a suitable place to change him. It took a few minutes. One candidate spot was too dark and secluded; another would have worked fine, but a car was idling there suspiciously, so we rolled down the windows and moved on. Finally we found a gas station by the highway. It was across from a diner, and had just closed but remained brightly lit.

We parked next to one of the pumps. I got out and stood on the passenger side, checking my phone and passing wipes as needed. The child wanted to keep his soiled diaper—his only souvenir of the Falls—and he howled through the two or three minutes it took his mother to change him on top of the trunk. During a lull in traffic, I noticed that his cries were echoing through the dark neighbourhood beyond the gas station. Then I saw a man in the shadows, about 70 feet away, walking fast and crossing a street in our direction. When he entered the penumbra of the gas station’s floodlights, he stiffened a little, as if mildly surprised that I had noticed him, then ducked behind the gas station’s mini-mart.

“We need to go now,” I said. The mom was leaning into the back seat to buckle in her toddler. She protested that she hadn’t yet attached every point of his harness. Then I saw the man re-emerge, wearing a red hoodie and a mask that covered his whole face. He was striding toward us purposefully, past the mini-mart and into the light, and in his hand he had a pistol. “Now,” I said. “Don’t strap him in. Close the door and drive.” This time she heard my italics. She slammed the door and jumped in the car, fumbled with the keys for half a second, then screeched the tires and drove away. I told her about the gun, and she didn’t stop driving until she saw an outpost of the popular Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain Tim Hortons—which, under the circumstances, seemed like a potential gun-free zone, some kind of informal diplomatic sanctuary.

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July 24, 2021

The insanity at Free Republic when it comes to COVID is the most extreme delusional thought on

the entire subject I have ever seen.

I mean it is flat out FUCKING



1. At MOST, they say 7,000 or so people have died from it in the US. Some say NO ONE has.

2. 98%+ of ALL COVID tests are false positives due to Fauci mandating fake PCR guidance.

3. COVID is 99.98% non lethal. Meaning out of 10,000 who catch it, 2 (at most) die. (there is your 7,000 or so dead figure)

4. ALL or almost all of the 600K+ COVID deaths (versus a normal 5 year average, and some say it is more like ALL 900K excess deaths, meaning those 'missing' 300K or so dead, are being kept 'on ice' to roll out when Trump comes back) are murders done by hospitals and doctors on the orders of Bill Gates, Soros, Hillary, Harris, Pelosi, and Biden, etc etc just to make Trump look bad.

5. When Trump is reinstated as POTUS, this will all be exposed and there will tens of thousands of public executions, many of them by local sheriffs, aided by militias empowered for the executions.

6. The vaccines (especially Pfizer) turn people into walking super spreaders of COVID. WTF!!!??!!!

etc etc etc

here is but one thread (I don't want to post a tonne of links to that fuckstick shithole.)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3978502/posts


It truly is madness. They have long ago lost all grasp on reality.

July 24, 2021

Why Everyone Is Obsessed With Tinned Fish and Where You Can Buy It Online

It’s tinned seafood summer.

https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/best-tinned-fish-where-to-buy-online



In case you missed it, it’s tinned seafood summer. Sardines, mussels, cockles, and anchovies—they’ve been around forever but Americans have suddenly taken notice and realized that there’s way more to canned seafood than tuna. Becca Millstein, co-founder of Fishwife, grew up eating tuna fish sandwiches but it wasn’t until she studied abroad in Spain that she caught on to conservas, which are fish like sardines or molluscs like clams and mussels are preserved in oil or broth and packaged in tin cans. “It’s part of tapas culture that is very convenient and casual and social, but also a very elevated way of eating,” she says. “You might serve a tin of cockles with a toasted baguette and some olive oil and some olives and a glass of white wine or something like that. It just struck me as sort of the height of elegance.”

When Millstein and her friend Caroline Goldfarb quarantined together during the pandemic, they ate tons of tinned fish and realized that there isn’t a domestic company that was celebrating tinned fish culture. Together they founded Fishwife, a brand that sells smoked trout and tuna —with other versions coming soon. Tinned fish has risen in popularity the past few years. Even chefs at restaurants like Curate in Asheville, North Carolina, feature tinned seafood on their menus. In fact, a recent report found that the canned seafood market is set to grow by $23.7 billion over the next five years. The pandemic also boosted the tinned fish industry by giving home chefs a chance to dig through their cabinets and try something a bit more interesting to the palate than the same old takeout.

So what exactly is tinned seafood?

Humans have been preserving food forever. But, in the late 1700s, the French realized they needed a way to safely get food to soldiers and sailors fighting around the world. Nicolas Appert, a chef in Champagne, got to work and eventually realized you could preserve food in cans. In Spain and Portugal, fish and molluscs caught in the Atlantic and Mediterranean are typically grilled or fried before being packaged in a tin with oil. Sometimes there are other ingredients like tomatoes, piquillo peppers, and lemon juice. In northern regions, like Alaska and Scandinavia, the fish might be smoked before being canned.

What to look for when choosing your fish

Some of the items might sound familiar—most of us know what mussels and clams are—but others might be new to you. Cockles, for instance, are smaller cousins to clams but just as tender and sardines aren’t actually a type of fish, but a category of small fish. Sardines come in varying sizes from baby whole fish to larger sardines divided into fillets. When Millstein wants to snack on tinned seafood, one of the key things she looks for is how the fish was sourced. “I didn't understand seafood sustainability before I started Fishwife. It’s really nuanced,” she says. “You really have to take a lot of time to parse through and check various resources. The Monterey Bay Seafood Watch List examines each species of fish and where it’s being caught.”





How to best enjoy tinned fish.................

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July 24, 2021

The Sinister Reason(s) Why Republicans Now Want Their Voters Vaccinated

Fox News and Republicans have suddenly changed their mind on the Covid-19 vaccine. Why?

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/the-sinister-reasons-why-republicans



Just weeks into the pandemic in 2020, Lieutenant Governor of Texas Dan Patrick went on Tucker Carlson’s show and suggested America sacrifice its elderly population for the sake of the economy. “Those of us who are 70 plus, we’ll take care of ourselves,” Patrick told Carlson. “But don’t sacrifice the country.” Patrick was also convinced that Democrats did not know what they were doing and were instead attempting to destroy the country for their own nefarious purposes. “If the Democrats ever had total control, they would put people like you and me in jail and throw away the key,” he went on. “And that’s what they’re doing because they now have total control Tucker, they have total control. And everywhere you see this draconian rules of locking down people and keeping businesses shut and destroying our country. It’s mostly Democratic governors, Democrat county judges, Democrat mayors, almost everywhere.” Patrick was widely mocked for his stance given the terror most of the population felt during the early days of Covid-19. But much to Patrick’s delight, the Trump administration did almost exactly what he suggested. Fast forward 16 months and over 600,000 Americans have died — an estimated 40% of whom passed due to the Trump administration’s severe mishandling of the crisis. Furthermore, most of those deaths happened in states with Republican governors. Republican voters were largely unconcerned by any of this. 74 million of them still voted for Trump, despite him almost wiping out his own administration and killing off thousands of fellow Americans.

There were, it seemed, enough Republicans unaffected by the virus for them to think it wasn’t such a big deal. Republican governors refused to enforce mask mandates, waged war on Dr. Anthony Fauci, and did not listen to advice from public health officials. When the vaccines came out, most prominent Republicans, including Trump, refused to take them publicly. Fox News engaged in a vaccine misinformation war, encouraging viewers to ignore the science and listen to conspiracy theorists like Alex Berenson. As Aaron Rupar at Vox noted: A major theme of Fox’s Covid-19 coverage in the winter months was trying to reframe the pandemic not as a humanitarian disaster that at the time was killing more than 2,000 Americans daily, but as an economic problem created by Democrats that predominately hurt business owners and workers. More recently, Fox’s approach has been to highlight rare negative reactions to the Covid-19 vaccine, ignoring the broader context that getting vaccinated is far safer than actually contracting the disease. The Food and Drug Administration, for example, recently reiterated that even after a new rare side effect of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was found, “the known and potential benefits clearly outweigh the known and potential risks.” Fox has also misleadingly suggested those who have had Covid-19 don’t need to get vaccinated.

As new, far more contagious and potentially deadly variants of the Covid virus spread rapidly through the population, Republicans and Fox News hosts are now suddenly changing their tune. Vaccines are apparently now safe, and everyone needs to get one as soon as possible. This remarkable about turn has not gone unnoticed. As Susan B. Glasser wrote in the New Yorker this week: The Louisiana congressman Steve Scalise, the House’s No. 2 Republican, posed for a photo of himself getting a vaccine shot, many months after he was eligible, and urged others to do the same. “Get the vaccine,” Scalise said, at a press conference on Thursday. “I have high confidence in it. I got it myself.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a polio survivor who was never on board with his party’s vaccine denialists and anti-maskers, warned, during his own press conference: either get vaccinated or get ready for more lockdowns. “This is not complicated,” McConnell said. Fox News, which, along with Facebook, has been among the country’s premier platforms for vaccine disinformation in recent months, started promoting a new get-vaccinated public-service announcement. Its prime-time star, the Trump confidant Sean Hannity, stared straight into the camera on Monday night and said, “It absolutely makes sense for many Americans to get vaccinated.”

David A. Graham at The Atlantic also reported on the trend: Steve Doocy, one of the anchors of the network’s popular morning show Fox & Friends, has been advocating for vaccines, and tangling with co-hosts over it. “If you have the chance, get the shot,” he said yesterday. “It will save your life.”…. Ben Shapiro of The Daily Wire, who has been a vocal proponent of vaccination all along, also told his followers today on Twitter, “Get vaxxed. I did. My wife did. My parents did.” Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy, a confidant of Donald Trump, today published a column praising the current president: “Six months into his administration, President Joe Biden should be applauded for making a huge dent in the COVID pandemic.” What exactly is going on? Glasser believes the answer is quite simple: Republicans are dying, and vaccinated Democrats are not: At the end of June, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported that eighty-six per cent of Democrats had at least one shot, versus fifty-two per cent of Republicans—and the gap in vaccination rates is not closing but widening. As of July, thirty-five per cent of the population in counties that voted for Trump had been vaccinated, compared with nearly forty-seven per cent in counties that voted for Biden. By this week, new daily cases nationally were at their highest level since April. Deaths are increasing, too, while the number of new vaccinations is down to January levels.

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July 24, 2021

An Army of MAGA Karens and Kevins Is Being Shitty for Sport

TRUMPY TANTRUMS EVERYWHERE



https://www.thedailybeast.com/an-army-of-maga-karens-and-kevins-is-being-shitty-for-sport?ref=home



America has done it again.

Rather than being discouraged by the tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have dug in, held on, gritted our teeth, and against all the odds, somehow emerged from a year of unfathomable hardship into our bold new normal, where we somehow act like even bigger dickheads than we were before this all happened. This week I, like millions of people, watched a video of an unruly woman at an airport being told that she was not allowed to fly on that particular airline after refusing to wear a mask and calling one of the check-in agents a bitch. In the video, the woman pleads with a higher-ranking airline employee, who calmly explains that rude behavior isn’t tolerated on their airline, and if she’s looking for another travel option, he suggests Spirit Air. Burn. Although we didn’t see the behavior that led to the woman’s expulsion, it was a solid entry into the public Karen freakout video genre, because it featured a person who was clearly used to getting their way no matter how they acted running head on into a reality where they do suffer consequences as a result of their actions. The woman pleads, and is denied. She lies, expecting her word to be believed over that of the other party. She’s denied again. She does not get what she wants. She walks away, defeated. It’s like mainlining schadenfreude.

But for every Karen or Kevin who gets their just desserts, there are untold numbers of abusive customers, passengers, patrons, and shoppers who do get away with it, and the problem seems to be getting worse. Restaurant workers who returned to understaffed restaurants report that customer shitheadery is at an all-time high, from New York City to South Carolina to California to Massachusetts, where last week a restaurant closed down for a “day of kindness” after entitled customers abused employees to tears. Airline passengers throwing tantrums about wearing masks have led to grounded flights and emergency landings. (The uptick in ugly airline travel experiences inspired my husband and I to call an audible and drive from Los Angeles to a family reunion near Duluth, Minnesota rather than brave LAX. It took us three days. No regrets.) Predictions that the summer of 2021 would be both horny and chill have turned out to be sorely mistaken. Instead, all across the country, some Americans decided to get their pandemic ya-yas out by abusing the wait staff, flight attendants, bartenders, receptionists, baristas, nail technicians, cashiers… any worker whose job is to deal with customers, reset expectations, enforce rules.

In retrospect, we should have seen Summer 2021: Revenge of the Karen coming, as our former president has spent years modelling this exact behavior. Donald Trump’s presidency damaged our standing in the global community, our public health, our government, and our democracy, but he’s also done irreparable harm to the American personality, attracting people who were already kind of shitheads in the first place and encouraging them to give into their worst impulses and then cry and break things when they don’t get their way. Trump might not be in any of the public freakout Karen videos that matriculate from social media to national news, but he’s felt in each one, smiling down on the insufferable asshole throwing a fit. When I watch a video where a man is dragged off an airplane after refusing to wear a mask, I see a COVID-riddled President Trump ripping off his mask as he gasps for air on the steps of the White House after being released from Walter Reed. When I watch a diner screaming anti-Asian racial slurs at restaurant staff, I hear President Trump telling CBS News’ Weija Jiang to “ask China” about COVID-19. When a patron threatens to call ICE on a Texas restaurant because of its mask mandate, I hear Trump calling Mexican immigrants “rapists.” The woman from the airline counter denying over and over again that she called the employee a bitch is Trump tweeting “NO COLLUSION!” at all hours of the day, with no context.

When Donald Trump refused to concede the election after a clear Biden victory, an internet user whose identity has been lost in the whitewater rapids of memes we call culture photoshopped a stereotypical Karen hairstyle onto then-President Trump, alongside the words “I would like to speak to the polls manager.” It got made into tee shirts. The Jan. 6 Trump riot that claimed the lives of five people in the U.S. Capitol building was the ultimate Karen tantrum, a Transformers Combiner of Karens, the world’s most powerful Karen calling his army of Karens together, all of them demanding to speak to the manager and then, when their demands were not placated, trying to destroy reality rather than live in it. One would think that embarrassing behavior that leads to public shaming on a massive scale would be a deterrent, but Trump demonstrated to this country that being an insufferable prick is a great way to get one’s way. Once a person’s sense of entitlement grows larger than their ability to feel empathy, they also inoculate themselves against shame. And shameless jerks have almost unlimited capacity to ruin everybody else’s day. If you’re a jerk for long enough and you don’t care that everybody you’re dealing with thinks you’re a jerk, eventually the other party will get tired of dealing with you and give up. And you win.

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