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Lemon Party 24

Former President Trump said Tuesday he will be interviewed by billionaire tech and media mogul Elon Musk next week. “ON MONDAY NIGHT I’LL BE DOING A MAJOR INTERVIEW WITH ELON MUSK — Details to follow

WORD: Schismogenesis

It comes in four flavors:

  • That group over there does X. We are not that group, so we must do ~X to differentiate ourselves from them.
  • They are doing X and that threatens us! We must also do X to threaten them! Oh no, they are doing Xn + 1, we must also do Xn + 1!
  • He is a very aggressive conversationalist! I must also be aggressive in order to be heard! ... It turns out we agree, but in a very disagreeable manner!
  • I am working very hard, but she is not. I will reduce my effort. Oh no, she sees me doing less and now she is doing less! I'll show her how little I can do!

And it explains a lot.

https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/Schismogenesis

A Death Panel Of One

Trump meets with disabled people and their families, his nephew among them. Republicanism ensues:

Azar was still in the Oval Office when I walked back in. “Hey, pal,” Donald said. “How’s everything going?”

“Good,” I said. “I appreciate your meeting with us.”

“Sure, happy to do it.”

He sounded interested and even concerned. I thought he had been touched by what the doctor and advocates in the meeting had just shared about their journey with their patients and their own family members. But I was wrong.

“Those people . . . ” Donald said, trailing off. “The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.”

... something something post-birth abortions something something...

I got him up to speed on what Eric had told me. I said I’d heard the fund for William was running low, and unfortunately, the expenses certainly were not easing up as our son got older. In fact, with inflation and other pressures, the needs were greater than they’d been. “We’re getting some blowback from Maryanne and Elizabeth and Ann Marie. We may need your help with this. Eric wanted me to give you a call.”

Donald took a second as if he was thinking about the whole situation.

“I don’t know,” he finally said, letting out a sigh. “He doesn’t recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.”

To make it clear: "him" is his own grand-nephew.

https://time.com/7002003/donald-trump-disabled-americans-all-in-the-family/

WOTD: Malicious compliance

Malicious compliance (also known as malicious obedience) is the behavior of strictly following the orders of a superior despite knowing that compliance with the orders will have an unintended or negative result. It usually implies following an order in such a way that ignores or otherwise undermines the order's intent, but follows it to the letter.

Source: Malicious compliance - Wikipedia