My guess listening to her for any length of time violates the Geneva convention on psychological torture.

#ObamaVariant is trending on Twitter, because of the former President's decision to host a super-spreader to celebrate his sixtieth birthday.

A symptom of the Obama Variant is that, when the afflicted is confronted by rules that we must all live under, they claim exemption and gleefully respond, "But I'm special!"

A symptom that strongly resembles Karenism.

Richard Dreyfuss's braindead son, Ben, who would be nowhere in show business if it weren't for his father, is foaming and gnashing in outrage over the response, claiming that people aren't being "nice enough to Obama," especially since he "killed bin laden [sic]," "gave the young adults healthcare and twenty million other people too."

And accusing those who would dare call out Obama for this blatant hypocrisy and flauting of the rules that the rest of us must live under of certain lewd acts described in graphic detail.

He concludes his rant:

The coverup* is always worse than the scandal**

*people deleting their own Instagram posts after they were weaponized in disingenuous ways by people with bad intentions

**dancing

Well, actually, no. If Benny-boy actually bothered to investigate the headline that he screencapped, he would see that the Instagram photos were taken down because Obama himself imposed a photography ban at the event.

Not because of public shaming of attending a superspreader, but because Obama stated that no photos would be allowed at the event.

Doesn't the Geneva Convention only apply to enemy prisoners of war?

Althouse has questions.

"Presumably, there are a lot of New York Democrats who've protected Cuomo over the years, probably people who made sanctimonious pro-woman statements in the heyday of the 'Me Too' movement. Tell me about them."

That's what I wrote on August 5th.

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2021/08/but-what-id-like-to-know-is-not-why.html

"But what I'd like to know is not why Cuomo would commit so many acts of sexual harassment for so long, but who knew and who protected him?" ~ from a link by IRA Darth Aggie at August 9, 2021 7:22 AM

That's the thing about these sexual harassment scandals. It's not just the guy doing the harassing, but an entire staff corrupted to support, abet, and hide the harassing.

The lure of power is a strong one, even if one only gets to be in the same room. No one wants to lose that access and will rationalize supporting even the worst behavior to hang onto that access.

Who can forget Nina Burleigh’s 1998 declaration about Bill Clinton, "I would be happy to give him a blowjob just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. I think American women should be lining up with their presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs?"

Hear that ladies, the feminists who are supposed to be standing up for you think you're nothing but a Hoover with lips for the right man.

That's what makes not only folks like Cuomo, Epstein, Weinstein, Clinton et al monstrous, but also those who enabled, excused, and facilitated their predations on the less powerful.

Hey Goddess - didn't you have some pieces on cognitive therapy?

This book is climbing the charts - by one of the daddies of cognitive therapy:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806538058/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0806538058&linkCode=as2&tag=helentag-20&linkId=35a358c88db725fb622fc5d49bb97a3b

As vaccination rates lag and the new delta variant surges, Covid infection rates among kids have risen and children’s hospitals are seeing a spike in medical care needs among the young patients.

The Covid surge is also stacking upon an unseasonable spike in respiratory illnesses among children typically seen only in winter. That has shrunk the bed space further in children's hospitals and expanded on the unrelenting demand on doctors and nurses.

“It is scary, especially for kids who don’t fully understand what’s going on. They’re air hungry, struggling for breath, and it’s just scary,” said Dr. Kelechi Iheagwara, medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit at the Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “You have the illness, the fear, they can’t breathe, they’re isolated — that’s hard for anyone to understand, but can you imagine what it’s like for a kid?”

How 'bout that.

"Doesn't the Geneva Convention only apply to enemy prisoners of war?"

Some in the service feel that they now are with this CIC.

"but because Obama stated that no photos would be allowed at the event."

Odd for someones B-day celebration, unless something illegal or majorly politically bad were happening,like "public shaming of attending a superspreader"

The Chris Chan plot thickens:

https://twitter.com/PyraRule34/status/1424260115272699908

Rules for thee but not for me:

https://twitter.com/RyanLostinTX/status/1424536764253982721

All I really want for Christmas is an Andrew Cuomo perp-walk on live TV.