The 'P' Word (I Know: You Weren't Doin' Nothin')

 

 "You've gotta believe in something, because there's so much pressure these days" 

   

 "I'm proud to represent Asians but, at the same time, there's so much pressure" 

   

 Family says Honda's pressure to work long hours led to man's suicide

These Are The Delusional Dayz

 

 "Why does everything have to be so good?"

The Shameful Way You Silence Your Husband (P.S. He Deserves Better)

Rob Schneider accuses Dylan Mulvaney of “gender appropriation”

Bars at popular Greek party island caught selling shots from drinks other customers left

US teacher, TikTok celebrity arrested in Thailand for having sex with teenage fan

Body of missing Netflix engineer found floating in San Francisco Bay

Why San Francisco is the car break-in capital: Low-risk, high reward

Mayor Adams warns migrant crisis will ‘destroy’ NYC during town hall - then, he waved his bracelet around and did a little dance, singing, "Crystal energy! Crystal energy! Crystal energy!"

'People are cruel'

 

Bad News (And Pleasant Distractions)

Obama, Clinton and Biden ALL used secret, fake-name email accounts to hide their actions 

   

 The Was

Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult - A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Democrats say the party is in shambles. 

   

 A Commotion

 

Swinging Dicks: Cultural Wreckage Of Weak Hydraulics

A little girl cornered a McDonald's CEO to complain about the menu.

 I know a Vegan couple that'd be glad to have her.

Wanna Life Lesson in Fighting the Culture of Bullshit?

Go around telling everybody How JFK secretly ADMIRED Hitler. It's a start.

Antoine Dodson has given up the Gay for God - to be good.

Even the Pope knows being good is the point, not announcements about your sex life.

Except for my not agreeing with the choices, why 10 Rap Cult Classics You Need to Hear?

Because your collection's full of freaks, that's why.

Is there new evidence in the Manson case? I don't know.

I do know men think women with tramp stamps are easy, but women eventually forget it.

Their husbands suffer in silence for a lifetime.

But all they have to do is look around this great country of ours to know they're not alone.

Like so much else these days, it's a way of life,...

 

Crack's Cursed Combination: Comedy, Cartoons & Cults

Break's over - but we're not going very far:

"Politics is debatable. But the reality isn’t."

Yep - good ol' reality - like it's our God or something,...

 

God: The Artist (By Way Of Maria Bamford)

TMR And San Francisco - It's Psychics, Seekers, Stealing, And The Supernatural Scam Of Sickness

So, Lisa Marie Miller, one member of the "psychic" family who hasn't proven so "intuitive" they didn't know they'd all be busted, got only two months of jail time for the crime of trying to steal $108,000 - and a Corvette - from a dummy.

I know, I know:

NewAgers are so stupid it's almost silly for TMR to want to protect them, but, well, you know,...

The light sentence is a crime in itself, showing - no matter what these liars do - the San Francisco Bay Area courts absolutely refuse to take "psychic" fraud as seriously as they should.

But there's another reason I'm covering this case again (as opposed to just updating the previous post) and it's because I want to highlight a few things for regular TMR readers:

First of all, Lisa Miller only charged a $10.00 fee for a "psychic reading" - which is on the low-end - so she can fish for the gullible with ease, lowering the boom once she got them in the door.

Actual cults may not even charge for their seminars and whatnot, because - as we heard in Maria Bamford's comedy routine - they're eventually going to hit you up, no matter what, once they're assured you're an idiot.



Second, Lisa Miller's victim "finally figured out something was wrong when she read media accounts that Miller's mother-in-law, 56-year-old Lola Miller of San Jose, had been arrested for taking $450,000 in cash and services from a San Jose woman."

Got that? If there's media coverage of these crimes then people tend to wise-up.

TMR would add there shouldn't even be positive coverage for NewAgers who haven't been busted:

Their ideas are stupid, and vile, and ought to be treated as such.



Exposure is what these people fear most, and until they get it, they'll just keep on pulling this crap on anyone they can attempt to manipulate into going along with their nonsense.

Third, I want to point to all the personal elements these three con artists (Lisa Miller, her mother-in-law, Lola Miller, and Lola's daughter, Danielle) were looking for, because it's the usual stuff NewAger cultists use to gain influence over people's lives:

One victim had cancer. Serious illness is a always a big draw for NewAgers. Believe me, I know.

Whether they're posing as a psychic, or a "healer" - or even a doctor - waiting for the sick and desperate to pop-up on their radar is all these vultures are born for.

No matter what the problem is, big or small, they'll handle it - rather than pointing the ignorant and needy to reliable information, or someone who's actually qualified to deal with it - and always for a fee, of course.

Whether you have AIDS, are merely "love-sick", or scared of something (and, thus, need a "cleansing") these creeps are there for you - because they have all the answers - being "in touch with the universe" and all.

Fourth - and this one is related to all the others - these assholes don't know where the bottom is.

Not only are NewAgers preying on the stupid innocent for their money, but they want your cash for all the tacky creature comforts (a sports car?) they can get their hands on - while always claiming that your attachment to material things is inherently evil.

It's so much better to give all that stuff to them because, clearly, there's some kind of psychic IRS where, somehow, they'll take it to repay the debt you owe.

And by the way, between the three psychics in this one story, they almost got away with stealing as much as $600,000 from just three people.

Let that be a lesson to the rest of you who are so sure NewAgers have pure intentions and it's the "corporations", and the "medical establishment", or "Big Pharma" who are raking in all the dough.

Sure, all of those "entities" are out to make money in our capitalist system, but here's the important thing to remember:

At least those guys have been proven to be actually giving us something in return.

The Macho Response: Maria Bamford

Alright! Another comedian has got it!

C'mon, you bastards, who insist that cults only exist on the fringe of society - not recruiting in the suburbs: call me a crazy liar now!!!

This is Maria Bamford and she's spinning on cults - yes, cults! - she even says the word out loud! Annnnd, she goes on to nail a bunch of the signs TMR's been mentioning, including that creepy question of Buddhists and all the other assorted crazies out there: "What are you afraid of?" (Ladies and Gentlemen, whenever anyone comes off like they've some answer to life and asks you that question, that's your tip-off they've been indoctrinated into *something kooky* and have already entered the dangerously crazy stage, so - no matter how "peaceful" they claim to be - run the other way!!!) This clip also includes that regularly-heard word from the Obama campaign: "creepy". Isn't it weird how the people involved in cults don't see that about themselves? Talk about missing the clue-train.

Anyway, enjoy Maria's take on it all because, otherwise, this shit ain't funny.

P.S.

And isn't it wild how I (a black guy from South Central, Los Angeles) can see it, and Maria can see it, BUT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA - AND THAT SUPER-LARGE SWATH OF THE (LIBERAL) PUBLIC THAT SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THIS DAILY - SEES NOTHING?!?

It's simply amazing. But then, not really, because (and this is the truly amazing part:) they're in it already. They're just waiting for the rest of us to come around,...so here's TMR's message to them - again:

Don't hold your breath, Losers.