Call Me Karen (Barbara)
Episode 133
This week on Disaffected we'll visit a courtroom with a jury that let off violent attackers from Antifa who beat a journalist. The defense attorney intimidated the jury with no apparent dissent from the judge.
Then we'll examine how deeply the government has broken into our homes. The ban on incandescent light bulbs and the extortionate fine on anyone who sells them ought to scare your pants off.
But first: We'll take aim at the labeling of reasonable women as ""Karens."" We'll discuss an article that says we need Karen back because she serves a social function, and we agree. But we're going to introduce you to the reasonable woman that we really want back, and her name is Barbara.
Articles/Media discussed:
“A Tale of Two Karens,” Mike Solana via his Pirate Wires Substack
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Regarding Portlandia’s bicycle hysterics.
These folks engaged in what’s commonly called a “die-in.”
The sad irony is that Portlanders brought much of this to themselves. Portland bicyclists have long demanded “protected” bike lanes which have caused (predictable) manufactured conflict zones at driveways and intersections. The installation of these bikeways have benefited a handful of “design firms” with cushy contracts along with activist groups such as People for Bikes and local coalitions and not the intended end users. The bike lane religion so to speak asserts that the more bike lanes that are built, the more potential bicyclists will “feel safer” and thus want to take up cycling.
Despite Portland’s “build it and they will come” mentality, cycling has gone down as new bike ways have been built.
https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=20739
Oregon’s mandatory use bike lane laws virtually demand bicyclists operate in these unsafe lanes. Oregon is also the only state where turning motorists are not legally allowed to merge and turn from bicycle lanes.
On top of that, Portlanders demanded that police virtually not enforce any laws, including traffic laws.
https://www.opb.org/article/2023/05/09/portland-oregon-police-reinstating-traffic-safety-division/
Hi, Josh! Good show last night. Are you familiar with Richard Grannon? A British psychotherapist who focuses on narcissism and trauma. I first “discovered” him on Triggernometry and he has been a repeat guest there. His own You Tube videos are very interesting and informative. I watched this one yesterday in which he discusses how BPD may be over diagnosed as a personality disorder when the person actually suffered from PTSD, more specifically Complex PTSD. I found his argument and evidence compelling because without going into too much personal detail I’ve been dealing with this with my significant other and we’ve been in couples therapy. He had been exhibiting both narcissistic and histrionic traits that someone who didn’t know him for over 40 years might think were BPD. But that did not make sense. Then I learned about Complex PTSD from Richard Grannon and others and it seemed to me that this fits and our therapist agrees. So now he’s working separately with my spouse to expose the deeply buried childhood traumas. I actually know what they are but my spouse is resistant to dealing with the emotions that get triggered now by any perceived hurt by me. I’d be very interested in which Grannon is saying here about the difference between BPD as a personality disorder and Complex PTSD that he says can be treated successfully.
https://youtu.be/iNmVkick9SA