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(2,743 posts)although it is really close.
no_hypocrisy
(55,045 posts)You haven't met my sister . . . . . .
milestogo
(23,132 posts)lame54
(39,864 posts)Runningdawg
(4,664 posts)Ol Janx Spirit
(1,032 posts)Javaman
(65,850 posts)Wicked Blue
(8,932 posts)at some development-related news conference in NJ. He was among a group of local officials and development partners for a hotel project. I was one of several newspaper reporters introduced to them and vice versa.
I don't recall speaking with him, but I got a chillingly bad vibe when we nodded to one another. A feeling that here was someone diseased of mind, body, personality. He seemed to emanate a kind of sickness, a wrongness that repelled me. I moved as far away from him in the room as possible.
I had of course heard of him as a publicity-hungry jerk in NYC. He was considered a joke back then.
summer_in_TX
(4,191 posts)Anyone else trigger that in you?
That's why I remember it after so many years.
blue_jay
(274 posts)Could definitely sense a lot of energy around his whole entourage but there was something definitely ominous about the vibe. Not a professional opinion, just the feeling I got...never forgot it. Probably around the 1990s?
twodogsbarking
(18,942 posts)rzemanfl
(31,408 posts)calls an "Italian Businessman." I have no idea if he is still alive. I suppose he counts although he was nowhere near as bad as TSF.
Vinca
(54,110 posts)as the "Black Widow" as we awaited the arrival of the Feds to pick her up. She'd knocked off a husband and I think a kid with some kind of poison. Compared to Trump and his cohorts, she was a downright sweet.
JustAnotherGen
(38,067 posts)I saw on threads yesterday
Tree Lady
(13,320 posts)Was head of a cult I was in for short time in 1974, he preyed on people from bad family situations like mine and acted all nice until he wasn't. I guess you would say a wolf in sheep's clothing. I went to live on a goat farm with a bunch of hippy Jesus freaks in the mountains of southern OR, had met a friend at a concert who invited me. I was 18 naive and been sheltered my whole life, but grew up with a lot of fear from my brother.
At first it was fun until he started saying it was the last days, if we left we would go to hell...I was scared and by then brainwashed. It took my dad coming from CA with a gun threatening the guy to let me go, although at the time he just told me to go with my dad. Didn't find out truth till later. I sort of got deprogrammed by people slowly telling me the truth.
I learned from that experience not to really trust anyone, not so good in my relationships.
So I understand with sadness how a lot of people have been brainwashed into the maga thinking. We see the truth and wonder why they can't. It's because it is so twisted for them and their beliefs are strong. They have to get away from the influence of news, podcasts, online, friends, neighbors, leaders they hear daily to begin to open up.
stage left
(3,324 posts)or Stephen Miller, but my Mother-in-law was not to be discounted.I think she had a worse effect on my daughter, though, than she had on me. Hers was the most satisfying funeral I've ever been to.
murielm99
(33,011 posts)She lived to be ninety-five. No one misses her.
Clouds Passing
(8,028 posts)IbogaProject
(5,956 posts)She was dating a good friend who lived in the same shared house as me. I have to say when the story broke we were all weren't too suprised there was no disbelief. She didn't radiate it but just the overall way she carried herself made it unsurprising.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_McGuire
ChazInAz
(3,019 posts)I won't ever go into details, but he hid his nature well. He had belonged to Szelasi's Arrow Cross.
Aristus
(72,285 posts)with the state for doing physical exams for ex-cons going into halfway house supervision after completing their sentences.
I once did an exam for a guy who was skeevy from the word go, and set off all kinds of alarm bells. I cant quite describe what it was about him that was so revolting, but my gut knew before my brain did. I found out later that he had done time for child molestation, and I remember not feeling surprised in the least.
