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Eminem’s most outrageous moments that prove he’s doesn’t give a f*ck

Eminem dropped his ninth studio album Revival today and let’s just say there’s some very mixed reviews on it. Some people are saying it’s aight, but when The Guardian is flaming your shit, you know you probably need to go back to the drawing board.

Not saying that the album doesn’t have anything good going for it, but we realistically ain’t gonna bump that shit!

The saying goes, “trust the art, not the artist,” but in Eminem’s case it’s deadass the other way around. We respect the hell out of what he’s accomplished and overcome to get where he is today and if there’s anyone who embodies the American Dream, it’s him!

This dude made it from the trailer parks of Detroit to becoming a multi-millionaire success with a Taco Bell in his crib! If that’ ain’t ballin’, then what is?

If there’s one thing above all that Em has proven over the years, it’s that he truly doesn’t give a fuck. He’s always being himself and isn’t scared to face his demons and poke fun at who he is. He’s pretty fearless when it comes down to it.

We may all think that Eminem is mad serious and angry these days but the dude’s first music video for “Please Stand Up” was the furthest thing from that. He’s been wildin’ out at these award shows and he’s 50 Cent’s “favorite white boy” for a reason.

Whether you still listen to Eminem or not, you gotta give it up for Marshall Mathers. He’s a fire father, a cultural icon, and a man who does whatever the f*ck he wants to.

If you can’t listen to his music, you’d better at least respect the man who’s done a hell of a lot more for the game of hip-hop than your ass ever will.

‘Queenpin’ mom taken in by police for biggest California marijuana bust ever

A woman from Pacific Palisades, California has been taken into custody by police officers after they caught her growing over 24,000 marijuana plants.

Holy shit.

The woman, 43-year-old Stephanie Smith, has reportedly made millions a month through the amount she was growing, and had 3 properties set in San Bernardino.

Stephanie hasn’t been arrested yet, but police are holding her for questioning.

The whole operation was found to be sketchy after her electricity bill came back as $67,000, causing authorities to investigate.

Apparently, the marijuana plants covered four floors of a warehouse. In the warehouse, there was also a “12-foot metal rolling fence, ‘fortified doors,’ a large concrete wall around the parking lot and surveillance cameras.”

ABC News spoke with police Lieutenant Mike Madden, and he told them that this is the largest indoor operation he’s ever seen.

“There’s just floors with multiple rooms with plants in various stages of the growing process, and it’s a very, very sophisticated operation.” 

What’s more, Smith was growing the pot right next to police headquarters.

And she certainly wasn’t alone. She had guards and employees in on the operation as well as an “advanced drip-irrigation system.” So far, 8 other people have been taken in by police.

The eerie part of this whole story is how closely it resembles the Showtime series Weeds, where a mother gets into the cannabis industry illegally in order to provide for her family.

Although marijuana is legal in California, weed growers need to be licensed by the state in order to become part of the business.

Though I am pro-cannabis and cannabis ownership it’s interesting that she wasn’t directly arrested, although her charges state “misdemeanor, jail time and a fine at the state level.”

Hmm… Well, Stephanie, whatever awaits you, I hope you are able to keep hustling in the marijuana industry.

Just, you know, legally.

We sick: 3 ways the Net Neutrality repeal will peace the internet

This will probably be the last time you hear from me if net neutrality is repealed today. The FCC vote threatens Americans’ entrepreneurship, free speech, and innovation.

It might also be the last time you will be able to afford anything you have come to love on the internet for the past 20 years.

Issa wrap for infinitely scrolling through your IG feed, getting sucked into the Twitter vortex, and aimlessly liking statuses on Facebook. That’s not all.

Small internet businesses are at risk as low prices to run a site will surge to expensive fees and streaming will become more difficult.

No more instant gratification unless you’re willing to pay for it. To explain things better here is Bernie Sanders telling us what will happen if #NetNeutrality is repealed.

Listen to Bernie…


It’s a wrap for startups

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Speed does matter on the web. The faster your site is the more you will see frequent visitors. This is just startup 101. If the net neutrality repeal does succeed this will mean that there will be paid prioritization.

Thus, only websites with the capital to afford faster server lanes will succeed. Startups usually begin with zero funds. Ryan Singel from Wired gave us the perfect example of how fucked small internet businesses really are if net neutrality is repealed.

“Fast lanes will make it harder for startups to compete. Incumbents will pay for fast lanes just so their upstart competitors have to as well, a clever way of making younger companies burn through their resources. If startups can’t afford to pay, their businesses will grow slowly due to their services’ poor performance—a situation beyond their control. Either way, incumbents win and startups lose.”

Look at it this way, it’s like you owned a small convenience store in a very small neighborhood and then a Walmart came thru.


The music industry is peaced

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To all of those artists that found fame through free streaming, all of your successors will probably never make it. They will fail because music fans will not have free access to their music like they did yours.

Think about it. How will new artists gain clout? It’s not like musicians make racks off of record sales anymore. In this new age, it’s not about the physical record sales. We know that all artists mostly make bread from merchandising and touring.

If the fans don’t have unlimited access to the music, how will they put fans into seats at their shows? They won’t. Americana singer-songwriter Cory Branan explained it the best in an interview with Rolling Stone,

“Some fans and all musicians know that record sales have never been the largest part of a musician’s income. Traditionally it’s touring and [merchandise sales]and, since the hard copy was smashed to pixels, or the audio equivalent, in the early 2000s, the streaming model that arose, has continually devalued those pixels. The upside, at least theoretically, is that an independent artist or label has the potential for unlimited digital exposure. Anyone anywhere can stream, and that can put asses in seats when we tour through town.”


Kiss unlimited streaming goodbye

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After the FCC net neutrality vote, expect your internet to not be as accessible as it used to be. There will be specific packages that will be provided regarding your internet usage.

No more internet packages that give you access to the whole world wide web. The FCC will become the gatekeepers deciding what we do and don’t take in.

You’d probably have to choose between a choice of streaming options. Look at it like a selection of exclusive packages like you have with your cable-tv provider. That is whack AF. The NBA Streams Reddit page explained it best,

“Let’s say you buy a pencil. That pencil costs 10p. Comcast says they should be allowed to charge you 12p if you’re using it to draw straight lines, 15p if you’re using it to draw animals, 20p if you’re using it to draw houses, and specifically prohibit you from drawing circles. We say fuck you, we bought that pencil for 10p, and we’re gonna draw as many damn circles as we want with it.”


What can you do to stop this unconstitutional fuckery?

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You need to contact your House Representative and Senator, telling them why the FCC shouldn’t repeal net neutrality. That’s not all, you can also write to the FCC and comment on the repeal. 

If you are mobile, hit up the resist bot, which faxes a letter to your Senator(s) or House Representative vis SMS text message.

WATCH IT ALL GO DOWN LIVE HERE. A wise man once said, “The FCC won’t let me be.” 

Grown ass men in Japan would rather cuff sex dolls instead of their wives

Japanese guys aren’t getting any play from their wives, so they’ve decided to take shwapping it to the next level and are copping sex dolls.

Apparently playing with a lifeless silicone vagina is the new wave. Every year around 2,000 of the life-like sex dolls are sold in Japan. That’s a lot of lonely Japanese men.

Each customizable sex doll costs around £4,600 and comes with adjustable fingers, a removable head, and realistic genitals, according to The Sun.

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Just to make things weirder, not only are dudes smashing their silicone partners, they are falling in love with them.

Japanese businessman, Senji Nakajima, 62, got kicked out the crib by his wife because she banned the doll from her house.

Of course, Senji couldn’t live without her so he copped an apartment with his side silicone piece. In fact, Senji said he’d “never date a real woman again — they’re heartless,” in an interview with AFP. He added,

“Human beings are so demanding. People always want something from you — like money or commitment… My heart flutters when I come home to Saori. She never betrays me, she makes my worries melt away.”

Homie got peaced so bad he had to cop a fake wife? Anyway, it seems as if he is happier than ever. Senji and his silicone BAE go skiing, surfing, and picnic on beaches and under cherry blossom trees.

That’s really something, Senji. But let’s move on to the next odd silicone-human relationship, Masayuki Ozaki, and Mayu.

The two are inseparable. So much so that Ozaki made his wife and his daughter getting along with Mayu a must. She chills underneath Ozaki and his real wife’s bed. While they sleep though? Creepy.

In the interview with AFP, Ozaki explained why he had to turn to silicone pleasure,

“After my wife gave birth we stopped having sex and I felt a deep sense of loneliness. But the moment I saw Mayu in the showroom, it was love at first sight. My wife was furious when I first brought Mayu home. These days she puts up with it, reluctantly. When my daughter realized it wasn’t a giant Barbie doll, she freaked out and said it was gross — but now she’s old enough to share Mayu’s clothes.”

Do we even want to know how your daughter figured out that you have a sex doll laying underneath your bed? Absolutely not!

The fact that a fake doll you pump your bodily fluids in shares clothes with your daughter is also very, very, very fucking SUS!

Apparently, like Senji, Ozaki is turned off by the thought of real yoni too. During a stroll with his rubber companion, he told AFP,

“Japanese women are cold-hearted.They’re very selfish. Men want someone to listen to them without grumbling when they get home from work.”

Maybe your wife just needs some good D? You ever think of that Ozaki? AFP caught up with Ozaki’s wife, Riho, who said,

“I just get on with the housework. I make the dinner, I clean, I do the washing. I choose sleep over sex.”

Lord have mercy, can it get any wilder? Oh yeah, Yoshitaka Hyodo doesn’t only have one silicone piping doll he has ten.  Plus, he has an “understanding” girlfriend.

Hyodo dresses up his ten dolls in military apparel so they can act out “military-themed fantasies.” He also thinks that his obsession is like collecting sports cars and is less expensive than buying a Lamborghini. In the video interview with AFP, the 43-year-old blogger said,

“People might think I’m weird, but it’s no different from collecting sports cars. I don’t know how much I’ve spent but it’s cheaper than a Lamborghini.”

Sheesh, you know homie is in the crib playing with silicone limbs like it’s no big deal. FOH!

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Sex is definitely becoming a little bit more complex, creepy, and advanced. Did you ever get the chance to peep the so-called sex-robots?

English woman gives up on men, says she only smashes ghosts

A 27-year-old woman from Bristol, England has come forward with some haunting news; she fucks ghosts and she likes it.

On the British television show, ITV This Morning, the woman in question admitted that she’s had sex with over 20 ghosts.

“It started as an energy, then became physical. There was pressure on my thighs and breath on my neck. I just always felt safe. I had sex with the ghost. You can feel it. It’s difficult to explain. There was a weight and a weightlessness, a physical breath and stroking, and the energy as well.”

On top of that, Amethyst Realm, whose name is enough to seal the deal, has had affairs with her ghost buddies, and has even been caught by her real-life husband.

This news isn’t completely unprecedented. Other celebrities have claimed to have ghost encounters, such as Bobby Brown, Kesha, and the late Anna Nicole Smith, who would frequently have sex with a ghost who lived in her apartment.

“A ghost would crawl up my leg and have sex with me at an apartment a long time ago in Texas. I used to think it was my boyfriend, and one day I woke up and it wasn’t. It was, like, a spirit and it went up! I was freaked out about it, but then I was, like, ‘Well, you know what? He’s never hurt me and he just gave me some amazing sex so I have no problem…it was not a dream because it was happening every night…I told my boyfriend and he didn’t believe me. Of course… MEN!”

The most bizarre part of this whole situation is that Amethyst wants to get pregnant by the ghost.

“I’ve done a bit of research into phantom pregnancies. There’s a possibility that it is a ghost in you, but people don’t know how to carry it to full term.”

According to psychotherapist Tina Radziszewicz via the Huffington Post, this phenomenon occurs as a type of hallucination that occurs right before falling asleep.

“Such hallucinations can be extremely vivid and bizarre, and can include tactile, visual and auditory. Stress, anxiety, depression and trauma can make people more prone to this form of hallucination.”

As for Realm, she also says her ghost buddy follows her around the house and has sex with her in different rooms. Look, I’m not knockin’ anything.

As far as I’m concerned, if she’s happy with her ghost lover and the sex they’re having, then that’s enough to garner my support.

Hope you get pregnant by your ghost lover, Amethyst!

California is depending on inmates to fight wildfires, but now they’re running out

California state is using inmates to fight the raging wildfires. In fact, one-third of Cali’s wildfire fighting personnel are prisoners.

That’s a lot to think about as collectively they work an average of around 10 million hours a year saving taxpayers $100 million a year. All those tax dollars saved, otherwise, would’ve been spent on “actual firefighters.”

How is Cali saving bread on convict firefighters? Each firefighting felon is making roughly around $1.00 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, and $2.00 a day when they aren’t, according to a recent article from The Atlantic.

They are the ones on the front lines working 24-hour shifts being paid less than a tenth the wages of even their lowest-paid civilian counterparts. Plus, they receive no pensions, workers’ compensation or promise of future employment.

These aren’t the firefighters that little kids dream to be either. The firefighting inmates aren’t the ones in the trucks or in the helicopters dousing flames with hoses or giant buckets of water.

They are the ones taking the highest risk when fighting dangerous flames, cutting firebreaks and redirecting advancing blazes. Only strapped with chainsaws and hand tools for protection.

Two firefighting inmates died this year and you probably didn’t hear about it. According to the LA Times and the San Diego Tribune, 26-year-old Matthew Beck was crushed by a falling tree.Then 22-year-old Frank Anaya was fatally wounded by a chainsaw.

This is what Conservation (Fire) Camps are:

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So if there is no promise of future employment once the inmates are released, pension, or workers’ compensation, why are inmates committing to sacrificing their lives in these wildfires? Besides earning a dollar an hour while they are fighting wildfires, inmates also receive credit for early parole.

This only includes men and women who have passed a physical and medical assessment, conform to the rules of “good behavior” while they are incarcerated, and those serving in minimum-custody facilities.

If you are serving a minimum custody sentence and have any history of sexual offenses, arson, or escape with force or violence, you are ineligible to serve as an inmate firefighter.

This is all according to the CDCR, which manages the Conservation (Fire) Camp programs. To be exact, the conservation camps, which are located in 29 counties, can house up to 4,522 adult inmates and 80 juveniles.

This makes up approximately 219 fire-fighting crews. A typical camp houses five, 17-member fire-fighting crews as well as inmates who provide support services. Each camp costs around $2.35 million to operate annually.

Inmates have been fighting wildfires in Cali since the 1940s due to a lack of men who were overseas fighting in WWII. Now they are still fighting fires to cut government spending, taxes, and prison populations?

The worrisome thought about this is that there has become a reliance on inmates fighting Californian wildfires.

So much so that because of prison reform that placed non-serious, non-violent, and non-sexual offenders out of state prisons, officials and voters could choose to implement more reforms to up incarcerated firefighters.

If not they run a chance of running out of inmates to protect Calfornia from major disasters, like uncontrollable wildfires.

I’m hoping we can stop relying on “indentured servitude” and pay firefighters to actually fight the fires.

Here’s some food for thought. In an interview with Think Progress, California State Senator Kamala Harris said,

“The idea that we incarcerate people to have indentured servants is one of the worst possible perceptions… I feel very strongly about that. It evokes images of chain gangs.”

Not a good look.

Former Facebook exec says ‘you are being programmed’ by social media

Former Facebook president and Napster founder Sean Parker expressed some regret over the scope of Facebook and how social media “literally changes your relationship with society.”

Parker spoke about the “dopamine hit” of likes and comments on social media. It was an interesting, if not slightly horrifying, thing for one of the seminal members of Facebook to say about social media.

Former Facebook executive and current Golden State Warriors board member Chamath Palihapitiya is took his own criticism of social media further during an impassioned speech at a recent discussion at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Palihapitiya claimed that he feels guilty about what he helped create:

“I feel tremendous guilt. I think we all knew in the back of our minds—even though we feigned this whole line of, like, there probably aren’t any bad unintended consequences. I think in the back, deep, deep recesses of, we kind of knew something bad could happen. But I think the way we defined it was not like this.”

The former Facebook employee, who worked in tech for the social media giant, went on to speak about how social media is changing how people interact with the world around them:

“So we are in a really bad state of affairs right now, in my opinion. It is eroding the core foundation of how people behave by and between each other. And I don’t have a good solution. My solution is I just don’t use these tools anymore. I haven’t for years.”

Palihapitiya then got a little fired up, claiming ‘you are being programmed’ by social media:

“Your behaviors—you don’t realize it but you are being programmed. It was unintentional, but now you gotta decide how much you are willing to give up, how much of your intellectual independence. And don’t think, ‘Oh yeah, not me, I’m fucking genius, I’m at Stanford.’ You’re probably the most likely to fucking fall for it. ‘Cause you are fucking check-boxing your whole Goddamn life.”

This is… hardly what you want to hear from someone that was in charge of helping acquire more users for Facebook back during his time at the company from 2005-2011. Palihapitiya even said that his children aren’t “allowed to use that shit.”

Social media has clearly changed people’s relationship with the world and the people around them. I’m not sure the discontents are as intense as Palihapitiya and Parker are asserting, but maybe I’m just programmed as shit.

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Video of dying polar bear reminds us why climate change is mad sad

A polar bear was so emaciated that it had to crawl on its knees before sticking its head into a rusted oil drum for some old and moldy human food — a torturing bite that would only give a couple more hours of life.

Put yourself in the same position. Crawling on the ground of a barren tundra with hard rocks trying to squeeze between whatever crevice of bone and cartilage your body has managed to salvage.

Who knows how far you’ve traveled? All you know what used to be is no longer and all that means is death for you.

Put yourself in this polar bears paws and press play on the IG video below.

My entire @Sea_Legacy team was pushing through their tears and emotions while documenting this dying polar bear. It’s a soul-crushing scene that still haunts me, but I know we need to share both the beautiful and the heartbreaking if we are going to break down the walls of apathy. This is what starvation looks like. The muscles atrophy. No energy. It’s a slow, painful death. When scientists say polar bears will be extinct in the next 100 years, I think of the global population of 25,000 bears dying in this manner. There is no band aid solution. There was no saving this individual bear. People think that we can put platforms in the ocean or we can feed the odd starving bear. The simple truth is this—if the Earth continues to warm, we will lose bears and entire polar ecosystems. This large male bear was not old, and he certainly died within hours or days of this moment. But there are solutions. We must reduce our carbon footprint, eat the right food, stop cutting down our forests, and begin putting the Earth—our home—first. Please join us at @sea_legacy as we search for and implement solutions for the oceans and the animals that rely on them—including us humans. Thank you your support in keeping my @sea_legacy team in the field. With @CristinaMittermeier #turningthetide with @Sea_Legacy #bethechange #nature #naturelovers This video is exclusively managed by Caters News. To license or use in a commercial player please contact info@catersnews.com or call +44 121 616 1100 / +1 646 380 1615”

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Heart-wrenching isn’t it? Well, blame me, blame us, but most importantly blame yourself.

Blame yourself for not giving a rat’s ass about climate change and how together as a country and as a species in general we have neglected climate change and its effect on the polar bear’s environment.

Because of climate change, an endangered species will become extinct if there isn’t a change in policy and human behavior.

Why? When sea ice forms over the ocean in cold weather polar bears head out onto the ice to hunt seals, which are a primary source of the polar bear’s diet.

Video by @PaulNicklen // Earlier this week, we shared a heartbreaking video of a starving polar bear. It was incredibly hard to watch, and impossibly sad to endure filming, but it provides an important perspective into the future for polar bears. Unless we curb carbon emissions and pursue solutions to achieve drawdown, this is the grim fate for species. The good news is that a wide array of both proven and promising new solutions already exist. Reforesting the oceans and restarting natural nutrient cycles can drawdown carbon, deacidify and cool surface waters, at the same time as producing sustainable food and biofuel. @Sea_Legacy went to the Canadian Arctic to document the effects of climate change. We found them. We also found healthy bears. Follow us and join The Tide (link in bio) to see the good, the bad and the ugly, but mostly the beautiful animals we pursue protection for. #TurningTheTide

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Atop of the sea ice, polar bears wait for their prey to surface for air. The effects of climate change are melting the sea ice earlier and causing them to re-form later than ever before.

Do the math sheeple. A lack of sea ice equals a lack of food. Ultimately leading to the extinction of the polar bear.

Dig deep and believe that this is really happening and not a scare tactic. If we don’t do something soon humans could be next.

After all, how long do the fit really survive?

Food industry having its ‘Weinstein moment’ as Mario Batali gets exposed

It’s no secret that the stressful and competitive world of the restaurant industry can be a breeding ground for aggressive, demeaning, and drug-addled behavior, but in recent weeks, the food world has seen their own “Harvey Weinstein moment.”

In October, famous New Orleans restauranteur John Besh was forced to step down from his restaurants after an expansive investigation by the Times-Picayune revealed prurient behavior with 25 different women detailing abuses.

From the Times-Picayune:

“Taken together, they and other women described a company where several male co-workers and bosses touched female employees without consent, made suggestive comments about their appearance and – in a few cases – tried to leverage positions of authority for sex. Several women said female colleagues, including in some cases their immediate managers, warned them to beware of ‘handsy’ male supervisors – at times on day one on the job. Those who complained of sexual harassment were berated, ostracized or ignored, the women said.”

Today, renowned New York chef and food personality Mario Batali stepped down from his restaurants after allegations of inappropriate touching, groping, and other behavior mounted.

Restauranteur and writer Jen Agg wrote in an October piece for the New Yorker on the coming “Weinstein moment” in the food industry and how women basically have to pick and choose what lewd behaviors they can tolerate:

“It’s not only the overwhelmingly male culture of kitchens that makes it difficult for women to combat the status quo. Many of us, like women in Hollywood, have had to be a little bit complicit in order to have a career. As a restaurateur, I find myself frequently torn about how to navigate my relationships with famous food-world men, weighing what I know a man can bring to my brand (ugh) against my desire to ask him why he isn’t doing more to help women succeed and why he won’t speak out against sexism.”

The toxic machismo of the food industry is not unlike that in Hollywood, politics, music, fashion, or Wall Street.

In a recent interview with Slate, Anthony Bourdain wondered aloud about his own glorification of ‘meathead’ culture in food with his 2000 book Kitchen Confidential, which chronicled his experiences with sex and drugs in the restaurant business.

Bourdain told Slate:

“I’ve had to ask myself, and I have been for some time, ‘To what extent in that book did I provide validation to meatheads?’ If you read the book, there’s a lot of bad language. There’s a lot of sexualization of food. I don’t recall any leeringly or particularly, what’s the word, prurient interest in the book, other than the first scene as a young man watching my chef very happily [have a] consensual encounter with a client. But still, that’s bro culture, that’s meathead culture.”

None of this is altogether shocking, which is perhaps the most depressing thing to take away as powerful restauranteurs are revealed for their aggressive and abusive behavior.

We are still at the tip of the iceberg with fallout in the post-Weinstein world. In the meantime, sit down and listen to women.

Trump’s daily routine: 8 hours of cable news, 12 Diet Cokes, and steak

As Donald Trump winds down his first year in the White House, it’s become clear that he has no intentions of changing his blustering and chaotic style of politicking.

There was a hope among more sober conservatives and centrists that Trump would shed some of his personal grievances and vendettas and adopt a more tepid style of politics when he took office January. But ol’ Donny has remained pugnacious and cranky, relying on a steady stream of cable news from critics and supporters alike to give him material for his attacks.

Over the weekend, the New York Times reported on Trump’s “battle for self-preservation” as Robert Mueller’s collusion investigation engulfs Trump’s family and associates.

The details in the story paint a picture of an insecure and anxious president, eager to latch on to positive news, and a very, very questionable diet.

Trump needs constant encouragement and positive reinforcement. But as the cloud of the Mueller investigation hangs over the White House, aides decorated his office with maps of the counties he won in last year’s election:

“For Mr. Trump, every day is an hour-by-hour battle for self-preservation. He still relitigates last year’s election, convinced that the investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, into Russia’s interference is a plot to delegitimize him. Color-coded maps highlighting the counties he won were hung on the White House walls.”

While Trump needs positive reinforcement, he’s most comfortable on the attack. So the president spends much of his time looking at news outlets like CNN and MSNBC, which have often been critical of his administration:

“Before taking office, Mr. Trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals. People close to him estimate that Mr. Trump spends at least four hours a day, and sometimes as much as twice that, in front of a television, sometimes with the volume muted, marinating in the no-holds-barred wars of cable news and eager to fire back.”

Anyone who watches four to eight hours of cable news a day will most likely have a fatalistic sense of reality. Trump’s moods are so volatile that advisers have to pick and choose when to raise issues with him, finding ‘silver linings’ to talk to the president about:

“Once he posts controversial messages, Mr. Trump’s advisers sometimes decide not to raise them with him. One adviser said that aides to the president needed to stay positive and look for silver linings wherever they could find them, and that the West Wing team at times resolved not to let the tweets dominate their day.”

Finding positivity can be hard for his staff, especially as Trump has turned the White House into some sort of cable news Cerebro, tracking all his favorite, and least favorite, shows with his ‘Super Tivo’:

“The ammunition for his Twitter war is television. No one touches the remote control except Mr. Trump and the technical support staff — at least that’s the rule. During meetings, the 60-inch screen mounted in the dining room may be muted, but Mr. Trump keeps an eye on scrolling headlines. What he misses he checks out later on what he calls his ‘Super TiVo,’ a state-of-the-art system that records cable news.”

While watching his endless flow of cable news, Trump rambles to anyone who will listen while drinking his DOZEN DIET COKES a day:

“Watching cable, he shares thoughts with anyone in the room, even the household staff he summons via a button for lunch or for one of the dozen Diet Cokes he consumes each day.”

A dozen Diet Cokes. That is a horrifying number of Diet Cokes. That is a catastrophic amount of Diet Cokes. You can’t possibly be healthy drinking that many Diet Cokes.

The Times story is a careful and litigious piece of journalism with over 60 sources of Trump’s associates, legislators, and advisers, but when Trump was told about the reporting of the story, he was quick to rebuke the information. On a recent trip to Asia, Trump told “befuddled” reporters on Air Force One that he didn’t have time for TV:

“‘I do not watch much television,’ he insisted. ‘I know they like to say — people that don’t know me — they like to say I watch television. People with fake sources — you know, fake reporters, fake sources. But I don’t get to watch much television, primarily because of documents. I’m reading documents a lot.’

‘Primarily because of documents’ is my new favorite excuse for not doing a thing. As much as I particularly disdain this administration and the political reality of our nation at this moment in time, I will be adopting ‘primarily because of documents.’ Thank you, Mr. President.

Despite the constant cloud of negative headlines that have surrounded the Trump administration virtually since inauguration day, the president still loves to see his name in headlines, positive or not:

“To an extent that would stun outsiders, Mr. Trump, the most talked-about human on the planet, is still delighted when he sees his name in the headlines. And he is on a perpetual quest to see it there. One former top adviser said Mr. Trump grew uncomfortable after two or three days of peace and could not handle watching the news without seeing himself on it.”

This is not a particularly mentally or physically healthy man. He is obsessed with his own image and craves to see his name in headlines, but when he’s not combing through cable news with his super TiVo or reading through papers with a sharpie in hand, Trump finds comfort in bringing guests to dinner:

“‘I can invite anyone for dinner, and they will come!’ Mr. Trump marveled to an old friend when he took office.”

Dinner offers a brief respite from the president’s news pipeline:

“Mr. Trump has always relished gossiping over plates of well-done steak, salad slathered with Roquefort dressing and bacon crumbles, tureens of gravy and massive slices of dessert with extra ice cream.”

A dozen Diet Cokes a day, well-done steak, bacon crumble salads, and extra ice cream (not to mention his love of McDonald’s Fillet-o-Fish). This is clearly the diet of a very stable individual. Gonna start eating well-done steaks to own the libs.

Unfortunately for Trump and those around him, when dinner is over and his friends leave, it’s back to cable news, where he watches Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham on Fox News to feel all good about himself and Don Lemon to get mad:

“When the guests depart, the remote control comes back out. He is less likely to tweet at this hour, when the news he would react to is mostly recycled from hours earlier. But he watches Ms. Pirro and her fellow Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, and sometimes ‘hate-watches’ CNN to get worked up, especially Don Lemon.”

This is a pretty worrisome portrait of a dude that is clearly not doing so hot. Eight hours of cable news a day is enough to cause your brain to start melting away. Twelve Diet Cokes a day CAN’T BE GOOD. As for well-done steak, well that’s just psycho shit.

Robert Mueller better hurry his ass up.