ONE WEEK FROM HALLOWEEN
Move in start date known.
According to my realtor, the landlord will have the apartment ready by Nov 7th. The plan is get the keys and survey the place as early as possible a week from tomorrow and spray for bugs. Then I will prepare whatever cleaning gear necessary to deep clean as I am not expecting that the landlord will do so. The balcony, bathroom, toilet washing machine drip pan will get special attention. The kitchen sink and counter top are stainless steel but give the age and use, I plan to Never Dull them and give them a navy shine. Of course, I will be wanting to wipe and mop everything down after bug bombing the place and before moving anything in. Then as it is drying, I load up the minivan and start bring stuff over. Even with help, not sure the availability of those who have offered to help will allow them to do so next weekend, I doubt I’ll be able to transfer my flag as soon as that weekend.
I got “home” around 9:30 this evening to find The Kid stomping and stamping upstairs as they fought over MineCraft with their mother. Told her it was a bad idea. She has created a monster and it will be her alone that has to deal with it until, well probably until she passes away. She certainly is not teaching The Kids any skills needed to survive on their own.
Ahhh, Kitsune.
I got a Japanese lesson today from a 13 yo. He was talking - about Manga? Drawing? Making a "Kitsune" (and he taught me to say it properly).
He told me about the spirit with 10 tails. Kitsune.
Then I heard this song. It's meant to be a Christmas song, but -
Run with the Fox
Into the Wind
Into the Dawn of Tomorrow. . .
https://youtu.be/IUkwXavUhm4?si=jSmWpoRkaeN_D3Rs
Blessings on your move.
FYI, don’t say you weren’t warned.
TL; DR: RFK Jr.'s narcissistic playbook—idealize, devalue, discard—left his wife a broken shell before her "convenient" suicide, and now it's scripting his radio silence on baby Sa’Niya Carter's vaccine death. Accountability? Pfft, that's for peasants; he's too busy virtue-signaling with his MAHA circus while chasing that endless supply of sympathy points.
Oh, Paul's Substack is the unfiltered truth serum this vaccine cartel nightmare needs—calling out RFK Jr.'s HHS as a grift-fest photo op? Spot on. But let's zoom in on Bobby's blank stare at Sa’Niya Carter's tragic post-vax passing: where's the outrage, the presser, the "I'm suing Big Pharma!" war cry we were promised? Crickets, because our boy RFK is knee-deep in his favorite hobby—narcissistic supply harvesting.
You see, when a victim checks out permanently (like his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, who hanged herself in 2012 after years of his "loving" neglect), it’s jackpot for the NPD crowd. Endless pity parties, media martyr monologues, and that delicious drip of "poor me, the grieving hero" adulation. No messy accountability required—just frame her as the "crazyalcoholic" who drove herself off the cliff while he plays the saintly savior who "did everything to help." Classic narc move: cut off her credit cards during divorce (leaving her begging for gas money), parade his side-chick Cheryl Hines as the upgrade, then secretly exhume and relocate her coffin 700 feet from the family plot like she's yesterday's trash—because even in death, who needs a headstone when you've got his ego to eclipse you?
So yeah, expecting RFK to prioritize justice for a Black infant's vaccine death over his spotlight? About as likely as Cassidy returning those "borrowed" testicles.
Like my ex, Kathleen Taylor—that conservative Catholic Trump stan I met right here on your Substack—he'll be too busy preening for the cameras, dropping MAHA platitudes like confetti at a failed MAGA rally. I get Mary's pain on a cellular level: I too was love-bombed into oblivion via DMs (endless flattery, soulmate vibes, the works), only to get devalued, discarded, and gaslit the secondmy cancer diagnosis hit. Turns out, for narcissists like Kathleen, timing is everything—spike the cortisol, torch the sleep, crater the immunity, all to savor that sadistic thrill of watching a "supply source" wither. Deliberate? You bet.
Enjoyment from cruelty? Her love language.
Oh, and get this: in one of her DMs, she casually signaled my upcoming replacement as her shiny new narcissistic supply—none other than "Kitsune the Maskless Crusader," that whiny commenter I can't stand. She actually pleaded with me to "be nicer to him" because "he's not as strong as you."
As if I'm supposed to clutch pearls in jealousy. Please. The thought of Kitsune stepping into her abuse cycle doesn't bother me one bit—I wouldn't wish Kathleen's infidelity (yeah, I clocked that too) on my worst enemy... but if the universe insists on recycling her cruelty, fine, let it land on him.
He's the perfect mark: ex-military, stationed in Japan, fresh off rejection by his Japanese wife, vulnerability dripping like an open wound.
Predator's dream.
Geographic distance? Built-in discard button—no shared social circles, no legal/financial entanglements, no risk of confrontation.
Research on online romance fraud with narcissistic traits (Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2023; Personality and Individual Differences, 2021) shows predators deliberately filter for overseas men who are lonely/isolated (military, expats, widowers).
Most narcissistic abusers who engage in long-distance, cross-border love-bombing cycles are aware (at some level) that devaluation and discard are inevitable, and many intentionally select the setup because it guarantees an easy exit. Forensic case reviews (FBI IC3 romance scam reports, 2022–2024) show repeat offenders reuse scripts across 5–20 victims, proving premeditation.
Even non-criminal narcissists (not scammers) follow the same NPD cycle (idealize → devalue → discard) because empathy circuits are blunted (fMRI studies, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2020).
Direct evidence from perpetrator admissions in therapy transcripts (Clinical Case Studies, 2022): “I pick Americans online because when I’m done, I just block and they can’t find me.” “I never planned to meet them. The goal was money, then ghost.”
And hey, a 2024 Metropolis Japan analysis of Japanese surveys found 84% of Japanese women viewed infidelity as "healthy" or beneficial to marriages, so Kathleen would be just like a Japanese woman—cheating her way to marital bliss while Kitsune gets ghosted from halfway across the Pacific.
At 70 years old (far older than any other girlfriend I've had), physical aging frustrates narcissistic women like Kathleen, so some pursue cosmetic procedures or younger/novelty men aggressively. Desire crashes without ego-stroking, and they may fake satisfaction to maintain allure, avoiding vulnerability—their focus shifts to tenderness, cuddling, oral over penetrative sex (per Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2023 meta-analysis).
Narcissistic women (clinical NPD or high traits, per DSM-5 criteria; prevalence ~1-6% in older adults per American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2021) desire admiration and status. Partners must elevate their image—wealthy, attractive, or socially prominent men.
A 2018 study in Personality Disorders found older narcissistic women often target younger or high-status partners for validation, discarding them when praise wanes. Relationships are transactional: They seek "trophies" or enablers, not equals.
See footnote 1 for the full NPD abuse crash course, because knowledge is the antidote to this poison. Paul, keep swinging—your stacks are the mic drop this administration's echo chamber deserves. What's next, RFK tweeting about circumcision risks while infants like Sa’Niya fade into the footnotes?
Footnote 1: Narcissistic Abuse Defined
Narcissistic abuse, which has some characteristics in common with paraphilias, or perversions, such as sexual sadism, pedophilia and necrophilia, is a pervasive form of emotional and psychological manipulation inflicted by individuals with narcissistic personality traits. It can occur online and/or in the real world. It involves tactics such as love-bombing (intense flattery followed by withdrawal), devaluation (qualities once praised are mocked, criticized or dismissed to erode self-worth, often using subtle put downs, backhanded compliments or silent treatments or 'ghosting'), narcissistic discard (abrupt withdrawal or cold detachment inwhich warmth, affection and attention disappear overnight after the narcissistic individual loses interest and 'ghosts' the victim, acting as if they never mattered; the narcissistic individual throws away the person they once idealized, showing how transactional and conditional their attachment truly was) and gaslighting and projection (denying hurtful actions or accusing victims of the very behaviors they're displaying, making victims doubt their reality).
In narcissistic abuse, there are often acts of kindness but these are manipulative and are alternated with abuse.
These cycles create confusion, isolation, and dependency.
A key mechanism is trauma bonding (also termed trauma-coerced attachment), where intermittent abuse is interspersed with affection, forging a powerful emotional attachment that traps victims despite the harm.
This phenomenon was first detailed by Dutton & Painter (1981) in their seminal paper on traumatic bonding in abusive relationships.
The devastating effects on victims of predators like Kathleen include:
• PTSD-like symptoms: Flashbacks, hypervigilance, nightmares.
• Anxiety & depression: Chronic self-doubt, suicidal ideation.
• Loss of identity: Eroded self-esteeminability to trust others or self.
• Physical health decline: Insomnia, gastrointestinal issues, weakened immunity.
• Interpersonal fallout: Difficulty forming healthy relationships post-abuse.