Ira the Weatherman
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- Aug 25, 2019
If anything, it's improved them for me. At first it was kinda eerie hearing him transition into Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain mode, because it just cements how buttfuckingly insane he is, but a few minutes into it I was roaring with laughter when he was doing the "Yes, child. No, child. Yes, child" thing over and over again. Imagining his tweets with that voice makes it a lot more bearable to sift through his insufferable musings.
I honestly doubt that, actually. TDS and Twitter dopamine rushes explain some of his behaviour, but definitely not all of it. The constant lying and fanciful tales he spins about his own prowess, the incessant lecturing of others about everything, his pathological need to respond to every criticism or shitpost. These are not the hoofprints of your average, God-fearing checkmark. Most of them will slavishly tow the woke line, cowering and prostrating themselves whenever they do something to offend the hivemind. Meanwhile Pat's arrogance will cause him to make serious progressive faux pas on occasion, and he will double down when called out. In the past he's pigsplained to trannies, and now he's defending them by going full Michael Richards.
It's very likely that most of his awful character traits that we see on full display now existed within him for most of his life, maybe just subdued. We don't see many signs of him being a cunt during his marriage, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. A happily-married pregnant woman isn't going to jump ship on a whim, there has to be some incentive. Jon's elephantine schlong was an obvious pull factor, but it's equally possible that Rick was an emotionally absent or abusive partner who didn't show signs of being a provider. This seems to be corroborated by his self-pitying descriptions of the divorce process, and by his petty choice never to be a part of his daughter's life, just because he valued his personal sense of betrayal more.
My personal headcanon is that Paul S. Tomlinson was indeed a lot more normal back in the late 2000s. He had his personal issues but they wouldn't have been noticable to anyone who wasn't intimate with him, and he didn't feel the need to act on them because his life was in a happy place. Then Ade divorces him and he has a mental breakdown, followed by a midlife crisis. This causes him to cope through re-inventing himself in his own mind as some rockstar tough guy intellectual, instead of the careerless insecure cuck he truly is. He ditches his old, unapologetically dweeby attire and glasses for leather coats and more boyish hairdos. His inner thoughts and attitude become even more cunty and self-centred, deluding himself into believing his own lies to build his ego back up.
Then he starts taking real interest in Twitter at the height of Orange Man Bad, a place where being as vile as humanly possible isn't only socially acceptable but encouraged, provided it's aimed at the right targets. Rick's subconcious confuses the thousands of likes he gets for spouting pre-approved opinions with actual validation of his person and his increasingly delusional self-image, and he becomes as hooked as a crack addict. And the rest, as they say, is Pigstory.
Christ Almighty, that was rough. Legitimately the worst bombing I've ever seen. Even the "what's the deal with shoes" woman managed to get a few nervous pity laughs.
