Grokking Trumpists: Becoming Lucifer
Clearly the big political and social shift of this year is Black Lives Matter, after centuries of systemic racism: enslavement, Jim Crow with ceremonial Klan lynchings, and lately community-sanctioned...
View ArticleBREAKING: Republican Speaker Booted from Convention for Boosting Qanon and...
BREAKING—WITH TRIGGERSRNC Speaker Mary Ann Mendoza Cancelled After Boosting QAnon Conspiracy Theory About Jewish Plot to Enslave the WorldYes, this is about the infamous Mother of All Modern Conspiracy...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: The End of White Christian America
Does everyone know that that lying, hypocritical [BLEEEEEP] Jerry Falwell, Jr. is out of Liberty University on his, let's say, ear, for years of three-ways with the pool boy? What a fitting metaphor...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: A New Book List
Trump & Co. are the epitome and attempted apotheosis of White male fear, hatred, and grift, far beyond what I wrote about in Grokking Republicans six years ago. Fortunately, the research has kept...
View ArticleGood News Thursday: It Will Take a While to Get Used to #SoMuchWinning
We are going to win big in November, the Presidency and Congress and so many states, and there will be #SoMuchWinning that Rs will immediately get tired of it, and then so much more that many of them...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: I Can't Today—What's on Your Mind?
Sorry, I can't manage a Diary on the science of Trumpism today. I have been mildly ill (NOT covid), sleeping very erratically, and with computer problems. But I have the new battery for the computer, I...
View ArticleDoJ Impanels Grand Jury for Criminal Probe into Bolton Book
From the Shooting Themselves in All of Their Feet Dept.—Trump's DoJ is intent on raising John Bolton's book, The Room Where It Happened, to the top of the best-seller lists again. Lookit all of this...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: Prius or Pickup?
The fight over Ruth Bader Ginsburg's replacement on SCOTUS puts into stark relief many R and D Culture Wars issues. We can understand them more clearly with four questions about parenting. As we saw...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: Dying of Whiteness
The bad news for White, Right-wing Americans is their higher death rate from numerous causes. But our author found good news, too. We are not as polarized as it seems with all of the single-issue...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: Why We're Polarized
We are polarized by our identities, which some politicians have weaponized against other identities. How did we get that way? What can we do about it? Those are Ezra Klein's questions.Why We're...
View ArticleGood News Thursday: Cease From Evil
To relieve suffering in the world, first don't add to it. Don't suffer yourselves, so that we don't lay our suffering off onto others the way Republicans do. Then we get to fix their messes. Then we...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: The Trump Death Cult
I can't say this too strongly. Trump has turned his party into a personal Death Cult. His acolytes not only threaten violence against the rest of us, but risk death as a political statement. There is...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: Authoritarian Nightmare
We know how [authoritarian followers] are created, where they are concentrated, how they think, why they are so easily led, why they are so aggressive, and even a lot that they do not know about...
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Grokking Trumpists: Pogo's Jack Acid vs. John Birch, Tea Parties, and Qanon
The Jack Acid Society Black Book was a sharp parody of the John Birch Society Blue Books, funded by Fred Koch, father of the brothers. The book still works on everything from the Tea Parties to...
View ArticleGood News Thursday: They Smashed the Overton Window to Flinders
So we get to install a new one, a beautiful, energy-efficient picture window with no more distortions. On every major issue, a majority favors progressive measures, but we have been held back by...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: Vote Like You Mean Business
Two days to go. You do mean it, don't you? I hear that 94% of Kossacks have voted early. Good. Now, each of you bother the other 6%, and your friends and neighbors and relations, and get to any public...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: Hungry Ghosts
In Buddhism, those who give themselves over entirely to greed are said to become hungry ghosts, unable to eat or drink normally. The Japanese word for hungry ghost, gaki, is commonly applied to spoiled...
View ArticleThursday Good News: President-in-Waiting Biden Takes Charge
There can be only one President at a time. But what if there is none? Then President-Elect Joe Biden becomes President-in-Waiting Joe, and tackles all of the issues facing the country, starting with...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: Lewser
Karl Marx: "Hegel remarks…that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur…twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce." Thus Trump Schadenfreude day, not science...
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Grokking Trumpists: Paranoia is No Longer Just a Style
Wariness of predators and enemy tribes was once a survival trait. Paranoid schizophrenia, with delusions of persecution and grandeur, is not. So we must take outbreaks of paranoia-like delusion, like...
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