Grokking Trumpists: Too Much and Never Enough
It's not the Trumpish mob today, just Donny himself and his patriarchal audience of one, Fred Trump, who funneled most of his fortune into propping up the myth of The Donald. Mary Trump gave us the...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: Strangers in a Strange Land
Why are Tea Partiers so confused? Why do those who suffer environmental depredations and disasters from oil companies hate the EPA? Perverse political and financial incentives plus fear. But how?...
View ArticleGood News Thursday: What Next?
The complaints about the Biden Administration from our side have begun. That is the best news possible. This is how a democratic republic is supposed to work, with meaningful debate and compromise....
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Grokking Trumpists: Undoing the Long Southern Strategy
We have looked at parts of the Trumpish mindset. Now we can put them together. Where did it come from? (Hint: Start with vicious Southern entitlement, and spread it around.) How has it worked? What...
View ArticleNew DK Group for Transcribing and Analyzing RW Radio
Kossack certainot, I, and others here have decided to take up certainot's suggestion to organize to take down Wrong Wing hate radio by capturing, transcribing, and analyzing their broadcasts so that...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: Converting KKK Members
Warning: Triggers. Daryl Davis devoted himself as a child to understanding racism, starting with a schoolgirl who called him a nigger. Later he decided to meet Klansmen and ask them. He says that he...
View ArticleCovid Vaccinations! The Beginning of Good News Numbers!
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: VACCINE DOSES ADMINISTERED IN U.S., 961,857MSNBC resumed its regular news broadcasts this morning, after taking all of Christmas day and night off. Ali Velshi, after a righteous...
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Grokking Trumpists: White Fragility
I am officially white in the US. Never mind that none of my diverse ancestors were when they arrived here. All of them got promoted by Whitey later on, with a plan to make the Irish and so on enemies...
View ArticleCovid Vaccinations Worldwide, Dec. 14-28
The Trump Maladministration has backed off from claiming 20 million covid vaccinations in the US by 12/31, to 20M doses shipped. Nope. Not another 9M in the remaining three days of the year, with only...
View ArticleGeorgia! Record Voting! Kornacki!
More votes have been cast in the current Georgia Senate runoffs than any other runoffs in the state's history. Biden won the state in November by 0.2%, with a margin of 11,711 votes. But just now on...
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Good News Thursday: Joe the President is Coming
2020 will be over tonight, and not a moment too soon. Let the New Year celebrations begin! Parties! Elections in Georgia! A new Congress will be sworn in, and receive the report of the Electoral...
View ArticleToday with Renewable Charlie
I left off collecting renewable energy, electric vehicle, and other Global Warming stories when I started my Grokking Republicans Diary series. Now, however, I can draw on Renewable Charlie/Charlie...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: Starving the Beast
The original Starve the Beast policy is widely known: tax cuts for the rich to bust the Federal budget and force cuts to social programs for Blacks. But tax cuts have been taken much further, and have...
View ArticleYesterday with Renewable Charlie, 1/10/2021
Here is a hybrid car that can do 0-300 km/hr in less than 12 seconds, and various electric car news. I am working on a production process for these new Renewables and EV Diaries so that I can set a...
View ArticleYesterday with Renewable Charlie, 1/11/2021
Cars, car battery swap stations, trucks with solar-powered refrigeration, e-bike parking, 107 meter wind turbine blades, carbon-neutral rocket fuel. And we can look forward to the Biden climate agenda...
View ArticleFreedom OF and FROM Religion Week
The First Amendment is explicit about Freedom FROM Religion: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" and OF religion: "nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof." But Rs...
View ArticleGood News Thursday: The Twice-Impeached President's Karmic Legacy
Oh, Trumpy-Wumpy, what can we do with you and yours? We have been slowly, slowly, getting over the Civil War, and you tried to take us back to before the Revolution, to The Madness of King George III,...
View ArticleGood News Thursday: The Koolaid is Drying Up
Day 2: Our impeachment managers showed the truth, and some Rs thought it was all Hell. (H/T Harry Truman) Their karma is catching up with them. Not just doing evil, but teaching tens of millions of...
View ArticleRush Limbaugh Has Died; His Hate Marches On
Rush Limbaugh is dead of lung cancer. But he is not off the air. He will be in reruns forever, and he has several disciples carrying on in the same vein. We still have our work cut out for us to sever...
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Covid Vaccines for the Rest of the World
You Think The U.S. Has Vaccine Issues? 130 Countries Haven't Even Started VaccinatingSee #COVAX on Twitter. This program has just started vaccine deliveries to 60 of those countries. For example,Paul...
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