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Status quo bias is difficult to overcome. Republicans are using several techniques to win 2024 and destroy our democracy. Chief among them is making government ineffective by gumming up the works with all their crap.
The news is full of breathless speculation on who I2I4 will choose as his VP. Frankly, it is just more normalization of Trump’s abnormality. I mean, Senator Rubio is on the list. For God’s sake, has anyone learned anything about the gross caricature of a human meat puppet? […]
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Being autistic in the neuronomral world is dangerous. If an autistic person wants to have a job or relationships with neuronormal people, we need to mask our autism. It is a sad reality.
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Many pixels have been sent careering around the Interwebs speculating about Trump sleeping during his court proceedings. I’m anxious to know what you think. I’ve laid out my theories, now let me hear yours.
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There are legitimate and all too human reasons that the neurotypical world reacts so badly to the neurodivergent. With some understanding of the causes, we can begin to develop empathy and accommodations for neurodiversity.
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After four days in Guangzhou, I realized just how effectively the Chinese are transitioning to electric vehicles and renewable energy sources. Why are we still dragging our heels when they are going to bury us in good cheap affordable vehicles?
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This one is a bit of a stream-of-consciousness thing kinda like Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying.” And, it involves the IRS, tax avoidance, and autism, so there’s that.
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With all obvious and explicit support for Putin’s goals in Ukraine, can there be any doubt that Russian propagandists are tutoring the GOP?
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We all know Trump is a textbook narcissist, so why does anyone wonder when he pursues asinine goals in asinine ways? He’s a narcissist surrounded by sycophants who are eager to pick up whatever crumbs they can from him and goose-step the guilty outback of the kangaroo courts, line them up, and shoot them.
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Happy Autism Awareness Day to all who celebrate! Let’s kick off Autism Acceptance Month with challenge to change your paradigm!
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What do you think? Are the Republicans resigning from the House being courageous leaders putting the country first or are they being cowardly and allowing MAGA to continue running amok?
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Daniel Kahneman the co-founder of behavioral economics with the late Amos Tversky has died at age 90. Ye Olde Blogge has used his work to predict elections and explain the politics of our age. He will be missed.
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That the airwaves and etherways are clogged with the detritus of Republican mis and disinformation is no mystery. The only real question is, how to counter it. As it turns out the snarky, sarcasticky, and profaney among us have been right all along! Vicious mockery works, who knew?
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Weigh in with your thoughts on who is going to be Trump’s angel and put up the money for his NY fraud judgment. Who will he auction or national secrets off to? Is anyone out there still thinking he’s worth the risk? He is the man with the feculent touch, after all.
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We face perilous times as the outrage industrial complex seeks to make a horserace by equating Trump’s dementia with Biden’s usual verbal gaffs, mix that with a public that can’t tell fact from opinion, and stakes are high
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Trump has the feculent touch. He couldn’t make the 6 January Insurrection succeed. He’s not going to do the bidding of the conservative movement if he’s returned to office. It’s gonna be all the grift all the time and no one is stealing his limelight.
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Just when you thought it was safe to protest vote, Clayton Jones of Claytoonz reminds us of the actual stakes.
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It was Johnson’s first SOTU as Speaker and it showed. The usual reactions as part of the peanut gallery just won’t due when you’re on the podium in every shot with Ol’ Smokin’ Joe Biden throw haymakers. Dissect Johnson’s tells with us as we relive SOTU.
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Four minutes and a smile could save our democracy from the #GOPDystopia! #ScienceFact: smiling improves the way you perceive the world. Things don’t seem so big, bad, or terrible when you smile or you see someone smiling!
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The entire country is stuck in a miasmatic malaise of endless government shutdowns, obviously corrupt judicial decisions, legislativeless Congresses, shrinking Civil Rights, and continual climate disasters all against the thunderous backdrop of gun violence, murder, and mayhem, which had eroded our collective mental health.
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