Happy Birthday, Shirley Chisholm!
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Join Ye Olde Blogge in commemorating Shirley Chisholm’s life and legacy! Commit to voting rights! Commit to mass peaceful protest! Post about Chisholm’s life and legacy on her birthday.
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It's been five long years of blogging the Trump years. We've laughed, we've cried, we've pulled some of our remaining hair out, but we've made it. It is almost done and our democracy, nation, and souls are still largely intact. Unfortunately, we're not through.There is much more to come as we stitch ourselves back together like some kind of common Frankenstein monster as we recover from the PTSD that Trump gave us and the needless deaths and suffering from #COVID19. We also have to keep #BidenHarris honest & progressive, oppose Republican obstructionism anti-democratic tendencies, and whatever other black swans await us. All of which will be addressed using good old-fashioned snarcky, sarcasticky, profaney fun and psychological insights.
Whaz Up!?! Trypanophobia, Omicron, and the Week’s News
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It was a busy week, so not much to report… not much interesting, anyway. We’ve figured out a solution to trypanophobia but not for jokes about the omicron variation and lots of reading recommendations.
Should We Be the Beatles or the Stones? Whither Goes the States?
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Should the US make like the Beatles and break up or the Stones and stay together? Which is better for us as a country and a world? It’s a tough question.
Whaz Up!?! The Anniversary of Robert Johnson’s Blues Recording at the Gunter Hotel
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It was a busy week with the Cambodian Water Festival, 10 KM training, going down to 82.5 KG, the anniversary of JFK’s assassination, Tamir Rice’s murder, Robert Johnson’s recording, and lots and lots of pretty fascinating reading! It was quite a week at Ye Olde Blogge!
MAGA Nation Traumatized and Why You Should Care
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When you compare the behavior of the rank and vile to the symptoms of trauma survivors, they look pretty much the same. Suffering from mass psychosis has traumatized MAGA Nation. Their anger and outrage will only get worse.
Happy Birthday, President Biden!
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Join Ye Olde Blogge in wishing President Biden a happy birthday. I hope all his birthday wishes come true!
Coping with your MAGA Relatives during the Festivus Season
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Festivus is fast approaching and we’ve all got to get through the Airing of Grievances and the Feats of Strength without actually coming to blows with our MAGA relatives. Luckily, Ye Olde Blogge is here with some timely advice on how to cope with your favorite drunk rage uncle.
Whaz Up!?! The World Kindness Day, edition
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We’ve had a big week in which Ye Olde Blogge celebrates World Kindness Day by rescuing a sparrow and encouraging sixth graders. And, we managed to read from our blog roll, AGAIN!
“Elite of the left behind” or Democracy is Too Much of a Risk, Give Us White Minority-Rule Autocracy Instead
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Sociologist, Arlie Hochschild, describes MAGA Nation and the Insurrectionists as the elite of the left behind. I describe them as seeing democracy as too much of a risk that a Black or Brown will be elevated, minority-rule autocracy is a sure thing.
Behavioral Economics Predicts The Inner Racist of White People Will Destroy Democracy for Right to be White
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White people have an inner racist. That inner racist needs to be tamed by direct confrontation by its owner. Most white people don’t have what it takes to do so, so they vote based on racist dog whistles like CRT and defund the police. Simple as that.
Whaz Up!?! The Really Really Big Week, edition
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We’ve had a really really big week here! Started training for the Angkor Wat Half Marathon, found normally white fonts turned red, got a mention over at MBRU, and I’m spread way too thin! Read all about it!
How Big Business Got Woke and Dumped Trump — But Maybe It’s Not True Anymore?
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Time recently published an article outlining out Jeffrey Sonnenfeld marshalled America’s CEOs to oppose the Republican authoritarian power grab from the Big Lie to the 6 January Insurrection to voter suppression and nullification laws, but their enthusiasm for that opposition has fractured and grown confused just like our electorate’s has.
We Made Nice with Racists, Now We are #ZombieNation
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Suburban white voters once again powered a GQP victory seduced by the sweet Siren song of racist dog whistling. Maybe we really should just divide ourselves into red and blue countries and dissolve the United States.
Whaz Up!?! Biking Through Cambodia and Mixing “The Magic Flute” and “Reamkar”
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A LOT happened! We mixed “The Magic Flute” and the Cambodian epic poem “Reamkar,” went on a long bicycle trip through OLD Cambodia, Halloween, and Dias de los Muertos and everything!
Charles Koch, Racial Animus, Critical Race Theory Furor, and What to Do About It
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Anyone who supports either the Big Lie or the 6 January Insurrection false flag theory are clearly anti-democratic. It is clear that the goal is to create this single-party pseudo-democratic minority-rule autocracy that will quickly and efficiently transfer the nation’s wealth to the one percent, all them to intimidate all rivals, and duke it out with China as they divvy up the remainder of the world’s natural resources.
How the GQP Divisive Politics is Destroying the American Way of Life
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United we stand; divided we fall, so why is the GQP deliberately dividing us with its divisive politics? They want us to fall. How do we beat them? We aren’t divided. To save our democracy, we must find ways to reach those in MAGA Nation and convince them to leave it.
Whaz Up!?! Appalachian Roots, Edition (Monday 25 October 2021)
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All the happenings from the week at Ye Olde Blogge! We’ve got Appalachian roots exploration, #COVID19 Cambodian news, what we’ve been reading, and friends of Ye Olde Blogge.
The Girl Who Taught Me About Gender Identity and Ambiguity Tolerance
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Here’s an amusing little anecdote about how I met a child a year ago and assumed she was a he and the shocking way her true gender and gender identity was revealed to me.
Understanding Transphobia: Conflicting Gender Cues Irritates Ambiguity Intolerance
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Tolerating ambiguity clusters with other personality traits: liberals are more tolerant, conservatives, less. In some senses, trans people are the ultimate in ambiguity because they give mixed gender identity signals.
Conspiracy theorists lack critical thinking skills: New study — The New Daily
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Let’s say we actually do survive as a liberal democracy. What do you do with your favorite drunk uncle then? How do we continue existing as a nation with MAGA Nation after they’ve gone to such extremes? How do we help rescue people from the pit of conspiracy theories?
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