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Election 2022 is shaping up to be the most consequential election since 2020! Democrats fear the loss of rights and our very democracy. The stakes are quite high. For Republicans, they have only their old tropes to stir up fear and angst with. Which will turn out the base?
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We evolved to be storytellers. We tell ourselves story; we tell each other stories; we spend billions a year on stories. How will the story that the 6 January Select Committee affect our national narrative?
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When the country is divided into thirds, everyone is a minority, and everyone is using minority influence. Learn what minority influence is, how the GOP has been using it against us, and how we can use it for us in the ’22 elections!
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Read all about our travels around Montmartre, especially if you love the cemeteries of Paris!
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We’re blogging live at you from Paris. Where we’re doing all the Paris things like drinking wine, eating cheese and baguettes, and drinking coffee and reading real god damn books in sidewalk cafes. And, we’ve read a bunch of other stuff from the Interwebs, too.
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Ever look at your favorite drunk uncle at Thanksgiving and think he seems like he’s a completely different species? Well, you’re not far off. There are real and significant differences between liberal and conservative brains, but they don’t have to define us.
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Wouldn’t it be nice if we knew the factors that made a mass shooter so we could look out for those things and maybe intervene before the mass shooting happened? You know with mental health services and stuff. WOW! We actually know what makes a mass shooter.
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We got a free gift upon arrival in Paris! The flu! Asmazingly, Paris is still fantastic
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Ye Olde Blogge has big big summer plans: sitting in sidewalk cafes, reading real books, sipping coffees, and wine eating cheese, baguettes, and croissants in PARIS! We’ll even blog from time-to-time.
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The very things that we evolved to help us become the most dominant species on the planet are the very things that are killing us now. Find out why we can’t have nice things and maybe never will. How are we worseing our problems?
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During this time of agitation and unrest after Roe v. Wade is overturned, SCOTUS liberalizes gun laws, and mass shootings, I thought we could all use reminding of how protests affect elections! #TakeItToThePolls
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What will it take for white America to perceive the sure loss of our democracy and take the risk of voting against Republicans? I don’t know that the evidence the 6 Jan Committee is broadcasting is sufficient to overcome white America’s racial animus.
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How will the GQP rat fuck the 22 election? They will do it from the inside out dismantling our democracy one elections official at a time. They will smeer a thin veneer of legality over the festering pile of shyte that they plan on making of the election.
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Find out why all the cool kids are wearing orange 3 – 5 June! It’s #wearorange weekend to commemorate the victims of gun violence. Join the fun!
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All the reasons that Jill Biden is loved as an extraordinary and inspiring human being. Please join Ye Olde Blogge in wishing her a happy birthday this 3 June!
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The main reason mass shootings are a unique American problem is because Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott and all of the pro-death, misery, and injury politicians in the GQP have been bought and paid for by the merchants of death. The dark tetrad explains why
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Why is it that the right to own a gun, any gun you wanna own, as many as you wanna own, and as much ammo as you wanna own outweighs everyone’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in MAGA Nation? Turns out, there is a solid cogent answer.
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How close is the US to facing an armed insurgency? Damn close. We’re already on the cusp of stage 3. We’re living in an anocracy. We have sharply divided identity politics dominated by white grievance. We are closer than most of us think.
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How narcissistic are the far-right evangelical christians? Very. They fit the criteria like they all have the same personality disorder. It makes them manipulable and destructive.
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Why does it seem like racially motivated extremism and violence and hate crimes are increasing in the US? Probably because they are. The right wing is fomenting anger, resentment, and violence among white people against non-whites.
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