Suckers and Losers: Trump’s Divisiveness is Destroying our Country
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How bad are Trump’s derisive comments about the US military being suckers and losers? Bad. Real bad. That kind of divisiveness is destroying the country
‘Get a Weapon’ — A Story of Deployment, Sexual Harassment, and Sexism from The Atlantic
Reading time: 1 minute
We need to develop everyday empathy with the people we encounter in our daily lives. That is to have a better understanding of their experience and our contributions to it.
This is a reblogged story of a woman’s experience working in Iraq shortly after the fall of Baghdad. It helped me understand the constant corrosive nature of sexism on women, which can easily be extended to the constant corrosive nature of racism on PoC’s.
The Press has Adopted Trump’s Reality-Show Standards – The Atlantic
Why is the press such a useful idiot when it comes to conservative lies, diversions, conspiracy theories, and other transparent manipulations? Prospect theory and loss aversion hold the answers, but it don’t make it no better. Can one of our pillars of democracy stand up and save our democracy? Please? Does it have to be We The People? I guess so.
The Rising Authoritarian Tide of the Republican Party
My now defunct Twitter feed was littered with tweets declaring that the Republican Party was an anti-democratic authoritarian bent on creating a single-party pseudo-democratic state in order to further enrich the one percent. In this argument, the Ol’ Pussy Grabber is nothing more than a means to an […]
America: the Split Brain Version
Reflecting on the disastrous Supreme Court decisions of late, I’ve come to the realization that it isn’t the United Fucking States of Fucking Stupid, it is the United Fucking States with the Split Fucking Brain. Our collective left hand don’t know what the fuck the collective right hand […]
The Lost ICE Children Traumatized all the Decent People in America
As a part-time blogger and a full-time citizens not only do I have difficulty keeping up with all of the mishegas overflowing the Ol’ Pussy Grabber’s enormous immoderate sibaritist gut, I have trouble even keeping my head above water. The Ol’ Pussy Grabber is attempting to drown us […]
How the U.S. Lost Its Mind — The Atlantic
While it lacks the snarky, sarcasticky, and profaney extras that it would have had had I wrote it, it is still worth reading for its information and its thoughtfulness: how the fuck did we get here?
America’s Sexual-Assault Epidemic – The Atlantic
So many powerful men in industries are being accused of sexual assault, harassment, and impropriety AND they are suffering consequences because of it. Not only does this article document the scope of the accusations this year, it discusses the reasons it seems to be happening so much more frequently.
Trump Breaks a Taboo—and Pays the Price – The Atlantic
Narcissists believe that rules don’t apply to them, so the Ol’ Pussy Grabber violates one of America’s most highly regarded taboos with reckless aplomb. Will he pay the price or are we too far gone?
I Told You So! As Told by an Atlantic and a FiveThirtyEight Article
The Atlantic and FiveThirtyEight have each published articles about how the GOP is now collectively scratching their collective ass and wondering how to get rid of the dead rat stuck in the wall. Coulda just read my blog cause I TOLD YOU SO!
The 1850s Response to the Racism of 2017 – The Atlantic
Everything a good person does must be good, right? It just stands to reason, don’t it? That’s what the slavers in the 1850’s and 1860’s thought then, and it is what the apologists think now. Read excerpts from The Atlantic of 1850 countering the same arguments you hear being made today. Sad.
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