Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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A "zen" psychologist voted for Pete in NH as a last act as a Dem and then dropped out of the party to Independent because she can't stand the Trump derangement syndrome on the left anymore. Had already been part of the "Walk Away" movement. Thinks Dems are going to get an ass kicking in Nov. because of their irrational anger about Trump and Trumpies and their supposed racism. Her Feb. 11 article on medium.com, which I link to, got 26K likes and she has a new big fan club on Twitter, with the article pinned at the top of the page as a welcome:
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This piece is funny because it objects to demonizing people while describing the great time had doing just that at a rally.
The Basket Case Party grows daily.
by moat on Thu, 02/20/2020 - 9:08pm
well I just thought it intriguing in that she apparently found the online lefties more abhorrent, nastier. It's that righteous indignation thing, the zealotry?
Whereas a lot of Trumpie hate at rallies is tongue-in-cheek stuff targeted in the end at leftie zealotry (granted, much admittedly faux), they are victims of zealotry finally having fun...
her background in trying to teach people to be "zen" in their workplaces and such, that also makes her opinion a little intriguing to me on what she considers the most egregious behavior...
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/21/2020 - 5:17am
The thing about Trump rallies, both in the 1916 election process and the constant refresher sessions convened since, is that a list of people are presented who are causing the loss of power and control that the participants remember or imagine having in the past.
What other people do or say is not information that requires a reaction. The "Left" is not composed of the voices who differ in their opinions from their Group. The Left is an organized structure of power that is most dangerous because of the way it operates without calling attention to itself. The Deep State bullshit imagines that our Government is driven by a hidden agenda rather than simply being the efforts of people to do the work given to them through the process of legislation and executive design.
So, the emphasis Borysenko puts on zeal and people hating each other is beside the point. My family members who Trump the trump do not attempt to understand that I am not a part of any of these factors they see controlling their world. What I like, dislike, or despise, simply does not exist.
by moat on Fri, 02/21/2020 - 8:05pm
The appearance of the unverified one below demonstrates the disconnect I am describing.
Nobody self identifies as "snowflakes." The animus directed to the group can be very antagonistic because it has no consequences. The important quality to note in the taunt is not the adolescent quality of its delivery but that it challenges nobody to do anything about anything.
The same absence can be seen in all the theories that imagine Billionaires, who became such by working the system of Capital successfully enough to have that wealth, are secretly Marxists. It is a stupid idea. Many Trumpsters think it is true.
The unverified one never gets tangled up in issues of discrimination or unequal application of the law. All such applications to fairness along those lines are only requests for special treatment.
The point of view is hermetically sealed. There is no way in or out.
by moat on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 7:30pm
Adolf Jr, live!!! Funnier than the original (growing up off-Broadway really helps - practice, practice, practice!!!
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 1:17am
It's great theater watching the snowflake Party self destruct leaving Bolshevik Bernie and Mini Mao Mike as its grave diggers.
by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 1:40am
Jason Stanley, professor of Philosophy @ Yale and published author including Random House's How Propaganda Works and How Fascism Works; The Politics of Us and Them...
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 4:07am
Well, Peter - see you've been off working on your aphorisms.
Remember, Vlad will sell us the rope with which to hang ourselves. But you knew that.
Tell me, how'd you come out of the 60's supporting Russian expansionism and intrigue, while foaming against anything to make our economic system more fair? And where ya been these last weeks as Trump's non-trial ignored all the evidence of Trump using *all* the levers of government to queer a political deal for his personal interests?
Now that Stone's joined Manafort & Flynn & Randy Credico & Papadopoulos, all tied closely to Trump's election campaign, in the "officially guilty of helping Russia interfere with our election" despite Barr & Trump trying to swing their trials & dangling pardons - how's your theory of "Deep State" doing, considering Trump & Barr are head of that Deep State, and appointed half the people they complain about? Whatcha gonna say when Rudy bites the big turd? more lame schoolboy taunts?
Just curious - do you consider yourself an intellectual?
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 4:32am
PP, you and Art seem to be all that remains of the impotent snowflake resistance here at the Dag. It must be painful l to watch as hoax after hoax fails while more and more people walk away from the TDS infected Mob. You've been reduced to parroting your own failed narratives like a puppy chasing its tail.
We are at war now with no quarter asked or given, New Rules, We Win You Lose.
by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 1:57pm
Trump cronies have been indicted and gone to prison. Cult members filed to convict Trump. Trump is an impeached President.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 2:17pm
oooh beeeg warrior man on the internet!!! slaying the snowflakes!!! Yeah Wolraich's been so busy going to Trump rallies he didn't realize we were still here licking our wounds.
Why you even bother to lapse into that delusional agitprop crap here, that's the only thing that interests me about it. Is it an addiction or what? Do you have manhood issues, does it make you feel better?
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 2:59pm
Art, I'm merely [acting like an insilting asshole - deleted. Do better. - PP]
by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 02/26/2020 - 2:35pm
Trump is in India praising Modi.
Here in the US, he can't get coordination between his economic advisor and the CDC.
Your rhetoric suggests that you are stuck in the 1940s. Anyone who opposed the bullying tactics used to make people conform were labeled Communists. Such a label was placed on Martin Luther King Jr. Your nonsense went over better in its original German.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 02/26/2020 - 2:48pm
I should clarify, we do not need to go to Germany to understand your partisan venom.
For white Liberals, there is the memory of Joseph McCarthy who called everybody under the sun a Communist.
For blacks, there is the memory of single party tyranny, lynching, and white supremacy during Jim Croow.
We have seen your sick, pathetic type before.
Could Trump win re-election? Yes.
Will we give up? No.
In the end you will fail in your attempted overthrow of democracy.
Like scared dictators and their underlings, of the past, you will consume yourselves fighting for purity. Tillerson, Sessions, Bannon, Pruitt, etc are gone. Trump has gone to a college student to do his hiring. Cohen, Flynn, Manafort, Papadoupolos, Pinedo, van der Zwaan, Gates, and Stone have been sentenced or are awaiting sentencing.The stench remains.
Trump could be re-elected, but like MLK, I'm not fearing any man. History will record the evil done by this administration. We survive.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 02/26/2020 - 3:55pm
commie snowflake degenerate SJWs or antifa punks rapid snowflake retardation commie liberals
This piece of shit just comes here to insult us. He has nothing to add or nothing to debate. Should we debate whether we are commies, or degenerate, or retarded? This needs to stop.
by ocean-kat on Wed, 02/26/2020 - 3:45pm
It's quite rewarding seeeing how easy it is to get you to piss your pants now that We Win You Lose is the new paradigm.
You can't shield your fellow quislings from the reality outside their bubble even if you stay up day and night.
by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 02/26/2020 - 4:42pm
Thanks for proving the point. You have no reasonable response.
We are watching your impeached political Chosen One crumble as he realizes that he has dismantled the portion of the health system designed to keep us safe. Instead of concern about the health of citizens, he worries that the stock market is falling. He proves himself to be incompetent.
The truth of the matter is that there are more of us than there are of you. Trump can win, but this time more attention will be paid to key electoral college states. Your only chance of survival is voter suppression and foreign help in the upcoming election.
I find you amusing. Nothing you have said is coherent. Can foreign intervention and voter suppression elect an authoritarian? Yes, we saw that in 2016. The position most Democratic voters have taken is that they will vote for the candidate left standing at the end. Trump has done nothing to build his reach. Democrats had high turnout in the midterms and special elections. Trump can be re-elected. Putin is already at work.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 02/26/2020 - 5:35pm
To be honest most people are simultaneously amused and terrified by Trump and his supporters
Trump said that his investigators were finding proof that Obama was not born in the United States
In his inauguration speech, Trump called those who did not vote for him "enemies"
Trump insulted a Republican war hero
Trump insulted a Muslim Gold Star family
Trump told Congresswomen of color to leave the country
Trump lies on a daily basis
Trump holds children in concentration camps
You are proud to support Trump
You come here with kindergarten level insults.
You receive no respect, because you have earned no respect.
Each of your posts confirms the low opinion people have of you.
You are not bright enough to mount a rational response to objections people have about your impeached, racist, lying leader, so I expect you will respond with more infantile prattling nonsense. This will result in more laughter.
At the same time, no rational person will bend the knee to Trump. Trump can be re-elected, but as I said, Trump can't win.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 02/26/2020 - 11:08pm
Translation:
I have nothing to add to the conversation here. But there is something wrong or lacking in my life or psychology that causes me to want to insult people. That's why I come here, to insult people.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 3:13pm
I admit I waz tempted to bring up the "incel" word. Probably better: drama queen.
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 3:13pm
[deleted - as OK says, if you have anything real to discuss , let's hear it. Not gonna go more rounds of juvenile insults]
by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 6:17pm
just stupid insult after insult. Is there anything you'd like to discuss or debate?
by ocean-kat on Sat, 02/22/2020 - 6:59pm
Aaron has more. Recommended by Andrew:
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/23/2020 - 3:18am