Category Archives: America

Donald Trump – The President Of Vice (12-4-24)

01:00 Vice is bad, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/opinion/donald-trump-vice-voters.html03:00 Commentary mag: There Are Nations in Crisis—Just Not Ours, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqSB6OeDxow08:20 Among Transition hiccups, Trump survives stuff that no political mortal could survive, says Mark Halperin, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/among-transition-hiccups-trump-survives-stuff-that/id1573813504?i=100067924014212:00 Humor & Morality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15804219:00 Variations in Moral Concerns across … Continue reading

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Variations in Moral Concerns across Political Ideology: Moral Foundations, Hidden Tribes, and Righteous Division

From The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (2022): * Traditional Conservatives (19 per cent). This group is patriotic, religious, moralistic, and tends to lament what it perceives as the gradual erosion of a bygone and glorified American way of life. … Continue reading

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Decoding the Trump Transition (12-3-24)

04:00 Hunter Pardon, Day 2, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sme1_gt4GJM11:00 The “If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Keep Your Doctor” Pardon and Kash Patel,https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/the-if-you-like-your-doctor-you-can17:30 Say Nothing tv show, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_Nothing_(TV_series)19:30 Americans used to be known for their plain speech, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0arXVZ72hvI24:20 Inflation was the result … Continue reading

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‘Trump Is De-Stereotyping Republican Foreign Policy’

Stereotypes are useful when they correlate with reality (such as different groups have different gifts). Stereotypes are not useful when you insist that different groups have inherent qualities that explain all of their actions. Regarding an out-group as inherently evil, … Continue reading

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Decoding Trump 2.0: The Shock & Awe Version (12-1-24)

01:00 I was ahead of the game until I took that supplement to get my chi moving04:00 Trump’s Next Move: The Legal Battle That Could Change EVERYTHING, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewE5SEkFnTM07:00 Conservative Host WALKS OFF Show After CoHost Calls Her A NAZI, https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5012229-trump-dei-merit/24:15 … Continue reading

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