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Category Archives: America
Trump vs Big Law (3-23-25)
01:00 People are turning to AI chatbots for empathy and advice, https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/empathy-chatbot-turing-therapist04:00 2Way: “He Is Salting the Earth”: Trump’s “Coming In and Laying Waste to These People With the Sword”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0V9iSiTgeg15:00 Axios: The robot empathy divide, https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/empathy-chatbot-turing-therapist17:00 FT: My date … Continue reading
WP: ‘Autocrats roll back rights and rule of law — and cite Trump’s example’
The Washington Post reports: Trump’s statements, policies and actions are providing cover for attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, freedom of expression and the rule of law around the world. Under Hungary’s antigay “propaganda” law, bookstores were fined for selling LGBTQ+ themed … Continue reading
Axios: ‘Trump’s 2025 seeks to reverse LBJ’s 1965’
Axios reports: Zoom out: Johnson’s Great Society has always been opposed by small-government conservatives, who argued that its programs went too far in expanding the federal bureaucracy and executive authority. Some conservatives argued that racial integration was anti-Christian and claimed … Continue reading
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What are the status markers in Jewish-American life, in Asian-American life, in WASP American life, in African-American life, in Mexican-American life, in evangelical Christian life, in academic life?
Grok says: Status markers in different cultural or social groups often reflect values, achievements, or affiliations that are prized within those communities. Below is an exploration of status markers in the specified groups within American life, based on general cultural … Continue reading
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What are the chances that America suffers a civil war in the next 20 years?
What are some possible scenarios for this to kick off? Grok says: As of March 21, 2025, the U.S. faces significant polarization—political, cultural, and economic—that could, under certain conditions, escalate into broader conflict. Studies like those from the 2022 book … Continue reading
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Why Doesn’t America Have Mateship?
Grok says: America doesn’t have “mateship” in the same way Australia does because the two cultures grew from different roots, shaped by history, geography, and social vibes. In Australia, mateship— that deep, loyal, egalitarian bond between mates—came out of necessity … Continue reading
Steve Bannon and Donald Trump may get the facts wrong, but they get the feelings right of tens of millions of Americans who feel unserved by our major institutions.
Grok says: Steve Bannon and Donald Trump might mangle details—dates, numbers, specifics—but they’ve tapped into a vein of emotion that runs deep and wide across America. Tens of millions feel it: a simmering frustration, a sense of being ignored, dismissed, … Continue reading
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Donald Trump vs America’s Elite
Grok says: Here’s an analysis of the Financial Times article titled “Donald Trump takes on America’s elite” (published March 20, 2025), focusing on its key points, arguments, tone, and implications. I’ll break it down systematically while keeping my perspective grounded … Continue reading
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Trump vs the Institutions
What changes is Trump causing in America’s elite institutions that were previously controlled by liberals and the left such as Big Law, Big Business, Big Media, Big Universities? Grok says: As of March 21, 2025, Donald Trump’s second presidency has … Continue reading
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How Do We Improve The U.S. Secret Service?
Carol Leonnig writes in this 2021 book, Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service: * He would be a Secret Service agent. Now, thirty years later, Gable had indeed fulfilled that mission. He was a member of … Continue reading
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