Fear is a core psychological and biological emotion that often overrules logic. That’s according to Arash Javanbakht, a neuroscientist who specializes in trauma. Fear is one of our most intimate feelings, which is why it can be so easily abused in tribal politics. The Republican Party learned this decades ago, and has mastered that abuse. The…
Category: Fear
MUST WATCH – Lincoln Project: “Doc”
which uses Doc Rivers and his remarks last week, and ties it to so much more it does so in a way that directly addresses what Trump and others tried to do in their “convention” it does so in a way that I think will appeal to those reachable in the suburbs — and elsewhere…
Whistleblower Requests Federal Protection, Fears for Safety. Updated X 3.
Never thought this could happen in America. I sure hope whoever runs the federal government isn’t working with Trump! https://t.co/3FNwrhKBRa — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 29, 2019
It's Not Just Capitol Hill Democrats Who Are Still Traumatized By The 2016 Election.
It may be a bit extreme to agree with the statement that Capitol Hill Democrats are suffering from some form of PTSD over Election 2016 (I think John Heleimann who said that), but I’m seeing things in the comments section here on Daily Kos that have me seriously concerned about some Democratic voters or even…
The GOP lost more than the House on Tuesday night. They lost their favorite talking point too.
The thrill is gone baby, the thrill is gone away BB King Just because I haven’t been writing for the last three days doesn’t mean that I have been idle. Far from it. I’ve been laying on the sofa, kicking my feet in the air, giggling like a two year old being tickled, and…
Oof! Stormy Daniels to release new book a month before midterms
Not sure if we need more details on Stormy Daniels’ “relationship” with Donald Trump (were the pages of that Forbes she spanked him with stuck together? exactly which species of shark does he hate the most?) but, alas, you’re going to get them. With Bob Woodward’s Fear taking up all the oxygen in the media troposphere these days,…
Watergate lawyer: Donald Trump will 'undoubtedly be impeached'
Sure, that headline might sound encouraging, but it’s a little like your doctor saying, “We’ll undoubtedly schedule surgery to get that wrought-iron fence post removed from your head. Someday. Sit tight. It will happen. Here’s a blister pack of Ibuprofen. Sorry, I already took most of them.” Anyway, Andrew Hall was a lawyer for John…
Woodward: Gary Cohn was 'astounded' by Trump's stupidity
Personally, I’m astounded that anyone could be astounded about how astoundingly stupid Donald Trump is, but apparently Gary Cohn once had enough faith in Trump to think he wouldn’t be the presidential equivalent of a drunk howler monkey with diarrhea. From Bess Levin in Vanity Fair: According to an excerpt from Bob Woodward‘s Fear, the book out tomorrow that…
A tweet for ev-er-y-thing!
H/T Seth Abramson: x Only the Obama WH can get away with attacking Bob Woodward. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 1, 2013 Hoo-boy. In this inadvertently prophetic tweet, Trump was talking about the time the Obama administration hit back at Woodward because he’d criticized Obama’s decision to keep an aircraft carrier stateside due to budget constraints…
