they have good plan and it is not for you

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How Trump’s Tariffs Will Impact Consumers Everything from apparel to wine is in Trump’s crosshairs. And low-and-middle-income Americans will face the brunt of the tariffs.

abusers will do whatever they can to isolate you from your friends and families

we WERE surrounded by allies and now we are nothing but fucking losers

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Senate budget would add more to the national debt than any other in history: watchdog The U.S. Senate is poised to pass a budget that could potentially add far and away more to the national debt than any legislation in history.Senate majority leader John Thune (R-SD) and Republicans on...

Abusers escalate - they will only ever do worse than before - every single fucking time

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The danger of Trump's "shock therapy" for America If happiness is connected to larger anti-democratic trends, then America's future is dire

the only thing abusers can give you is trauma because that is the only thing they have

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a chart that shows how republican presidents plunge us into unemployment and democratic presidents help us gain employment

Abusers escalate.

That is what they do.

Every republican administration has added to the debt, increased domestic turmoil, & decreased our safety.

Republicans only hurt us and they do it more and more each time they get into power.

All they have is abuse

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3 Types of Projection Neurotic projection is the most common variety of projection and most clearly meets the definition of defense mechanism. In this type of projection, people may attribute feelings, motives, or attitudes they find unacceptable in themselves to someone else. Complementary projection occurs when individuals assume others feel the same way they do. For example, a person with a particular political persuasion might take it for granted that friends and family members share those beliefs. Complimentary projection is the assumption other people can do the same things as well as oneself. For example, an accomplished pianist might take it for granted that other piano students can play the piano equally well. Psychological Projection Psychological projection is a defense mechanism people subconsciously employ in order to cope with difficult feelings or emotions. Psychological projection involves projecting undesirable feelings or emotions onto someone else, rather than admitting to or dealing with the unwanted feelings. Have you ever disliked someone only to become convinced that the person had a vendetta against you? This is a common example of psychological projection. Luckily, there are methods you can use to identify why you are projecting your emotions and put a stop to this coping mechanism. The Basics of Psychological Projection The theory of psychological projection was developed by Sigmund Freud, an Austrian psychologist commonly referred to as the "father of psychoanalysis." For this reason, psychological projection is sometimes called "Freudian projection." During his sessions with patients, Freud noticed that they would sometimes accuse others of having the same feelings they themselves were demonstrating. By engaging in this behavior, the patient was better able to deal with the emotions he or she was experiencing. The classic example of Freudian projection is that of a woman who has been unfaithful to her husband but who accuses her husband …

Developing emotional intelligence implies developing a cluster of innate qualities that help us in enhancing our mental well-being on a day-to-day basis. 5 Ways To Develop Emotional Intelligence 1. Identifying The Negative Emotions A large chunk of emotional intelligence lies in emotional management. How well we manipulate our feelings and efficiently use them makes us more resilient and immune to stress. When we can label the emotions that bring us down, we are less likely to get overwhelmed by external adversities and exhaust our mental energy. Wondering where to start? Here are some easy tricks that will make the task easier: When someone upsets you or uses harsh words, don't react immediately. Withdraw yourself from the heated situation and take some time to gather your thoughts and 'choose' your responses wisely. Do not jump to conclusions. Check yourself the moment negative thoughts start clouding up. In a time of distress, especially interpersonal conflicts, spare some moments to look into the matter from the other person's perspective. Try to get in his/her shoes and understand what made the person behave that way. Notice how your attitude changes the moment you start empathizing. 2. Self-Evaluation Before observing and understanding others, watch yourself. To develop E.I., we must learn to assess ourselves objectively and look into our actions from a bird's eye view. Challenge your thoughts by regularly asking yourself questions like: Am I thinking the right way? Should I have used those words today? How would I have reacted if I were in his/her place? Is there another way of looking into the matter? Am I on the right track? Is my family happy with me? Frequent encounters with the self enhance perception, creates humility, together which contribute to building E.I. 3. Self-Expression Self-expression and emotional intelligence go hand in hand. Without one, we cannot build the other. People who can identify and express their thoughts effectively and in a mor…

So, are you a victim of gaslighting manipulation? Take a look at the following tell-tale signs of gaslighting behavior Examples of Gaslighting 1. Blatant lying First, people who gaslight tell obvious lies. You know that they are lying. The issue is how they are lying with such ease. The gaslighter is setting up an abusive pattern. You begin to question everything and become uncertain of the simplest matters. This self-doubt is exactly what the gaslighter wants. 2. Deny, Deny, Deny Again, you know they said what they said. However, they completely deny ever saying it. The gaslighter may push the point and ask you to 'prove it,' knowing that you only have your memory of the conversation that they are denying happened. It starts to make you question your memory and your reality. You begin to wonder if the gaslighter is right, maybe they didn't really ever say what you remember. Consequently, more and more often, you question your reality and accept theirs. 3. Using what you love against you Additionally, people who gaslight use what is closest to you against you. If you love your job, they will find issues with it. If you have children, the gaslighter may force you to believe you should never have had them. This abusive manipulation tactic causes the victim to question the foundation of themselves as well as what they hold close. 4. The slow death of self One of the terrifying parts of gaslighting is the methodical timeline that the abuser uses. The manipulation happens gradually and over time the victim morphs into someone entirely different. The most confident human being can become a shell of a person without being aware of it in the process. The victim's individual reality diminishes and becomes that of the abuser. 5. Words vs. Actions Notably, a person who gaslights talks and talks. However, their words mean nothing. Therefore, it is important to look at what they are doing. The issues lie in their abusive actions towards the victim. 6. Love and flattery A common…

The biggest underlying problem with propaganda is not who is using it, but the extent to which it's used to the diminishment or exclusion of reason, science, fact and truth. The Seven Common Propaganda Devices Name calling "Labeling," in today's lingo; this basic technique amounts to Propaganda 101 and its origins reach all the way back to preschool. If you want to hurt someone, diminish their standing, intimidate them, or provoke them into ill- considered action, call them a bad name: Crooked. Tiny Hands. Bad names, according to IPA, "have ruined reputations, stirred men and women to outstanding accomplishments, sent others to prison cells, and made men mad enough to enter battle and slaughter their fellowmen." Glittering generalities This technique takes "big virtue" words to which many people are emotionally connected and attaches them to the ends favored by the propagandist. Make America Great. Hope and Change. However, these kinds of words mean different things to different people and can be used in different ways. "When someone talks to us about democracy, we immediately think of our own definite ideas about democracy, the ideas we learned at home, at school, and in church. Our first and natural reaction is to assume that the speaker is using the word in our sense, that he believes as we do on this important subject. This lowers our 'sales resistance' and makes us far less suspicious than we ought to be when the speaker begins telling us the things 'the United States must do to preserve democracy."" Testimonials This technique is used frequently in marketing and advertising. Propagandists will use testimonials to legitimize an idea or position. This technique makes use of the fact that we more easily attach to specific personal narratives than to general facts and dry statistics. The personal narrative, after all, is the format by which we experience ourselves. "Anne Frank" is more accessible and comprehensible than "six million" and thus carries more emotion…

A chart of an asshole - each pucker of the rose represents another spoke on the wheel of abuse - it includes things like abuse, exploitation, transphobia, misogyny, sexual assault

n The inability to tolerate discomfort n No self awareness n A lack of a strong internal sense of self that isn’t rooted in hate n Which creates a lack of selfactualization outside of racist tropes n Not being able to selfsoothe n An inability to sort out general information using a basic logic familiarity n No distinction between external fears & internal biases n A difficulty in changing perspective which translates into being trapped n Which all creates a self identify rooted in the persecution of others n Internally understanding these actions as wrong means that they will always doubledown because to do otherwise would dismantle their entire self Repeating this process is unsustainable. Come away from racism. Work on all of these faults within yourself. Learn how to change your brain.

1. Always distort the truth to make you seem favorable and frame the target of abuse as unfavorable. 2. Always misrepresent your motives to be beneficial while hiding the principles of abuse that are being used in whatever action is taken. 3. Frame any call to responsibility or consequences as invalid, and deny, deflect, distract, and attack the source of those calls. 4. Always promise what the targets of manipulation want, frame what you are doing as delivering what they ask for, and then do whatever you want anyway. 5. Undermine any circumstances that stand in your way for example if a wilderness area you want to exploit is pristine, get in and make an oil spill then there is nothing left to protect; or if you want to destroy public education install an abuser, destroy the agency, point at it as a failure of government and then implement your private education plan for profit. 6. Isolate the targets of abuse by dismantling support systems, cutting off access to resources, and opposing anything that could bolster the targets of abuse. 7. Always take the best and leave the least possible for the targets of abuse such as funneling PPE dollars to military contractors while heath care workers use trash bags for protection. 8. Always use unfavorable circumstances to your advantage and if possible, turn circumstances against the targets of abuse such as allowing COVID to ravage blue states while funneling dollars to red states. 9. Always blame the victim for anything bad that happens to them or anything that you do to them. 10. Always pretend to be the victim in any situation, co-opt any symbols or methods your targets use for selfdefense. 11. Never allow scrutiny of your actions and always reject any investigations. 12. Use high control, propaganda, fear, threats, and manipulation to manage the victims of abuse. 13. Never admit to any wrong. 14. Whatever you want to do is the only thing that is important and any suffering you cause along the way is inconsequential or ev…

A quadrant chart is a type of data visualization that divides a scatter plot into four quadrants, often used to identify trends, patterns, and relationships between two variables. THIS chart drafts the intersections of virtue and abuse - showing the most and least of each. The republican government exists in the most abuse and least virtue of the chart

Everything that is wrong with the GOP can be explained in these 4 charts

The principles of Abuse

The failures of racism

The Special Snowflake chart

The Virtue/Abuse Quadrant chart

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an extension of abuse culture is to put the onus on the victim

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Over and over and over again.
So, yes, @jamellebouie.net is right. The Right has sought to cultivate this idea that it has no agency for *generations*. No agency means no accountability. Power without accountability is what the Right has always sought in America. And I do mean *always*.

...It can't be *their* fault they lynched black men; they were "forced" to by the "illegitimate" Reconstruction Amendments and "carpetbaggers" from the North who empowered black men, thus putting "white necks under black heels" (Ben Tillman)

Crucially, though, it's a view that conservatives have cultivated for generations, especially around white grievance.
They claim it can't be *their* fault if they secede from the Union; they would be "forced" to by the North (Calhoun)...

I see this same dynamic in the materials I research. "Compromise" in the 19C literature often means Northerners who oppose slavery accommodating enslavers, who cannot be held responsible for throwing tantrums in Congress and literally threatening Northern colleagues with weapons.

and often there just isn’t a simple, just-so story to tell

it’s not that the broad center-left/democratic party is blameless or that the political right is never reacting to changes/provocations or the like, but that victory and defeat, success and failure are shaped by actors on both sides, as well as broad forces and the contingency of human events

if the right is successful, it must be because the liberals possess some fatal shortcoming or overreached in a way that mechanically produced backlash. the idea that the political right is its own thing with its own aims, can harness discontent and take advantage of contingency is verboten i guess

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

I once heard a friend say that he didn't believe a woman should be President because we're too emotional. Name ONE woman who has ever gone on a shooting rampage out of anger.

“The thesis of the book is, effectively, Palantir loves getting big contracts from the Department of Defense. And when you think about it, doesn’t that make Palantir kind of heroic?”

And they should be called

#RepublicanConcentrationCamps

Because Trump couldn’t do this by himself.

He needs complicit Republicans in Congress and the Senate to make this happen.

Make sure they get the credit that they deserve.

#RepublicanConcentrationCamps

Just as "abolish ICE" helps exit the dominant frame that ICE is "law enforcement" which suggests it could be reformed, concentration camps makes clear these things have nothing to do with policy/law/safety. They are evil and must not exist.

Our ongoing refusal to name what's happening has helped enable it. It is far easier to convince voters these are concentration camps (they are) than to convince them we don't need "detention facilities."

Concentration camps. If objective is to close camps, voters must view them as vile & without any merit. Many voters believe "detention facilities" are necessary for law/safety. Plus they fit legal definition of concentration camps (which is NOT same as extermination camps.)

Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.

This coming from a guy who received five draft deferments during the Vietnam era, including one medical deferment that was attributed to “bone spurs” in his heels.

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

News Flash:

Our president is a fucking idiot.

www.rawstory.com Rampaging Trump torches his Supreme Court picks expecting loss: 'Totally misrepresented!'

Rampaging Trump torches his Supreme Court picks expecting loss: 'Totally misrepresented!' #RawStory

Rep. Robert Garcia: "Unfortunately, I have to announce that Democratic members will not participating. This roundtable is not a real hearing. It's set up to appear like one. We should be clear about why that's happening. Last week, Pam Bondi skipped a legally required deposition ... "

When a sitting U.S. president makes insulting remarks about Canada and threatens its sovereignty, I’ll criticize the United States and its administration if I bloody well please. What happens in that country has a big impact in the world, so no, I won’t “stay in my own lane.”

Pa. court recognizes ‘reproductive autonomy’ as a right, strikes down ban on public funding for abortion In a 4-3 ruling, the Commonwealth Court found that abortion access is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution.

Pennsylvania's appellate court confirmed that access to abortion is a fundamental right under the Pennsylvania Constitution.

This decision is a win for all Pennsylvanians.

The government shouldn't be making your healthcare decisions - you should.
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