Category: Political Psychology
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Kamala and Moria/Witzelsucht
Joe Biden, suffering from dementia, was finally and 'democratically' kicked to the curb only to be replaced with Kamala Harris who may be suffering from her own neuropsychiatric malady, moria. How else explain her giddiness, uncontrolled childish euphoria, inappropriate laughter, inability to be serious about matters of grave importance, hyper-joyous inanity, and the like? This…
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Hillary Fuming
The sad cow is one poor loser. Interviewed by Maddow in under four minutes. The political equivalent of a stool sample. Sad, as the Orange Man would say.
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Putin Joins Liz Cheney and David French in Endorsing Kamala
Given what he's about, Putin's support for the silly goose makes perfect sense; given what she's supposed to be about, Cheney's make no sense at all but accords perfectly with her terminal TDS. The Trumpianly deranged are a strange bunch. The syndrome is not easy to understand. The pathology is on display in these articles:…
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Finally! A Cure for TDS
Check with your doctor to see if Independence is right for you. Seriously, though, is TDS really a psychiatric condition, a form of topical insanity? Or is it rather a form of willful self-enstupidation? If the latter, then it is a grave moral defect, a form of vincible ignorance, and morally censurable as such. To…
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Michael Anton on “Celebration Parallax”
Here: More tellingly, this charge is an example of something I call the “celebration parallax,” which is explained here. In brief, the celebration parallax holds that the same fact pattern is either true and glorious or false and scurrilous depending on who states it and, crucially, the perceived intent of the speaker. So if someone says…
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Sohrab Ahmari on ‘Lawfare’
An exercise in naïveté: Reacting to Donald Trump’s hush-money conviction in Manhattan on 30 May, the French writer Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry asked on X: “Has there been a single left-of-centre person… who has said: ‘Hey, nakedly partisan prosecutions of your political opponents goes against the values of liberal democracy, rule of law, justice, and everything my…
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Reading Now: Alex Marlow, Breaking Biden
Subtitle: "Exposing the hidden forces and secret money machine behind Joe Biden, his family, and his administration." (Threshold, 2023). Excerpt: Intellectually, Republicans understand that to have a nation, you need a border. [. . .] But the establishment isn't going to solve a problem if the solution is going to cost them a lot of…
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Hillary the Delusional versus Trump the Sane
Two fairly short video clips. Could Hillary really believe what she is saying? Now Trump is not a very articulate man, but what he is saying is true. If you don't think so, then you are, like Hillary, either stupid, or topically insane, or evil. What do I mean by 'topically insane'? I explain over…
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Topical Insanity
One type of temporary insanity is topical insanity. I explain it at the top of my Stack and apply it to the case of firearms.
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Is Leftism a Form of Mental Illness?
Wokery is the most extreme form of leftism. Some if not all elements of wokery are indicative of mental illness on the part of those who actually believe them. I will mention just four. Thinking that one can effect a sex-change by merely mental gymnastics, by 'identifying' as a woman or as a man. Cognate…
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Wolff on Anti-Natalism
Top o' the Stack. A glimpse into the mind of a leftist activist.
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Why Did DeSantis Get ‘Smoked’?
Plausible explanation: Like it or not, many Republicans have a unique bond with Trump, not just because they had to endure a lot of grief for supporting him in the past but also because they see how Democrats and the media have weaponized entire institutions against him in the most outrageous and dangerous ways. Even…
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Don’t Let the Best Become the Enemy of the Good!
Top o' the Stack.
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Hamas, DEI, Kronstadt, and Cognitive Dissonance
I'll bet that most of you don't know what 'Kronstadt' refers to. If so, this article, clearly written, and not too long, will help.
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The Psychology of the Pollyanna and the Political Ponerology of Leftism
We all know pollyannas. They are more often women than men and the charm of these lovable ladies is in no small measure due to their openness to the positive in people and things and their seeming incapacity to discern the negative and evil. A most extreme example has come to my attention, one .…