Erika Jordan

American conservatives die early.

Erika

The fish rots from the head.

Erika

Turns out "Idiocracy" was actually a training film.

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MAGA chuds are convinced of the absurdities, and are now cheering for the atrocities.

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Surface Acting

A drowning person, when asked, "How ya doin'?", is required by social norms to perform floating.

Alexithymia:

Often called "emotional blindness," alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by significant difficulty identifying, understanding, and describing emotions. It is not a mental illness, but rather a deficit in emotional processing that makes it challenging to connect physical sensations - like a racing heart - with specific feelings.

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When we pay into the system, and then get something back for it - that's the system working.

And it works quite well for parasite billionaires and big companies - not so much for the rest of us.

America The Contradiction

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"He doesn't love the poorly educated - he loves the bill they can't read."

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Who can turn a profit from the way you react to what happens?

Erika Jordan

It's the pipes, and the unfiltered river water, and the whole Style-Over-Substance thing that characterizes Trump's very existence.

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She just keeps bringing the truth, and explaining it in ways that make it easier for me to grab on to.

"A man just became the world's first trillionaire and millions of broke people threw him a party."

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A hard-wired mechanism that used to come in handy as protection, is now being used to manipulate us.

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Erika

The bad guy never identifies himself as the bad guy.

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The fines and penalties are priced in - the cost of doing business.

And it's deductible!

On Bad Faith

A crisis feels urgent - motivating. The monster is coming for you and your children. You have to respond immediately and do exactly what you're told.

A five point plan for affordable housing, and a white paper on making the move to Medicare For All just feels like extra homework.

Moral Panic sells like hotcakes. Reasoned solutions to real-world problems are boring.

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The Big Bamboozle Bill

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Parasocial Exploitation

Parasocial exploitation is the practice where influencers, content creators, or brands deliberately manufacture an illusion of genuine friendship or intimacy with their audience to maximize financial gain. It turns a fan's natural emotional investment into a transactional commodity, often leading to overspending or psychological harm.