Author: testingapersonalhistory

TO OUR DEMOCRATIC PARTY REPRESENTATIVES: THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS THAN GETTING REELECTED

The last words that F Scott Fitzgerald ever wrote, were ‘ACTION IS CHARACTER.’ He wrote those words in block letters in his notebook. The quintessential American novelist saw through the BS at the last and then sadly died of a heart attack. But his wisdom lives. Action is required to pass the current test. Not words. And certainly not fundraising appeals. Make a difference then ask for money. ACTION IS CHARACTER

Promises Broken, Misinformation Spread: Daylight Savings Edition

Today’s​ Washington Post carries a story about how our current president has broken his promise to end daylight savings time. You can read more about ​h​is perfidy here.​ (Yes, perfidy — le mot juste — from the Latin perfidus that breaks faith or promise​. The Testing: A Personal History Substack is classical)  Beyond his admission of that […]

Who on our side doesn’t love a good joke about Trump voters?

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor AND an ineffective influencing tool Haha. Points scored. Jordan Klepper has thrown down every kind of dunk on Trump voters: Tomahawk Windmill, Elbow Hang, Between the Legs… Endless points scored by emphasizing (definitely not EMPATHIZING) how stupid someone must’ve been to vote for Donald Trump The phrase “trump voters are […]

Next-Gen Bureaucratization

Opinion by T.J. Elliott The earliest known use of the phrase ‘love-hate relationship‘ in the English language comes from a Joan Riviere’s 1925 translation of the Collected Works of Sigmund Freud. Obviously, many other stimuli had elicited a love-hate reaction long before Doctor Freud used the German ’Liebe-Hass’  to try to explain how screwed-up we […]

Nothing to be done?

Wondering about authority in the aftermath of 11/06/2024 (and my personal prequel ‘Summer of Confusion’), I wandered thorough a few posts mainly as a reaction to all the pundits telling me why millions of people voted for a self-admitted sexual abuser also a convicted felon with a plan (Project 2025, which he glibly and unconvincingly […]