Author: testingapersonalhistory

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 […]

Where Does Your Authority Live These Days?

A Mystery Story Series How Much Control Do We have Over Our Lives Anymore? And Do We Care? Is it the Internet? Part 1 Detective stories always appealed to me. Hardy Boys books were often a quarter or less at the used books dealer in the tented emporium known as Frankie’s Market in North Jersey, […]