For what crimes are they going to jail?
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Can you recommend a website with links and stories about these wonderful things?
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Welcome to the new normal, slithering out from under a rock near you.
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High crimes and misdemeanors, duh. They’re going to be the highest this country’s ever seen. Sad!
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Oh yes, of course - but they never seem to get the same amount of attention as this stuff does.
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The president is secretly Gary Busey?
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That’s a great idea. Perhaps a ‘Directory of Wonderful Things’? Or at least mostly wonderful.
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Up until a few months ago, I would have said the same about a Trump presidency. Stay vigilant!
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I was amused by this!
Oh, carp. That chuckle didn’t last long.
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Yes, except not secretly.
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… yes, and given Trump’s use of racism, a gateway to totalitarianism.
We recently watched a Twilight Zone episode (“He’s Alive”) from 1963, one not far removed from the hyper-jingoistic, nightmarish, McCarthy era (obviously, with that bit of history informing the great Rod Serling, the episode writer).
In the episode, an American Nazi Stormtrooper wanna-be (brilliantly played by a very young Dennis Hopper) is secretly counseled and advanced by a spectral Adolph Hitler. We were struck by the fact that almost every single word in the dialogue – Hitler’s advice, a German-Jew character’s observations and fears, Dennis Hopper’s stump speeches, and Serling’s narration – mirrored perfectly our current suspicions and Trump’s rise. Perfectly.
The episode title and the explanatory ending was, for me, the most disturbing part: “He” stands for Hitler’s dream, and should always be considered to be “Alive”, and therefore constantly guarded against. The case was being made that a complacent attitude (Oh! Totalitarianism could NEVER take hold in America) is a naïve and dangerous one, and that tyranny should be identified and stopped early before it takes hold. Because once it’s in…
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War. That’s how incredibly unpopular leaders create distraction.
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I Googled “viral videos” and this list came up. Lots of good stuff here.
Edited to add: Oops. I get it now.
http://mashable.com/category/viral-video/
I guess. I’m usually a cranky pessimist, but I feel like I see these things so often I get sick of them. And remember the “ice bucket challenge” viral videos?
I really don’t think you need to look very hard to find positive stuff on the internet. Or in your inbox.
Because then JAAAAAAAYYYYYYzussssss will come back.
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It might have been the USA Today. They ran a WWIII headline recently.
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Feelin’ mighty QUUUEEAAASSY over here!!
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It was the National Enquirer:
But USA Today doesn’t surprise me either. In the immortal words of Cenk Uygur, USA TODAY, YOU SUCK BALLS!
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It’s not hard to seek out the good stories, but they often don’t get as many clicks as does outrage (justifiable or otherwise).
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"It’s a phenomenon called “negativity bias.” “Over and over,” Jonathan Haidt, a psychologist, says, “the mind reacts to bad things more quickly, strongly and persistently than to equivalent good things.” Or as Roy Baumeister, a fellow psychologist, puts it, “It’s evolutionarily adaptive for bad to be stronger than good.”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dealbook/2013/06/14/overcoming-your-negativity-bias/?referer=
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