The MEGA MAGA MIND MELTDOWN - VOL. I

The MEGA MAGA MIND MELTDOWN - VOL. I
Author: S J Brede
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2020-10-16
Genre:
ISBN:

The MEGA MAGA MIND MELTDOWN VOL. I and VOL. II books take a highly biased & deeply objective look at the psychological pitfalls, propaganda-tricks, and logical fallacies contributing to that utterly irrational, frequently flabbergasting, and often outright dangerous behavior of MAGA-minds in Trump's America. The two-volumes of this book provide you with all the necessary background on the psychological and propagandistic schemes behind the gobsmacking irrationality of your MAGA-hat wearing neighbors, family-members, friends, and colleagues - as well as with a number of practical tactics to identify and successfully counter most of the Trumpministration's and Trumpists' lies, arguments, and debate-strategies. VOL. I of The MEGA MAGA MIND MELTDOWN contains: [Circular Reasoning]- Hiding Circular Reasoning in Plain Sight- The Impenetrable Circles of Lies- Closed World Assumption- Open World Assumption- Whitewashing Over One Rail- What-Aboutism- Addressing the Brown Elephant in the Room[Cognitive Dissonance Avoidance]- When Truth Truly Hurts- The Struggles of Stephen the Stooge- A Self-Sustaining State of Stress- The Fearful Hate- That Dreadful Dread- Please be very afraid- Prejudice: The Problem with Premature Evaluation- TrumpSpeak- It is All Fun and Games. Until it is All Just Fun and Games.- The Tallest Tales are Still Told on Television- The Illusory Truth Effect- The Bigger the Turd the Better to Swallow- The Not So Subtle Subversion of the Soul[Ipse Dixit][Arguments from Authority]- A Life between Freedoms and Fetters- The Chink in the Armor- A Superseded Immune System- Authority: An Almost Unshakeable Illusion- All Power Rests in the People. Seriously.- Authority begets Authority- The 3-Steps Argument from Authority- An Apparent American Affection for Authorities- The Story of the Pennsylvania Plague Rat- The Story of the Antagonizing AmbassadorThe 3 Steps Argument from Authority- To trump [verb]: alternat./: to blatantly abuse power- Bonus Step 4: Entrenchment"The Bootleg Expert""The Expert Assassin""The Laymen Experts"- "The Appeal to Poverty"The Appeal to WealthThe Appeal to Poverty- Socialism - The Red Rag for Trumpists- Pandering to the Poor: A Global Success Story- The Modern American Poor- Plain Common Sense- The Hero They Do Not Need but Deserve- A Mass-Manipulator's Must-Have: The Matching Megaphone- The Lahren- & Karen-Conundrums- Blacks & Boogaloo for Trump- Repulsing the Populist AppealVOL. II of The MEGA MAGA MIND MELTDOWN contains: [Bullshitting]- The Ballad of Bullshitter Jeff- A Tale of Two Trumps- The Bullshitter's Playbook- John Barron. A Report.- - Childhood and Youth- - Spreading His Wings- - Coming into His Own- - A Star is Born- - Discoveries- - The Later Years- The Bullshitter's Pawns and Prey- An (Incomplete) Damage Report- Behind the Bullshitter's Mask- The Emotional Emptiness of the Embezzler- The Path of the Bullshitter- They live! Among Us.- Drying Out a Parasite[Doublethink]- The Devil's Offer- "The Chief's Choice"- A Future Epilogue- Back to 1984- American Angst- American Pride and Prejudice- Playing the Long Game- Ken Cuccinelli - Or: A Study in Hypocrisy- Room 101- DoubleThink or Hoodwink[The Factoid][The Woozle Effect]- What Really Happened in the Hundred Acre Wood- Getting the Woozle to Work- A Sobering Experiment- "Why You Must Eat Chocolate Daily."- "I have been foolish and deluded."

The Mega Maga Mind Meltdown Vol. II

The Mega Maga Mind Meltdown Vol. II
Author: S J Brede
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2020-11-18
Genre:
ISBN:

The MEGA MAGA MIND MELTDOWN VOL. I. and VOL. II. take a highly biased, deeply objective look at the psychological pitfalls, propaganda-tricks, and logical fallacies contributing to that utterly irrational, frequently flabbergasting, and often outright dangerous behavior of MAGA-minds in Trump's America. The two-volumes of this book provide you with all the necessary background on the psychological and propagandistic schemes behind the gobsmacking irrationality of your MAGA-hat wearing neighbors, family-members, friends, and colleagues - as well as with a number of practical tactics to identify and successfully counter most of the Trumpministration's and Trumpists' lies, arguments, and debate-strategies. Content of VOL. II of The MEGA MAGA MIND MELTDOWN: [Bullshitting]- The Ballad of Bullshitter Jeff- A Tale of Two Trumps- The Bullshitter's Playbook- John Barron. A Report.- - Childhood and Youth- - Spreading His Wings- - Coming into His Own- - A Star is Born- - Discoveries- - The Later Years- The Bullshitter's Pawns and Prey- An (Incomplete) Damage Report- Behind the Bullshitter's Mask- The Emotional Emptiness of the Embezzler- The Path of the Bullshitter- They live! Among Us.- Drying Out a Parasite[Doublethink]- The Devil's Offer- "The Chief's Choice"- A Future Epilogue- Back to 1984- American Angst- American Pride and Prejudice- Playing the Long Game- Ken Cuccinelli - Or: A Study in Hypocrisy- Room 101- DoubleThink or Hoodwink[The Factoid][The Woozle Effect]- What Really Happened in the Hundred Acre Wood- Getting the Woozle to Work- A Sobering Experiment- "Why You Must Eat Chocolate Daily."- "I have been foolish and deluded."Content of VOL. I of The MEGA MAGA MIND MELTDOWN: [Circular Reasoning]- Hiding Circular Reasoning in Plain Sight- The Impenetrable Circles of Lies- Closed World Assumption- Open World Assumption- Whitewashing Over One Rail- What-Aboutism- Addressing the Brown Elephant in the Room[Cognitive Dissonance Avoidance]- When Truth Truly Hurts- The Struggles of Stephen the Stooge- A Self-Sustaining State of Stress- The Fearful Hate- That Dreadful Dread- Please be very afraid- Prejudice: The Problem with Premature Evaluation- TrumpSpeak- It is All Fun and Games. Until it is All Just Fun and Games.- The Tallest Tales are Still Told on Television- The Illusory Truth Effect- The Bigger the Turd the Better to Swallow- The Not So Subtle Subversion of the Soul[Ipse Dixit][Arguments from Authority]- A Life between Freedoms and Fetters- The Chink in the Armor- A Superseded Immune System- Authority: An Almost Unshakeable Illusion- All Power Rests in the People. Seriously.- Authority begets Authority- The 3-Steps Argument from Authority- An Apparent American Affection for Authorities- The Story of the Pennsylvania Plague Rat- The Story of the Antagonizing AmbassadorThe 3 Steps Argument from Authority- To trump [verb]: alternat./: to blatantly abuse power- Bonus Step 4: Entrenchment"The Bootleg Expert""The Expert Assassin""The Laymen Experts"- "The Appeal to Poverty"The Appeal to WealthThe Appeal to Poverty- Socialism - The Red Rag for Trumpists- Pandering to the Poor: A Global Success Story- The Modern American Poor- Plain Common Sense- The Hero They Do Not Need but Deserve- A Mass-Manipulator's Must-Have: The Matching Megaphone- The Lahren- & Karen-Conundrums- Blacks & Boogaloo for Trump- Repulsing the Populist Appeal

Weapons of Mass Delusion

Weapons of Mass Delusion
Author: Robert Draper
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2022-10-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0593300149

The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new breed of Republicans—led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn—far from moving on from Trump, have taken the politics of hysteria to even greater extremes and brought American democracy to the edge The violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was a terrible day for American democracy, but many people dared to hope that at least it would break the fever that had overcome the Republican Party and banish Trump's relentless lies about the stealing of the 2020 election. That is not what happened. Instead, “the big steal” has become dogma among an ever-higher percentage of American Republicans. What happened to the Republican Party, and America, during the Trump presidency is a story we more or less think we know. What has happened to the party since, it turns out, is even more disquieting. That is the story Robert Draper tells in Weapons of Mass Delusion. Through his extraordinarily intrepid cross-country reporting, Draper chronicles the road from January 6 to the 2022 midterms among the Republican base and in the U.S. Congress, rendering unforgettable portraits of how Marjorie Taylor Greene and her ilk came to shape their party’s terms of engagement to an extent that would have been unimaginable even five years ago. He also brings to life the efforts of a dwindling group of Republicans who are willing to push back against the falsehoods, in the face of a group of ascendent demagogues who are merrily weaponizing them. With a base whipped up into a perpetual frenzy of outrage by conspiracy theories—not just about the big steal but about COVID and vaccines, pedophilia and Antifa and Black Lives Matter and George Soros and President Obama, and on and on and on—the forces of reason within the GOP are on the defensive, to put it mildly. The book also benefits greatly from reporting conducted in Texas, Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire, and other bellwether states in the country of the mind one might call a fever of undending conspiracies. Robert Draper has been a wise, fearless, and fair-minded chronicler of the American political scene for over twenty-five years. He has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. He has never seen it this ugly. Ultimately, this book tells the story of a fearful test of our ability, as a country, to hold together a system of government grounded in truth and the rule of law. Written on the eve of the 2022 midterm elections, Draper’s account of a party teetering on the precipice of madness reveals how the GOP fringe became its center of gravity.

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
Author: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1616405414

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.

Media and the American Mind

Media and the American Mind
Author: Daniel J. Czitrom
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2010-02-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807899208

In a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as instruments of domination and exploitation.

I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die

I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die
Author: Sarah J. Robinson
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0593193539

A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.

The Death of Expertise

The Death of Expertise
Author: Tom Nichols
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2024
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0197763839

"In the early 1990s, a small group of "AIDS denialists," including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment's consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such counterintuitive challenges, but there was no evidence for Duesberg's beliefs, which turned out to be baseless. Once researchers found HIV, doctors and public health officials were able to save countless lives through measures aimed at preventing its transmission"--

Elfen Lied Omnibus Volume 1

Elfen Lied Omnibus Volume 1
Author: Lynn Okamoto
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 652
Release: 2023-02-28
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1506738931

Lynn Okamoto's beloved series is now available in English for the very first time, presented here in a special omnibus collecting three volumes in one! Captured and isolated against their will, the Diclonius species are a threat waiting to break free. When a young Diclonius girl, Nyu, escapes from the research facility she was being held in, she manages finds solace in two allies, until danger finds her again, putting everyone at risk. However, her enemies soon realize they're in over their heads as an attempt to subdue Nyu results in unspeakable tragedy. Cited as an inspiration for Stranger Things by the show's creators: "I had seen an anime called Elfen Lied that is clearly inspired by Akira. And that was really influential. When I watched it I though it felt like an ultraviolent E.T. There were a lot of things in there that I really liked and that made their way into the show, particularly related to the character of Eleven."--Matt Duffer, Co-Creator of Stranger Things The first of four omnibuses containing all twelve of the original volumes published in Japan!

No Logo

No Logo
Author: Naomi Klein
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2000-01-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780312203436

"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.

PTSD Radio

PTSD Radio
Author: Masaaki Nakayama
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2017
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1682339467

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