The Daily Doubter

"Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its...

"In your statement you assert that our actions, even though peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate violence. But is this ...

"There is no evil under the sun but what is to be dreaded from men, who may do what they please with impunity: They seldom or never sto...

 "Trump is often discussed as one of the worst presidents in modern American history, but it's important to remember that such a ca...

 "[Joseph Goebbels's] propaganda tactics have been, and are being, widely imitated in the twenty-first century by populist politici...

"I think that I now understand what he is up to. He is plotting to become a Power. He has a mind of metal and wheels; and he does not c...

"While an exaggerated sense of our own importance is a recipe for both political and psychological disaster, it is also possible to ove...

"One's mind finds no peace, neither enjoys pleasure or delight, nor goes to sleep, nor feels secure while the dart of hatred is stu...

"So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appr...

 "Ideas are seeds that, when nurtured, can grow into massive movements. But it't not just good ideas that can spread - ideas of cor...

 From Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard At around age fifty, the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828 - ...

I wrote in August of last year that while Trump is arrogant, he has no confidence in himself: "My conception of confidence is Stoic: i...

 "A man ... shouts hoarsely at the soldiers, take off your masks, what have you got to hide?" - Paul Lynch, Prophet Song This book...

 "Your past joys and sorrows are like drawings on water: No trace of them remains! Don't run after them!" - Tokmé Zangpo Via T...

 "The state is supposed to leave you alone, Michael, not enter your house like an ogre, take a father into its fist and gobble him, how...

"Pity he has utterly erased from his nature, and joy he has never known. He has an ambition, bitter and burning. It is to rise to such ...

 "[W]hile the pen is mightier than the sword, the wallet is mightier than the pen." - George Monbiot, " I have been a journal...

"To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. One thing that helps toward it is to keep a diary, or, at any rate, t...

 "This is it. This portion of your limited time, the part before you've managed to get on top of everything, or dealt with your pro...

"In an age of attention scarcity, the greatest act of good citizenship may be learning to withdraw your attention from everything excep...

"Your President may easily become king ... Where are your checks in this government? Your strongholds will be in the hands of your enem...

 "Let's make one thing clear: we never earn the right to be greedy or to pursue our interests at the expense of everyone else....

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. They’r...

This regime is firing women and minorities, is militarily occupying or threatening to occupy cities that have black mayors, disappearing imm...

"When National Socialists speak of 'the people,' they never mean, as social democrats do, all the people, but rather the 'r...

 "I am feeling vulnerable too ... Is this what the artists in the Hitler days felt when their works were labeled  'Degenerate Art...

Some highlights from the Declaration of Independence: The History of the present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and...

"Those who have subdued their ego understand that it doesn't degrade you when others treat you poorly; it degrades them." - R...

 "We need to gain perspective and see Trump for what he fully is: a wannabe tyrant who will abuse his authority to get what he wants; a...

Friday morning I wrote that the fascist tactics being used to ethnically cleanse the country would eventually be turned against citizens. A...

The pace of our race towards totalitarianism seems to be accelerating concurrently with Orange Nero's descent into full blown dementia (...

Do the supporters (Republican voters) of the fascist MAGA ethnic cleansing of the United States think the regime will only impose totalitari...

"RFK Jr.’s 'scientific' method is that any research process that reaches a different conclusion than RFK Jr. has reached based ...

Since Orange Nero now considers himself Supreme Leader for life he's renovating the White House as if it's his personal palace and r...

"Fascism’s perversion of freedom’s meaning demands a richer conception of liberty than mere absence of constraint. As Snyder observes, ...

No, I'm not talking about the president. I'm talking about his handler. The US state department announced on Saturday that it would ...

The cowardly masked militarized ICE agents currently terrorizing the civilian US population in order to Make America White Again look like ...

"Now Sauron's lust and pride increased, until he knew no bounds, and he determined to make himself master of all things in middle-E...

Thanks, Republicans. You voted for this level of incompetence and compromised national security . Papers with U.S. State Department markings...

 "Donald Trump has turned the presidency into something it shouldn't be: a job with unlimited ability to advance one's own pers...

“With 450 million FEMA dollars being reallocated to open Alligator Alcatraz, and 600 million taxpayer FEMA dollars being used to now open mo...

The future of medical research and public health policy is being decimated because the Republican majority is willing to sacrifice millions ...

Back in May, as part of the plan to Make America White Again, Orange Nero fired the first female and first non-white Librarian of Congress, ...

"Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country." - DHS Secretary K...

 I don't think it's a far stretch from the kind of deranged hatred that MTG or the conspiracist lies  RFK Jr spread about the CDC t...

 I was in a waiting room the other day and had the misfortune of sitting near a television turned to Fox News. I spent years in the 2000s in...

"Yeah! Fuck them! Kill 'em. Yeah!" - current employee of the Department of Justice, urging violent protesters to kill law enfo...

 What would it take to wake his supporters up to this fact? The president is now claiming he will use his magical powers to make this happen...

"Winston's greatest pleasure in life was in his work. Most of it was a tedious routine, but included in it there were also jobs so ...

“I’ll go backstage before a show, and everyone’s getting dressed ... I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant … You know, t...