Nothing much to read here. It’s merely a diary. You know, just my way to vent this morning. No excerpts from articles or OpEds published elsewhere, no deep dive into Trump’s psychopatholgy, just a page from my virtual diary.
Trump’s latest plunge into lunacy-land, delusional denial, and gaseous gaslighting came this morning. Why, I thought, should I even take the time to write about it here? What’s new about this? Is it even particularly newsworthy let alone worth my time to analyze it? It’s a rhetorical question. The answer is simply no.
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A minute ago (as I write this) he tweeted a nonsensical slogan.
This begs the question “transition from what?” The man is flailing in failure as he grasps desperately for a tagline. “Transition to Greatness”, give me an effing break!
I have written millions of stories (it sometimes feels that way but is really a hundred or so) about Trump’s psychopathology which nobody reads anymore (well, hardly anybody)… so when Trump once again demonstrates that he is an ontological database of oozing psychopathological manifestations I ask myself “why the hell should I bother writing about it again?”
After all, two days ago former Harvard psychiatrist Lance Dodes was interviewed by Chauncey DeVega in Salon Trump is trying to "turn America into a police state", on June 5th Bandy Lee explained (also in Salon) that Trump's "’displays of false strength" foreshadow plan to question election results”, and in a fairly obscure website Terry McQuire wrote “Is Trump a Narcissist?”
For reasons buried in the history of Daily Kos reader submissions (2006 image on right) were called diaries.
Obviously a diary is a book in which you keep a daily record of events and of your experiences, typically with your feelings and thoughts about them.
Old-timers still refer to what community members who sometimes are called Kossacks (Kosacks, Kossaks, the spelling varies) post calling them diaries.
They are referred to as recent stories on the webpage and are a mix of original essays (or we could called them OpEds or opinion pieces) but more frequently the “trending” (recommended ones) seem to be excerpts from articles or OpEds published elsewhere. Lots of these stories/diaries are similar to how AlterNet and its sister site RawStory aggregate and excerpt stories and OpEds from other websites.
A side issue is that I wish Kos would separate such excerpted pieces from pure opinion the way The NY Times and Washington Post do. Perhaps they could also have a section for actual diaries like this about what readers are feeling.
These are indeed stressful times where many of us are experiencing heightened anxiety and/or depression. Keeping a diary is sometimes called journaling and doing this is frequently recommended by mental health experts as a way to cope with your feelings during stressful times.
See 11 Journaling Tips For People Who Are Absolutely Terrible At Keeping A Journal and for a more scientific look at it 83 Benefits of Journaling for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress.