Posted on 06/05/2016 9:22:57 AM PDT by entropy12
As a political scientist, I feel I owe you an apology. To say my discipline has been behind the curve this electoral season would be putting it too charitably. We haven’t missed one curve yet. We’re speeding through all of them—backwards.
At the beginning of this year’s U.S. presidential campaign, we confidently assured you that the Trump phenomenon wouldn’t last, that the Republican base was just having a little summer fling. We told you we knew how presidential primaries worked. We’d studied them for years, knew the incentives, the structural dynamics, the statistical patterns. Been there, analysed that.
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” They talk about normal people the way anthropologists talk about Amazonian tribesmen. They have no clue. “
Exactly.
That bothered me too.
Well said.
We have also lived with the unemployment. It happened to my family 3 years ago. We recovered (thank you, God!) but it was devastating. We had never been unemployed - even during our first work years under the Carter Administration. Of course, I put a lot of blame of 9/11 and the foreign wars but Obama deliberately set out to impoverish us.
looks like one more person was wrong for trump to be right.
“New York Times has morphed into Pravda.”
The Slimes morphed into Pravda early last century when the communists were slaughtering innocent Russians to make the country into a communist country!
The Slimes ignored the mass slaughter and lied about what was happening to Russia to allow the butchering communists to control Russia.
“My takeaway is that Gruber is a moron and couldn’t find his metrosexual azz with both hands, a GPS, a detailed map and a Klieg light.”
LOL. Post of the day. :)
It’s about the feeling in your gut. You know it’s there, you feel it.
Right you are!
lol I almost expected to read “milk” instead of ink.
aggravating but very entertaining !
Many people laughed some time back when Trump said “I’m a truth-teller”. The truth is a powerful thing.
And they want buck twenty five a week for that crap.
Is that the Gruber who said they could get Obamacare thru just by lying because Americans are so stupid? THAT Gruber ?
Yeah sure. A likely story.
Run, run far away from meals culpable. Stand way back until the health department shuts 'em down.
I don’t know who this guy was but I was hoping it was Levin. Ha.
Another idiot who doesn’t understand the difference between legal immigration and illegal.
Let me help this Gruber. The guy in the bank taking out $200 from his account is a LEGAL BANK IMMIGRANT. The guy in the mask with the pistol forcing the teller to give him all her money is an ILLEGAL BANK IMMIGRANT. Do you get it now?
Ummm, because you guys are a bunch of out-of-touch elites living in an echo chamber and you still don't 'get it'. Lloyd Gruber's words are measured, but when the fluff is removed he's saying 'Trump's a racist and so are his followers... it's a stupid and vile argument...and wrong.
But typically 'democrat'... reminds me of the horrible things democrats said in the Jim Crow south about what blacks really wanted. As democrat always do - they projected their hated on people who were in fact fighting for their rights. Just as in our time - we are. It's as simple as wanting our borders protected... not falling for the lie that 'illegals' are the same a legal immigrants ( which we all are.. and continue to accept with open arms)..
Lloyd Gruber is a hater - he's too stupid to see it.
Lloyd Gruber and his fellow thugs need to read these comments from the man who writes Dilbert...
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/145456082991/my-endorsement-for-president-of-the-united-states
Dilbert logo Comics Blog
Scott Adams’ Blog
Top Tech Berkeley Start-ups
My Endorsement for President of the United States
Posted June 5th, 2016 @ 10:11am in #Trump #clinton2016
I’ve decided to come off the sidelines and endorse a candidate for President of the United States.
I’ll start by reminding readers that my politics don’t align with any of the candidates. My interest in the race has been limited to Trump’s extraordinary persuasion skills. But lately Hillary Clinton has moved into the persuasion game – and away from boring facts and policies – with great success. Let’s talk about that.
This past week we saw Clinton pair the idea of President Trump with nuclear disaster, racism, Hitler, the Holocaust, and whatever else makes you tremble in fear.
That is good persuasion if you can pull it off because fear is a strong motivator. It is also a sharp pivot from Clinton’s prior approach of talking about her mastery of policy details, her experience, and her gender. Trump took her so-called “woman card” and turned it into a liability. So Clinton wisely pivoted. Her new scare tactics are solid-gold persuasion. I wouldn’t be surprised if you see Clinton’s numbers versus Trump improve in June, at least temporarily, until Trump finds a counter-move.
The only downside I can see to the new approach is that it is likely to trigger a race war in the United States. And I would be a top-ten assassination target in that scenario because once you define Trump as Hitler, you also give citizens moral permission to kill him. And obviously it would be okay to kill anyone who actively supports a genocidal dictator, including anyone who wrote about his persuasion skills in positive terms. (I’m called an “apologist” on Twitter, or sometimes just Joseph Goebbels).
If Clinton successfully pairs Trump with Hitler in your mind – as she is doing – and loses anyway, about a quarter of the country will think it is morally justified to assassinate their own leader. I too would feel that way if an actual Hitler came to power in this country. I would join the resistance and try to take out the Hitler-like leader. You should do the same. No one wants an actual President Hitler.
So I’ve decided to endorse Hillary Clinton for President, for my personal safety. Trump supporters don’t have any bad feelings about patriotic Americans such as myself, so I’ll be safe from that crowd. But Clinton supporters have convinced me – and here I am being 100% serious – that my safety is at risk if I am seen as supportive of Trump. So I’m taking the safe way out and endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.
As I have often said, I have no psychic powers and I don’t know which candidate would be the best president. But I do know which outcome is most likely to get me killed by my fellow citizens. So for safety reason, I’m on team Clinton.
My prediction remains that Trump will win in a landslide based on his superior persuasion skills. But don’t blame me for anything President Trump does in office because I endorse Clinton.
The rest of you are on your own. Good luck.
Lloyd Gruber and his fellow thugs need to read these comments from the man who writes Dilbert...
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/145456082991/my-endorsement-for-president-of-the-united-states
Dilbert logo Comics Blog
Scott Adams’ Blog
Top Tech Berkeley Start-ups
My Endorsement for President of the United States
Posted June 5th, 2016 @ 10:11am in #Trump #clinton2016
I’ve decided to come off the sidelines and endorse a candidate for President of the United States.
I’ll start by reminding readers that my politics don’t align with any of the candidates. My interest in the race has been limited to Trump’s extraordinary persuasion skills. But lately Hillary Clinton has moved into the persuasion game – and away from boring facts and policies – with great success. Let’s talk about that.
This past week we saw Clinton pair the idea of President Trump with nuclear disaster, racism, Hitler, the Holocaust, and whatever else makes you tremble in fear.
That is good persuasion if you can pull it off because fear is a strong motivator. It is also a sharp pivot from Clinton’s prior approach of talking about her mastery of policy details, her experience, and her gender. Trump took her so-called “woman card” and turned it into a liability. So Clinton wisely pivoted. Her new scare tactics are solid-gold persuasion. I wouldn’t be surprised if you see Clinton’s numbers versus Trump improve in June, at least temporarily, until Trump finds a counter-move.
The only downside I can see to the new approach is that it is likely to trigger a race war in the United States. And I would be a top-ten assassination target in that scenario because once you define Trump as Hitler, you also give citizens moral permission to kill him. And obviously it would be okay to kill anyone who actively supports a genocidal dictator, including anyone who wrote about his persuasion skills in positive terms. (I’m called an “apologist” on Twitter, or sometimes just Joseph Goebbels).
If Clinton successfully pairs Trump with Hitler in your mind – as she is doing – and loses anyway, about a quarter of the country will think it is morally justified to assassinate their own leader. I too would feel that way if an actual Hitler came to power in this country. I would join the resistance and try to take out the Hitler-like leader. You should do the same. No one wants an actual President Hitler.
So I’ve decided to endorse Hillary Clinton for President, for my personal safety. Trump supporters don’t have any bad feelings about patriotic Americans such as myself, so I’ll be safe from that crowd. But Clinton supporters have convinced me – and here I am being 100% serious – that my safety is at risk if I am seen as supportive of Trump. So I’m taking the safe way out and endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.
As I have often said, I have no psychic powers and I don’t know which candidate would be the best president. But I do know which outcome is most likely to get me killed by my fellow citizens. So for safety reason, I’m on team Clinton.
My prediction remains that Trump will win in a landslide based on his superior persuasion skills. But don’t blame me for anything President Trump does in office because I endorse Clinton.
The rest of you are on your own. Good luck.
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