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« Reply #90 on: February 10, 2017, 10:34:05 pm »
Now Putin is offering up Snowden to distract from the fact that Flynn is as traitorous as Trump: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/official-flynn-sanctions-talk-russia-45400179

And : https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/10/nbc-russia-considers-sending-snowden-back-to-us/

But, um, yeah, keep discussing who the bigger narcissist is....  ;D  ::)

The more the left keeps crying wolf, the less voters take them seriously...

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« Reply #91 on: February 11, 2017, 12:32:04 am »
 A majority of Americans are smart (smrt!) enough to know that the world is laughing at them:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/203834/americans-world-standing-worst-decade.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_content=morelink&utm_campaign=syndication

29% of Americans think world leaders respect Trump. ( Hint: no, world leaders think he is a jack ass).
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« Reply #92 on: February 11, 2017, 01:18:17 am »
Tonight Imwas reminded that Trump would like to put an American company (Nordstrom) out of business because they won't peddle his daughters clothes which are made in China. 

No wonder the world is laughing. Whatta Joke!
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« Reply #94 on: February 11, 2017, 03:20:32 am »
A majority of Americans are smart (smrt!) enough to know that the world is laughing at them:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/203834/americans-world-standing-worst-decade.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_content=morelink&utm_campaign=syndication

29% of Americans think world leaders respect Trump. ( Hint: no, world leaders think he is a jack ass).

Yet Shinzo Abe has been to the USA twice to cement relations with trump.  Doesn't seem like Abe is wanting to get on his bad side.  America doesn't have to be liked, obama tried that and it was a disaster.

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« Reply #95 on: February 11, 2017, 05:02:24 am »
Trump thinks he knows more about everything than everybody and keeps presenting flat-out false information to support his claims of greatness.  But, Obama said "I" a lot in his speeches. So, they're both narcissists... one's the same as the other.

This is a textbook example of false equivalency.

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« Reply #96 on: February 11, 2017, 08:52:17 am »
Yet Shinzo Abe has been to the USA twice to cement relations with trump.  Doesn't seem like Abe is wanting to get on his bad side.  America doesn't have to be liked, obama tried that and it was a disaster.

It is not about being liked. It is about being respected. One can be loved and respected or feared and respected.

Trump is mocked and not respected because he is a joke.

Lets hope that he doesn't turn people's views of the US into assuming: joke Prez, joke country.

Because when that happens is when you will see wars and other significant challenges to American hegemony and I would prefer that to not happen in my lifetime.

At least Trump was wise enough to come back to the "one China" policy after his earlier gaffe with Taiwan.

Xi put him in his place, probably gently like Sun Tzu would have taught him to.
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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #97 on: February 11, 2017, 08:55:04 am »
Trump thinks he knows more about everything than everybody...
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This is known as the Dunning-Kruger effect: The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is.
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« Reply #98 on: February 11, 2017, 09:18:07 am »
The more the left keeps crying wolf, the less voters take them seriously...
You just said that where there's smoke there's fire. How about where there is a corroborated dossier?

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« Reply #99 on: February 11, 2017, 09:21:42 am »
Think this sums up Trump so far:

 
https://mobile.twitter.com/IvanTheK/status/830406704923869184/photo/1


Except one could exchange Trump's quote with so many others: Grab women by the ****....


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« Reply #100 on: February 11, 2017, 10:44:16 am »
This is known as the Dunning-Kruger effect: The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is.
This effect has a lot more to it than that. You don't have to be low ability in general, it just means not having the necessary skills for a particular task or position. The added problem with DKE is that these individuals don't seek out new knowledge or ways to improve because they think to themselves, "I've got this" when really they don't. Confirmation bias then comes into play; they'll only look at things that confirm their ability and dismiss anything that suggests they're struggling or incapable.

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« Reply #101 on: February 11, 2017, 12:53:01 pm »
You just said that where there's smoke there's fire. How about where there is a corroborated dossier?

There's a difference between smoke and crying wolf all the time.  The media has a 39% believability vs 49% for trump. 

Are people talking about the dossier now?

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« Reply #102 on: February 11, 2017, 12:56:44 pm »
There's a difference between smoke and crying wolf all the time.  The media has a 39% believability vs 49% for trump. 

Are people talking about the dossier now?
That says more about the survey respondents themselves than the media.

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« Reply #103 on: February 11, 2017, 05:29:51 pm »
I have stated on another forum that if Trump was elected then I would enjoy certain things about his election.

The SNL comedy, for example.

Watching people freak out as they discover "Obama care" is really ACA is another.  And, no, I don't feel bad for people losing healthcare to the extent that if they voted for Trump then too bad, so very very sad.

Abortion rights and planned parenthood - same thing. I support a woman's right to choose (up to 9 months for all I care) but, again, if you're a woman who couldn't understand that Trump and Clinton were not morally equivalent then too bad, so sad.

Here we see rural areas that may get screwed over from Trump: http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/10/news/economy/visa-ban-rural-doctor-shortage/index.html

Again, too bad, so sad, go forth and multipy with yourself.

Don't like it? Then vote next time or vote for a better candidate.
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« Reply #104 on: February 11, 2017, 07:42:28 pm »
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