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Sleeper Persuasion with a Trigger

Posted March 23rd, 2016 @ 9:02am in #Trump

The other day I explained to you that Trump was using “stamina” as a linguistic kill shot against Hillary Clinton. The genius of it – persuasion-wise – is that every normal candidate has some low-energy days. Everyone gets hoarse from too much speech-making. Everyone takes bathroom breaks, and other kinds of breaks. Trump knew that voters would see “evidence” of Clinton’s lack of stamina even when there was no evidence. That’s how confirmation bias works.

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The Belgium Analogy

Posted March 22nd, 2016 @ 10:12am in #Trump

Regular readers know I have been waging a battle in this blog against analogies. The problem with analogies is that people use them in place of reason. For example, the biggest analogy going around lately is that Trump is the next Hitler.

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Social Media is the New Government

Posted March 21st, 2016 @ 8:15am in #Trump

The founders of the United States designed a system in which voters elected smart people and those smart people ran the country. They called it a republic.

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Bumper Sticker Thinking

Posted March 19th, 2016 @ 9:10am in #Trump

Perhaps you are familiar with this famous quote:

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana

The idea here is that patterns in history repeat. That might be true. Or it might be false. I have no idea. But I’ll tell you one thing I know with 100% certainty:

People see patterns where there are none.

Oh, and people also fail to see patterns when they exist.

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How to Know Trump is in Your Head

Posted March 17th, 2016 @ 8:14pm in #Trump

Is it my imagination… or is Hillary Clinton yelling her speeches lately?

And didn’t Donald Trump start questioning her “stamina” a few months ago?

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Stamina - Trump’s Linguistic Kill Shot for Clinton (Master Persuader Series)

Posted March 17th, 2016 @ 9:36am in #Trump

Donald Trump has been saying lots of bad things about Hillary Clinton for months, but the one that will stick is “stamina.” I’ll tell you why.

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Real Donald Trump Quotes about Women

Posted March 16th, 2016 @ 4:32pm in #Trump

Have you seen the anti-Trump video that features women quoting Donald Trump’s most offensive statements about women?

I just showed it to a woman. She thought it was funny. Apparently nothing that Trump says comes off as offensive to her.

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Clinton Versus Trump

Posted March 16th, 2016 @ 9:33am in #Trump

It looks like we’ll have a Clinton versus Trump contest for the White House.

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Donald Trump - Con Man

Posted March 15th, 2016 @ 9:51am in #Trump

Donald Trump is a con man. He’s also a fraud, a liar, a snake-oil salesman, and a carnival barker. Clearly he is running a scam on the country.

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The Trump Riots That are Mostly My Fault

Posted March 13th, 2016 @ 5:37pm in #Trump

I would like to begin this post by disavowing Scott Adams. It seems I am mostly to blame for the recent scuffles at Trump rallies. I apologize for this and for the nuclear annihilation that is likely ahead of us after Trump wins the presidency in a landslide.

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