Posted February 3rd, 2016 @ 9:29am in #Trump
In my experience on this planet, anything that is both important and corruptible (without detection) is already corrupted. Athletes are using performance-enhancing drugs, politicians are using dirty tricks, hedge funds are using insider information, and so on. It’s a universal truth. I doubt you could find anything in our world that is both important and corruptible yet isn’t already corrupted.
0 CommentsPosted February 2nd, 2016 @ 7:28am in #Trump
My predictions about the Iowa caucus were wrong! I am fallible after all. Time to eat some crow, as we say in America. Let me at it!
Nom-nom-nom. Gulp. Mmmmm… That’s good crow.
This is one of those situations in which having no sense of embarrassment comes in handy. I look forward to your brutal mocking in the comments.
0 CommentsPosted February 1st, 2016 @ 1:39pm in #Trump
This is just for fun. I’m not psychic.
But as coincidences go, this one is a bit freaky.
In my 2004 novel, The Religion War (sequel to God’s Debris) I imagined an American leader named Cruz – a man of God – taking a war of extermination to the Caliphate. Here’s an excerpt.
0 CommentsPosted February 1st, 2016 @ 10:34am in #Trump
As of this writing, 60% of the voting public views Donald Trump unfavorably. In the 2D world, you assume he is doomed in the general election.
But let’s bump up to the third dimension and see how it looks from there.
0 CommentsPosted February 1st, 2016 @ 7:38am in #Trump #Sanders
Regular readers of this blog might remember that I broke up with my government in 2013 after they were involved in torturing both of my parents to death. (See last paragraph of this post.)
Today is payback.
0 CommentsPosted January 30th, 2016 @ 11:56am in #Trump
For regular readers of this blog only, see if you can find a persuader’s fingerprints in this video clip (or the text below it). Then tell me who the persuader is.
You’re looking for a one-word tell.
See it?
0 CommentsPosted January 30th, 2016 @ 11:21am
I add this data point to the “Everything you knew about diet is wrong” part of your brain.
0 CommentsPosted January 29th, 2016 @ 8:33am in #trump
Last night the Republicans held their debate in Iowa without Trump. Let’s see how Trump fared.
0 CommentsPosted January 28th, 2016 @ 7:45am in #Trump
In the book Influence, by Cialdini, we learn that any sentence that contains the word “because” will influence people no matter what follows that word.
Hypnotists already knew that.
That’s the sort of rule you don’t believe until you see it in action. Here’s an example:
0 CommentsPosted January 26th, 2016 @ 8:54pm in #Trump
Donald Trump says he won’t appear at the upcoming debate on FOX if Megyn Kelly is a moderator, and as of this writing, it appears she will be. Some of you asked me how this move by Trump could possibly be a smart thing.
On the 2D playing field, Trump appears petulant and whiney. Maybe narcissistic, fascist, and a little bit of Hitler too. And as FOX cleverly pointed out, negotiating with foreign leaders won’t be easier than Megyn Kelly’s questions.
So Trump loses badly in the second dimension.
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