Posted July 20th, 2016 @ 6:37pm in #ISIS #newt gingrich #Trump #clinton2016
Newt Gingrich has a plan to defeat ISIS by destroying the technology in ISIS-held territory. I described a similar approach in this post.
The interesting part of this approach is that it frames the enemy as something from the past. This is more about persuasion than death. All we’d be doing is destroying the technology (and anyone standing near it) that did not originate within Islam. That seems fair to me.
0 CommentsPosted July 13th, 2016 @ 9:04am in #trump #clinton2016
Is it my imagination, or has Trump been relatively non-controversial lately?
Do you remember how Trump got lots of free publicity in the past year by saying approximately one outrageous and controversial thing each week, like clockwork? And do you remember how you thought his outrageous approach could never be a winning formula in the general election?
0 CommentsPosted July 11th, 2016 @ 1:04pm in #Trump #black lives matter #police #clinton2016
Some of you watched with amusement as I endorsed Hillary Clinton for my personal safety. What you might not know is that I was completely serious. I was getting a lot of direct and indirect death threats for writing about Trump’s powers of persuasion, and I made all of that go away by endorsing Clinton. People don’t care why I am on their side. They only care that I am.
You might have found it funny that I endorsed Clinton for my personal safety. But it was only funny by coincidence. I did it for personal safety, and apparently it is working. Where I live, in California, it is not safe to be seen as supportive of anything Trump says or does. So I fixed that.
Again, I’m completely serious about the safety issue. Writing about Trump ended my speaking career, and has already reduced my income by about 40%, as far as I can tell. But I’m in less physical danger than I was.
0 CommentsPosted July 5th, 2016 @ 9:27am in #trump #clinton2016
Do you remember the detailed policy proposal that came out of the Clinton campaign last week?
Neither do I.
I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I’m just saying that if Clinton said something about her policies, I didn’t notice. The Clinton campaign has wisely ditched facts and reason for pure persuasion. And it is working.
0 CommentsPosted June 23rd, 2016 @ 11:24am in #Trump #clinton2016 #sexism
Perhaps the biggest unreported story of this presidential election is the humiliation of the American male. Unless I’m blinded by confirmation bias – which is entirely possible – it seems to me that the humiliation of American men is now institutionalized in the media.
0 CommentsPosted June 22nd, 2016 @ 9:17am in #Trump #clinton2016
On average, Democrats (that’s my team*) use guns for shooting the innocent. We call that crime.
On average, Republicans use guns for sporting purposes and self-defense.
If you don’t believe me, you can check the statistics on the Internet that don’t exist. At least I couldn’t find any that looked credible.
0 CommentsPosted June 19th, 2016 @ 9:43am in #trump #clinton2016
Regular readers of this blog know I’m a trained hypnotist. I’ve been studying the ways of persuasion – in all its forms – for decades.
0 CommentsPosted June 15th, 2016 @ 9:09am in #Trump #clinton2016
As I have said several times in this blog, Trump often uses confirmation bias in his influence. He creates a mental framework for us to view our world and then waits for future events to fill in the details.
0 CommentsPosted June 14th, 2016 @ 9:25am in #Trump #clinton2016
My mother often quoted an old-timey saying: “You can get used to hanging if you do it long enough.”
That’s good homespun psychology. Humans will see nearly anything as normal if they are exposed to it long enough. I’m sure ISIS fighters feel they are acting in a normal way after committing several atrocities in a row. We humans can get used to anything.
0 CommentsPosted June 7th, 2016 @ 10:11am in #Trump #clinton2016
If you have been watching CNN, you know Anderson Cooper has been reporting about the discovery that a sitting judge is actually a robot. His name is Gonzalo Curiel and he is presiding over the Trump University case.
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