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And Then This Happened (Trump Persuasion Series)

Posted December 21st, 2015 @ 12:43pm in #Trump

I don’t even know how to categorize this article in Salon except to say it fits the Master Persuader prediction of a coming Trump landslide. It might blow your mind a little, considering the source.

Recently, Huffington Post did an awkward about-face and announced it was moving its Trump coverage from the entertainment section to whatever they call news over there. That had to hurt. The Master Persuader filter saw that coming since August.

In stark contrast to Huffington Post, someone smart is running Salon these days. I’m seeing a lot of strong writing out of them lately, whether you agree with it or not.

Robots Read News - About Hitler’s Testicles

Posted December 21st, 2015 @ 9:16am in #Trump #hillary clinton #hitler

In the news, scientists confirm that Hitler had only one normal testicle. So Christmas came early for humorists all over the world.

I’d like to get a jump on the lazy comedy writers that are sleeping late. Which one of these jokes should I tweet?

(If your firewall is blocking images, only the best one will be on Twitter, and later, so sorry about that.)

This next comic was edited per your comments. The old third panel was a slippery slope punchline (with a typo). For the writers following along at home, I would not have written this updated punchline, below, on my own because it seems more biased than clever. So here, for your reading pleasure, I remove my ego from the equation and give you what you asked for.

Robots Read News about the Sanders Campaign Accessing Clinton Voter Data

Posted December 18th, 2015 @ 4:25pm in #trump #hillary clinton #bernie sanders

You can see the image here on Twitter if your firewall is blocking it.

The full story on Business Insider.

The Master Persuader Filter on Michael Moore

Posted December 18th, 2015 @ 8:43am in #Trump #halfpinion

I appreciate anyone’s call to freedom and equal treatment, but I’m going to rank Michael Moore’s “We are all Muslims” protest movement as the least-likely-to-work idea of all time.

Logically, I totally get the point. So on the 2D level of reality it makes perfect sense. But on the 3D level, where all that matters is how people feel, this feels like a non-starter to me. That’s what the Master Persuader argument says.

If the future proves me wrong about this, feel free to ignore 100% of anything else I’ve ever said. 

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The Lucky Hitler Hypothesis (Trump Persuasion Series)

Posted December 16th, 2015 @ 10:57am in #Trump

I understand why people are upset about Donald Trump’s racist vibe. He’s spreading racist breadcrumbs all over the place. I shall list a sample.

So far, Trump…

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Master Persuader Update - Slip of the Tongue (Trump series)

Posted December 15th, 2015 @ 7:34pm in #Trump

In the Republican undercard debate tonight, George Pataki referred to Trump as “president.”

That’s the tell for persuasion that I predicted in this post. Search on the page for “bonus thought”. The idea is that Trump has been acting like a president so effectively (and intentionally) that you feel as if he is the incumbent.

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A Voter’s Guide to Thinking

Posted December 14th, 2015 @ 12:31pm in #Trump

As the American presidential race heats up, you’ll see a lot of bad thinking emerge, especially mine. So I thought it would be useful to agree on some ground rules to keep each other in line.

I give you my first draft (subject to your improvements) of A Voter’s Guide to Thinking:

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Immigration Without the Hate Part (Trump-related)

Posted December 14th, 2015 @ 9:01am in #Trump

Suppose that instead of temporarily banning Muslim immigration as Trump proposes – which offends our sense of religious tolerance – we ban violent anti-Americanism, but we do it statistically instead of individually. That way we can discriminate in the service of national self-defense and not feel so icky about it.

Allow me to explain.

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Calling the Clinton Top (Trump Persuasion Series)

Posted December 13th, 2015 @ 7:11pm in #Trump

Today Trump said that Hillary Clinton “Killed hundreds of thousands of people with her stupidity.” He was talking about the Middle East and Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State.

According to the Master Persuader filter, that statement will set off a week of media yapping about how many thousands of people Clinton “killed” with her policy contributions as Secretary of State. As always, Trump sets a high anchor of “hundreds of thousands” and makes everyone think some form of “Can’t be more than 50,000, tops.”

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Master Persuader Update (Part of My Trump Series)

Posted December 11th, 2015 @ 3:23pm in #Trump

A few quick things of note.

Trump has been saying Hillary Clinton lacks the “strength and stamina” to run for President. In a strange turn of events, Clinton confirms that the campaign is exhausting. She also offered a weak reason why it is still “fun,” but it sounded a little sad. She doesn’t sound like a people person.

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