A few thoughts:
* So the alien Mark Zuckerberg is the latest tech billionaire to suck up to Trump, calling his interference with the Secret Service effort to get him off stage "badass", while claiming to be declining to actually endorse him. Uhuh.
Peter Theil - another person who gives the appearance of being barely human - apparently has the ultimate opportunist and Trump flip-flopper JD Vance in his pocket.
As many are saying, the explanation appears simple - billionaires like both tax cuts (because, presumably, they think they are the smartest person to know what to do with their money, despite evidence to the contraray) and are happy to support someone they know is dumb but able to be manipulated.
And Trump doesn't even pretend to be not be open to being bought!
* I started writing this post yesterday, and was tempted to say "so, the predictions in many media outlets that Biden was going to resign Sunday seem to have been wrong." Then I wake up this morning, and he has! Can't say I am too surprised - and I think Biden's reputation in history will only be enhanced.
* Meanwhile, I am just continually flabbergasted at how Trump diehards are simply beyond reasoning with. I mean, look at this patent cult post:
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But even for Trumpists less emotionally unstable than Woods, how can they talk themselves into dismissing the scores of people who worked with Trump in his first term and who refuse to endorse him now - up to and including his own Vice President? (I know the reasoning they commonly use - they were never "true" supporters, and he is just bad at picking people. OK, that's cult reasoning - but why do they think he has overcome the inability to pick only "good" people?)
How do they think that it isn't pure opportunism that explains people who have condemned Trump in the strongest possible terms who now endorse him? (Like Barr, Vance.) I know the reasoning they use - it's like Woods - they fantasise that the US is the midst of the worst Presidency of all time (their cult leader told them) - but it is patently untrue on any metric you can pick. Of course, they are also bolstered in their belief by RW media - but how can they not see that they are simple propaganda outfits for the purpose of making money?
The short take is: they cannot be reasoned with. The Republicans have decided this is the way to power, so they are not going to encourage voters to ever listen to evidence and reason. It's appalling.
They can get away with anything now. At Catallaxy people are now embracing a second shooter conspiracy theory. People just make stuff up and if it suits the group narrative so many uncritically accept the ideas.
ReplyDeleteWe can't reason with this, there's no point trying to make them realise that making stuff up is not only irrational it is groupthink on stilts.
Education needs to change. In the last 2 years of all high school students need to be taught epistemology and the cognitive science that highlights how susceptible our cognition is towards making errors. It will take a generation and at present there are no teachers trained in the relevant fields.
I am just wondering can Malnia get anymore makeup on her face?
ReplyDeleteMark was the most important financier of the 2020 coup. So he BETTER try and come good now that the deep state murder plot failed.
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