2016 Fall Off Topic Thread AKA Football or Politics

[snow_wizard]

You create your own reality.  

 

All of the people who can't come to grips with Trump actually being President are the ones who are truly guilty of that.  Everything they have said and tried to derail him have been wrong  / failed.

[TT-SEA]

All of the people who can't come to grips with Trump actually being President are the ones who are truly guilty of that.  Everything they have said and tried to derail him have been wrong  / failed.

 

You absolutely create your own reality.   

 

And he has not done anything yet.      

 

This bears posting again... its a great assessment of Trump.   The more he repeats things the more you believe it.    Its mindless.  

 

 

 

Trump is very, very smart. Trump for 50 years has learned how to use people’s brains against them. That’s what master salesmen do. There’s a certain set of things they do. The first is repeat. Advertisers know this. You turn on your TV, and the same ad comes on over and over and over. The effect on the brain of repetition is that when you hear something it’s understood through the neural circuitry in your brain; it has to become activated. The more it’s repeated, the more that circuitry is activated, and every time it’s activated the synaptic connections become stronger. What that means when they become stronger is two things happen. One, they’re more likely to fire — it’s easier to get those ideas out there if they’re firing — and two, if you hear them often enough they become part of what’s fixed in your brain. They become part of what you naturally understand, and you can only understand what your brain allows you to understand.

Repetition is a way of changing people’s brains. What Trump was doing all through the nomination campaign was that every day he managed to get on TV, and he would repeat different things that activated the same moral framework, and it really worked. In addition you have particular frames that were repeated: “Crooked Hillary,” “crooked Hillary,” “crooked Hillary,”  over and over. There wasn’t anything Hillary did that was crooked. But he kept saying it until people believed it. And they believed it because it was heard enough times to strengthen the neural circuitry in their brains. It wasn’t just stupidity. It’s simply the way brains work.

Another thing he used was grammar, as in “radical Islamic terrorism.” What does “radical” mean? Radical means not part of what is normal and healthy and so on, but something on the fringe, number one. Two, terrorists – people who are out to get you, right? If you modify terrorists, there are two ways in which you can do it. There are two forms of applying adjectives to nouns, and the classic example is “the industrious Japanese,” which assumes either that all Japanese are industrious, or that there are some and I’m picking out those. But the idea that they’re all industrious is activated.

In this case, the idea that all people who are Islamic are terrorists is activated. And they’re radical. If you say that, it’s not like you’re picking out the tiny proportion who happened to be terrorists and radical. You’re saying it about everybody. That’s part of grammar. He is using grammar to get his point across, to get his worldview across, and then criticizing Clinton and Obama for not doing it, as if not saying it is not recognizing the threat.  

[MossMan]

I'm excited to watch the Falcons/Packers game! Should be a good one!

[TT-SEA]

I'm excited to watch the Falcons/Packers game! Should be a good one!

 

Cheering for the Falcons... make the Seahawks loss look better and I like to see Aaron Rodgers lose.  

[MossMan]

One thing is for sure...SNL is going to have a fun four years!

[TT-SEA]

One thing is for sure...SNL is going to have a fun four years!

 

Trump is a walking SNL skit.    Literally.    

[MossMan]

Cheering for the Falcons... make the Seahawks loss look better and I like to see Aaron Rodgers lose.

Me too! WorthlessBurger is number one on my cannot stand list but Rogers is a close second!

[MossMan]

Trump is a walking SNL skit. Literally.

The writers are basically going to have a 4yr paid vacation!

[ShawniganLake]

Fantastic speech by President Trump today. Anyone who thought it wasn't is just a sore loser.

[Deweydog]

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That's fun.

[TT-SEA]

That's fun.

 

Totally different.    Detroit versus space colonies... Nebraska versus Kabuska.     Come on.  

[Deweydog]

Totally different. Detroit versus space colonies... Nebraska versus Kabuska. Come on.

I know of no births having taken place on any of our 13 space colonies or on Kabuska or New Kabuska.

 

I'd like to think it was done on purpose to **** with people.

[Front Ranger]

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He also uttered a brief line that was word for word the same as a villain from Batman movie.

[ShawniganLake]

He also uttered a brief line that was word for word the same as a villain from Batman movie.

At least he's picking some decent movies to plagiarize.

[Front Ranger]

At least he's picking some decent movies to plagiarize.

 

Like presidents who came before him, I doubt he wrote hardly any of that speech.

[Deweydog]

At least he's picking some decent movies to plagiarize.

I think he should have just gone full on and ripped this one off:

 

[ShawniganLake]

Like presidents who came before him, I doubt he wrote hardly any of that speech.

I realize he is just reading what is written in most cases. In his case, it's probably for the best.

[ShawniganLake]

I think he should have just gone full on and ripped this one off:

 

Can't go wrong with that one.

[Jesse]

Like presidents who came before him, I doubt he wrote hardly any of that speech.

 

If there is anything Donald Trump is, it is VERY similar to past Presidents.

 

Just want to keep establishing that.

[snow_wizard]

If there is anything Donald Trump is, it is VERY similar to past Presidents.

 

Just want to keep establishing that.

 

How do you figure?

 

He is totally different in the way he is approaching things.

[Jesse]

How do you figure?

 

He is totally different in the way he is approaching things.

 

Sarcastic. I was making fun of Flatiron's tendency to normalize him whenever the opportunity presents itself.

[Money]

Shocking that there would be a lower turnout than 2009. I mean it's not like Washington DC isn't a huge liberal city or anything

[snow_wizard]

Incredible. An editor from Breitbart News was speaking at the UW tonight and serious violence erupted including a person getting shot. The left has just come unhinged since Trump got elected. Absolutely deplorable. It has gotten to the point where a conservative can't even speak on a college campus now. This is only going to make people support Trump even more.

[snow_wizard]

Shocking that there would be a lower turnout than 2009. I mean it's not like Washington DC isn't a huge liberal city or anything

A lot of people were afraid of the possible violence and opted not to go. The left should be so proud of themselves!

[Jesse]

Incredible. An editor from Breitbart News was speaking at the UW tonight and serious violence erupted including a person getting shot. The left has just come unhinged since Trump got elected. Absolutely deplorable. It has gotten to the point where a conservative can't even speak on a college campus now. This is only going to make people support Trump even more.

 

Hopefully by 2020 we won't even need to be bothered with another election.

[snow_wizard]

Hopefully by 2020 we won't even need to be bothered with another election.

Do you seriously believe the behavior being exhibited by Hollywood, college professors, the media (ones releasing fake stories), etc are ok?

 

They are coming off as being total looney tunes right now. As much as conservatives were put off by Obama we managed to be civil.

[Jesse]

Do you seriously believe the behavior being exhibited by Hollywood, college professors, the media (ones releasing fake stories), etc are ok?

 

They are coming off as being total looney tunes right now. As much as conservatives were put off by Obama we managed to be civil.

 

Both sides are behaving pretty awfully from what I can tell.

[IbrChris]

We'll see if Trump can stop campaigning and start acting as president of the US...meaning all Americans. That means sometimes listening to other views and seeking compromise.

[Anti Marine Layer]

You absolutely create your own reality.   

 

And he has not done anything yet.      

 

This bears posting again... its a great assessment of Trump.   The more he repeats things the more you believe it.    Its mindless.  

 

 

 

Trump is very, very smart. Trump for 50 years has learned how to use people’s brains against them. That’s what master salesmen do. There’s a certain set of things they do. The first is repeat. Advertisers know this. You turn on your TV, and the same ad comes on over and over and over. The effect on the brain of repetition is that when you hear something it’s understood through the neural circuitry in your brain; it has to become activated. The more it’s repeated, the more that circuitry is activated, and every time it’s activated the synaptic connections become stronger. What that means when they become stronger is two things happen. One, they’re more likely to fire — it’s easier to get those ideas out there if they’re firing — and two, if you hear them often enough they become part of what’s fixed in your brain. They become part of what you naturally understand, and you can only understand what your brain allows you to understand.

Repetition is a way of changing people’s brains. What Trump was doing all through the nomination campaign was that every day he managed to get on TV, and he would repeat different things that activated the same moral framework, and it really worked. In addition you have particular frames that were repeated: “Crooked Hillary,” “crooked Hillary,” “crooked Hillary,”  over and over. There wasn’t anything Hillary did that was crooked. But he kept saying it until people believed it. And they believed it because it was heard enough times to strengthen the neural circuitry in their brains.

 

The above article was just written by another sore loser. Once again, anybody who says Hillary has done nothing wrong is extremely ignorant. This is also worth repeating. Hillary was infamous for a lot of scandals.

 

From Whitewater to Benghazi: A Clinton-Scandal Primer

 

If you could read through that other article, you should also have time to read the one above. My brother, who voted for Obama twice, could not vote for Hillary because he knew of Hillary's scandals, which the media would never mention since they were heavily pro-Clinton. He did not vote for either Trump or Hillary.

 

The media also uses the same exact strategy, which is repeating things over and over again about how terrible Donald Trump will be as a President. Fear mongering is how the media makes money. Liberals love to repeat how they believe conservatives are racists and bigots. The result: Democrats continue to be sore losers and blame Hillary's loss on everything but themselves.

 

Over the years, liberals have taken control of almost all the mainstream media and all the universities. Many professors support socialism (a less offensive word for Communism) and oppose capitalism. Is it very hard for a conservative person to even be hired as a professor.

 

As for the liberals controlling the mainstream media, one article says this:

 

 

The media, especially the 95 percent within the media who are liberals, are in free fall in audience and credibility. A recent Associated Press survey reported that 96 percent of Americans no longer trust the “mainstream media.” The media elite are still in denial that their world of unaccountable privilege and bias has vanished.

 

Obama's eight years have helped the liberals take more control over our country and people's minds than ever before. With Trump and the Republican Congress, the liberals are terrified they could lose some of this power. That is the reason they are in panic.

 

Part of the reasons I voted for Trump were opposing girls in boy's restrooms, being offended by political correctness destroying our freedom of speech, and liberals thinking that true freedom means freedom from morality.

[TT-SEA]

The man is an endless SNL skit...  

 

[Deweydog]

We have that same statue on the right in our living room. Bought it on QVC.

[snow_wizard]

 

Obama's eight years have helped the liberals take more control over our country and people's minds than ever before. With Trump and the Republican Congress, the liberals are terrified they could lose some of this power. That is the reason they are in panic.

 

Part of the reasons I voted for Trump were opposing girls in boy's restrooms, being offended by political correctness destroying our freedom of speech, and liberals thinking that true freedom means freedom from morality.

 

I think the bathroom thing was one of the straws that broke the camel's back so to speak.  Also totally loony tunes laws like banning regular light bulbs.  I consider being told which freeking light bulb I can buy nothing short of a dictatorship.  The liberals just kept on and on and on on with the idiocy.  Also the continuing tolerance toward Muslim extremists while attacking Christians and making it politically incorrect to say Merry Christmas in public.  They went too far and people said they have had enough.

 

It's amazing to me they just keep digging themselves a deeper hole by acting like a bunch of hooligans toward anyone who even hints they like Trump.  Not sure if anyone heard about the classless tweet from an SNL writer which talked about Barron Trump being likely to be the first home school shooter.  Attacking a 10 year old kid...really?  They do nothing, but alienate themselves from an ever increasing percentage of the country.

[snow_wizard]

We have that same statue on the right in our living room. Bought it on QVC.

 

Speaking of statues...President Trump returned the Winston Churchill bust to the Oval Office which Obama had put in a closet during his term.  The Brits were highly offended when Obama did that BTW.

[snow_wizard]

I realize he is just reading what is written in most cases. In his case, it's probably for the best.

 

A lot of what he said in his speech is text book Steve Bannon.  I'm sure he is responsible for a good percentage of what is about to happen.  Many good things I might add.

[TT-SEA]

I think the bathroom thing was one of the straws that broke the camel's back so to speak.  Also totally loony tunes laws like banning regular light bulbs.  I consider being told which freeking light bulb I can buy nothing short of a dictatorship.  The liberals just kept on and on and on on with the idiocy.  Also the continuing tolerance toward Muslim extremists while attacking Christians and making it politically incorrect to say Merry Christmas in public.  They went too far and people said they have had enough.

 

It's amazing to me they just keep digging themselves a deeper hole by acting like a bunch of hooligans toward anyone who even hints they like Trump.  Not sure if anyone heard about the classless tweet from an SNL writer which talked about Barron Trump being likely to be the first home school shooter.  Attacking a 10 year old kid...really?  They do nothing, but alienate themselves from an ever increasing percentage of the country.

 

Generalizations.  

 

Because of posts like this one... I am becoming eager to see the pendulum inevitably swing back again soon.   Ever increasing percentage!   The world according to Jim.   

[snow_wizard]

Generalizations.  

 

Because of posts like this one... I am becoming eager to see the pendulum inevitably swing back again soon.   Ever increasing percentage!   The world according to Jim.   

 

So far I've been right about pretty much everything with the whole Trump juggernaut.  You continue to believe the media which has been wrong about everything and will continue to be so.  As I mentioned before the Republicans will now be able to gerrymander the district lines to make it even more likely they will hold the Congress in the mid term elections.

[TT-SEA]

So far I've been right about pretty much everything with the whole Trump juggernaut. You continue to believe the media which has been wrong about everything and will continue to be so. As I mentioned before the Republicans will now be able to gerrymander the district lines to make it even more likely they will hold the Congress in the mid term elections.

Right about everything? What exactly is everything? Other than winning 3 key states by a tiny margin on election night.

 

Nothing else has happened. ` Except Trump proving over the last 2 months that he will not act mature... its simply not possible for him.

 

Your cockiness is comical. It is Trump's immaturity and pettiness that has most of the world nervous. Your failure to recognize that simple fact is sort of silly.

[Deweydog]

I wonder if today's marches would have happened if HRC had won?

[snow_wizard]

I wonder if today's marches would have happened if HRC had won?

 

No...but the conservatives would be sitting in their houses hung over and or drunk.  The destruction of our country as we know it would have been complete with her.

[Deweydog]

No...but the conservatives would be sitting in their houses hung over and or drunk. The destruction of our country as we know it would have been complete with her.

Blah, blah, blah. I honestly don't see how you can be so dismissive of Trump-related overreactions and simultaneously be so irrationally Clinton-phobic.

 

Hackery.