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I don't know man, I currently got a baby and she seems rather reasonable in comparison. Sure she cries when she's hungry but so far she has only hungered for milk and not a nobel peace price. I'll let you know if things change.

Twice. TWICE.

And they knew him all too well. They saw his baby antics on television long before he started appearing on ballots.

Cognitive bias affects all classes and education levels. But in my experience conservatives are the most flagrant, "the only moral abortion is my abortion" for example.

Are you familiar with the concept of limerence? It's an intense infatuation with a person typically rooted in romantic interest. It occurs when you don't really know a person, and you build an idealized version of them in your mind that likely doesn't reflect reality. You attribute all sorts of positive traits to them and overlook all their negative traits. You effectively view them through "rose colored glasses". This is how Trump's followers look at him. They have this delusional view of him as this strong man here to save them from the mean old leftists. His efforts to seize and wield extraordinary power is viewed favorably, because he is their savior. Everything he does is either awesome or it's just minimized and ignored. When he does horrible things, it's just haters looking to knock him down, because he's just giving the U.S. the tough medicine it needs. There is no way to reason with them, because you can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into in the first place. It's an emotional thing, in the same way you might be smitten by an attractive woman and build her up in your mind into something that she isn't. The only way to break the spell is when your fantasy runs into cold, hard reality. In this case, the cold, hard reality will be financial collapse of the U.S. (or worse).

By what metric are those people "genuinely smart?"

It's because nothing Trump is doing scares them as much as:

• Whites becoming a minority
• Gender not being a fundamental way of organizing society
• Random made up things they heard online that they believe to be true

Trump doesn't look so bad if you believe every US city was burned to the ground 6 years ago and had to be rebuilt using taxes from rural america which were collected by black & latino paramilitary troops controlled by the jews.

He's terrorizing Minnesota because the population votes for the opposing party. The madness with the Orange knows no bounds.

gestures broadly this deranged. It's all excuses. Dictators don't need reasons they just act.

I mean they did proudly display "we are domestic terrorists" at a convention years ago.

He's too stupid to know the difference, plus he's probably being bribed by some other pedophile racist billionarie in exchange for mineral rights or whatever.

he was half-black, and has a muslim name that was enough for righties to lose thier minds.

People think they're witnessing a market crash are delusional

Starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane, Lenny Bruce is not afraid.

Markets are closed today to celebrate MLK Day. Tomorrow marks a ton of state legislation getting scheduled as well. Gonna suck.

He doesn't even realize that Norway and Denmark are different countries.

He so pissed at Norway he's going to go to war with Denmark. So idiotic.

Even if it were a joke, some jokes aren't appropriate for the leader of a country to make. Multiple countries are taking him seriously and gearing up to defend Greenland. If I called someone's house repeatedly and threatened to rob them, I'd probably be arrested and the defence "it was just a joke" would do little good.

I'm waiting for the day the whole administration tries to flip the script and claim this was all a giant social experiment. They crashed the economy, invaded US cities with a militia, started killing civilians, and dragged us into a foreign war over oil and then kicked off WWIII bc they knew it was the only way they could get all the sheeple to wake up.

Like the current grift will just shift into a new grift where they pretend an angry mob of millions forming outside of the White House was actually their plan the entire time.

"This was a test and you passed. Congratulations, give yourself a round of applause."

I thought you meant actual staples... like for your stapler, and I was like, "Ok, you do you. Who am I to judge how someone prepares for the apocalypse?"