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Category Archives: America
Donald Trump – The President Of Vice (12-4-24)
01:00 Vice is bad, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/opinion/donald-trump-vice-voters.html03:00 Commentary mag: There Are Nations in Crisis—Just Not Ours, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqSB6OeDxow08:20 Among Transition hiccups, Trump survives stuff that no political mortal could survive, says Mark Halperin, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/among-transition-hiccups-trump-survives-stuff-that/id1573813504?i=100067924014212:00 Humor & Morality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15804219:00 Variations in Moral Concerns across … Continue reading
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Variations in Moral Concerns across Political Ideology: Moral Foundations, Hidden Tribes, and Righteous Division
From The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (2022): * Traditional Conservatives (19 per cent). This group is patriotic, religious, moralistic, and tends to lament what it perceives as the gradual erosion of a bygone and glorified American way of life. … Continue reading
Decoding the Trump Transition (12-3-24)
04:00 Hunter Pardon, Day 2, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sme1_gt4GJM11:00 The “If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Keep Your Doctor” Pardon and Kash Patel,https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/the-if-you-like-your-doctor-you-can17:30 Say Nothing tv show, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_Nothing_(TV_series)19:30 Americans used to be known for their plain speech, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0arXVZ72hvI24:20 Inflation was the result … Continue reading
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‘Trump Is De-Stereotyping Republican Foreign Policy’
Stereotypes are useful when they correlate with reality (such as different groups have different gifts). Stereotypes are not useful when you insist that different groups have inherent qualities that explain all of their actions. Regarding an out-group as inherently evil, … Continue reading
Decoding Trump 2.0: The Shock & Awe Version (12-1-24)
01:00 I was ahead of the game until I took that supplement to get my chi moving04:00 Trump’s Next Move: The Legal Battle That Could Change EVERYTHING, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewE5SEkFnTM07:00 Conservative Host WALKS OFF Show After CoHost Calls Her A NAZI, https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5012229-trump-dei-merit/24:15 … Continue reading
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Decoding World War III (11-29-24)
01:00 Europeans & Democrats resigned to working with Trump, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYdhN85KS8828:00 Death of DEI34:00 Who can influence Donald Trump? Not many people, perhaps Susie Wiles, Elon Musk, Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump in certain spheres38:00 Israel has run the table the past … Continue reading
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Capitalism vs Populism (11-28-24)
01:00 Lions QB Jared Goff learns to release, https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5948798/2024/11/27/jared-goff-detroit-lions-mvp-dan-campbell-thanksgiving/02:00 Great Rabbinic Thinkers: Rabbi Samuel Mohilever (Part 1) || Dr. Marc Shapiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9DeyHTzWng05:00 This Maverick Thinker (Wolfgang Streeck) Is the Karl Marx of Our Time, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/opinion/wolfgang-streeck-populism.html29:00 NYT: What’s a Democratic Billionaire … Continue reading
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Decoding Kamala’s Latest Bizarre Video (11-27-24)
01:00 Do Dennis Prager’s doctors know about the wonderful healing qualities of Relief Factor and the other supplements that Dennis Prager promotes? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15791705:00 Joe Rogan, Bret Weinstein and the horrifyingly low standards in Alternative Media, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lID15vBWgI09:00 Decoding Kamala’s Latest Bizarre … Continue reading
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Nikki Haley Would Have Lost
Mark Halperin says Trump supporters usually have no problem acknowledging all the problems with their candidate while Democrats for years couldn’t admit that Biden was senile. He says Nikki Haley would have lost the general election. He says Trump took … Continue reading
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Decoding How The World Works (11-26-24)
01:00 All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15792606:00 America’s illegal immigration problem08:30 Trump’s tariff threats against Mexico, Canada, China 14:00 Fake News Creator on Manipulating Media for the World’s Worst Humans | Phil … Continue reading
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