Daily Archives: December 3, 2024

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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Smart people ‘especially prone to tribalism, virtue signaling and self-deception’

Musa Al-Gharbi writes: We pay attention to, easily recall, and feel positive emotions towards things we deem interesting or useful. We dismiss, downplay, dump, and have negative emotional reactions to information that is threatening to our objectives or our self-image, … 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

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