Posted on 09/25/2016 12:39:13 PM PDT by Be Careful
See my reply #100.
Here's what Scott Adams wrote on 9-11:
If humans were rational creatures, the time and place of Clinton’s “overheating” wouldn’t matter at all. But when it comes to American psychology, there is no more powerful symbol of terrorism and fear than 9-11 . When a would-be Commander-in-Chief withers – literally – in front of our most emotional reminder of an attack on the homeland, we feel unsafe. And safety is our first priority.Hillary Clinton just became unelectable.
The mainstream media might not interpret today’s events as a big deal. After all, it was only a little episode of overheating. And they will continue covering the play-by-play action until election day. But unless Trump actually does shoot someone on 5th Avenue, he’s running unopposed.
Or this, eleven days later:
n the 2D world in which most people live, Clinton and Trump are polling about evenly, and either one could win. The 2D world is all about facts and policies and common sense. In other words – all the stuff we think we care about but really don’t.
In the 3D world of persuasion, however, the election is already over. There is still some mystery about how large the margin will be, but Trump is already the President of the United States unless something big happens in the next few weeks. How do I know that?
Listen to this clip in which Clinton asks why she isn’t leading by 50 points. Ignore the content of what she says, because no one cares about content. Just feel it.
And see the future.
Scott’s earlier declaration of voting for h-roids for his own safety may have been one of those ‘acts of persuasion’, implying perhaps that anyone who wants him to vote for h-roids is an effin goon. And thus, it may make such people think twice about what they are doing to him.
A certain relative by marriage (now divorced) stashed a lot of stuff, hidden away in crawl spaces etc in his home. No trust, no will. Like a half million in gold & silver. Lots of guns & ammo. Lots of survival gear & food. Plus he has expensive collectibles around the house in the open. I'm sure only a few know about the hidden stuff, and will make a mad dash for it if he dies. His home is in a remote wooded canyon with some neighbors but he doesn't mingle or be friendly with them. Any way, if he dies, it's a good bet the government won't tax these items again.
There's that word again. "Feel".
I am so damned tired of people being led by their feelings. Feelings has almost completely supplanted facts, logic, true compassion, and real thinking among the vast majority of Americans. Every time someone tells me how they feel I want to puke. That's the root of the problem with the low information voters. They don't think. They "feel".
And some of them are your neighbors
“Okay, then I guess Trump should refrain from doing anything.”
How about this: Trump creates the office of “pro-life czar” - and assigns the task to a women...
I'm not fit for this new world coming into being. But what can I do? I can't compromise my faith. That isn't what God would have from us. We are supposed to be using the minds, the conscience that He gave us. But most people especially in America aren't using their minds or conscience. They are betraying their faith. And if there is no real belief in a higher law than man well... we're pretty much screwed.
All the toys get scattered to the guy with the biggest truck ,I guess.
How about this: Trump creates the office of “pro-life czar” - and assigns the task to a women...
Whether it is a man or a woman is of no consequence to me. I will note that women have been the driving force of abortion policy for the last 50 years. It seems to me they haven't done a bang up job.
My main emphasis is that the best person drive the effort. I'm not convinced Trump wouldn't be that guy. Do we need a right to life czar?
If anything, I want to move away from as many departments as we have, reducing the middle-men in the exchange.
The Department of Education, the I. R. S., the E. P. A...
Remember also, that these czars are not reviewed by Congress. We didn't like it when Clinton and Obama ran away with the idea. I'm not inclined to go that direction.
I believe it is an important issue, but I think the president himself makes the statements that are heard the loudest. I'm hoping he'll be a good advocate for us.
Delegation can be good, but too many times we delegate and then say it's handled.
>>He is just not acting like a pious, elite intellectual because that is not the audience he is targeting.
Have you been following his blog? He does act like a pompous intellectual quite a bit, especially in the early days of the primary when he was just accusing us of falling for a con man (like the Jebbies and Cruzers were also saying that the time).
I’ve been accused of the same thing so I guess I wouldn’t know.
I may not agree with the way he got there, but his opinion will sway some independents that lean liberal. So welcome aboard the Trump Train.
Wally is my hero.
He didn’t say he didn’t have a broad understanding of the issues. He said he doesn’t know the DETAILS of TRUMP and CLINTON specific policies. He also said a President doesn’t need to understand “minutia”. He didn’t claim either he or Trump is “uninformed”.
In his words, he said he didn’t know anything about those issues and neither do you. I’m a fan of Scott Adams, but this was not one of his best pieces.
It really doesn’t take much of a small business to have a book value large enough for the estate tax to require the family to sell it to pay the taxes owed. A small store, a McDonald’s, a gas station, a winery, etc. may only throw off a few hundred thousand a year in profits, but the assets that make those profits possible exceed the $5M exclusion.
He doesn’t say he “doesn’t know anything”. He says he doesn’t “know the best way”. If he was claiming to be uninformed, he wouldn’t know enough to know he didn’t know the best way.
[There are many things I don’t know. For example, I don’t know the best way to defeat ISIS. Neither do you. I don’t know the best way to negotiate trade policies. Neither do you. I don’t know the best tax policy to lift all boats. Neither do you.]
I agree. I purposely used that word to describe LIV’s, not only because that is how they operate, but also because that is how Adams describes a lot of his persuasion techniques.
“Hillary wouldn’t be much use to the country if she is taking care of a dying husband on the side.”
Hilarious! Like that’s going to happen. In ‘92 she made fun of the idea of staying home and baking cookies with her daughter.
Baking cookies = easy.
Taking care of a wizened, STD-riddled, smelly old perv = difficult.
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