Ridgerunner Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 6 hours ago, StarLight28 said: Into jail ? That's where Trump's moron belongs!! The people's traitor to the fatherland tempts them to storm the Capitol by force. A cowardly dog. I agree with you that the US judiciary is obviously incompetent. The DOJ and FBI are not incompetent they are corrupt. They are part of the Washington, D.C. establishment swamp which Trump tried to drain. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgerunner Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 6 hours ago, SPYING 1 said: You don't know shit, only knowledge you have is inbreeding & spreading your communists nazi 3rd Reich views The pompous failed German politician thinks he knows more about the U.S. than do American citizens who have lived their whole lives in the U.S. LMAO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgerunner Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 6 hours ago, StarLight28 said: You know nothing about economics. Just stupid sayings. Typical regulars' knowledge of stupid people. Spare us the nonsense. It is you who knows nothing about economics. All you know and repeat continually is socialist/Marxist propaganda and hatred of America. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgerunner Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 5 hours ago, happyone said: Biden has canceled $17 billion in student loan debt, without scoring a political win WWW.MSN.COM Joe Biden has canceled more student loan debt than any other President, delivering relief to 700,000-plus borrowers. But some voters feel misled by Biden, who had supported canceling $10,000 for each... Rather than cancelling all this student debt and turning student loans into freebies, why not go after the fraudulent educational institutions charging these outlandish tuitions. Many of these colleges have huge endowments--so they can afford to lower tuition costs. Better yet, tax the colleges' billions of dollars in endowments and use that money to pay the student loans. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgerunner Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 Joe Biden is just like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, long on talk and short on action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarLight28 Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 1 hour ago, Ridgerunner said: Joe Biden is just like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, long on talk and short on action. Ganz im Gegenteil. Obama und Clinten haben selbst angegriffen und Amerikaner in den Krieg geschickt. Biden hat lange Zeit große diplomatische Erfahrung und wollte den Überfall Putins vermeiden - auch mit Waffenlieferungen an Ukraine. Und er hat viele Scherben von dem Putin-Schleimer Trump erfolgreich zusammen gefegt und der USA wieder Ansehen in der Welt verschafft. Das alles sind gute Taten für diese USA. "An ihren Taten sollt ihr sie' erkennen." 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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letsdothis Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 America's struggle for democracy and freedom against authoritarianism is taking place on a biological level as well. Social psychologists and other researchers have shown that the brain structures of conservative-authoritarians are different than those of more liberal and progressive thinkers. The former are more fear-centered, emphasizing threats and dangers (negativity bias), intolerant of ambiguity and inclined to simple, binary solutions. Conservative-authoritarians are also strongly attracted to moral hierarchy and social dominance behavior. Recent research by Darren Sherkat, a professor of sociology at Southern Illinois University, demonstrates that America's democracy crisis may be even more intractable than the above evidence suggests. In his recent article 'Cognitive Sophistication, Religion, and the Trump Vote,' which appeared in the January 2021 edition of Social Science Quarterly, Sherkat examined data from the 2018 General Social Survey and concluded that there are substantial negative differences between the thinking processes and cognition of white Trump voters, as shown in the 2016 presidential election, as compared to other voters who supported Hillary Clinton or another candidate, or who did not vote at all. Sherkat observes that Trump support has been linked to religion and level of education, but until now not to 'cognitive sophistication,' which was found 'to have a positive effect on voting, but a negative effect on choosing Trump.' He notes that 'philosophers and political elites have debated the potential effects of mass political participation' for generations, concerned 'about the unsophisticated masses coming under the sway of a demagogue.' In effect, this debate was always about the quality he calls cognitive sophistication, since citizens who lack it 'may not be able to understand and access reliable and valid information about political issues and may be vulnerable to political propaganda': Low levels of cognitive sophistication may lead people to embrace simple cognitive shortcuts, like stereotypes and prejudices that were amplified by the Trump campaign. Additionally, the simple linguistic style presented by Trump may have appealed to voters with limited education and cognitive sophistication. Beginning with [T.W.] Adorno's classic study of the authoritarian personality, empirical works have linked low levels of cognitive sophistication with right-wing orientations.... Trump's campaign may also have been more attractive to people with low cognitive sophistication and a preference for low-effort information processing because compared to other candidates, Trump's speeches were given at a much lower reading level…. While much of the Trump campaign's rhetoric and orientation may have resonated with the poorly educated and cognitively unsophisticated, those overlapping groups are less likely to register to vote or to turn out in an election. As part of his research, Sherkat evaluated the political decision-making and cognition of Trump's voters, using a 10-point vocabulary exam. In a guest essay at the website Down with Tyranny, he explains what this vocabulary test revealed about white Trump voters: Overall, the model predicts that almost 73% of respondents who missed all 10 questions would vote for Trump (remember, that is controlling for education and the other factors), while about 51% who were average on the exam are expected to vote for Trump. Only 35% of people who had a perfect score on the exam are predicted to be Trump supporters. Notably, this very strong, significant effect of verbal ability can be identified within educational groups. While non-college whites certainly turned out more heavily for Trump, the smart ones did not — only 38% of those with perfect scores are expected to go for Trump, and only 46% of non-college graduates who scored a standard deviation above the mean. The same is true for college graduates — low cognition college graduates were more likely to vote for Trump. ... What is really depressing isn't just the poles of the vocabulary exam, it's the average. The mean and median of the scale is 6 — so half of white Americans missed 4 of the easy vocabulary questions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyone Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 40 minutes ago, letsdothis said: America's struggle for democracy and freedom against authoritarianism is taking place on a biological level as well. Social psychologists and other researchers have shown that the brain structures of conservative-authoritarians are different than those of more liberal and progressive thinkers. The former are more fear-centered, emphasizing threats and dangers (negativity bias), intolerant of ambiguity and inclined to simple, binary solutions. Conservative-authoritarians are also strongly attracted to moral hierarchy and social dominance behavior. Recent research by Darren Sherkat, a professor of sociology at Southern Illinois University, demonstrates that America's democracy crisis may be even more intractable than the above evidence suggests. In his recent article 'Cognitive Sophistication, Religion, and the Trump Vote,' which appeared in the January 2021 edition of Social Science Quarterly, Sherkat examined data from the 2018 General Social Survey and concluded that there are substantial negative differences between the thinking processes and cognition of white Trump voters, as shown in the 2016 presidential election, as compared to other voters who supported Hillary Clinton or another candidate, or who did not vote at all. Sherkat observes that Trump support has been linked to religion and level of education, but until now not to 'cognitive sophistication,' which was found 'to have a positive effect on voting, but a negative effect on choosing Trump.' He notes that 'philosophers and political elites have debated the potential effects of mass political participation' for generations, concerned 'about the unsophisticated masses coming under the sway of a demagogue.' In effect, this debate was always about the quality he calls cognitive sophistication, since citizens who lack it 'may not be able to understand and access reliable and valid information about political issues and may be vulnerable to political propaganda': Low levels of cognitive sophistication may lead people to embrace simple cognitive shortcuts, like stereotypes and prejudices that were amplified by the Trump campaign. Additionally, the simple linguistic style presented by Trump may have appealed to voters with limited education and cognitive sophistication. Beginning with [T.W.] Adorno's classic study of the authoritarian personality, empirical works have linked low levels of cognitive sophistication with right-wing orientations.... Trump's campaign may also have been more attractive to people with low cognitive sophistication and a preference for low-effort information processing because compared to other candidates, Trump's speeches were given at a much lower reading level…. While much of the Trump campaign's rhetoric and orientation may have resonated with the poorly educated and cognitively unsophisticated, those overlapping groups are less likely to register to vote or to turn out in an election. As part of his research, Sherkat evaluated the political decision-making and cognition of Trump's voters, using a 10-point vocabulary exam. In a guest essay at the website Down with Tyranny, he explains what this vocabulary test revealed about white Trump voters: Overall, the model predicts that almost 73% of respondents who missed all 10 questions would vote for Trump (remember, that is controlling for education and the other factors), while about 51% who were average on the exam are expected to vote for Trump. Only 35% of people who had a perfect score on the exam are predicted to be Trump supporters. Notably, this very strong, significant effect of verbal ability can be identified within educational groups. While non-college whites certainly turned out more heavily for Trump, the smart ones did not — only 38% of those with perfect scores are expected to go for Trump, and only 46% of non-college graduates who scored a standard deviation above the mean. The same is true for college graduates — low cognition college graduates were more likely to vote for Trump. ... What is really depressing isn't just the poles of the vocabulary exam, it's the average. The mean and median of the scale is 6 — so half of white Americans missed 4 of the easy vocabulary questions. So to sum this thesis up--only stupid people will support and vote for Trump . 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPYING 1 Posted March 29, 2022 Author Share Posted March 29, 2022 $1,200 Fuel Stop For Semi-Truck Is Reality Of Record-High Diesel Price WWW.MOTOR1.COM Gas prices are at record highs too, but diesel is even higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPYING 1 Posted March 29, 2022 Author Share Posted March 29, 2022 PHOTOS: Biden caught using cue cards in trying to paper over Ukraine gaffe about ousting Putin WWW.FOXNEWS.COM President Biden held a “cheat sheet” of prepared answers for a key question during his White... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPYING 1 Posted March 29, 2022 Author Share Posted March 29, 2022 New report: 255,000 ‘excess votes’ for Biden in six key 2020 states WWW.WASHINGTONEXAMINER.COM A new deep dive into discrepancies in the ballot counts of six key battleground states in... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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