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Status quo bias is difficult to overcome. Republicans are using several techniques to win 2024 and destroy our democracy. Chief among them is making government ineffective by gumming up the works with all their crap.
The news is full of breathless speculation on who I2I4 will choose as his VP. Frankly, it is just more normalization of Trump’s abnormality. I mean, Senator Rubio is on the list. For God’s sake, has anyone learned anything about the gross caricature of a human meat puppet? […]
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That the airwaves and etherways are clogged with the detritus of Republican mis and disinformation is no mystery. The only real question is, how to counter it. As it turns out the snarky, sarcasticky, and profaney among us have been right all along! Vicious mockery works, who knew?
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Weigh in with your thoughts on who is going to be Trump’s angel and put up the money for his NY fraud judgment. Who will he auction or national secrets off to? Is anyone out there still thinking he’s worth the risk? He is the man with the feculent touch, after all.
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We face perilous times as the outrage industrial complex seeks to make a horserace by equating Trump’s dementia with Biden’s usual verbal gaffs, mix that with a public that can’t tell fact from opinion, and stakes are high
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Just when you thought it was safe to protest vote, Clayton Jones of Claytoonz reminds us of the actual stakes.
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Everybody is losing their minds over Election 2024. Trump won SC by DOUBLE DIGITS! He’s UNSTOPPABLE! If he’s convicted he’ll lose 30% of his voters. The vote in SC was meaningless. Convince me I’m wrong.
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Election 2024 should be a shoe-in for the Democrats, so why are we so uncertain about the outcome of the 2024 election? Given the issues and recent elections, we shouldn’t be, but we are. New research on the neural basis of decision making and the effects of uncertainty help explain why. We’ll look at the role that the carryover effect, ageism, hindsight bias, and follow-the-leader politics plays in just how uncertain we feel going into the 2024 campaign.
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The hottest take in the last ten days is that Biden is too old to be president because old, so the Dems should run someone else. Well, who would you run instead and why? Let us know, in the comments!
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The only mystery left in the impending 7-2, 8-1, 9-0 SCOTUS vote to allow Trump ballot access is what kind of twisted reasoning are they going to use. Here’s the psychological explanation as to why even the liberal justices are going to allow it.
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Swing, moderate, independent, undecided voters, call them what you will, they are a fickle bunch, and they decide elections. Understanding them and the messages that will appeal to them will decide Election 2024. Here’s why Kennedy matters.
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The media insists that both Republicans and Democrats pose violent threats against our democratic norms and traditions when it clearly is only the Republicans that do. This post ties together how elite overproduction and racial animus combine to produce the Republican threat to our democracy.
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There has long been a mismatch between what people tell pollsters on topics like abortion and gun violence and how they vote. Here’s a look at how political scientists explain the difference.
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We’ve all noticed Trump’s increased use of Hitleresque dehumanizing metaphors for immigrants and his perceived opponents. There’s a reason for that. Metaphor is a major brain hack! Find out how.
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We are all influenced by status quo bias, so it is important to understand how it will affect our decision making in the 2024 election. Spoiler: it will drive third party voting
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Trump’s been arraigned, he’s pleaded not guilty, the MAGAs protested, anti-Trump protesters protested, Maddog Greene ran away. It’s party time in America, so party while you can because tomorrow we fight again.
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This is an update of a post written shortly after the election in 2016. It is still applicable now, and it is pretty darn good. In short, ain’t nothing matter if we don’t get out the vote, bitches! All your memes, snarky social media posts, protests, phone calls none of it will matter if you don’t vote in November.
So let’s “as a people rise up” and speak with one voice and vote the Repubes out!
NK perceives the US as an existential threat. The Ol’ Pussy Grabber perceives the Russia-Trump scandal as an existential threat. The intersection of the two is the stuff of nightmares: who prevails, distraction or suicide?
The self-destructiveness of white conservative middle class Republican voters is staggering. Can they ever be dissuaded? Why do they do it? All of my many articles addressing this baffling phenomenon gathered under one convenient heading.
Ever wonder how Obama really feels about Trump having won the presidency? Nope, me neither. You know he hates it. And, now here’s the analysis of the body language all “Lie To Me” style.
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