Damn. That's brutal. Oh, sure, the true believers will wail, 'But it's DRUMMPPPPHH!!!' and come up with all sorts of rationalizations as to why THIS impeachment matters. Still, if this is a taste of things to come, expect Trump's reelection team to blitz the airwaves with every stupid thing Dems have said since 2016.
Not really. It's the resolution of the state of cognitive dissonance. Making something NOT REAL X, for whatever reason, brings the belief system back into internal consistency. That's my take on it, anyways.
That's what cognitive dissonance is. The rationalization is part of it.
Whenever these "artists" try to own Trump by drawing him as a cartoon villain, it usually looks pretty cool to me. He looks like the Penguin there. Am I not supposed to like that?
I've noticed the same thing with people calling Trump a liar when he says Democrats want to allow post birth "abortion," aka infanticide. There's literally a tape of Ralph Northram saying just that.
I stand corrected. I had considered the "cognitive dissonance" to be separate from the "rationalization".
I'm not sure what to expect. I was sure Trump winning in 2016 was going to bring Rodney King tier rioting in multiple cities. Instead all we got was some low level "rioting" in DC, speds shrieking and wailing, and totally real hate crime stories (my favorite was one where some dude totally recieved a letter from his neighbors/homeowners association saying that now that America was "great again" all the spics and nigs had to leave the neighborhood).
It's all good. Cognitive dissonance is one of those terms that gets misused a lot so incomplete understandings of it spread from person to person. I look at it as a process, rationalization has to happen on some level for the contradictory viewpoints to be held in the first place. We all basically suffer from it to certain degrees, but those of us who suffer from it the worst tend to have pretty wild reactions to being confronted with it. Which produces most of the insanity this thread is centered on.
I'm no dmca expert. But weren't those edits showing Biden and that Ukranian gas exec transformative?
Could be that Nickelback filed it for using the song.
Trust a snake before a Jew and trust a Jew before a Greek, but never trust a leaf.
Politico has to be one of the few mainstream outlets left with any journalists that even know what journalism is supposed to be about, especially when they do this sort of "long form" reporting. One of their previous ones about the Obama-Hezbollah scandal was a really fantastic piece of work, and now apparently they're digging into Biden's history and dragging the rest of his family in with it.
It's a good example as to why I never panic when it comes to politics, though. A month ago there were more than a small handful of people out there in the world who thought that Biden had a pretty significant chance of making a run at the office, and now he's completely dead in the water. We might not always be able to see the sucker punches ahead of time, but there's one lined up and waiting for every single person who's going to try and step between Trump and re-election. It doesn't matter who they nominate because it's Washington D.C. Everyone has dirt on them, it's just a matter of taking the right swing at the right time and you can take a front-runner from the DNC from the top of the stack to the middle of the list in the span of a few days.
Does anyone really think that Trump only learned about Biden's shady dealings just a week or two ago? Granted you could easily argue that if he knew about it all of this time, why did he wait until now to expose it, but that's because it's easier to bait a trap than it is to go out hunting. Why expose Biden two years ago and give the media and the public all of this time to quit caring, when instead you can wait until Biden's leading the races for the DNC, wait until they've walked into your trap and try to spring a new ___Gate scandal on you, and then kneecap their front-runner on the national stage and reverse their newest, biggest "weapon" at the same time.
After awhile people are going to have to start admitting to themselves that it's really not dumb, blind luck anymore.
Democrats are exceptional and don't believe in personal responsibility. It's always another person's fault.
