I almost posted that history vid.

The historian being interviewed seems reasonably intelligent.

Unseen wrote:
That’s right, Trump’s electoral strength—and his staying power—have been buoyed, above all, by Americans with authoritarian inclinations.

I’ve heard that before.  Also that Trump supporters tend to think in a very group-oriented way, they think that groups have to compete, and that their group has to win.

I think Bill Maher mentioned this recently. It may have been a different family. But a similar event. A family found Arizona to be “too woke” so they moved to Texas, only to find it was just not conservative enough for them. So they sold everything and gave their money to the poor moved to Russia. WTF!

This article is more than 10 years old, but it explains a lot, like how in the world does he get so much support within groups you’d think shouldn’t support him: ethnic minorities and women among others.

The One Weird Trait That Predicts Whether You’re a Trump Supporter

I’ve found a single statistically significant variable predicts whether a v…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg 🙂

Have a great week!!

“I don’t reject gods. I just apply the same standards I use for everything else—and they don’t make the cut.”

-me.

Fellow Unbelievers,

I say all this to take the edge off of the obvious and not so obvious facts about the horror that happened in Minneapolis, Minnesota:

Magic words, whether thoughts or prayers, said to anyone, whether “Gods” or humans, whether singular, intercessionally, or in prayer circles, cannot predict how the worst human beings will act,…[Read more]

Reg,

“Fuck it” is, like fucking prayer, a fucking placebo, since “fuck it” wouldn’t stop the fucking frostbite resulting from extended fucking soaking of your fucking hand in fucking cold water!

That’s the fucking evidence-fucking-based findings of the Winter-Fucking-Semester fucking researchers at the Fucking Uni-Fucking-Versity of Fucking…[Read more]