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Loathsome Ted’s Record Before the Supreme(s)

Prop — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:06:58 +0000

I think I've finally figured out why Ted Cruz inspires such loathsomeness among all but his most dedicated followers. The answer is: Time Travel! The thesis is this: Someone has invented a two-seater time machine, traveled back into the past, to either the time of the Spanish Inquisition or the Salem witch trials, and brought forward their chief prosecutor.... It’s called “judicial activism,” or in this case, a variant and precursor thereof. If there is any remaining doubt that that judicial activism, the bete noire of conservatives, is anything but their projection aimed at liberal and progressive politicians, then one need only point to its walking, talking embodiment — Ted Cruz.

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White Horse Prophecy Redux

Prop — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 03:16:11 +0000

Now that Mittens is covertly running for president―the clear implication of his desperate call for GOP voters to deprive Dumbledore Drumpf of delegates by voting for whomever has the best chance of beating him one state at a time―it's time to revisit the Mormon White Horse prophecy.

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Broker This

Prop — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:02:12 +0000

However, thanks to the Great White Leviathan with the orange fringe on top, currently poised to win the GOP nomination, not only would they lose an opportunity to take over the White House, but might result in their loss of the Senate, and the Supreme Court for a generation. Their only hope is a brokered convention. And that would likely result in destruction of the party if they try to screw the Tea Party and nominate another establishment Republican.

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Behavioral Economics: The Big Short Part III, The DK Effect Part VI

Prop — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:14:03 +0000

Tune into any of the three major business news channels and you'll be treated to an endless parade of "experts" framing that day or week's trading activities with narratives that, on the surface, seem to explain what's driving the market at any given time. But after a couple of decades of watching these people, I've concluded that a great deal of their "analysis" is simply designed to keep the rubes in the game by providing seemingly "rational" explanations for what are largely high frequency, computer driven trading schemes that use "dark pools" of money and others forms of subterfuge to separate investors from their money.

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Part III

Prop — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 08:01:54 +0000

According to Fux News host, Obama used a raw onion to fake tears while talking about school kids dying. Recently, it was reported that―horror of horrors!―Obama doesn't watch enough cable news, and therefore doesn't understand the nation's concerns about terrorism...Some would consider eschewing the manufactured reality of the cable news media-industrial-complex a feature and not a bug.

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The Dunning Kruger Effect: Part II

Prop — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 04:39:30 +0000

To paraphrase Dunning-Kruger: Fools lack the tools to recognize their foolishness; i.e. their limitations. The alternative to this lack of self-awareness is to blame someone else for their failures; to wit, that secret Muslim-Kenyan commie illegally occupying the White House. Naturally, this illegal occupation trope is being sold to the gullible as a promise by certain GOP presidential candidates to repeal every piece of legislation, every executive order, signed into law by our illegitimate president. Because freedom!

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Part 1

Prop — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:31:24 +0000

"This might be seen as a sign that the American right has finally crossed the border into looney-land." Perhaps observations from the field of cognitive science, the Dunning-Kruger effect, can help explain why.

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