Real Donald Trump Quotes about Women

Have you seen the anti-Trump video that features women quoting Donald Trump’s most offensive statements about women?  I just showed it to a woman. She thought it was funny. Apparently nothing that Trump says comes off as offensive to her.  The reason I checked with a woman is because I didn’t trust…

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The Trump Riots That are Mostly My Fault

I would like to begin this post by disavowing Scott Adams. It seems I am mostly to blame for the recent scuffles at Trump rallies. I apologize for this and for the nuclear annihilation that is likely ahead of us after Trump wins the presidency in a landslide. The short…

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Strategic Ambiguity (Master Persuasion Series)

If you have been watching the news lately you know that Donald Trump disavowed the endorsement of racist David Duke. Unless you are watching CNN, in which case, their version of the news is that he didn’t do enough disavowing that one time. If you’re a racist, you have a…

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Disavowing Trump

I disavow Trump. Because of this and a few other things. His skills are still impressive. Update 1:  Just to be clear, what I’m doing here is getting out of the splatter zone. I am aware that Trump has disavowed David Duke and the KKK in the past and I am certain…

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The Trump Master Persuader Index and Reading List

Readers of this blog have been asking me to compile my Trump posts in a convenient index so you can direct others to it. And so I have. I’ll try to keep this updated as I go. The fun of it is seeing how early I predicted Trump’s rise (8/13/15)….

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Scalia and the Pillow

As you know, Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia recently died. Here’s what we know. 1. He seemed healthy(ish) that day. 2. He was discovered with a pillow over his head. 3. No autopsy was done. He was declared dead by telephone. 4. There is no chance of President Obama getting the…

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Why Does Trump Terrify People?

It isn’t unusual for members of the public to hate politicians. For example, lots of people hate President Obama. Some of that hatred is because of his policies, some is because of racism, and I assume there are a few other reasons. But I have never seen anyone who was…

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The Thinking Filters

As you watch pundits discuss the presidential elections, you might be wondering who is right, who is wrong, who is wise, and who is dumb. To that end, I put together the the following “high ground” chart.  As I have said in prior posts, I don’t believe our brains evolved…

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The Movie Persuasion Filter

If you were going to cast a Batman movie, and you had to pick from the Republican candidates, how easily could you fill out the cast? This will tell you what you really think of these folks. I think it would come out like this: Batman: Trump (battling lobbyists, China, ISIS,…

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Scoring My Iowa Fraud Call

I got a lot of scorn this week for declaring Iowa a rigged election based on the vote totals alone, and no real evidence. Strangers on the Internet called me pathetic, desperate, and a few other words.  There is no evidence that the vote count was rigged, although opportunity and human nature…

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News Flash: Cartoonist Gets One Wrong!

My predictions about the Iowa caucus were wrong! I am fallible after all. Time to eat some crow, as we say in America. Let me at it! Nom-nom-nom. Gulp. Mmmmm… That’s good crow. This is one of those situations in which having no sense of embarrassment comes in handy. I look forward…

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Can a Master Persuader Reverse Hate?

As of this writing, 60% of the voting public views Donald Trump unfavorably. In the 2D world, you assume he is doomed in the general election. But let’s bump up to the third dimension and see how it looks from there. For starters, we have watched Trump confound most pundits by improving…

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Persuader Fingerprints

For regular readers of this blog only, see if you can find a persuader’s fingerprints in this video clip (or the text below it). Then tell me who the persuader is. You’re looking for a one-word tell. See it? Update: For the answer, look for the uncommon word in the title at this link….

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