To have a reasonable chance at poker, chess, football, business, politics, war, or life in general requires as much as humanly possible an accurate awareness of other people's true intentions. The importance of getting a good read on one's opponents is stating the obvious, of course, but actuall…
To have a reasonable chance at poker, chess, football, business, politics, war, or life in general requires as much as humanly possible an accurate awareness of other people's true intentions. The importance of getting a good read on one's opponents is stating the obvious, of course, but actually succeeding at it is seldom easy ...unless you're trying to figure out the simplistic mindset of average Joe Republican.
Divining a true-blue believer's ulterior motives is fairly straightforward. Being that they are constantly bombarded with bullshit day in and day out, it's a reasonably sure bet that the 180-degree opposite of whatever wingers usually babble on and on about is closer to the truth. Let's be honest, damn near everything they say and think is based on the manufactured fear and hate of "others" and on an implanted sense of self-righteousness -- the self-deluded "correctness" of a skewed worldview that defies any introduction of irrefutable, empirical evidence to the contrary. Ask Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney; they quickly stunk up the whole crowded elevator with just little truth bombs.
That McConnell, Trump, McCarthy, Graham, Greene, Boebert, Cruz, Hawley, Ron Johnson, and the rest of the goofballs in the Republican clown car, are still the headline-grabbing "thought leaders" for the various factions of shameless liars says a lot.
"[McConnell] has bought his own BS." - Thom
To have a reasonable chance at poker, chess, football, business, politics, war, or life in general requires as much as humanly possible an accurate awareness of other people's true intentions. The importance of getting a good read on one's opponents is stating the obvious, of course, but actually succeeding at it is seldom easy ...unless you're trying to figure out the simplistic mindset of average Joe Republican.
Divining a true-blue believer's ulterior motives is fairly straightforward. Being that they are constantly bombarded with bullshit day in and day out, it's a reasonably sure bet that the 180-degree opposite of whatever wingers usually babble on and on about is closer to the truth. Let's be honest, damn near everything they say and think is based on the manufactured fear and hate of "others" and on an implanted sense of self-righteousness -- the self-deluded "correctness" of a skewed worldview that defies any introduction of irrefutable, empirical evidence to the contrary. Ask Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney; they quickly stunk up the whole crowded elevator with just little truth bombs.
That McConnell, Trump, McCarthy, Graham, Greene, Boebert, Cruz, Hawley, Ron Johnson, and the rest of the goofballs in the Republican clown car, are still the headline-grabbing "thought leaders" for the various factions of shameless liars says a lot.
LOL Deepspace! One person's stinkbomb is another person's sweet rose.
Funny how that works in wingnut politics -- up is down; left is right; day is night; vote Republican.