rolling explaining conservatism

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/02/28/strong-right-wing-views-may-driven-fear-disease-study-suggests/

I still think ppl with b.o. + stinking of urine need to get their act together a bit!

i'm trying dammit

(xp) Just had a guy stinking of urine get on the bus I was travelling on, coincidentally.

In hot, populous southern hemisphere countries ppl are more chill about b.o. but yet right wing despots are in no short supply.

I got as far as the post-workout Boris photo and my strong authoritarian instincts made me stop reading

Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!

Tom D, if you look above, I've shared a number of papers on conservatism and the "behavioral immune system."

"Look, Obama attacked Russia with his sanctions. President Obama and his Low-Information Voters™ started what's called economic warfare, which is one of the classic reasons for going to war. So what does Putin do? Like any powerful person Putin tries to influence public opinion about them in the US, which is exactly what Democrats have been wanting us to do in other countries for decades. So now the Barack Obama's, Hillary Clinton's, and Nancy Pelosi's of the world are shocked, to find out that Putin is playing by the same play book that liberals have been using for decades -- so they do the only thing they can: scream and shout that because a candidate that doesn't buy into their particular brand of mental illness won, then they must have obviously won with the help of Russia. Putin could have started a shooting war because of the liberals, but instead bought some Facebook ads saying they weren't bad guys, and now those liberals are telling us that the vast majority of the country was duped by the Russians. Well folks, I am not buying it, and if anyone tries to tell you about the Russia Investigation, then just tell 'em, in the words of Obama's Reverend Jeremiah Wright, that the Democrats' chickens have come home to roost."

we trust russia more than the british because tax cuts. MAGA! 2nd amendment solutions. benghazi!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2018/mar/14/pmqs-may-corbyn-russia-spy-poisoning-uk-it-will-face-equal-reaction-if-may-punishes-it-for-salisbury-spy-attack-politics-live

I called President Putin of Russia to congratulate him on his election victory (in past, Obama called him also). The Fake News Media is crazed because they wanted me to excoriate him. They are wrong! Getting along with Russia (and others) is a good thing, not a bad thing. They can help solve problems with North Korea, Syria, Ukraine, ISIS, Iran and even the coming Arms Race. Bush tried to get along, but didn’t have the “smarts.” Obama and Clinton tried, but didn’t have the energy or chemistry (remember RESET). PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!

He approaches problems like a cutthroat businessman -- you find quick and pragmatic ways to get out of problems and then ask for forgiveness later. The problems he's chosen to tackle are things Americans have bemoaned for decades now; they didn't come out of thin air (regardless of whether his solutions are the right ones or the moral ones). That he's accomplishing some of these things with the help of Russia and how they interfered in the election is the 800lb Gorilla; maybe he views Russia the way a lot of American politicians view Israel? At least he's moving us forward. MAGA!

disloyal! disloyal! all you poor people are disloyal! freedom! professionalism! success! low energy! family values! tax cuts! tax cuts!!

Are these scripts from nonexistent YouTube rant videos of you playing with action figures and doing all the voices or do u have a channel?

things i hear "conservatives" say, explaining their ideology. no youtube channels or action figures involved

for instance ~

Triple the rent in public housing: no one can afford it, so no one applies. Then you can say no one wants low income housing and shut the program down. Sell the properties for pennies on the dollar to well connected real estate people who donate to politicians. Former residents now homeless. Need more cops, and cop overtime to deal with HORDES of homeless people. Pass laws to put homeless people in private prisons. Homeless people no longer homeless. People who run private prisons donate to politicians. New property owners, private prison owners, and politicians make out like bandits. Everyone wins, lots of money made, and unregulated capitalism is great.

Tada

cool

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/04/already-dont-much-not-take

Part of this is plain old cruelty. Threatening people who live under the constant stress of being poor in America is a Republican’s idea of fun. However, there’s also the GOP’s projection/confession tic. Republican apparatchicks are obsessed with the idea of poor people, especially poor minorities, sitting around doing nothing because that’s what they do. If they were smart they’d be worried the poor are sitting around planning where to put the guillotines.

ha ha, you libs are so hung up on truth. honesty is for self-righteous losers. winners make bank

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/fact-checker-president-trump-has-made-3001-false-or-misleading-claims-so-far/ar-AAwAf9U

i don't think poor people have a right to be healthy. i'm sorry, i just don't

we have a spending problem all because of that power-hungry democRAT party buying votes, so let's privatize medicare and eliminate welfare programs like social security and public education to balance the budget. the less federal government there is the freer and stronger americans are anyways

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2018/04/30/treasury-borrowing-set-record-488-billion/567166002/

crooked hillary hired fusion GPS to contract natalia veselnitskya to set poor little innocent don jr. up in june 2016. tax cuts. spending problem. tax cuts!

mr. trump is our lebron james, okay?

some gop ghoul on npr this morning was insisting we needed to act now to cut food stamps to everyone because they just spent 1.5t on tax cuts

it's all part of the GOP gameplan - if there isn't a massive deficit, create one, then cut domestic safety net programs to make up the difference

Correct, and it's a dumb plan. It won't work and we'll just wind up with a larger deficit.

i mean, i didn't think it was a good plan

as far as "it won't work", though, i guess that depends on what you mean. it won't work as in they will fail to cut domestic safety net programs? or it won't work as in it won't work politically and they will pay the price at the polls?

I think they'll never be able to cut the programs anywhere near as much as they'd like

whatever just keep government out of business

the liberals and the FBI owe the trump family an apology. lock her up!

I believe Donald Trump more than the FBI because Obama and Hillary and taxes and spending problem and terrorists and second amendment solutions and chinese hoaxery and the preverts and the communiss

I see no point in trying to reason with Trump voters

“President Trump has accomplished more positive things for this nation in less than two years than the last three have accomplished in twenty plus years. After the past eight years of a Muslim Marxist in the White House this nation could not survive another demwit in the White House. … Could you please list one thing the demwit party has done for the black people in America other than hand out government freebies for their continued votes?”

“America has a Constitution which guarantees equal rights for all and yet people like you hunger for change that puts people like me in the back of the bus. You seem egar to know what it would be like to be in the driver’s seat. You need look no further than Zimbabwe and South Africa. When people like you started driving the bus, the wheels came off. That’s what terrifies people like me.”

“We’re sick of paying welfare to so many of your brothers who don’t know what work and integrity mean. I hope you keep writing these articles and reminding my White Christian brothers that we did the right thing and we need to re elect Trump.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/trump-supporters-speak/

The ORIGINAL identity politics

those comments are pearls

can somebody give me a crash course on what Republicans think Hillary Clinton lied about wrt Benghazi

Ranges from 'covered up failures in security' to 'hired Al Qaeda to kill them' AFAICT.

'Deliberately chose to not send in a rescue squad' is one I've seen bandied about as well.

Also "slept peacefully through it" despite her campaign shtick about late-night phone calls. And, y'know, time zones or something.

And "ignored a cable" of the thousands of cables that come to the state department.

look, the most important thing to remember is "Hillary lied, four Americans died". How you reach that conclusion is more of a personal matter.

hillary formed isis with two intentions: murdering ambassador christopher stephens and inspiring a michael bay movie

mission accomplished on both fronts, nothing but respect for my president

As long as she is free, all of us are jailed.* at least dsouza and arpaio are pardoned tho.

Feeling lately like an awareness of the extent to which one's mediocrity would be ill-served by a legitimately level playing field is a pretty essential factor.

But does he really think the Democrats are less corrupt than Trump and his cabinet?

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/never-trumpers-leaving-republican-party-will-not-save-it/

go benzcowkski! watch smug libtards -- mr. putin will restore ukrainian / crimean sovereignty, and mr. trump will win the nobel. free paul manafort!

Upthread, I linked to some of the research on conservatism and the "behavioral immune system". Robert Sapolsky, author of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst wrote a op-ed for CNN on the topic:

Be alarmed when a leader tries to make you think of humans as vermin

President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today, and what he did is an incredible offer. He offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the 12 people. I think that’s an incredible offer.

I used to think red baiting was a component of conservatism but I guess it's actually red 'bating. Homophones are tricky!

But I really do want to see the server. But I have confidence in both parties. I, I really believe that this will probably go on for a while. But I don’t think it can go on without finding out what happened to the server. What happened to the servers of the Pakistani gentleman that worked on the DNC? Where are those servers? They’re missing. Where are they? What happened to Hillary Clinton’s emails? Thirty-three thousand emails gone. Just gone. I think in Russia they wouldn’t be gone so easily. I think it’s a disgrace that we can’t get Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 emails.

She dumped bleach on them, now the servers are gone bro

i heard the first 4 minutes or so of Rush Lumbago's show today, mostly yelling "no evidence" and "no one ran my opinion on the news last night"