The Donald Trump Score Card

So let me get this straight, Pelosi clams Trump is currently in an Altered State…….

And we should consider invoking the 25th amendment....lol...

 

yeah but then we end up with a fly as acting Prez.

 

A normal president would condemn this.

 

Biden answering questions you say?

That would be a first

He doesn't actually need a Presidential debate to do that

 

In the same way the Dem presidential candidate condemned 100,000 rioters, looters and arsonists May to September?

 

You need to keep up. Biden has condemned them.
That's not the point though. Seems like you are condoning the actions of idiots to not only take over a state government, but kidnap a governor, possibly kill innocent civilians, and kill your beloved LEOs.

 

how many questions did flyboy answer last night?

 

If the Whitmer thing was about the Covid response, I'm surprised that kind of thing hasn't happened the world over many times already

 

2nd dude looks like the guitarist from Limp Bizkit

 

Has flyboy ever answered any question, ever?

He always deflects and answers a totally different question that nobody asked...

 

Sounds like right wing humor to me especially Trump's. He gives out nicknames like a bitchy 8th grade girl and the voters laugh like it's George Carlin.

Study finds that right-wing authoritarians aren’t very funny people

A new study has found that right-wing authoritarians – that is, people who are hostile to non-conformity – are considerably less funny than people who do not share that disposition.

The study appeared on October 6 in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. It looks at the effects of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) on humor production. The authors define RWA as a combination of factors such as submission to authority, aggression towards deviant and marginal groups, and adherence to traditional social norms.

Studies dating back to the 1950s and 1960s already found that people who score high in authoritarianism enjoy jokes that disparage low-status or marginalized groups. Likewise, they are less likely to enjoy jokes that express hostility to authority figures.

Yet researchers know very little about the links between RWA and humor production, i.e. coming up with funny ideas of one’s own. One 1957 study found that people who score low in authoritarianism wrote funnier cartoon captions, whereas a 1980 study found hardly any correlation.

But the assessment of RWA and humor production have improved in the intervening decades, prompting the researchers to revisit this question.

Measuring humor production
For this study, the researchers recruited 186 adults from a university in North Carolina. The participants’ average age was 19, though they ranged in age from 18 to 53. They were 77% female, and ethnically diverse.

The researchers measured the participants’ humor production skills on several creative tasks. Throughout these tasks, the instructions encouraged them to be funny, to express themselves freely, and to feel comfortable being “weird, silly, dirty, ironic, bizarre, or whatever,” as long as their responses were funny.

In the first task, the participants generated funny captions for three cartoons. One depicted an astronaut talking into a mobile phone. Another showed a king lying on a psychologist’s couch. The third showed two businessmen, one with a gun, standing over a body on the floor.

The second task presented the participants with unusual noun combinations, such as “cereal bus” or “yoga bank,” and asked them to come up with funny definitions for them.

The final task asked the participants to complete a quirky scenario with a punchline. One scenario, for example, involved telling people about a horrible meal. The other two scenarios involved describing a boring college class, and giving feedback on a friend’s bad singing.

Eight independent raters scored the responses on a 3-point scale (not funny, somewhat funny, or funny). The raters did not know anything about the participants, including their responses on other items.

Authoritarians, openness, and conscientiousness
The researchers measured the participants’ degree of right-wing authoritarianism using a 15-item scale on which they indicated how strongly they agree or disagree with various statements. Examples include “Our country desperately needs a mighty leader who will do what has to be done to destroy the radical new ways and sinfulness that are ruining us,” or “Everyone should have their own lifestyle, religious beliefs, and sexual preferences, even if it makes them different from everyone else.”

The researchers also measured the participants’ personality traits (using the HEXACO-100 personality test). They focused on the traits of openness to experience and conscientiousness, as past research has found that these traits relate to both humor production and right-wing authoritarianism. Some research, for example, has linked openness to creative thinking and humor. Other studies have found that conscientious people perform worse on creativity and humor tasks.

Results: right-wing authoritarians aren’t very funny
Right-wing authoritarianism had a significant negative relationship with humor; people who scored high in RWA generated responses that the raters considered to be much less funny.

RWA also correlated negatively with openness to experience, and positively with conscientiousness. As the researchers expected, openness correlated positively with humor production, and conscientiousness correlated negatively with it.

These findings, the authors write, “strongly suggest that people high in RWA are less funny, defined as the ability to create humorous ideas, even when global personality traits with established ties to RWA, humor, and creativity are controlled for.”

The authors also add that their findings “should be viewed in the context of the sample, which was young, enrolled in a university, and predominantly female.”

They suggest that future studies should look more closely at the components of right-wing authoritarianism that impair humor creation. One possible mechanism is that RWA correlates with cognitive rigidity and seriousness, versus flexibility and playfulness.

In sum, the authors write, “the findings suggest that people high in RWA just aren’t very funny.”

 

Pelosi questions Trump's mental state and says Congress will discuss rules for removal

excerpt:

"In a zigzagging interview on the Fox Business channel on Thursday, his first since being hospitalised, Trump, 74, boasted: “I’m back because I am a perfect physical specimen and I’m extremely young. And so I’m lucky in that way.”"

 

Pelosi questions Trump's mental state and says Congress will discuss rules for removal

excerpt:

"In Trump’s hour-long interview with Fox Business on Thursday, observers found further cause for concern. He mused that he could have contracted the virus from a reception he held for military families at the White House. “They want to hug me and they want to kiss me,” he said. “And they do and, frankly, I’m not telling them to back up.”

He claimed that his hospitalisation was unnecessary. “I didn’t have to go in, frankly; I think it would have gone away by itself.” And he made the false assertion: “I don’t think I am contagious at all. Remember this: when you catch it you get better. And then you’re immune.”

This was after he emerged from hospital announcing that people should not fear Covid-19, despite the fact it has already killed 212,000 people in America and caused many others among the 7.6 million infected in the US to suffer serious and sometimes prolonged symptoms.

And reacting to Wednesday’s vice-presidential debate, he called the Democratic senator Kamala Harris of California a “communist” and “monster” who wants to “open up the borders to allow killers and murderers and rapists to pour into our country”.

Earlier on Wednesday, the president tweeted a video of himself describing his contraction of the virus as a “blessing from God”."

 

‘We Need to Take Away Children,’ No Matter How Young, Justice Dept. Officials Said
Top department officials were “a driving force” behind President Trump’s child separation policy, a draft investigation report said.
By Michael D. Shear, Katie Benner and Michael S. Schmidt
Oct. 6, 2020

‘We Need to Take Away Children,’ No Matter How Young, Justice Dept. Officials Said

excerpt:

"The Justice Department’s top officials were “a driving force” behind the policy that spurred the separation of thousands of families, many of them fleeing violence in Central America and seeking asylum in the United States, before Mr. Trump abandoned it amid global outrage, according to a draft report of the results of the investigation by Michael E. Horowitz, the department’s inspector general.

The separation of migrant children from their parents, sometimes for months, was at the heart of the Trump administration’s assault on immigration. But the fierce backlash when the administration struggled to reunite the children turned it into one of the biggest policy debacles of the president’s term."

 

It's been obvious that the man is mentally ill for quite some time. Unfortunately, the cult remains steadfastly in love with him.


And in other reassuring news: The 50 richest Americans now hold as much wealth as the poorest 165 million. The 50 richest Americans hold almost as much wealth as half of the US, as Covid 19 transforms the economy in ways that have disproportionately rewarded a small class of billionaires.--------source-----Bloomberg.


I remember seeing Trump on TV saying--"we've got to take the children,"early on after his election.

 

F.B.I. Says Michigan Anti-Government Group Plotted to Kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

excerpts:

“Just last week, the president of the United States stood before the American people and refused to condemn white supremacists and hate groups like these two Michigan militia groups,” Ms. Whitmer said. There is no indication in the court documents that any of the men were inspired by the president, but Ms. Whitmer said extremists had “heard the president’s words not as a rebuke but as a rallying cry — as a call to action.”


"Ms. Nessel, in an interview, was critical of public officials who she said appeared to condone anti-government violence.

“We’re asking elected leaders to tone down these very dangerous messages to those who would commit such violence,” she said. “I think today’s criminal charges are just the tip of the iceberg.”

In May, a man was charged with threatening to kill Ms. Whitmer and Ms. Nessel. And the protests at the Capitol in Lansing featured some signs with swastikas, Confederate flags and demonstrators who advocated for violence against Ms. Whitmer, including one man who carried a doll with brown hair hanging from a noose. Many in the crowd carried semiautomatic weapons, leading some Democrats in the Legislature to call for a ban on guns in the Capitol."

 

I didn't watch the whole thing, did anybody?

Any mention of spaaaaaace foooooorce!?


I know Harris answered one, she said only 300 manufacturing jobs had been lost

 

Trump sounds like the talking rogue spacecraft NOMAD in Star Trek that was on a sterilization campaign to destroy biological units that it perceived were imperfect. It eventually executed its prime directive on itself by self-destructing in a massive explosion after it was confronted with facts by Kirk that it had made mistakes.

NOMAD's recurring proclamation: "I am NOMAD. I am perfect."

 

When impeachment doesn't work try try again

 

In recent interviews,

Trump is upset with Pompeo for not finding Hillary's deleted emails, which Trump has claimed are being held on a computer server owned by a wealthy person in Ukraine.

Trump is upset with FBI director Wray and made an equivocal remark about whether or not he would replace him.

Trump is upset with Barr for not prosecuting his political enemies, including Obama and Biden.

Trump is upset with his chief of staff Mark Meadows for not going along completely with the rosy assessments made by Trump's doctors.