[FRIAM] Trump Support

[Frank Wimberly]

Nice to have you back, Glen.

Frank Wimberly
Phone (505) 670-9918

On Aug 3, 2017 1:54 PM, "glen ☣" <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I'm inclined to call that articlet "fake news". 8^)  YouGov has a good
> rating with 538 (https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/).
> But I can't help but wonder about the one-sidedness of the articlet.  Why
> only include those 2 (or 7 ... or 8, or whatever it was) questions?
> Where's the fine-print link to the poll and its analysis?  Maybe I missed
> it.  Etc.
>
> Regardless, I have 2 reactions:  1) Excellent! The more the flat-earthers
> flock together and reinforce their batsh!t delusions, the more obvious it
> becomes to anyone how delusional they are.  Maybe they'll even go all
> "Heaven's Gate" and suffocate themselves from all the methane[†].  2) It's
> not so much self-defeating on the R's part as it is our (every one of us)
> inability to think about complex things.  I posit the tendency to trust
> Trump will correlate with the tendency to prefer oversimplification. [‡]
> But the same would apply to any chant you might hear at a liberal
> march/rally.  Anyone who enjoys those stupid chants is enjoying
> oversimplification.
>
>
>
> [†] https://youtu.be/BPC7e8W8u18
> [‡] I feel the same way about "tl;dr" and people who overvalue the
> disgusting concept of 'pithyness' and/or sayings like "brevity is the soul
> of wit".  No, it's an indicator of ADHD you aphorism-obsessed @#$%. >8^D
>
> On 08/03/2017 12:23 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> > The Economist sez:
> >
> > We asked YouGov, a pollster, to survey 1,500 Americans about Donald Trump
> > and several national media outlets. When Republicans were asked whether
> > they trusted Mr Trump more than the New York Times, Washington Post or
> CNN,
> > 70% sided with the president each time. Republicans now loathe these
> > outlets so much that nearly half would be glad to see unconstitutional
> > means used to silence them, writes our data team
> >
> >
> > https://goo.gl/Xmfqcr
> >
> >
> > I've wanted to know if Trump voters hang onto him after all the harm he's
> > done to them. Apparently they are like this tweet:
> > [image: Inline image 1]
>
>
> --
> ☣ glen
>
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