RICHT ON!
Liberals have delicious death wish needs that drive them to embrace ideas that are insane because they are totally illogical .
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The AG's corrupt prosecutor seems to be bringing daily indictments and they are all backfiring.
As the pursuit of Uncle Biden's proceeds and his connections to actual payoffs is eventually corroborated, Biden's gum shoe prosecutor may well nominate and possibly elect Trump.
Meanwhile, compassionate Uncle Joe seems to have dissed thirteen families whose sons and daughters were needlessly killed as he pulled out of Afghanistan while disregarding advice of his military leaders.
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Certainly they did not do so to favor Trump.
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What Was Donald Trump Thinking?
Good luck finding out. But psychology can help us grasp why he, like so many Democrats, clung to lies.
By Allysia Finley
Did Donald Trump believe the 2020 election was stolen? Who knows? Discerning his thoughts would be as challenging as breaking into an iPhone without the passcode.
Yet Mr. Trump’s attorney claims the government can’t prove, at least not beyond a reasonable doubt, that the former president knew his election-fraud claims were false, even if he had been advised by the vice president, Justice Department, director of national intelligence and White House attorneys that they were. There might be some truth to that.
Merely being informed that something is false often doesn’t change people’s convictions. A 2019 Ipsos/Reuters poll found that 50% of Americans who were aware of Robert Mueller’s report, which found no evidence that Mr. Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 election, still believed that it had.
After the report’s release, 84% of Democrats still believed the collusion hoax, which had been peddled by the media and partisans like California Rep. Adam Schiff. Seventy-nine percent said they hadn’t learned anything from the report that changed their minds about the issue. Two-thirds of Democrats wanted Congress to continue investigating.
How are Mr. Trump’s convictions about election fraud in the face of countervailing evidence any different from Democrats’ continued subscription to the Russia collusion lie? They’re not, but psychologists wouldn’t find either surprising.
A wealth of social-science research finds that people are predisposed to accept information compatible with their existing beliefs and knowledge. They are also more likely to believe things that others in their orbit do. Curiously, countervailing evidence often has the effect of entrenching a false belief.
“Compatibility with other knowledge increases the likelihood that misleading information will be accepted, and decreases the likelihood that it will be successfully corrected,” explains a 2012 article in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
The idea that Democrats were trying to steal the election by stuffing ballots and employing other deceitful means was consistent with Mr. Trump’s belief that his opponents were out to get him. Democrats had also lied in the past. Mr. Schiff propagated the Russia-collusion story despite firsthand knowledge that it was false.
Mr. Trump was also surrounded by supporters who believed the election was being stolen. This conviction fit comfortably with how Democrats had gone to court in the weeks before the election to change mail-in ballot rules to their hoped benefit. These various strands formed a psychologically coherent and compelling story—even if all of the pieces weren’t true.
“Coherent stories are easier to process than incoherent stories,” the journal article explains. “An engaging story from an untrustworthy source may be remembered and accepted long after the source has been forgotten.” While Mr. Trump’s advisers who claimed that the election was being stolen weren’t credible, their stories were engaging.
Many in Mr. Trump’s inner circle rejected false stolen-election theories, so why didn’t he pull himself back from the brink? “Retractions rarely, if ever, have the intended effect of eliminating reliance on misinformation, even when people believe, understand, and later remember the retraction,” the journal review explains. One reason is people “generally do not like to be told what to think and how to act, so they may reject particularly authoritative retractions.”
The instinct for self-preservation may also override all facts. Mr. Trump couldn’t acknowledge he had lost the election because doing so would threaten the perception he had built of himself as a winner. His ego wouldn’t let him concede defeat.
This need for self-preservation may also explain why President Biden continues to deny that his son Hunter did anything wrong despite evidence of his misadventures, including foreign influence-peddling. Acknowledging that Hunter is a scoundrel might also require Mr. Biden to accept—at least to himself—falling short as a father.
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It’s also true that people resist being told that their actions and beliefs are wrong. Messrs. Trump and Biden are no exceptions. This resistance is especially common among addicts. In these pages last summer, I recited the abundant research tying marijuana use to mental illness. The piece predictably sent pot-heads into high dudgeon.
Such resistance occurs whenever deeply held beliefs are challenged. Try explaining to progressives that climate change isn’t going to light the world on fire and that their policies will do more harm than good. All the evidence in the world won’t convince them they’re wrong.
Human psychology doesn’t excuse Mr. Trump’s actions and probably won’t exculpate him in court. But it does provide an alternative explanation to special counsel Jack Smith’s allegation that he was trying to steal the election.
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Sleazy Obama sneaks away.
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David Horowitz (of David Horowitz Freedom Center, and editor of FrontPage Magazine) writes:
I know that Obama acting as the secret puppeteer behind Biden is a popular theory, but the reality is that…
1. Obama pressured Biden to announce he wasn’t running in 2016
2. Repeatedly undermined him during the 2020 primaries including getting his own actual candidate, Deval Patrick, whom he thought of as a substitute self, to jump in.
Even when Biden won the nomination, Obama made a point of running him down to party elites to make it clear that if he were to lose, the defeat shouldn’t reflect on him.
3. Obama is back to doing it again.
Obama warns of Trump’s political strengths in private talk with Biden – Washington Post
Private talks don’t become the headlines of Washington Post stories unless someone at that meeting wanted them to. After over a decade of this stuff, it’s very clear that person is Obama. If Biden loses then Obama is on record as having “warned him” while forecasting that he might lose. So don’t blame Barry.
This is a kinder, gentler version of his famous “don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f___ things up” line.
“Former president Barack Obama, at a private lunch with President Biden earlier this summer, voiced concern about Donald Trump’s political strengths — including an intensely loyal following, a Trump-friendly conservative media ecosystem and a polarized country — underlining his worry that Trump could be a more formidable candidate than many Democrats realize.”
The basic reality about Obama is that he’s a paranoid thin-skinned arrogant narcissist. Those aren’t ideal qualities for a puppeteer who has to jump out on stage and announce that he’s not responsible for the puppet who really isn’t anywhere as good as him. And if Biden wins Obama should get the credit, but if he loses, Obama shouldn’t get any of the blame..
Obama wants everyone to know that he was a unique political talent and that no one else can do what he did. Even before entering the fight, he wants to stake out both positions, publicly campaigning for Biden while privately warning that he might not be up to the job and lose. But this is what Obama does. He’s jealous and undermines everyone while blowing up his ego to room size. It’s a pathetic performance in this case that shows the party left him in the dust a while back. Obama did an incredible amount of damage and he’ll do some more in 2024, but he’s no longer the center of attention and he desperately wants to be.
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Federal Judge Makes Big Trump Decision – She Derails the Prosecution With 1 Bold Move
What’s Happening:
Joe Biden’s DOJ has indicted Trump so many times, it’s hard to keep track of them all. Few Americans believe these indictments are really about the charges–and not attempts at derailing the 2024 Election. Joe Biden is such a bad candidate, that Democrats appear to be going out of their way to manipulate the election.
The special counsel running most of these trials is a leftist named Jack Smith. Smith is running the case against Trump out of Florida–accusing him of a variety of crimes over boxes of paperwork he kept at his house. But Smith has a big problem, a judge that refuses to let politics interfere with justice. And she just shut down the left’s scheme.
Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida – who is presiding over the case stemming from a Miami grand jury’s June indictment of Trump – denied the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) request for sealed filings, striking two from the record. Cannon also requested additional information from prosecutors regarding the continued use of an out-of-state grand jury to investigate the case
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