Kittypie070: Oh puppies, huh?

I NEED TO GO FLIP OFF A BOX OF PUPPIES

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/sorry

I would never suggest running over a box full of kitties.

James F. Campbell: eraser8: I often hear people -- even intelligent, well-educated people -- refer to things like double-think as "cognitive dissonance." Drives me up the wall.

Define cognitive dissonance for us.

Basically, it's a kind of psychic discomfort felt when new information conflicts with existing belief.

rudemix: This is where he focuses his attack? On an out of context thing that most people get except die hard derpers who'll vote against President Obama anyway. He's getting killed on core issues. Even if he did it well it still a lame angle. This guy is clown shoes, his campaign is clown shoes and his platform is clown shoes. President Obama would truly have to be a muslin terrorist Kenyan socialist for me to consider voting for Romney. The guy is a joke.

Duh. The GOP has ignored the top of the bell curve for thirty years.

Here's what they'll do: They'll get all the congressional candidates spitting fire about how Romney is just like Obama. This will get all of the batshiat insane right-wingers to the polls, as they vote for anyone who gives them the freedom to be angry.

Then, while they're at the polls voting against that (filtered-filtered-filtered), they'll also check Romney's name because, hey, what the heck, he'll piss off them liberals.

The GOP doesn't want to appeal to the middle. It's too much work and doesn't give them the large crop of idiots they need to make money.

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Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee built this rallllllly on ROCKS AND GOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLD!

F*ck this sh*t. Bush was a f*cking retard, this guy is f*cking delusional.

Kittypie070: [finally RTFA after excessive diddling around]

Oh gods, is Romney SHIATTING us!?

SERIOUSLY!!??

Mormons don't poop.

Kittypie070: [finally RTFA after excessive diddling around]

Oh gods, is Romney SHIATTING us!?

SERIOUSLY!!??

This is the level that his campaign is running.

And the amount of respect that he has for the electorate...

intelligent comment below: You can thank Diebold for that 04 Bush victory

No, that didn't happen. America was given the retard or Frankenboring to choose from. We chose the Cowboy. We own that. That was our f*ck-up and we own it.

/I voted for the Boston Brahmin and then threw up because that is what my country offered up as my best two choices.
//F*ck you, America! F*ck you very much.

thurstonxhowell: intelligent comment below: The media selectively polls to keep the race tight

This sort of thinking makes me cringe. I went to sleep on November Whatever, 2004 thinking the country couldn't be stupid enough to let GWB be president again, but they did. shiat is not decided. It seems ridiculous, but Richey McDancehorse might be our president next year.

So if you are concerned about Mittens winning are you actively working against that happening?

intelligent comment below: It did happen. In Ohio and Florida

Florida 2000? You've got a case. 2004? We own that. I've read all the Diebold stuff, it's bullsh*t. In 2004, scaring people worked and won the election, nothing more. That, combined with a weak candidate? 2004 was not stolen.

It was lost.

Jim_Callahan: Even a blind pig occasionally stumbles across an acorn.

...eye sea wot ewe...

James F. Campbell: eraser8: Basically, it's a kind of psychic discomfort felt when new information conflicts with existing belief.

Cognitive dissonance is the feeling of "discomfort caused by holding conflicting cognitions," then, rather than the incongruity of acting differently from how one believes itself.

Fine. What word or phrase should replace "cognitive dissonance" in the headline, then? It's not "hypocrisy," because that would indicate a pretense of belief which I don't believe is the case in this situation.

Cluelessness.

James F. Campbell: Fine. What word or phrase should replace "cognitive dissonance" in the headline, then? It's not "hypocrisy," because that would indicate a pretense of belief which I don't believe is the case in this situation.

It's kinda like a double-standard/projection. The Romney campaign is constantly harping on Obama for violating standards that they themselves voraciously violate every day.

Jim_Callahan: coeyagi: 25 posts in and no ConservaTroll to complain about how this should be dismissed because it's a Kos article? I am disappoint.

Meh, broken clocks and so on. Even a blind pig occasionally stumbles across an acorn.

It's cool, IronTom whined about Kos ruining his grandkid's grandkid's lives or something around post #73.

James F. Campbell: What word or phrase should replace "cognitive dissonance" in the headline, then?

Something I mentioned in my post: Doublethink.

Doublethink "describes the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct, often in distinct social contexts. Its opposite is cognitive dissonance, where the two beliefs cause conflict in one's mind."

From George Orwell's 1984, doublethink is described as:

The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies - all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth

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Phil Moskowitz: Like being an ungrateful child isn't woven into the fabric of America.

Goose. gander. sauce. something. lemon. wet. good. Michigan. trees. right. height. enjoy. firing. people.

He's apparently entitled to gorge himself on Word Salad.

Brubold: Who paid for those things? Taxpayers right? Who generates more tax money, a typical American that works for someone else or a small business owner? The small business owner does.

You do realize we live in a collective, right? We all pay for each other's basic sh*t except for the amenities we shower ourselves with, money permitting.

The small business owner pays a share, so do his employees and customers in order to create all the other sh*t that makes his business possible. You know this, right?