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Trump has added 2 trillion to our national debt in two years.
The total expense of Trump's golf outings, including Secret Service protection, comes out to an estimated $77 million, according to TMZ. The more than $300,000 figure only refers to Trump's domestic golf outings, the news outlet reported.
originally posted by: Sublimecraft
a reply to: soundguy
Trump has added 2 trillion to our national debt in two years.
Wow, I vote that we execute him, and his family, in public, at noon, this Wednesday, live streamed, on YouTube.
originally posted by: Sublimecraft
a reply to: soundguy
Trump has added 2 trillion to our national debt in two years.
What? All on his own? BJebus, what in the living fluck did he spend 2 trillion dollars on such that we are now just learning about this?
Wow, I vote that we execute him, and his family, in public, at noon, this Wednesday, live streamed, on YouTube.
originally posted by: soundguy
I wish someone could explain to me what it is about right wing types that they would rather believe a lie than face reality?
This surety is called the confirmation bias, whereby we seek and find confirmatory evidence in support of already existing beliefs and ignore or reinterpret disconfirmatory evidence. Now a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study shows where in the brain the confirmation bias arises and how it is unconscious and driven by emotions. Psychologist Drew Westen led the study, conducted at Emory University, and the team presented the results at the 2006 annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
During the run-up to the 2004 presidential election, while undergoing an fMRI bran scan, 30 men--half self-described as "strong" Republicans and half as "strong" Democrats--were tasked with assessing statements by both George W. Bush and John Kerry in which the candidates clearly contradicted themselves. Not surprisingly, in their assessments Republican subjects were as critical of Kerry as Democratic subjects were of Bush, yet both let their own candidate off the hook.
The neuroimaging results, however, revealed that the part of the brain most associated with reasoning--the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex--was quiescent. Most active were the orbital frontal cortex, which is involved in the processing of emotions; the anterior cingulate, which is associated with conflict resolution; the posterior cingulate, which is concerned with making judgments about moral accountability; and--once subjects had arrived at a conclusion that made them emotionally comfortable--the ventral striatum, which is related to reward and pleasure.
"We did not see any increased activation of the parts of the brain normally engaged during reasoning," Westen is quoted as saying in an Emory University press release. "What we saw instead was a network of emotion circuits lighting up, including circuits hypothesized to be involved in regulating emotion, and circuits known to be involved in resolving conflicts." Interestingly, neural circuits engaged in rewarding selective behaviors were activated. "Essentially, it appears as if partisans twirl the cognitive kaleidoscope until they get the conclusions they want, and then they get massively reinforced for it, with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of positive ones," Westen said. www.scientificamerican.com...
originally posted by: neo96
Obamas economy.
Obamas debt.
You can't give Obama the good credit and dish out the bad on someone else.