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If you listen to him and believe him, the cost of childcare isn't going to be relevant because of Chinese tariffs. How that money is going to get from their pockets back into their pockets isn't clear to me, but presumably the nation is just going to be so wealthy that we're not going to be...

The other day when he said she was obviously very low IQ, I googled to see whether we actually have a public number on her IQ and it wasn't available, but I saw a lot of tweets and Reddits and stuff saying things like "She is 90 IQ MAX, probably lower" and I really don't know how people think...

Trump has convinced a lot of people that the only reason they aren't millionaires is because government and regulation and whatnot has been holding them back. They vote for this guy because they know they are destined for more just like him.

It was taught to me in French class as the French word for boredom, but I do see on Google that this was reductive.

Yeah, I can get that. They definitely explored real anxiety.

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Okay. How many emotions does APA recognize and do we need that many chairs in the control room? Anxiety is distiguishable from fear, but it can fit under an umbrella. It is fear not attached to an explicit focus. Boredom in real life is a craving for stimulation. Ennui in the movie is a...

My daughters are rewatching the movie and Mommy is watching for the first time in the next room. The trouble with the new emotions is that the original five do the job and are grounded in psychology. Adults in the first movie had the same ones and so did cats and dogs. Anxiety is not an...

I realized I am talking to myself here, but I've done several edits and didn't want to keep doing it. And this parenthetical wouldn't flow as well up there. The best response to this tack that has been pressed very heavily is to keep rerunning the ACA discussion from the debate. Trump told us...

A really good answer is, "I'm looking forward to really digging into that and getting all of the ideas on the table." See? From this, the listener can unpack "It isn't going to be my job to have 50 PhDs. It is going to be my job to make the decision." And probably Kamala's supporters are...

He loads a cannon with grapeshot and it doesn't matter that cannons aren't very precise.

We have had a lot of different kinds of President in my lifetime. If someone can manage to get elected, anything that they lack can be supplied by helpers. Yeah, it is reassuring when a candidate can answer a lot of cold questions, because it demonstrates that they've thought things through...

No, he doesn't know, on account of the low IQ.

He forgot where he was, right?

At the very least, I am convinced that Trump generally doesn't know what is the truth and has been surrounded by sycophants enough of his life that he has the impression that when he shoots from the hip, his instinct is generally right. I halfway suspect he doesn't really believe "the truth" is...

I don't know to what extent Trump did it on purpose, because I'm actually pretty doubtful about his perception of truth at all, but it has been very useful to him how he has polarized truth itself. Now he can just lie. And when someone says he's lying, even when someone brings evidence, Trump...

It isn't just racist and I'm sure also classist. It's just...so stupid. Where did he think she was from?

Now THAT is amazing work. I live in Oklahoma. Walters is a disaster. But asking for $3.3 million to buy 55,000 Bibles from Donald Trump when 55,000 Bibles can be had for $140,000 from someone else is inspired. And that money just goes to Trump's business, right, not the campaign? It is just...

Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall of Kansas and Ted Budd and Thom Tills of North Carolina look like excellent picks for the cabinet.

It depends on the state. Most states the governor choose a Senate replacement. A few states require a special election. Remember, Senators were originally intended to represent the State, not the people...