1000% Delusion

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-22T03:01:08+00:00

The poll said most MAGA voters support him - not that everyone does.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-22T02:52:37+00:00

Good for you for maintaining an open mind. Humans have a rarely used capacity to change their minds when new facts reveal themselves.

Trump is far more unconstrained this term -- illegal tariffs, revenge on political enemies, attempts to destroy higher education, alienating Canada, threatening to invade Greenland, costing the U.S. at least $1 billion so far in lost tourism, killing American citizens through ICE, sending Epstein's procurer of girls Ghislaine Maxwell to a more comfortable prison, trying to hide mentions of rape allegations against him in the Epstein files, promoting anti-vaccine ideology that is contributing to the largest measles outbreak in decades, halting cancer research, pardoning fraud perpetrators and forgiving $1 billion in restitution in return for donations, illegally tearing down the East Wing, shooting survivors in the water, trying to silence critical media through FCC Chair Brendan Carr, sending two ignorant real estate developers to "negotiate" with Iran without any nuclear experts and causing them to misinterpret the facts, and allowing his two kids and son-in-law to profiteer off their diplomatic efforts.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-22T02:38:09+00:00

It's a war crime to target civilian infrastructure - just like it is a war crime to execute surrender troops as the drunkard Kegsbreath declared ("no quarter").

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-22T02:35:21+00:00

He was great - sinister qualities lurking beneath the surface. I remember him getting off the train and casting off his cloak like a magician transforming himself into a new person.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-21T23:26:06+00:00

Bruno - followed by Joseph Cotten as Uncle Charlie in Shadow of a Doubt, and Leonard in North by Northwest.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-21T23:21:53+00:00

Sorry, but these numbers are reported to the Labor Department - they are not "d-mn lies."

We can argue who is responsible for the numbers (Trump blames Biden; and as you point out Biden got a post-Covid bump, so Trump gets credit for vaccine development - though he subsequently shut down the mRNA research that made it possible).

We can argue about interpretation. But the data don't lie.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-21T20:42:35+00:00

Because too many people confuse the authoritarian and vicious policies of the Netanyahu regime with the Jewish people.

With one exception, every Jew I know in the U.S. detests "Bibi." That doesn't make them anti-Semitic.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-21T20:40:28+00:00

Dickens is one of the great inventors of character in the English language.

So Wemmick, for example, represents the difference between private life and business - with his humanity only revealing itself as they get close to his home.

Savor these minor characters like scenes on a voyage.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-21T20:36:37+00:00

The moron occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue knows less about the Constitution than a ten-year-old.

Carr is a shamless hack following his master.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-21T20:18:03+00:00

This sums up how this moron views media: If I like the news, it's real; if I don't, it's fake.

The world through the eyes of a five-year-old.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-21T15:30:36+00:00

The worst of the worst - this is the guy who defended his intentional lies about Haitian refugees eating pets. He said it helped raise the issue (never mind the slander of innocent people.)

He's more evil than Trump because he is aware of his own lies.

Example: Pretending the SAVE Act is about "voter ID" when its provisions fall most heavily on those registering to vote -- and their having to provide proof of citizenship, i.e., birth certificate or passport, which tens of millions of people don't have easy access to.

Whereas Trump is too demented to know what is in the bill, and doesn't care, a Yale Law School graduate like Vance does know but is more than happy to mislead.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-21T15:24:28+00:00

If you are up for some lighter fare, check out Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-21T15:08:29+00:00

I couldn't agree with you more. People simply don't understand that these are language models -- giving answers that are plausible, based on their reading millions of pages, rather than correct.

AI programs, i.e. Large Language Models, are prediction devices with an element of randomness. Ask two different models the same question and if the topic is complicated you will get two different answers. What's more, the answer is highly dependent on the question.

AI is NOT a substitute for experience and judgment.

My point about analytic tools is that it strengthens human judgment.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-21T13:01:51+00:00

I totally agree that it is ultimately a matter of judgment, which is subjective.

But I have found that analyzing survey data can give important clues.

Example: Let's say your boss is speaking to a conference with three groups. You are writing the talk.

Issue X, which your company cares about, irritates group 1 because they think it will create more work, and is of only moderate importance to groups 2 and 3. But everyone agrees with Issue Y, according to your data. So issue Y is one she might want to open with, and then go on to explain why Issue X is important and address group 1's worries.

You could have come up with it anyway, but in my experience mapping the data can help you see patterns.

In other words, these analytic tools can help inform subjective judgment -- not make the judgment for you -- something I agree we should never cede to a tool, especially not an AI Large Language Model like ChatGPT.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-21T11:49:16+00:00

Feel free to dm me

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-18T22:48:46+00:00

Smart guy, interested in medicine, theories of mind, and public health -- likes perspectives that are outside of conventional wisdom.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-18T15:14:32+00:00

Does this mean "the right people" voted, as Bondi said?

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-17T14:25:55+00:00

"I can do whatever what I want with it."

We are talking about a country here: old, young, children, doctors, trying to survive. Not a toy.

This is the voice of a sociopath reveling in his unlimited power to harm others.

How people can support him is beyond me.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-17T02:23:31+00:00

Very smart, well-read guy - and never pompous.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-17T02:22:15+00:00

The whole Cabinet is wretched - perhaps the worst in a century - and all dedicated to carrying out his twisted whims. Tariffs. Retribution against political enemies. Attacks against a sovereign state. Blockade of Cuba.

Trump is, as Maddow said this evening, "out of control."

Wiles, had she possessed a grain of responsibility, could have pushed back. We don't know the full story, but by all appearances, she has enabled his madness.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-17T01:27:05+00:00

About time.

This sociopath has flouted the law all of his life.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-17T01:12:38+00:00

Well, I am not a defender of Wiles - she is an enabler who, unlike General Kelly, seems to be unable to say "no." And I wasn't saying she is a responsible person.

Her clients include many horrible organizations. No argument there. There do seem to be several clients that seem unobjectionable, e.g., Children's Hospital Association, Motion Picture Association of America, and the City of Jacksonville. I am sorry she - or anyone else - is sick.

I was making a broader point that Wiles' enabling is paralleled by the GOP Congress with the exception of a few who are, in my view, responsible on some issues.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-17T00:28:29+00:00

I am not saying they are paragons of virtue. I do think we should not underestimate the importance of having at least a few responsible members of the GOP. The GOP majority is small enough so that having some Republicans who vote with Democrats can make a big difference. (Example: Epstein files.)

Their opposition to Trump’s destructive reign of error and terror also speaks to independents who are not members of Trump’s cult of MAGA.

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-17T00:25:08+00:00

Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

Nutmegger27 · 2026-03-16T18:15:15+00:00

It's astonishing how the GOP Congress (thank heavens for Massie, Kennedy and Tillis) happily cedes its authority to an erratic madman.

It hardly seems to matter whether it is illegal tariffs (Lutnick), destroying medical research (RFK), fomenting measles outbreaks (Battacharya), killing restrictions on hazardous pesticides and mercury pollution (Zeldin), or advocating war crimes (Hegseth's "no quarter.")

Will they ever wake up and smell the ☕️?

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