yes, i do.

you bear no responsiblity for your actions at all, and there is always a boogeyman to scream at.

EDIT: You can find it by the name "Chaos on Bullshit Mountain". Possibly the best 10 minutes of TV all election season.

earlier today.

and 100% on that graphic in the OP.

People explain behavior in a very consistent way.

One's own good behavior is the result of permanent positive personal traits.
One's own bad behavior is the result of temporary situational traits, beyond one's own control.

Other people's good behavior is the result of temporary situational traits that are beyond their control.
Other people's bad behaviors are the result of permanent negative personal traits.

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I think Attribution Error is exacerbated by their belief that some people are simply better and more privileged because God said so, so nobody should ever question their natural right to have more. It's not 'manifest destiny' but something like that, that I've been trying to recall for a while now...

In fact, I bet a lot of ReThugs secretly agree.

Bullshit mountain pretty much sums up what Faux and conservatives and the GOP is all about.

something is wrong if anyone misses Jon Steward's message

too.
Stewart rocks.

absolutamente!

Angel in Texas

I don't always agree, but this one was spot on.

I think Jon was a little harsh when he reviewed the DNC.

Who did you think would get the skewer during the week of the DNC?

The man is 100% completely right and so very handsome as well... I love me some Jon!

Well said

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Absolutely.

Just sayin'

...cognitive dissonance is where a conflict arises in one's mind when trying to reconcile two opposing ideas. The result is surprise, anger, guilt, dread or embarrassment. And I don't Republicans have that problem. What the reference is trying to say is: ''It's a baffling, willfully blind doublethink...''

Or, it could also be described as The Dunning Kruger effect which is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes.

- I was recently reminded that it helps to get one's metaphors and definitions correct.....

K&R

everyday, as the elecection gets more surreal the cognitive dissonance gets more intense.

...two Occupies, and call me in the morning.

[center]"The revolution is not going to happen tomorrow -- it's never going to happen.

It's taking place right now.

It is an alternate universe that runs parallel to this one, waiting for you to switch sides."

EXPECT RESISTANCE

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the reason why today's republican party is so delusional/unreasonable!

...abhors change (i.e. - progress) like the plague. Such thinkers have generally never created anything of use to the profit of humanity as a whole, excepting for fear and dread. But that is its nature.

Thus, conservatives are likely to attempt to twist, bend and contort time, history and reality to make it conform to its own warped views. It's prime motivation for existence is selfishness and therefore they find it difficult to breed. When they do breed, it's often very close to incestuousness by nature of the limited gene pool, and which likely also accounts for the high levels of moronity one sees within this tribe as a whole.

In Nature, such a genetic grouping would (and will) become thankfully extinct over time, as few wish to interbreed with them unless under religious edict to do so (e.g. - The Romneys). However, what we often fail to remember is that it is the welfare state which liberals are generally responsible for creating, which ironically is also largely responsible for the conservative's continued existence.

- Now ain't that bit@#$.......

/hyperbole

Stewart, Colbert, the late great Carlin - they all dare say it like it is because that's how they generate revenue. Too bad more Faux News, CNNers, and Nightly News devotees don't watch Comedy Central for their enlightenment.

Thanks Jon,...... you just gave an excellent example of "Hypocrisy"

He's nailed it.

and more.

Secretary of the Department of Realism!!!

and rec

Yes, I agree. As I said in class today, that's a gimmie.

Many other times, no.

I've been saying this for years. The repubs, especially the rabid ones, hate Democrats because they're their bogeymen. They NEED the Democrats to exist so they have someone to blame for anything and everything. They are miserable, so it's the Democrats who are responsible for their miserable lives. If they have any success, it's because they both deserved it and because they fought a hard battle against the evil Democrats and won. They are victorious!

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commentator on tv is a comedian.

George Carlin's last HBO special

Hopefully this is the beginning of making it up to us in 2010 for backing the teabaggers. I
think that had alot to do with our losing. When young people saw him on Rachel Maddow,
defending them, they thought ok it must be cool.

for certain

.....J/K, yes I agree with him

Bullshit Mountain...

My successes are due to my talent and hard work; any failures can't be my fault. I'm so superior to you that you have no talent and don't work hard, so of course I don't have to feel bad if you are struggling, because that's your fault and you are looking for a handout. There is no such thing as good luck or privilege.

It really is a national disgrace that so many Americans think like this.

But then, what else is new?

He and Colbert are waking America up!

Nobody ever suggests that their success had anything to do with the whims of the market i.e. a little luck. Success was always one's own hard work. Democrats do not punish success! We cherish it! We just have a more enlightened self-interest, IMHO.

DUH!!!!

I've never even had a mod warning. It's all in how you present your dissenting viewpoint, not just that you have one.

You should see some of the cognitive dissonance going on right now on RWNJ discussion forums.

Even when the latest polls are put in front of their eyes, they choose to believe Faux News selective information (e.g. Rasmussen) bending the polls 4 or 5 points towards Romney and it's still a close race.

The other 10 pollsters are ALL wrong, only Rasmussen is right. LOL

They refuse to believe that anybody would not vote for Romney.
It is everybody else that is ignorant and crazy, not them.

Even when presented with evidence from a multitude of credible sources (and even some GOP RWNJ's) that Romney is a terrible candidate, with an appalling track record and terrible policies, they fall back on empty ignorant emotional rhetoric, parroting Faux.

They can't give a single reason with any evidence to counter argue a single one of the 101 reasons I give them as to why Romney is bad for America.

The GOP is now a cult, with cult members who have lost the power to think for themselves (if they ever had it).
They have been brainwashed over many years by a barrage of Faux News propaganda into a bunch of unthinking, ignorant, bloodthirsty savages.

This is why Jon Stewart is so loved. He says things like this on a consistent basis.

by success. Depressed people who actually see things logically balanced or in real evidence term are not the norm or the elan and fight for life would have the energy sucked out of it. The mere knowledge of frailty, mortality, limits and ultimate breakdown of order should have us behaving more rationally but the energies and emotions from which thoughts spring have to be life progressive, blissfully defiant up to the strong urge to not only risk but deny danger.

The particular disease of the super successful is to far surpass the natural bias and consider success in denying even the rudiments of reason. Some wealthy people who are thus afflicted still can have love of their close ones and class and even compassion. Still, their life experience is crippling, their denial more agitated and extreme.

The upside down world where our species is led and controlled to a fatal degree by corrupted "optimism" does not bode well at all for survival. Intelligence at some stage must surmount its animal nature and cope with itself as well as doing the "impossible" regarding any fatally hostile world. Logically, I suppose we are doomed while I somehow retain my inner sense of optimism. I notice a lot of horrified awakening climate scientists are doing the same.

The only truth and good judgment in "modern times" seems the purvey of dark humorists, not pundits, holy men or statesmen or scientists.

but there is a lot he doesn't understand. The problem is that there are two contrasting worldviews. They see government and taxation as something that takes money away from people who have earned it and gives it away to people who haven't. They drive around on the roads, call the police when they need help, call the fire department when their house is on fire, access the internet, and all the other ways they profit from government investment, and they think they don't owe anybody anything. It's up to us to tell them that public investment makes private success possible. There is no private without the public.

And one of the most observant commentators of our time.

100%.

Last night he seemed to be bashing Michelle Obama's push for healthy foods in schools. Government funded lunches that actually have healthy choices. The option of fruit or veggies if you are still hungry after the meal.

This follows on the heels of his ridiculing Mayor Bloomberg's new laws about restricting the size of sugary drinks.

I guess he's trying to prove to a certain segment that he can have a limit to the "nannie state" as well. But obesity in children in the USA is an epidemic. Its a health issue and its also a medical cost issue down the road. I may not like all of Bloombergs initiatives but those leaders in the US like the mayor and Michelle that actually step out of the shadows and attempt to chip away at this growing problem are demonized enough by the Libertarian/Teabag/Rethugs. No need to pile on.