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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts) Mon Oct 13, 2014, 09:52 AM Oct 2014

TOM TOMORROW: The Counter-Intuitivist

DAILY KOS LINK: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/13/1333878/-Cartoon-The-counter-intuitivist

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TOM TOMORROW: The Counter-Intuitivist (Original Post) Hissyspit Oct 2014 OP

And somehow, those ideas always favor the rich and corporations n2doc Oct 2014 #1

That is the problem. The right wing ideas have become so disjointed from reality. raouldukelives Oct 2014 #2

Part of me thinks that this is hilarious. The other part is depressed by the effect that letting Chakab Oct 2014 #3

How fitting that he has a kid in a three-piece suit geardaddy Oct 2014 #4

this reminds me very much of listening to Walker debate.. Voice for Peace Oct 2014 #5

Looks like a young Ben Ferguson, to me ProfessorPlum Oct 2014 #6

or here ProfessorPlum Oct 2014 #7

Thanks. I wondered if young Tom Friedman spooky3 Oct 2014 #9

'the ACA will lead to single payer!' 'air strikes aren't war!' KG Oct 2014 #8

Americans love their contrarianism! n/t DirkGently Oct 2014 #10

The characterization.. sendero Oct 2014 #11

n2doc

(47,953 posts)

1. And somehow, those ideas always favor the rich and corporations

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 10:15 AM

Oct 2014

It's counterintuitive!

raouldukelives

(5,178 posts)

2. That is the problem. The right wing ideas have become so disjointed from reality.

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 10:59 AM

Oct 2014

They make old right wing ideas seem almost liberal in comparison.

Chakab

(1,727 posts)

3. Part of me thinks that this is hilarious. The other part is depressed by the effect that letting

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 11:26 AM

Oct 2014

pundits talk complete nonsense without being checked by the media has had.

When I get into discussions (arguments) about politics with people who only follow current events at a superficial level, I constantly hear them regurgitate counter-intuitive nonsense like "over-regulation caused the financial crisis" and "gun free zones cause more deaths" that they've heard on television and talk radio. They've clearly never though critically about these opinions, yet they feel confident expressing them because they're treated like valid arguments by the "neutral and non-partisan" press.

geardaddy

(24,931 posts)

4. How fitting that he has a kid in a three-piece suit

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 11:41 AM

Oct 2014

representing the rightwingers.

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)

5. this reminds me very much of listening to Walker debate..

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 12:27 PM

Oct 2014

he is so uber-confident and so wrong, but he speaks
his spiel so confidently, and so fast that nobody can
quite follow what he's talking about. Theater of the
counterintuitive.

ProfessorPlum

(11,257 posts)

6. Looks like a young Ben Ferguson, to me

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 12:34 PM

Oct 2014

check out his pictures at http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2006/09/22/7654/, for example

ProfessorPlum

(11,257 posts)

7. or here

Reply to ProfessorPlum (Reply #6)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 12:44 PM

Oct 2014

spooky3

(34,456 posts)

9. Thanks. I wondered if young Tom Friedman

Reply to ProfessorPlum (Reply #7)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 03:51 PM

Oct 2014

Had a Beatle-do.

KG

(28,751 posts)

8. 'the ACA will lead to single payer!' 'air strikes aren't war!'

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 12:51 PM

Oct 2014

yeah, not just wingers that play that game...

DirkGently

(12,151 posts)

10. Americans love their contrarianism! n/t

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 07:10 PM

Oct 2014

sendero

(28,552 posts)

11. The characterization..

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 07:17 PM

Oct 2014

.... reminds me most of Newt Gingrich, but the drawing of a more or less normal looking guy without a swolen-melon head makes me think he has someone else in mind

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