2016 Postmortem

DetlefK

(16,423 posts) Thu Aug 25, 2016, 07:34 AM Aug 2016

BREAKING NEWS: Clinton suffering from unexplained marketing phenomenon

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/25/wikileaks-plays-doctor-gives-hillary-clinton-fake-disease.html

In the email, sure enough, Clinton responds to a New York Times article about the sometimes paralyzing “decision fatigue.”

“Wow that is spooky descriptive,” she wrote to an aide on Aug. 19, 2011. It looks like a smoking gun.

There is one problem, however: “Decision fatigue” is not an illness. It is a consumer behavior term for the feeling you get when you’re overwhelmed by the sheer number of options at, say, Costco.

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“This WikiLeaks idea that decision fatigue is a ‘disease’ with some kind of medical cure is somewhere between hilarious and ridiculous,” he told The Daily Beast. “No, it’s not a medical condition.”

But it’s proof she’s presenting symptoms of something much bigger, right?

“Decision fatigue is just the name for a phenomenon,” said Levav, who’s an associate professor of marketing at Stanford Graduate School of Business. “We don’t really know if people are literally getting tired.”

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This week, WikiLeaks pushed the Trump campaign’s new talking point: debunked claims about Clinton’s health. The group tweeted about an alleged illness three times on Monday, as websites like The Drudge Report and Breitbart, and Fox News’ Sean Hannity pointed to pictures of Hillary Clinton sitting on pillows to prove that she is infirm, or wearing a catheter, or riddled with syphilis.

It’s impossible to know which disease she has, as WikiLeaks and other Trump surrogates appear to have an acute case of decision fatigue.

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BREAKING NEWS: Clinton suffering from unexplained marketing phenomenon (Original Post) DetlefK Aug 2016 OP

I wonder how much that leftynyc Aug 2016 #1

Wiki links is so over...they have no integrity. nt Demsrule86 Aug 2016 #2

Big market still on the right, but, yes, his reputation Hortensis Aug 2016 #3

Once it becomes one sided...it loses all credibility. nt Demsrule86 Aug 2016 #7

I agree with you. I actually had mixed feeling at first, but Demsrule86 Aug 2016 #8

Despite apparent internal conflicts, I agree with both of you. :) Hortensis Aug 2016 #9

They never did nt One of the 99 Aug 2016 #5

Note: "WikiLeaks and other Trump surrogates" FSogol Aug 2016 #4

Decision fatigue JSup Aug 2016 #6

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)

1. I wonder how much that

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Thu Aug 25, 2016, 07:36 AM

Aug 2016

sniveling whore assange is getting paid by don the con.

Demsrule86

(68,456 posts)

2. Wiki links is so over...they have no integrity. nt

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Thu Aug 25, 2016, 07:37 AM

Aug 2016

They are now using GOP talking points...

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

3. Big market still on the right, but, yes, his reputation

Reply to Demsrule86 (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 25, 2016, 07:51 AM

Aug 2016

has to be in shreds.

Demsrule86

(68,456 posts)

7. Once it becomes one sided...it loses all credibility. nt

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #3)

Sun Aug 28, 2016, 12:31 AM

Aug 2016

Demsrule86

(68,456 posts)

8. I agree with you. I actually had mixed feeling at first, but

Reply to Demsrule86 (Reply #7)

Sun Aug 28, 2016, 12:33 AM

Aug 2016

after Assange has attacked Democrats and after he released the names of Gay people who were murdered as a result...I have not respect for him...he is a bad guy.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

9. Despite apparent internal conflicts, I agree with both of you. :)

Reply to Demsrule86 (Reply #8)

Sun Aug 28, 2016, 11:16 AM

Aug 2016

One of the 99

(2,280 posts)

5. They never did nt

Reply to Demsrule86 (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 25, 2016, 09:48 AM

Aug 2016

FSogol

(45,446 posts)

4. Note: "WikiLeaks and other Trump surrogates"

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Thu Aug 25, 2016, 07:55 AM

Aug 2016

Gotta agree.

JSup

(740 posts)

6. Decision fatigue

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Thu Aug 25, 2016, 10:46 AM

Aug 2016

There is one problem, however: “Decision fatigue” is not an illness. It is a consumer behavior term for the feeling you get when you’re overwhelmed by the sheer number of options at, say, Costco.

Really? That's the example of it they use?

It's also that feeling you get when you're poor and you're constantly having to choose between food, clothes, electricity, gas for the car, gas for heating or water. Oh, and rent. You spend so much brain power making these decisions that your other decisions aren't made very well.

Dean Spears of Princeton University has argued that decision fatigue caused by the constant need to make financial trade-offs is a major factor in trapping people in poverty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue#Reduced_ability_to_make_trade-offs

This article seems to have been written by someone that makes fun of poor people.

Man, I'm cranky today.

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