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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 26, 2024 20:35:23 GMT -5
MAGA GOPers are lacking in intelligence, hence their lack of a sense of humor. They are suckers and morons. Humor is a sophisticated cognitive process that involves a multitude of mental skills. To 'get' a joke, one needs to recognize the context, understand the multiple meanings of words, identify incongruities, and use abstract thinking to find amusement in the punchline. Therefore, perceiving and appreciating humor is an indicator of cognitive flexibility, creativity, and linguistic intelligence. www.miragenews.com/mirth-and-mind-why-humor-hinges-on-high-1010349/Researchers in Austria recently discovered that funny people, particularly those who enjoy dark humour, have higher IQs than their less funny peers. They argue that it takes both cognitive and emotional ability to process and produce humour. Their analysis shows that funny people have higher verbal and non-verbal intelligence, and they score lower in mood disturbance and aggressiveness. www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/10/funny-people-are-also-more-intelligent-according-to-new-research/Highly educated adults – particularly those who have attended graduate school – are far more likely than those with less education to take predominantly liberal positions across a range of political values. And these differences have increased over the past two decades. More than half of those with postgraduate experience (54%) have either consistently liberal political values (31%) or mostly liberal values (23%), based on an analysis of their opinions about the role and performance of government, social issues, the environment and other topics. Fewer than half as many postgrads – roughly 12% of the public in 2015– have either consistently conservative (10%) or mostly conservative (14%) values. About one-in-five (22%) express a mix of liberal and conservative opinions. www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/This is why I got a good chuckle out of Republicans like Ramaswamy (thank heavens that clown has pretty much disappeared) supporting a civics test to qualify for voting. 80% of Republicans would fail miserably, including half of Republican U.S. Reps, and a handful of Senators (I’m looking directly at Tuberville). I have my suspicions Trump couldn’t pass a basic civics test. I'm sure that's true, but the civics test would only be required for minorities.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 25, 2024 19:46:56 GMT -5
And thinking it's clever to say "Democrat party" or that "Let's Go Brandon" is the height of hilarity. MAGA GOPers are lacking in intelligence, hence their lack of a sense of humor. They are suckers and morons. Humor is a sophisticated cognitive process that involves a multitude of mental skills. To 'get' a joke, one needs to recognize the context, understand the multiple meanings of words, identify incongruities, and use abstract thinking to find amusement in the punchline. Therefore, perceiving and appreciating humor is an indicator of cognitive flexibility, creativity, and linguistic intelligence. www.miragenews.com/mirth-and-mind-why-humor-hinges-on-high-1010349/Researchers in Austria recently discovered that funny people, particularly those who enjoy dark humour, have higher IQs than their less funny peers. They argue that it takes both cognitive and emotional ability to process and produce humour. Their analysis shows that funny people have higher verbal and non-verbal intelligence, and they score lower in mood disturbance and aggressiveness. www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/10/funny-people-are-also-more-intelligent-according-to-new-research/Highly educated adults – particularly those who have attended graduate school – are far more likely than those with less education to take predominantly liberal positions across a range of political values. And these differences have increased over the past two decades. More than half of those with postgraduate experience (54%) have either consistently liberal political values (31%) or mostly liberal values (23%), based on an analysis of their opinions about the role and performance of government, social issues, the environment and other topics. Fewer than half as many postgrads – roughly 12% of the public in 2015– have either consistently conservative (10%) or mostly conservative (14%) values. About one-in-five (22%) express a mix of liberal and conservative opinions. www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/I agree with all of this, which is why I love Blazing Saddles and Animal House.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 25, 2024 19:42:39 GMT -5
Given MAGA GOPers limited cognitive abilities and intellectual capabilities, this essay, adapted from Kagan's book, will most certainly pass over their racist, xenophobic and authoritarian heads. Their most likely response, is it's TLDNR. Morons. Opinion We have a radical democracy. Will Trump voters destroy it? For some time, it was possible to believe that many voters could not see the threat Donald Trump poses to America’s liberal democracy, and many still profess not to see it. But now, a little more than six months from Election Day, it’s hard to believe they don’t. The warning signs are clear enough. Trump himself offers a new reason for concern almost every day. People may choose to ignore the warnings or persuade themselves not to worry, but they can see what we all see, and that should be enough. How to explain their willingness to support Trump despite the risk he poses to our system of government? The answer is not rapidly changing technology, widening inequality, unsuccessful foreign policies or unrest on university campuses but something much deeper and more fundamental. It is what the Founders worried about and Abraham Lincoln warned about: a decline in what they called public virtue. They feared it would be hard to sustain popular support for the revolutionary liberal principles of the Declaration of Independence, and they worried that the virtuous love of liberty and equality would in time give way to narrow, selfish interest. Although James Madison and his colleagues hoped to establish a government on the solid foundation of self-interest, even Madison acknowledged that no government by the people could be sustained if the people themselves did not have sufficient dedication to the liberal ideals of the Declaration. The people had to love liberty, not just for themselves but as an abstract ideal for all humans. For two centuries, many White Americans have felt under siege by the Founders’ liberalism. They have been defeated in war and suppressed by threats of force, but more than that, they have been continually oppressed by a system designed by the Founders to preserve and strengthen liberalism against competing beliefs and hierarchies. Since World War II, the courts and the political system have pursued the Founders’ liberal goals with greater and greater fidelity, ending official segregation, driving religion from public schools, recognizing and defending the rights of women and minorities hitherto deprived of their “natural rights” because of religious, racial, and ethnic discrimination. The hegemony of liberalism has expanded, just as Lincoln hoped it would, “constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of colors everywhere.” Anti-liberal political scientist Patrick Deneen calls it “liberal totalitarianism,” and, apart from the hyperbole, he is right that liberalism has been steadily deepening and expanding under presidents of both parties since the 1940s. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/24/trump-tyranny-christian-nationalist-democracy/About face, says the Supreme Court.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 25, 2024 19:17:15 GMT -5
Slightly off topic but I am surprised Larranaga at age 74 wants to stick around for the new world of NIL CBB unless he's just in it for the money. The winningest coach in program history and a recent UM Sports Hall of Fame & Museum inductee, Larrañaga received one additional year on his deal, now taking it through the 2026-27 campaign. “I am excited to announce Jim's contract extension through the 2026-27 season,” Radakovich said. He had back to back great years followed by a disaster. Maybe he just doesn't want to go out that way,, but it looks like they have a major rebuild in front of them. Where have I seen that before?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 24, 2024 20:24:50 GMT -5
I'm no fan of Trump, but I kind of agree with Elvado here. This case sure does feel like a politically motivated prosecution. A campaign-finance violation from eight years ago? Involving underlying conduct that has been in the public record for years now? Really? That's the charge that's going to topple his candidacy? Put another way, does anyone think New York State bothers to prosecute him for this if he's convicted by the Senate and ineligible to run? I don't think it's really all that difficult to imagine that some voters are buying into the "Trump is being persecuted" angle that his campaign is pushing, and that this trial is "reminding" them that "all Democrats are corrupt and they're after Trump because they can't beat him at the polls." I also agree with Elvado that the documents case is real, and that it should have nothing but negative effects for Trump. But unfortunately, I don't think it's going to have much of an impact on the election. What's just damn frustrating is that we are stuck with NY as the first case heard. The documents case should have been first, but Trump lucked into Loose Cannon as the judge, and she's just bent on delaying the case as long as possible. Then the Supreme Court actually agreed to hear the ridiculous immunity claim, and delayed the oral arguments until tomorrow, so that decision won't come down until the end of June, resulting in interminable delays of what I choose to call the insurrection case. In a just world, the documents case would be ongoing now, followed by the insurrection case, and Trump's ass would be in jail well before the election, so he could continue to compare himself to Nelson Mandela.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 24, 2024 20:13:42 GMT -5
I hope that's true, but I wonder how many would truly never vote for Trump in this election, and how many are still going to vote for him but are using these primaries as their last chance to vent frustration that he's their nominee. I'm sure that some percentage of the people still voting for Haley will stay home, vote third party (effectively staying home), or cross party lines to vote for Biden. But I imagine that a good chunk of them will pull the lever for the name with (R) next to it no matter what, and are just using these primaries to signal their annoyance that that name happens to be Trump again. (I suspect the same is true of some of the people casting protest votes in the Democratic primaries.) I didn't want to give this a "like," but I fear it's exactly right.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 24, 2024 19:55:09 GMT -5
I look at Fielder and see a potential Georgetown Laetner. So we’ve had Fielder compared to Laettner and Mack compared to Kenny Anderson in the last week. What’s next? Micah Peavy and Scottie Pippen? Jayden Epps and Damian Lillard? Thomas Sorber and Rasheed Wallace? This is the one I found amusing.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 24, 2024 19:39:10 GMT -5
Interesting... I still cannot believe we have/had a 7'2" player who had played some BE minutes and that the coaching staff couldn't/cannot make him a useful player. That player could've been a fouling machine in the paint (i.e., anyone that gets passed you gets fouled) for one of the NCAA's worst defensive teams. I agree but we are beating a dead horse. There has to be more to the story than that Ryan just wasn't good enough to be coached into at least becoming a decent rim protector by his junior year but I'm afraid we will never know why that was. Have to admit, this was very amusing. Sorry, please ignore. I inadvertently hit reply on the wrong post.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 24, 2024 19:23:18 GMT -5
I'm surprised that no one has posted on this thread yet that Supreme is out (although I imagine I'll find that elsewhere). Sorry to see him go, even though I expected his role to be much more limited next year.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 23, 2024 20:36:42 GMT -5
A Syracuse lean for Newhouse School since the young man is interested in broadcasting. I am at once both repulsed and so proud of his thought process. are you ready to start bleeding orange? You realize this is the ultimate challenge, right? Every good parent supports their child's institution - within reason.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 23, 2024 20:12:03 GMT -5
Selling himself to the highest bidder, yee hah. Can't blame him, that's the system we're stuck with these days. On the Williams signing, I was still holding out hope that we could find a strong shooting guard and make Epps the sixth man. That doesn't seem to be in the cards, so put that in the category of you can't have everything. If he's strong defensively then there should be a spot for him, as that's an everpresent need. You think we are going to sign someone above Epps and he is going to stick around? That is.............unrealistic. Yes, you're probably right, and I hope Epps is able to adjust his game, but I think he'd be ideal as a 6th man. And I agree that a rim protector is a bigger need.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 23, 2024 4:01:04 GMT -5
Buckley died in early 2008, or when Trump was still an itinerant TV host. Since WFB's Tory sensibilities expected the wealthy to exert a form of noblesse oblige in politics, he would have eviscerated candidate Trump as a charlatan and thus would have been relegated out of the party, much as George Will was. Sounds like thebin, no? Welcome to the fight.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 22, 2024 19:36:57 GMT -5
Jettison the racist Electoral College. After much public debate, a Maine law has brought the country closer to having the popular vote determine the winner of national presidential elections -- but it's unlikely that will happen before November or even at all. abcnews.go.com/US/state-law-takes-us-step-closer-popular-vote/story?id=109437887For centuries, white votes have gotten undue weight, as a result of innovations such as poll taxes and voter-ID laws and outright violence to discourage racial minorities from voting. (The point was obvious to anyone paying attention: As William F. Buckley argued in his essay “Why the South Must Prevail,” white Americans are “entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally,” anywhere they are outnumbered because they are part of “the advanced race.”) But America’s institutions boosted white political power in less obvious ways, too, and the nation’s oldest structural racial entitlement program is one of its most consequential: the Electoral College. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/electoral-colleges-racist-originsWilliam F. Buckley really wrote that? Good God.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 22, 2024 19:36:04 GMT -5
Only suckers and morons aka "Republicans" believe the Grifter. For years, Donald Trump was among Twitter’s loudest and most inescapable voices: a brash, bomb-throwing businessman turned president who could capture the global news cycle with a single tweet. On Truth Social, he is serving up an even more extreme version of his online self. His following is diminished, but his posting has accelerated. He has traded combative tweets for even more belligerent screeds. Diatribes against his perceived enemies have drawn gag orders from judges in multiple cases. His media diet has become almost exclusively right-wing. And above all, he persists in spreading lies about his 2020 election loss, deep into his campaign for another term. Here on his company’s social network, the former president’s increasingly confrontational posting keeps his most ardent followers primed for action, helps him raise money and provides daily fodder for a media sphere that exists largely to amplify him. And he has reason to believe his efforts are paying off: Polling shows that Trump has convinced as many as 70 percent of Republicans that Biden won the 2020 election because of voter fraud. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/trump-truth-social-posts/?itid=hp_latest-headlines_p001_f014I think it's worth mentioning that a friend of mine sent me something about where the jurors in the NY trial that started today get their news. One said Truth Social. That sent a chill up my spine. How the heck did that person get on the jury?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 22, 2024 19:18:47 GMT -5
Not to be negative but going into the off season all I heard was we need a true pg. A pass first floor leader. Like the mack commit but is he a pg? Seems little like Epps. Little concerned we are a bit better overall but didn’t address a severe need. Mack is viewed as a point guard by virtually every expert and fan. Whoever said anything about a pass-first point guard is living in the wrong century. You rarely find guys like that. Point guards get their points now too, not too many John Stocktons out there. Rowan had some of that old school mentality within him and I would have loved if he had stayed, but even with Rowan on the court that ball was not moving and there wasn’t much creating for teammates. Mack is far more dynamic with the rock and has great passing instincts and capabilities. His ability to score helps keep defenses off balance. Defenders were not concerned in the least in BE play when Rowan was on the court; all of their attention was focused on Epps. Mack gives Epps at the very least a teammate who should demand the defenses’ attention just as much, taking some of that focus off of Epps. He can also take away most of the ball handling responsibilities from Epps, who last season had to bring up the ball across half court more than anyone else…and then be counted on to score too. Maybe Epps won’t like that so much but it will be better for him nonetheless. Also Mack through drives and kickouts may be able to get Epps better open looks during games. Hopefully all of this will make Epps more rested and more efficient in BE play. And with an improved front court Epps can show off some more of his own creativity by dishing to teammates for scores. I'll add that the very best point guard that I have seen in my years of watching college hoops was Kenny Anderson. He was not a pass-first point guard but he was a GREAT passer. He had tremendous speed and quickness with the ball and could drive around people or drive to the hoop using either hand. His midrange shot was money and you had to respect him from deep. And he made outstanding passes to teammates. All of this made it difficult for defenses to contain him because you never knew which tool from his toolbox he was going to pull out. Although not a that level, I see some Anderson in Mack's game. Thanks for reopening a very old wound, MCI. For those not aware, Kenny wanted to attend Georgetown, but Pops didn't pursue him, correct?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 22, 2024 19:12:38 GMT -5
Selling himself to the highest bidder, yee hah. Can't blame him, that's the system we're stuck with these days.
On the Williams signing, I was still holding out hope that we could find a strong shooting guard and make Epps the sixth man. That doesn't seem to be in the cards, so put that in the category of you can't have everything. If he's strong defensively then there should be a spot for him, as that's an everpresent need.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 19, 2024 20:24:49 GMT -5
I want to kiss this woman. That was great.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 19, 2024 19:59:13 GMT -5
Lots of rumors swirling that he is ours to lose. Let's give him a good visit and lock him down. Mack Epps Peavy Fielder / Sorber Omoruyi Cook, Mulready, Fielder/Sorber off the bench sounds pretty good. Probably need another guard / forward to step up to make us a true big east player I'm in SEC country and rumors here are that he's Bama's to lose. Unfortunately if he doesn't commit during/following his visit I think Bama will lock him up. We need to make him an offer he can't refuse. So a horse's head in his bed will get him?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 19, 2024 19:48:17 GMT -5
Playoff Jimmy wasn't much better, but I guess he had an excuse, and is now out for weeks. Speaking of which, how about LeBron and AD combining to shoot 12-36, which is a perfect match for Herro, but the Lakers still won.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 18, 2024 19:08:02 GMT -5
"Republicans" are seriously damaged people. Classic hypocrisy. No explanation for such irrational thought except their love of autocracy and authoritarianism. Barr, a vocal Trump critic, says he will ‘support the Republican ticket’ in November Former attorney general William P. Barr effectively endorsed former president Donald Trump on Wednesday, despite having previously criticized Trump’s conduct while in office and once comparing him to a “defiant, 9-year-old kid.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/17/barr-vocal-trump-critic-says-he-will-support-republican-ticket-november/Barr has been a piece off garbage for years. He seriously enabled Trump while he was AG. It appeared for a while that there might be a modicum of hope for him, but that has now proved incorrect.
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