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1. about 4 hours ago on Prickly City

   A portmanteau.

2. about 4 hours ago on Prickly City

   This administration has zero empathy for anyone not a multi-millionaire, or perhaps an even smaller contingent of higher net worth Wealth elites.

   But this administration identifies and has absolute empathy with whom they identify with as Wealth class compatriots.

   And they have at least the same amount of empathy/identification with fascist strongman leaders of other countries — and identical empathy (zero) with heads of liberal democracy states (states synonymous with nations, in this usage).

3. about 4 hours ago on Reality Check

   Thank you, thank you, folks. We might be here for another week. Try the hemotrophic nutrition!

4. about 4 hours ago on Thatababy

   Everyone appointed to positions in the Trump 47 presidency are (unlike his 45 presidency) rigorously scrutinized for maximum sedulous loyalty prior to their official appointment. Oh, yeah — there is an enormously high likelihood they are also obliged to sign comprehensive and exceptionally rigid NDA’s (non disclosure agreements) covering the time between initial approach by Trump officials (if not the orange felon personally) offering positions all the way through the term until fired, they resign, or the rare occasion ‘till orange felon is no longer president — Stephen Miller, for example.

5. about 4 hours ago on Wizard of Id

   Any K Harris speech heard or read beats anything Old recluse posts on gocomics by the distance from Earth to our Sun x ~.

6. about 4 hours ago on Doonesbury

   The Sunday Doonesbury strips are drawn in our present time, as Trudeau retired his weekly strips in 2014. Monday thru Saturday are reruns of original strips which were published ~ 22 years ago.

7. about 5 hours ago on Strange Brew

   Hundred percent.

8. 1 day ago on Strange Brew

   Motivated reasoning (motivational reasoning bias) is a cognitive and social response in which individuals, consciously or sub-consciously, allow emotion-loaded motivational biases to affect how new information is perceived. Individuals tend to favor evidence that coincides with their current beliefs and reject new information that contradicts them, despite contrary evidence.

   Motivated reasoning overlaps with confirmation bias. Both favor evidence supporting one’s beliefs, at the same time dismissing contradictory evidence. However, confirmation bias is mainly a sub-conscious (innate) cognitive bias. In contrast, motivated reasoning (motivational bias) is a sub-conscious or conscious process by which one’s emotions control the evidence supported or dismissed. For confirmation bias, the evidence or arguments can be logical as well as emotional.

9. 2 days ago on Bottom Liners

   Could you provide his name and a title or two?

10. 2 days ago on Bottom Liners

    Or “fuggedaboudit”!!