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[Michael Scally MD]

Between when President Donald Trump assumed office in January 2017 and the end of April, the average number of public false or misleading statements he has made per day https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?utm_term=.56dc5ac4e004 (has been increasing.)According to the https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/05/01/president-trump-has-made-3001-false-or-misleading-claims-so-far/?utm_term=.e6895f364832 (Washington Post’s fact checkers) on May 1,https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.a090dd3e1ab0 ("for the president’s first 100 days), he averaged 4.9 claims a day... since we last updated this tally two months ago, the president has averaged about 9 claims a day."

This is a significant rise. Our calculations suggest that if the current escalation rate remains steady, by the end of his term the president could be making as many as 19 public false statements a day, on average.

To psychologists interested in the science of lying, Trump’s increasing mendacity presents an interesting question: What might be causing this growth?

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[O]ur research points to yet another intriguing explanation — a biological process called emotional adaptation. Dishonesty Study | Affective Brain Lab

Emotion plays an important role in constraining dishonesty. If we feel bad when we lie, we are less likely to do so. But if this uncomfortable feeling were to magically disappear, research suggests we would in turn lie more.

Research we conducted at University College London with our colleagues Dan Ariely and Stephanie Lazzaro, which was published in 2016 in the journal Nature Neuroscience, showed that the intensity of the emotional response people experience when they act dishonestly is reduced every time they lie. And this reduction (which scientists call emotional adaptation) makes them likely to lie more over time.

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It is thus likely that we will observe a continuing increase in the number of falsehoods emanating from the Oval Office, accompanied by less and less outrage from the public.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Between when President Donald Trump assumed office in January 2017 and the end of April, the average number of public false or misleading statements he has made per day https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?utm_term=.56dc5ac4e004 (has been increasing.)According to the https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/05/01/president-trump-has-made-3001-false-or-misleading-claims-so-far/?utm_term=.e6895f364832 (Washington Post’s fact checkers) on May 1,https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.a090dd3e1ab0 ("for the president’s first 100 days), he averaged 4.9 claims a day... since we last updated this tally two months ago, the president has averaged about 9 claims a day."

This is a significant rise. Our calculations suggest that if the current escalation rate remains steady, by the end of his term the president could be making as many as 19 public false statements a day, on average.

To psychologists interested in the science of lying, Trump’s increasing mendacity presents an interesting question: What might be causing this growth?

...

[O]ur research points to yet another intriguing explanation — a biological process called emotional adaptation. Dishonesty Study | Affective Brain Lab

Emotion plays an important role in constraining dishonesty. If we feel bad when we lie, we are less likely to do so. But if this uncomfortable feeling were to magically disappear, research suggests we would in turn lie more.

Research we conducted at University College London with our colleagues Dan Ariely and Stephanie Lazzaro, which was published in 2016 in the journal Nature Neuroscience, showed that the intensity of the emotional response people experience when they act dishonestly is reduced every time they lie. And this reduction (which scientists call emotional adaptation) makes them likely to lie more over time.

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It is thus likely that we will observe a continuing increase in the number of falsehoods emanating from the Oval Office, accompanied by less and less outrage from the public.

Garrett N, Lazzaro SC, Ariely D, Sharot T. The brain adapts to dishonesty. Nature Neuroscience 2016;19:1727. The brain adapts to dishonesty

Dishonesty is an integral part of our social world, influencing domains ranging from finance and politics to personal relationships. Anecdotally, digressions from a moral code are often described as a series of small breaches that grow over time. Here we provide empirical evidence for a gradual escalation of self-serving dishonesty and reveal a neural mechanism supporting it. Behaviorally, we show that the extent to which participants engage in self-serving dishonesty increases with repetition. Using functional MRI, we show that signal reduction in the amygdala is sensitive to the history of dishonest behavior, consistent with adaptation. Critically, the extent of reduced amygdala sensitivity to dishonesty on a present decision relative to the previous one predicts the magnitude of escalation of self-serving dishonesty on the next decision. The findings uncover a biological mechanism that supports a 'slippery slope': what begins as small acts of dishonesty can escalate into larger transgressions.

 

[Swiper]

informant is the proper word, not spy. a lot word games going on here.

clapper even admitted “it’s a good thing the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign”. the informant was spying according to clapper

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Since the 2016 election, I have reviewed nearly every academic article containing the name “Donald Trump.” This huge literature has plenty of disagreements—but the dominant findings are clear: attitudes about race, gender, and cultural change played outsized roles in the 2016 Republican primaries and general election, with economic circumstances playing a limited role.

Media coverage of this research has often framed it as a victory for those who argue “Trump supporters are racist and sexist” over those who argue “Trump supporters are left behind economically.” Concerned scholars and commentators have criticized this research as hopelessly biased and have often tried to revive the economic story. But another strain of conservative explanation for Trump’s support—one that is focused on aversion to “political correctness”—turns out to be quite close to the racial and cultural explanations.

Beneath the divide lurks a consensus: Many people dislike group-based claims of structural disadvantage and the norms obligating their public recognition. Those voters saw Trump as their champion. The 2016 election produced greater candidate and voter division around the celebration of diversity and accepted explanations for group disparities. Trump and Clinton extended the influence of these factors, but they had long been rising in importance in dividing the American parties.

 

[Senorman]

clapper even admitted “it’s a good thing the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign”.

Please direct me to your source where Clapper says this.

 

[Swiper]

Please direct me to your source where Clapper says this.

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.dailycaller.com/2018/05/18/clapper-fbi-spying-trump-campaign/


this source is Clapper himself



about 2 min in

 

[Lean_N_Mean]

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.dailycaller.com/2018/05/18/clapper-fbi-spying-trump-campaign/


this source is Clapper himself



about 2 min in

Clappers a piece of shit and all the politically motivated heads of the intelligence agencies should be fired and put in prison for this crap!

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Illegal border crossings, as President Donald Trump measures them, have gone up since he took office, even as he speaks to audiences about a drop of more than 40 percent.

That disconnect was among several that stood out over the past week as Trump opened up on the Russia investigation via Twitter, forsaking accuracy in the process, and made the false claim that he’s delivering the first big military pay increase in a decade.

Meantime it turns out that Richard Grenell, Trump’s ambassador to Germany, got it wrong when he delivered the “shocking” news last month that Trump’s predecessors had never given German Chancellor Angela Merkel the courtesy of a tour of the private residence floor of the White House when she visited Washington.

A look at some of Trump’s statements and Grenell’s erroneous claim:

 

[Michael Scally MD]

President Trump's sudden cancellation of the upcoming denuclearization summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is just the latest example of Trump's wildly erratic approach to foreign policy.

While Trump's domestic policies seem to be guided by clear objectives -- increasing corporate profits, undoing every policy made by the Obama administration, and appeasing Trump's anti-immigrant base -- the imperatives driving US foreign policy under Trump remain something of a mystery.

In this exclusive interview, renowned linguist and public intellectual Noam Chomsky sheds light on the realities and dangers of foreign relations in the age of "gangster capitalism" and the decline of the US as a superpower.

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A typical illustration is the policy achievement of which the Trump-Ryan-McConnell administration is most proud: the tax bill -- what Joseph Stiglitz accurately called "The US Donor Relief Act of 2017." It contributes very directly to the well-being of their actual constituency: private wealth and corporate power. It benefits the actual constituency indirectly by the standard Republican technique (since Reagan) of blowing up the deficit as a pretext for undermining social programs, which are the Republicans' next targets. The bill is thus of real benefit to its actual constituency and severely harms the general population.

Turning to international affairs, in Trumpian lingo, "America First" means "me first" and damn the consequences for the country or the world. The "me first" doctrine has an immediate corollary: it's necessary to keep the base in line with fake promises and fiery rhetoric, while not alienating the actual constituency. It also follows that it's important to do the opposite of whatever was done by Obama. Trump is often called "unpredictable," but his actions are highly predictable on these simple principles.

His most important decision, by far, was to pull out of the Paris negotiations on climate change and to tear to shreds efforts to prevent environmental catastrophe -- a threat that is extremely severe, and not remote. All completely predictable on the basic principles just mentioned.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

You Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots.

It doesn’t come like that.

Look at the language. It begins in the language.

Joseph Brodsky, a Russian poet exiled from the Soviet Union

 

[Senorman]

“it’s a good thing the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign”.

Clapper never said that, he said the “FBI was spying on what the Russians were doing.”

Big difference, eh?

 

[Senorman]

Clappers a piece of shit and all the politically motivated heads of the intelligence agencies should be fired and put in prison for this crap!

All the heads of the intelligence agencies are Trump appointees.

 

[Swiper]

Clapper never said that, he said the “FBI was spying on what the Russians were doing.”

Big difference, eh?

you’re so gullible. do you actually believe that.

he agreed that it’s a good thing the fbi was spying on the trump campaign. go watch the video again. you’re so blinded by your ideology.

 

[Senorman]

We surveil known and suspected Russian operatives. Do you have a problem with this? Trump and associates were caught up in the surveillance, even after Trump was personally warned that the Russians would make contact. If Trump and company are innocent, then no worries.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]