MIke Luckovich reports from the 2021 CPAC & a CNN report on QAnon

 

And as a bonus, here are his wacky supporters:

Interesting times we live in!

Two from the New York Times Last Month: Chief Rational Remainer and Jennifer Senior on Trump

The New York Times last month had an article I greatly enjoyed: The Fame And Folly of Fighting Brexiteers with Logic.

This is James O'Brien, who's achieved YouTube fame arguing with radio callers who are pro-Brexit.

Here's his exchange with Nigel Farage:

“You’ve mentioned your discomfort at listening to foreign languages on a train recently,” Mr. O’Brien said.

“I made the point that I got on the train and went for several stops, and there were a lot of people around me and no one around me spoke English,” Mr. Farage said. “I didn’t object to it. I felt slightly uncomfortable.”

Mr. O’Brien went on to note, “Your wife is a German speaker.”

“Well, my children are, too, yeah,” said Mr. Farage.

“Does that make you feel uncomfortable?”

“No, because they can speak English, and the whole point —”

“How do you know those people couldn’t?” asked Mr. O’Brien.

Just search Youtube "James O'Brien" and enjoy!

Here's Jennifer Senior, whose Trump quote for the same week wins my award:

"When I imagine [Trump's brain], I imagine a bug zapper in a drizzle. Bzzzzzzzzzzt. Fzzzz. Bzzz fzzz bzzzzzzzzzzt." The article is here.

Scott Adams on Trump and Reality in general

Scott Adams was an early viewer of Trump as a Master Persuader; this book gives details up through early 2017:

I read this in one sitting ... I've always been a fan of Dilbert, but I especially was interested in Adams' view of Trump as a Master Persuader ...

His story of Hillary supporters' threats during the campaign was also compelling; he also discusses hypnosis and the alternate versions of reality that we all inhabit.

Finally, he's a fan of Robert Cialdini, who apparently was advising Bernie Sanders and then Hillary (too little too late), and I've been a Cialdini fan since I read his first book decades ago:

Adams also has a "blog" which he's relaxed into a sloppy-sounding podcast and is begging for nickels on Patreon ... I would think he could self-fund this as he says in the book he has "fuck you money" and can therefore maintain his independent voice ...

I think both of these books would be of interest to any politician or sales person ...