…means holding conflicting ideas simultaneously; disagreeing
with what you know. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people
have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance (lack of agreement). They do
this by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and actions. Dissonance is also
reduced by justifying, blaming, and denying.
I’m trying to find alternatives to titling most of my posts
about Republicans, “Fucking Hypocrites.” ‘Why,’ you may ask? Because to
Republicans, when a Republican does something, it’s a glorious, patriotic,
freedom-loving act, but if a Democrat (or anyone else, for that matter) does
the exact same thing, then 9.9999 times out of 10, it’s a satan-worshipping,
communist-loving, freedom-hating act. Now, I’m probably going to want to title
all my posts ‘Cognitive Dissonance.’
My friend, Mark, posted a link to a FOX “News” video about a
rock band, Clutch. He lightly expressed his bemusement that the conservative site would
do a story about this type of music. Following his lead, I made a wisecrack
about a BP commercial before the clip. That was it. No politics.
Then Kathy entered the thread.
She’s another one you’ll get to know on this blog, like the
aforementioned Richard on previous posts.
Ah, conservatives. Ya gotta love their cognitive dissonance.
The names have been changed to protect the innocent and the
guilty – and all the shady characters in between.
Enjoy…
Originally posted six or seven months ago on the book of
faces…
Mark
Clutch and Fox News...what what what?
Snuffy
Fox still gets no love from me though.
Bill Mancuso
Thanks to the commercial I was forced to watch before the
clip, I’m convinced that the Gulf Coast would have been a disaster area if not
for all the wonderful things BP is doing to make it a paradise.
Kathy
Let's hope BP isn't hurt too badly, as B Obama is going to
need a re-up on the truckloads of campaign cash they gave him in 08.
Mark
OH SNAP, GOOD POINT!
Kathy
I know, right?
Mark
Good thing, or he may have dropped the hammer on them for
that little incident that happened...
Mark is Kathy’s friend, so I understand the complicit
small-talk with her. In fact, he is often at odds with her blind, right-wing
lemming mentality. Also, I seem to be the only one to ever firmly attack the
blind, right-wing lemming mentality when it rears its ignorant head. Most
people are just too nice to get into fights. I’m glad I don’t have that
problem. You know, the fear of beating morons upside the head with facts. I do,
however, agree that Obama was spineless in his handling – or not handling – of
the oil spill. I don’t think it had anything to do with his donations, though.
I just think he has this mentally deficient idea that people always do the
right thing – as opposed to always protecting their profits.
Bill Mancuso
Oh, we're going political now - OK. Seeing as how the
Democrats are the ones in bed with the Oil & Gas industry and not the Republicans (GAHAHAHAHAHAHA - sorry I just made
myself laugh - actually, they're both friendly with the Oil & Gas industry
but the Republicans are a SHITLOAD more), Obama never would have won without that massive .0001% worth of truckloads
of cash into his campaign. If only BP didn't donate that $77,000 out of his
total $750,000,000... We should have voted for McCain. He only received $37,000
from BP. However, the oil and gas industry overall contributed $2,400,000 to
McCain's 2008 presidential campaign and only a third of that ($898,000) to
Obama's.
What do you suppose "President McCain" would have
done about the oil spill? I bet he would have beat the shit out of Tony Hayward
(CEO of BP) and then personally swam down to the blowout site with an American
flag with a giant cork at the end of the flagpole and stuck it right into that
gusher. He also would have had a Ka-Bar gripped in his teeth - ready for
deep-sea battle just in case he found any of those sabotaging hippie frogmen still
hanging around. He ain't no pussy like Obama. Right?
Right?
One dipshit idea by Republicans is that liberal hippie
environmentalist frogmen swam a fucking mile under water to sabotage the
blowout preventer to make deep water oil drilling “appear” dangerous. Is there
no fact a Republican can’t ignore in order to further their stupid agendas? Swim a
mile under water.
Bill Mancuso
What I meant to say was the oil & gas industry always
donates to both parties just to cover their bases. So the jury will ignore that
previous bit.
Nate
President McCain wouldn't have made it to April 2010. You
can bet your Range Rover that President Palin would have handled shit swiftly
and intelligently, though.
Nate was being facetious about Palin.
Mark
LIKE A BOSS!!
Bill Mancuso
A boss that displays herself and family on her own reality
show whilst simultaneously complaining about her family's invasion of privacy
by the media and Hollywood elites! Yeah, buddy! Leadership in action!
********************
I believe Kathy tried to take my negative BP comment and
turn it into a negative comment about Obama because we had previously gotten
into a “conversation” about politics. She is a hardcore right-wing lemming and
they feel socialist Obama was crusading against poor, innocent BP by trying to
get them to pay for the cleanup of their oil spill. When it was pointed out
that either BP pays for what they did or we taxpayers do, well, all my
conversations with Republicans mysteriously ended there. I am a hardcore seeker
of truth. The two do not mix. I will post that “conversation” at a later date.
I hope you read it. It’s lengthy, but, boy, it sure is a corker!
I’ve also noticed that when Republicans are confronted
with facts, they generally do one of three things. Ignore them and switch to a
different topic or deny them and continue repeating things that were made up or
ignore them and never comment again.
Some other debate tactics are to get personal and
name-call, or they proclaim that you are doing what they are really doing (like,
after they lie and you point out the lie, they say ‘You’re the one who's lying!’), or they say a
whole bunch of things that have nothing to do with the topic in an attempt to
obfuscate. All of these are the tactics of people who are not working from
facts and instead rely on making things up. Eventually, when you run out of
lies, you have to figure out how to evade or deflect.
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