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Giveaway Contest: Thanks to the generosity of @harperperennial, we’re giving away all eight of the brand new, limited edition 2018-19 Harper Perennial Olive Editions! And this year, all of the Olives are CLASSICS! <3 Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these books, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will randomly choose a winner on November 10, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, for the third straight year, Harper Perennial has agreed to make this an International giveaway! Good luck!
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The universe is indifferent. We ought not to be.
Your fav is problematic…
Source: https://mashable.com/2018/05/20/taylor-swift-earth-wind-fire-cowriter/
Omg as lethargic as a drunk turtle dozing under a sunflower after ingesting a bottle of Valium. I’m dead. This is the best insult of all time.
It truly is the best insult ever.
I found this… Someone explain 😂😂😭😭😭
The Billboard article is a month old. He probably hadn’t heard the song yet.
lmaooo it gets better…
source: https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8456826/taylor-swift-september-cover-co-writer-allee-willis-comments
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PLAY THIS WITH THE SOUND TURNED ON IF YOU WANT TO LIVE.
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The Core of Trump’s Genius
For more than a year now, I’ve been hearing from people in the inner circles of official Washington – including former senior Republican members of Congress, GOP lobbyists, and Republican pundits – that Donald Trump is remarkably stupid.
I figured they couldn’t be right because really stupid people don’t become president of the United States. Even George W. Bush was smart enough to hire smart people to run his campaign and then his White House.
Several months back when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a “f—king moron,” I discounted it. I know firsthand how frustrating it can be to serve in a president’s cabinet, and I’ve heard members of other president’s cabinets describe their bosses in similar terms.
Now comes “Fire and Fury,” a book by journalist Michael Wolff, who over 18 months interviewed more than 200 people who had dealings with Trump as a candidate and president, including senior White House staff members.
In it, National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster calls Trump a “dope.” Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus both describe him as an “idiot.” Rupert Murdoch says Trump is a “f—king idiot.”
Trump’s chief economic adviser Gary Cohn describes Trump as “dumb as sh-t,” explaining that “Trump won’t read anything — not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.”
When one of Trump’s campaign aides tried to educate him about the Constitution, Trump couldn’t focus. “I got as far as the Fourth Amendment,” the aide recalled, "before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head.”
Trump doesn’t think he’s stupid. As he recounted, “I went to an Ivy League college … I did very well. I’m a very intelligent person.”
Trump wasn’t exactly an academic star at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and Finance. One of his professors, the late professor William T. Kelley, author of a then-widely used textbook “Marketing Intelligence:The Management of Marketing Information,” purportedly said he was “the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.”
Trump biographer Gwenda Blair wrote in 2001 that Trump was admitted to Wharton on a special favor from a “friendly” admissions officer who had known Trump’s older brother, Freddy.
But hold on. Even if Trump was a lousy student, and even if he doesn’t read, can’t follow a logical argument, and has the attention span of a fruit fly, it still doesn’t follow that he’s stupid.
There’s another form of intelligence. It’s called “emotional intelligence.”
Emotional intelligence is a concept developed by two psychologists, John Mayer, of the University of New Hampshire, and Yale’s Peter Salovey, and popularized by Dan Goleman in his 1996 book of the same name.
Mayer and Salovey define emotional intelligence as the ability to do two things – “understand and manage our own emotions,” and “recognize and influence the emotions of others.”
I grant you Trump hasn’t displayed much capacity for the first. He’s thin-skinned, narcissistic, and vindictive.
As dozens of the most distinguished Republican foreign policy experts put it, “he is unable or unwilling to separate truth from falsehood. He does not encourage conflicting views. He lacks self-control and acts impetuously. He cannot tolerate criticism."
Okay, but what about Mayer and Salovey’s second aspect of emotional intelligence – influencing the emotions of others?
Trump understands how to manipulate other people. He has an ability to discover their emotional vulnerabilities – their fears, anxieties, prejudices, and darkest desires – and use them for his own purposes.
To put it another way, Trump is a talented conman.
He’s always been a conman. He conned hundreds of young people and their parents into paying to attend his near worthless Trump University. He conned banks into lending him more money even after he repeatedly failed to pay them. He conned contractors to work for them and then stiffed them.
Granted, during his business career he wasn’t a great conman. Had he been, his cons would have paid off.
By his own account, in 1976, when Trump was starting his career, he was worth about $200 million, much of it from his father. Today he says he’s worth some $8 billion. If he’d just put the original $200 million into an index fund and reinvested the dividends, he’d be worth $12 billion today.
But he’s been a remarkably successful political conman. He conned 62,979,879 Americans to vote for him in November 2016 by telling them lies about Mexicans, Muslims, African-Americans, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and all the “wonderful,” “beautiful” things he’d do for them.
And he’s still conning many of them.
Political conning is Trump’s genius. It’s this genius combined with his utter stupidity in every other respect that poses the greatest danger to America and the world.
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