“She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions,” Trump said in a CNN interview. “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. In my opinion, she was off base.”
On Saturday morning, Trump’s campaign released a statement claiming he said “whatever,” as opposed to “wherever,” and was referring to Kelly’s nose.
I have to think this was planned, and if so, it was brilliant. He released a deniable dogwhistle, triggered the SJW’s, and then when they rose to take the bait, he labeled them “deviant,” thereby out-grouping them as socially inferior – for getting triggered over nothing.
Trump’s campaign is almost like a giant cognitive training session trying to fix the nation’s SJWs. Trump triggers them, makes them feel inferior for getting triggered so they will experience aversive stimulus, then he repeats it.
Eventually, if repeated often enough, this would train the triggerable – that getting triggered, and letting it be known they were triggered, will only elicit aversive stimulus and humiliation, and thus the path of least aversive stimulus is to keep their mouths shut. Over time they would actually build amygdala suppression pathways designed to suppress the urge to get triggered.
Mr. Trump made Megyn Kelly look really bad — she was a mess with her anger and totally caught off guard. Mr. Trump said “blood was coming out of her eyes and whatever” meaning nose, but wanted to move on to more important topics. Only a deviant would think anything else. This related to the debate, which because of Mr. Trump had 24 million viewers — the biggest in cable news history. According to TIME, Newsmax, Drudge Report, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Hill and many others, Mr. Trump won the debate.
By the way, the guy (Erick Erickson) who made the decision about RedState called Supreme Court Justice David Souter a “goat [expletive] child molester” and First Lady Michelle Obama a “Marxist Harpy.” He was forced to make a humbling apology.
Also, not only is Erick a total loser, he has a history of supporting establishment losers in failed campaigns so it is an honor to be uninvited from his event. Mr. Trump is an outsider and does not fit his agenda.
Many of the 900 people that wanted to hear Mr. Trump speak tonight have been calling and emailing—they are very angry at Erickson and the others that are trying to be so politically correct. To them Mr. Trump says, “We will catch you at another time soon.”
Note that Trump releasing a statement in the third person is a low level violation of expectation hijack itself. It even adds a diminution of stature hijack, since if Trump were to have written that, it would appear he was portraying himself as so high status that even he refers to himself in the third person – something rabbits find innately triggering. As you read it, something feels slightly off, which is your amygdala entering a heightened state of agitation, alertness, and focus, due to the third person state. Did Trump say this? It sounds like him. But it is in the third person. It must be a staffer. But it is his statement. And it sounds like him. But it is in the third person…
If you like Trump, it makes you more likely to laugh and find him even more likable, but if you don’t like him it makes the insults even more amygdala stimulating, because it turns on your amygdala. If Erickson is an SJW, he will not like the “total loser” label, nor being portrayed as a groveling hypocrite who has spoken offensively himself, and then humbly apologized and begged forgiveness. But getting it in a weird third person statement will only make it worse, and bypass the SJW denial mechanism.
If Trump does this often enough, or even wins the Presidency, liberals and SJWs will begin to avoid politics. They won’t want to think about it, they won’t want to talk about it, they won’t want to hear about it. They may not even vote. He is making politics intolerable for certain people who have a low tolerance for irritation. If he rises on a wave of adulation, the leftists will not be able to face the political debate or take part in the process, which would only be good for the country. This is how rabbits come to hide when K-selection begins. This is the mechanism, being used and manipulated by Trump.
On Erickson, he will not take this personally, because he knows this is a game. He once wrote,
There is one more thing I want you to know about Donald Trump. I’ve met him and interviewed him before. When the camera was not on and the interview was not going, he was not The Donald. He was a guy who cared deeply for his staff and the people who merely walked in the front door of his building. I want you to know that the Donald Trump I’ve seen in private is not the Donald Trump you see on stage because I think we are not going to see that Trump. It’s our loss and it will be his own loss. The person, a separate entity from the personality, is a good man.
The reason I don’t much care for Rick Santorum is that I’ve seen him, off camera and behind the scenes when no one was supposed to be watching, behave like a spoiled and entitled rich kid snapping at people in a lower position than himself when he did not need to. It’s also why I have a soft spot for Trump. From the same vantage point, I’ve seen him behave kindly to people far lower on the rung of life than him when he did not have to. Character when the camera isn’t rolling counts in my book.
Unfortunately for Trump, The Donald does not come across in public the way Mr. Trump does behind the scenes.
Still, Erickson was a tool to invite Kelley in Trump’s place, after she made such an emotional mess of her opportunity. Maybe the machine got something on him and he is under orders or something, who knows in these times.
When you realize this is all a show, it makes Donald’s skill and genius at playing the crowd all the more impressive. If it were absolutely certain he had a deep, unwavering reverence for small government conservatism, there would be no doubt in my mind he would be the next Reagan.
As it is, it would appear we are going to find out for certain, and I think that is a good thing, if for no better reason than his effect on the debate and the nation’s tolerance for minor irritations.
AC here is an article you might like, not sure if you follow this blog but it is a good one.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/08/08/following-the-money-campaign-moves-the-cocwall-street-roadmap-and-candidate-expectations/#more-104640
As a bit of context, Rush was saying that the big money GOP donors had put out orders to “take Trump down” according to his sources. He realized after the fact that those orders didn’t go to the other candidates like he assumed, but to Fox News.
I have to say, the parts that I watched did seem to me like Fox was trying to pick the candidate for us instead of just being a forum — playing from the liberal rabbit playbook. Since I understood their game, it simply served to turn me onto their ‘enemy’ (since no one likes to have someone try to underhandedly manipulate them.)
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The cuckservatives all hate Trump and Joe Sixpack loves it.
I completely agree with you, I was thinking the same thing about Trump and was almost amazed at how little he dropped in the polls after his illegal immigrant remarks. BS. I can just hear Howard Beale from Network telling people to open their windows and yell I m as mad as hell and I m not going to take it anymore!