Trump begins the day after Christmas with explosive tweetarrhea...6 impeachment tweets so far

[Miles Archer]

Every one of them the same repetitive crap, so I'm not sharing them here. This slob needs some new material.

[COLGATE4]

1. Good. I hope the thought of his 'legacy' being

one of being impeached eats away at him day and night until he finally (and mercifully for us) strokes out.

[hatrack]

2. Did he talk about his record-smashing election victory?

Or hold up the Big Red Map?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Read them at UnfollowTrump.

https://twitter.com/UnfollowTrump

Unfollow Trump
@UnfollowTrump
All of Trump's & POTUS' tweets (even deleted ones) without official RTs. #UnfollowTrump & hurt him where it counts, his ego! Also follow @UnfollowVP!

[tavernier]

4. The IMPOTUS is singing to his choir.

Someone should make a song out of it so the rest of us can get a good laugh. Sung to the tune of “Nobody knows the troubles I’ve had.”

[MontanaMama]

5. Still impeached!

Cry, whine and moan all you like MF...YOU. ARE. IMPEACHED. Forever and for always. Amen.

[cwydro]

6. Does he ever do any work?

I can’t imagine doing all that tweeting.

[Journeyman]

7. He has to. He's being "Cruci-fictioned" . . .

[dustyscamp]

8. If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.

YOU ONLY USE 10 percent of your brain. Eating carrots improves your eyesight. Vitamin C cures the common cold. Crime in the United States is at an all-time high.

None of those things are true.

But the facts don't actually matter: People repeat them so often that you believe them. Welcome to the “illusory truth effect,” a glitch in the human psyche that equates repetition with truth. Marketers and politicians are masters of manipulating this particular cognitive bias—which perhaps you have become more familiar with lately.

President Trump is a "great businessman," he says over and over again. Some evidence suggests that might not be true. Or look at just this week, when the president signed three executive orders designed to stop what he describes—over and over again—as high levels of violence against law enforcement in America. Sounds important, right? But such crimes are at their lowest rates in decades, as are most violent crimes in the US. Not exactly, as the president would have it, "American carnage."

"President Trump intends to build task forces to investigate and stop national trends that don’t exist," says Jeffery Robinson, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. He's right that the trends aren't real, of course. But some number of people still believe it. Every time the president tweets or says something untrue, fact-checkers race to point out the falsehood—to little effect. A Pew Research poll last fall found 57 percent of presidential election voters believed crime across the US had gotten worse since 2008, despite FBI data showing it had fallen by about 20 percent.

So what's going on here? "Repetition makes things seem more plausible," says Lynn Hasher, a psychologist at the University of Toronto whose research team first noticed the effect in the 1970s. "And the effect is likely more powerful when people are tired or distracted by other information." So ... 2017, basically.

Brain Feels
Remember those "Head On! Apply Directly to the Forehead!" commercials? That's the illusory truth effect in action. The ads repeated the phrase so much so that people found themselves at the drugstore staring at a glue-stick-like contraption thinking, "Apply directly to MY forehead!" The question of whether it actually alleviates pain gets smothered by a combination of tagline bludgeoning and tension headache.

Repetition is what makes fake news work, too, as researchers at Central Washington University pointed out in a study way back in 2012 before the term was everywhere. It's also a staple of political propaganda. It's why flacks feed politicians and CEOs sound bites that they can say over and over again. Not to go all Godwin's Law on you, but even Adolf Hitler knew about the technique. "Slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea," he wrote in Mein Kampf.

More
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/dont-believe-lies-just-people-repeat/