**** Elections thread *****

[Poopadoop]

If he wants to unite people, he should start sending positive messages about something besides himself.

[wufwugy]

If he wants to unite people, he should start sending positive messages about something besides himself.

He does. You're not seeing it on account of cognitive dissonance.

[Poopadoop]

He does. You're not seeing it on account of cognitive dissonance.

Give me some examples of what he's done to unite people.

There was the one tweet about protesters having passion for the country, somewhat diminished though since it followed a tweet blaming the media for the protests.

[Poopadoop]

Actually his acceptance speech was also pretty good.

But it seems now he's back on form. Openly lying about NYT, tweeting how everyone loves him...

Edit: I guess it's hard for him to tell people 'it's a great country, now let's pull together' when he's been telling them it's not and it needs him to save it.

Edit2: Oh and I guess he said some nice things about Obama and his wife. Though that's pretty much what you'd expect anyone in his position to do, so not sure he deserves any praise for that.

[wufwugy]

tweeting how everyone loves him...

This is the perfect example. You're primed to see this and interpret it the way you did.

The purpose of the Bush, Romney, Kasich tweets are to speak positively of those who openly antagonized him. Kasich voted against him, Romney did that and more, Bush too. Trumps tweets are thanking them for changing position and supporting him now, even though it's after the fact, and are also directed at their supporters into the fold. His comments align very well with the ideal of bringing people together and making things more positive.

Just the other day you made a comment about Trump's enemies list. Implicated from this is that he should be predicted to attack his chief enemies. Kasich, Bush, and Romney are at the top of his chief "enemies" (the very top). And what did Trump do today? He made peace with them.

[Poopadoop]

This is the perfect example. You're primed to see this and interpret it the way you did.

You're primed to view it favourably for Trump.

The purpose of the Bush, Romney, Kasich tweets are to speak positively of those who openly antagonized him.

Assuming those tweets are the truth (which is questionable), there's another interpretation: It's that he's trying to say everyone (like the NYT) is eating humble pie now and telling him he's great. Classic Trump.

[wufwugy]

You're primed to view it favourably for Trump.

I am. Being human means being irrational. The best I can do is try to recognize it and correct for it when it poses a problem.

[Poopadoop]

Just the other day you made a comment about Trump's enemies list. Implicated from this is that he should be predicted to attack his chief enemies. Kasich, Bush, and Romney are at the top of his chief "enemies" (the very top). And what did Trump do today? He made peace with them.

...or a perfect way to stick the needle in, especially if he just made up those phone calls. It's not like it's beyond him to do that obviously.