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		By: Heather Hastie		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 23:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/picks-top-tweets-15-august-2017/#comment-16761&quot;&gt;Mark R.&lt;/a&gt;.

He sure did!]]></description>
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<p>He sure did!</p>
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		By: Mark R.		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark R.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 21:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/picks-top-tweets-15-august-2017/#comment-16758&quot;&gt;Heather Hastie&lt;/a&gt;.

His unhinged press conference an hour or two ago pretty much destroyed any type of &quot;good start&quot; he may have had.]]></description>
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<p>His unhinged press conference an hour or two ago pretty much destroyed any type of &#8220;good start&#8221; he may have had.</p>
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		By: Heather Hastie		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Hastie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/picks-top-tweets-15-august-2017/#comment-16757&quot;&gt;Mark R.&lt;/a&gt;.

Fareed Zakaria interviewed Bill Maher on his show over the weekend. Maher made the point that the Left just isn&#039;t very good at politics when it comes to getting ideas across in the same way you did. I agree with you both. They&#039;re too busy being intellectually superior, which comes across as patronizing. ]]></description>
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<p>Fareed Zakaria interviewed Bill Maher on his show over the weekend. Maher made the point that the Left just isn&#8217;t very good at politics when it comes to getting ideas across in the same way you did. I agree with you both. They&#8217;re too busy being intellectually superior, which comes across as patronizing. </p>
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		By: Heather Hastie		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Hastie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/picks-top-tweets-15-august-2017/#comment-16752&quot;&gt;Rosa Rubicondior&lt;/a&gt;.

It&#039;s a good start. Perhaps he&#039;s finally learning the value of a teleprompter. He&#039;s always done better when he uses one, much as he and his supporters criticize others for doing the same. ]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s a good start. Perhaps he&#8217;s finally learning the value of a teleprompter. He&#8217;s always done better when he uses one, much as he and his supporters criticize others for doing the same. </p>
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		By: Mark R.		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark R.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don&#039;t think Trump is stupid, but I don&#039;t think he&#039;s particularly smart either...maybe average intelligence. But as you pointed out, his faults lie in his lazy intellect, absence of curiosity, enormous ego, lack of empathy and tone deafness (all these traits are manifestations of his narcissism); and all these traits reside under the suffocating umbrella of ignorance. Unfortunately, the last people to suspect they&#039;re ignorant are those who are ignorant. We had an entire group of these ignoramuses on display in Charlottesville (and sadly, some were on the left).

I wish more liberal politicians would use tweets like &quot;Republican Logic&quot; for short tv ads, newspaper ads, banner ads...hell, even billboards. Americans have been really dumbed down over the years (thanks Fox!); nowadays, a vast majority don&#039;t have the attention span or interest to understand the intricate details of politics and policy (in other words, to understand &quot;why?&quot;). Republicans are great at manipulating the most complex issues into bumper stickers. The left&#039;s arsenal of zingers is much richer (and more truthful) than the right&#039;s, so let&#039;s unleash them. It is time to start communicating our message faster, simpler and wider.

That &quot;comic&quot; (hard to call it that) of Bannon feeding Trump his BS was eerily disturbing. I think it is the particular artistic style I find unsettling and the rendering of Bannon.

And I can&#039;t wait to try my first SLT sandwich! (Or perhaps DLT for &#039;Dulce&#039;.)

Thanks for your efforts Heather, much appreciated!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t think Trump is stupid, but I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s particularly smart either&#8230;maybe average intelligence. But as you pointed out, his faults lie in his lazy intellect, absence of curiosity, enormous ego, lack of empathy and tone deafness (all these traits are manifestations of his narcissism); and all these traits reside under the suffocating umbrella of ignorance. Unfortunately, the last people to suspect they&#8217;re ignorant are those who are ignorant. We had an entire group of these ignoramuses on display in Charlottesville (and sadly, some were on the left).</p>
<p>I wish more liberal politicians would use tweets like &#8220;Republican Logic&#8221; for short tv ads, newspaper ads, banner ads&#8230;hell, even billboards. Americans have been really dumbed down over the years (thanks Fox!); nowadays, a vast majority don&#8217;t have the attention span or interest to understand the intricate details of politics and policy (in other words, to understand &#8220;why?&#8221;). Republicans are great at manipulating the most complex issues into bumper stickers. The left&#8217;s arsenal of zingers is much richer (and more truthful) than the right&#8217;s, so let&#8217;s unleash them. It is time to start communicating our message faster, simpler and wider.</p>
<p>That &#8220;comic&#8221; (hard to call it that) of Bannon feeding Trump his BS was eerily disturbing. I think it is the particular artistic style I find unsettling and the rendering of Bannon.</p>
<p>And I can&#8217;t wait to try my first SLT sandwich! (Or perhaps DLT for &#8216;Dulce&#8217;.)</p>
<p>Thanks for your efforts Heather, much appreciated!</p>
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		By: Mark R.		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/picks-top-tweets-15-august-2017/#comment-16752&quot;&gt;Rosa Rubicondior&lt;/a&gt;.

It&#039;s futile to even hold the notion that this broken man will allow a leash of any sort from any one. People have been looking (hoping) for a &quot;re-set&quot; for almost 8 months now. Ain&#039;t gonna happen; in fact, evidence points towards the situation getting much worse.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.heatherhastie.com/picks-top-tweets-15-august-2017/#comment-16752">Rosa Rubicondior</a>.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s futile to even hold the notion that this broken man will allow a leash of any sort from any one. People have been looking (hoping) for a &#8220;re-set&#8221; for almost 8 months now. Ain&#8217;t gonna happen; in fact, evidence points towards the situation getting much worse.</p>
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		By: nwalsh		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/picks-top-tweets-15-august-2017/#comment-16747&quot;&gt;Heather Hastie&lt;/a&gt;.

Heather, elated that dogs getting their due here:)]]></description>
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<p>Heather, elated that dogs getting their due here:)</p>
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		By: Rosa Rubicondior		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I particularly liked the way Trump clung to his lectern and stared fixedly at his auto-cue, like a rabbit staring in terror at a cobra, afraid of making a wrong move.

At least it showed signs of a little less cocky over-confidence and maybe a developing self-awareness.  

It maybe though that someone has managed to get a leash on him at last.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I particularly liked the way Trump clung to his lectern and stared fixedly at his auto-cue, like a rabbit staring in terror at a cobra, afraid of making a wrong move.</p>
<p>At least it showed signs of a little less cocky over-confidence and maybe a developing self-awareness.  </p>
<p>It maybe though that someone has managed to get a leash on him at last.</p>
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		By: Heather Hastie		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Hastie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 01:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/picks-top-tweets-15-august-2017/#comment-16745&quot;&gt;Jerry Coyne&lt;/a&gt;.

I couldn&#039;t find any! It was very disappointing! :-( 

I think everyone was too busy posting about Charlottesville.

I&#039;ve found a cutie since though, so there&#039;s at least one tomorrow. Yay!]]></description>
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<p>I couldn&#8217;t find any! It was very disappointing! 🙁 </p>
<p>I think everyone was too busy posting about Charlottesville.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve found a cutie since though, so there&#8217;s at least one tomorrow. Yay!</p>
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		By: Jerry Coyne		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 01:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[No cat tweets?]]></description>
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