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This thread touches on FOX's programming style: "Similar to hiding a dog's medication in a peanut butter treat, society often needs its information embedded in entertainment, or stated inflammatorily by an “entertaining” Right Wing “Shock Jock”
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Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych
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This Trump rallygoer’s comments expose how the effect of the intersection of the “Firehose of Lies”, confirmation bias, and a neurotransmitter called Dopamine all combine to create what has become a potentially deadly cocktail of Trumpism. Let’s breakdown the comment:…1/
“We had a friend who died from Covid, and his son was on a ventilator, so we know it’s real but…”

What if “Covid” is replaced by “smoking” in this statement?:

“We had a friend who died from [smoking], his son was on a ventilator, so we know it’s real but [we still smoke]”. 2/
I’ve previously written about the role that the neurotransmitter, dopamine plays in Trumpism.

Dopamine is related to the “reward system” of the brain and is associated to the pleasurable experiences related to sex, cocaine, gambling,…..and smoking. 3/
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Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych
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Trump is not driven by principle/morality, his only sense of historical significance is to keep score against those who have wronged him, and his sole driving force is his own self-interest/preservation.....1/
This moral/psychological "deformity" results in contradictory, if not mutually exclusive comments/actions. This has occurred during the Covid pandemic as Trump repeatedly gives “mixed messages” that have caused avoidable death and economic destruction. 2/
During the "Great day/Looking down" speech, Trump not self-gratuitously talks about equality during a press conference where it is pointed out that black/Asian unemployment is increasing even against a backdrop of decreasing overall (white) employment rates…3/
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Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych
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The George Floyd death/protests are benefitting Trump b/c:

1. Trump's incompetence and self-interested role in Covid-related death/economic destruction is not the primary focus

2. 100,000's of previously socially distancing people are disregarding the danger of Covid, which..1/
....plays into the Trump's/Right's narrative that the "cure" is not only "worse than the problem".....but that the Left is now refusing to observe the "Freedom/Liberty" encroaching Covid "rules" that it is imposing on the Right....2/
....but any infections/deaths that occur as a result of protestors being in close proximity will most likely be people voting against Trump.

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