Harvard University professor Lawrence Lessig offered a Clinton path to the presidency on Medium, putting forward a series of “if/then” scenarios that lead to House Speaker Paul Ryan handing the White House keys to Clinton…
Here’s how constitutional law expert Lessig lays it out:
If number 1: If Trump is definitively found to have colluded directly with Russia, he would be forced to resign or be impeached.
If number 2: If Trump is removed, Vice President Mike Pence would become president.
If number 3: If Pence becomes president, he should resign too, given that he benefited from the same help from Mother Russia.
If number 4: If Pence resigns before appointing a vice president, Ryan would become president.
If number 5: If Ryan becomes president, he should do the right thing and choose Clinton for vice president. Then he should resign.
Think about this. This guy teaches at Harvard. And he is this delusional.
Think about how his amygdala must be torturing him, to make him think this is a logical path that not only could happen, but which would bring the nation together again.
Your amygdala can positively weigh what you would like, just as if it were logically correct, and make it feel like it is right. The sensations are actually very similar, it is only context which separates them, and that can be blurred by emotion.
And the amygdala can do the opposite, making you think a reality must be wrong, because it is bad for you. I once got bad news, and thought there was a decent chance the news was wrong, so I spent some time looking for a way it might have been mistaken. If I was honestly chasing probabilities, I would never have done that, but the allure of finding it wrong was enough to drive me to look. If it had been good news, I realized afterward that I would not have spent time confirming it.
It wouldn’t be this extreme in you, but it can do it in anyone to slightly skew perceptions. Even doctors never diagnose and treat patients they love for this reason. In this case, the massive amygdala the God Emperor is inflicting on the left is causing a ridiculous example of it, but that is where you can learn to see the more subtle presentations. Focus on the example, and then look for the lesser examples we will all happen across each and every day.
Now, for an exercise, picture how this professor’s amygdala will process the certain death he faces when the Apocalypse hits.
Often there is comfort in getting bad news. You accept it, figure out how it impacts you and what you can do about it. And then you start doing that which needs doing. You begin to feel better at that point. Liberals are stuck with their pain, which is likely much worse for them. It does invoke pity though. Lessig is insane though. What he suggests would likely destroy the United States of America, and a great number of the people in it.
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Where does Hillary’s pardon fit in for her collusion with the Russians, is it before or after the Ryan step? Asking for a friend…
I’m dying to hear your take on the Canadian/American couple (Joshua Boyle, Caitlan Coleman) who were freed from a five year Taliban imprisonment. They are the ones who decided it’d be a great idea to go “backpacking” in Afghanistan, in a war zone, while the wife was seven months pregnant. The whole story is absolutely bizarre, but understandable from the r/K perspective, especially the part about how the husband said they had four kids during the imprisonment because “they’d always wanted a big family, and hey, they had free time and Cait’s biological clock was ticking…” He thought this was a good idea even after watching the wife get raped and one of the kids get killed (allegedly).
My response in one word – Horrified. But I should dig in on it for more. I just haven’t had time lately. I’ll try to take a look this weekend.