Pasayten's Methow Valley Bulletin Board

Im sorry to hear that's happening to you Jim! For the record I don't think your therapist has a chance with you no matter who's paying. Im happy it won't be me paying anymore asshole.

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Well…now that the BBB just passed, looks like someone is going to be paying more for their mental health counseling.
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I have to wonder how much better the world would be if we spiked someone's Diet Coke with Levodopa.

Note that the innumeracy and wildly exaggerated numbers might also be a sign of dysregulated higher brain function. Again possibly from low dopamine levels.

No worries Ken, Trump's ICE budget in his Big Beautiful Bill would be more than the Federal prison system gets right now in the US. It will be more than the amount of money that some countries even use for their military.

Trump plans on a massive takeover and then his pal Laura Loomer says she wants to feed 64 million immigrants to the alligators in the new Florida swamp prison....

I'm pretty sure it won't be long before we're all defined in Trump's head as 'immigrants'.

“The ideological brain is a brain that is cognitively rigid, emotionally dysregulated, physiologically less sensitive to injustice and injury, neurobiologically receptive to addictive rituals and binary categories.” In plain English, it differs negatively from the norm.

The insufficient supply of dopamine is most noticeable in the prefrontal cortex, where humans process intellectually. But it is also insufficient in the midbrain striatum, “where the (older) brain computes the consequences of actions.” This drought in both areas of the brain makes for a very different human. Such a dramatic finding should change the way everyone looks at the world.

How individuals position and label themselves is an important marker for the state of their brain. Further proof is well known in those who suffer a brain trauma incident: “Prefrontal brain injuries led to greater religious fundamentalism and radicalism.”

*** I'm reading the fascinating book "The Ideological Brain" by Leor Zmigrod. ***

Tell me if this sounds familiar to you:

It seems “liberal” children embraced and worked well with ambiguity, could retell a story accurately, and tell the difference between shades of the same color. Prejudiced children made up stories that had no relevance to the given story, and insisted that shades of color were in fact the same color. This helped them avoid uncertainty, according to Frenkel-Brunswik, and also “tearing loose from certain realities.” Frenkel-Brunswik concluded 80 years ago that “Totalitarianism tutors not only our conscious beliefs but also our unconscious patterns.”

Doesn't "ideology" apply to dems/'progressives'? Funny PAL you ONLY consider one POV "nasty"? Have you ever considered why?

I was wondering when 'ole Mr. Nasty would show up. Hey, the people voted for him. His platform is refreshing.

Ideology: a fixed and inflexible philosophy that drives a person’s whole life, despite all evidence against it and no matter how much it hurts others.

His own words and stated positions FAR outweigh politically driven puff pieces by known left wing rags with over the top TDS and know they are losing to 47. Even if this Marxist gets in at crazy New York he will fail (communism, Marxism and Anti-semitism always fail) and you will be left holding the bag just like Joe and the Ho made you just do.

Debunking all the bs about Mamdani
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... 235376681/
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/2 ... e-00416388

Im really not surprised you're a anti-semite and communist (al la Mam-knucklehead) it goes with the rest of your asshole personality! Good luck with that.

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Here’s how Mamdani - Mayoral candidate in NYC, has responded to Pee-Pants threats to deport him:
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