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		<title>Donald Trump vs. Vasco da Gama: A Meditation on Ignorance and Hot Explorers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Pierce]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upon perusing Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind recently, a Gabbler member came across the idea that the admission of ignorance (the very foundation of the scientific method!) and the subsequent search for answers is what led to modern day science, exploration, technology, and just pretty much all the great things about human intelligence that [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Upon perusing </em>Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind <em>recently, a Gabbler member came across the idea that the admission of ignorance (the very foundation of the scientific method!) and the subsequent search for answers is what led to modern day science, exploration, technology, and just pretty much all the great things about human intelligence that we take for granted. This idea struck </em>The Gabbler <em>as strange, since the absolute last thing anyone wants to do in 2015, especially on the internet or in politics, is admit that they don’t know everything about anything ever. So to get to the bottom of this difference, we’ve asked a modern-day political candidate, Donald Trump, and renowned explorer Vasco da Gama (who was absolutely unashamed to admit that he had no idea how to get to India via a sea route) to sit down with us.</em></p>
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<p><strong>The Gabbler: </strong>First of all, thank you so, so much for being here today! It’s really such an honor to meet someone so important to the history of mankind. I’m just kind of floored to be in the same room with you, to be honest.</p>
<p><strong>Donald Trump: </strong>I tend to have that effect on people.</p>
<p><strong>TG: </strong>…I was talking to Vasco da Gama, actually. Not that your work on <em>The Apprentice</em> wasn’t illuminating Mr. Trump. I mean, it was no sea route to India, opening Portugal up to trade with India without going through the Mediterranean or the Arabian Peninsula, but Bethenny Frankel sure is making her mark on the Bravo network. All thanks to the start you gave her!</p>
<p><strong>DT: </strong>Actually Bethenny was on the Martha Stewart season.</p>
<p><strong>TG: </strong>Right. But please, Donald, can I call you Donald? Why don’t you let Vasco speak for a second? Or at least move so I can stare deep into those beautiful brown eyes. Oh what they must have seen!</p>
<p><strong>Vasco da Gama: </strong>Why thank you, Senhorita. Your eyes, too, are endless pools of understanding and curiosity.</p>
<p><strong>DT: </strong>What does that even mean?! Listen, with all due respect lady, your eyes are putrid pools of liberal brainwashing. Let’s get to the real important topic: making America great again.</p>
<p><strong>TG: </strong>Well, actually we’re here to talk about something else: ignorance. Vasco, how do you feel ignorance has helped you in your life?</p>
<p><strong>VdG: </strong>Ignorance was the beginning of everything Senhorita. I did not know that there was a traversable sea route to India, so I left my home and travelled far, through treacherous waters, around the Cape of Good Hope, risking my life and the lives of my men to find the answer, to find the one route that would not result in total wreckage. And before now I was ignorant to what true beauty was. But I discovered it as soon as I saw your face.</p>
<p><strong>TG: </strong>Oh, Vasco, please! I’m blushing!</p>
<p><strong>DT: </strong>So you’re telling me that all this schmuck did was find the way to get to India? I can do that. Step one: get on my private jet. Step two: Tell them to take me to India. Done.</p>
<p><strong>TG: </strong>Well, yeah, but he was the FIRST to do it. Because he admitted that he didn’t know the answer so he went out and sought it. What was the last time you had to go out in search of answer?</p>
<p><strong>DT: </strong>Never. You wanna know why? I was born with the answers. They’re all up here, beneath my full head of hair. Trump see all, hears all, knows all.</p>
<p><strong>TG: </strong>But isn’t that kind of the point? If all of human knowledge fits inside of Donald Trump’s brain, aren’t we done moving forward?</p>
<p><strong>DT: </strong>Well we better start moving forward, toward the Reagan era, now that Obama’s been moving us backwards toward socialism. Time to make America great again!</p>
<p><strong>VdG: </strong>If I may, Senhorita, isn’t the first step to knowing admitting that you do not know? Is life not an endless exploration, a search for the answers to our most profound, and most even most petty, questions? Without questions, what are we, but apes trumpeting our own greatness to the troop?</p>
<p><strong>DT: </strong>Did you just call me an ape? With a mug like that, you should look in the mirror before you start throwing stones. Glass houses and all.</p>
<p><strong>TG: </strong>And I don’t think someone with hair as disastrous as yours should criticize a man with such a gorgeous, flowing beard, Donald. Anyway, let’s get on to something more important. What’s it like to really, truly alter the course of human history?</p>
<p><strong>DT: </strong>It’s truly humbling. But the economic enterprises I’ve built are nothing compared to what I’ll do as president!</p>
<p><strong>TG: </strong>Yeah, I was talking to Vasco again.</p>
<p><strong>VdG: </strong>Oh, I would not say that I’ve changed the course of anything, Senhorita. I am but one man on the endless search for knowledge.</p>
<p><strong>DT: </strong>Well I don’t need to search for what I already have.</p>
<p><strong>TG: </strong>Really? And since you know so much, how DO you get to India from Portugal by sea?</p>
<p><strong>DT: </strong>I told you: you jump on Trump Air and cruise in style. But I guess if you’re going to be real insistent about this whole “sea route” thing, then we can hop on my yacht. Captain Pete will get us there.</p>
<p><strong>VdG: </strong>You must stick close to the coast of Africa the whole way, of course.</p>
<p><strong>DT: </strong>AFRICA?! I’m not a big fan of that country-bunch of whiny freeloaders if you ask me.</p>
<p><strong>TG: </strong>Well that was wrong and offensive on a few levels. Perhaps it’s time that we end the interview, so Vasco and I can go check out that new wine bar they just opened up down the street from my <em>completely-empty-because-my-roommate’s-gone-for-the-weekend</em> apartment.</p>
<p><strong>VdG: </strong>I would love to, bela.</p>
<p><strong>DT: </strong>God, I should have known a lib like you would be kind of slutty. How about I come along and show YOU how to be great again, huh?</p>
<p><strong>TG: </strong>Well on that note, I’ll leave it to readers who they’d rather be: the proudly ignorant and insatiably curious and incurably handsome Vasco da Gama, or the “knowledgeable” Donald Trump. Come on Vasco, let’s blow this popsicle stand.</p>
<p><strong>DT: </strong>Whatever. You’re ugly, anyway.</p>
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		<title>Elizabeth Warren Cast as the “Real” Wonder Woman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2015 12:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lisa]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After what many Americans thought to be a surefire casting of Hilary Clinton as America’s next Wonder Woman, Elizabeth Warren is now quickly replacing Clinton as a fan favorite, especially after her crazy-sexy speech to save Planned Parenthood a few weeks ago, and of course, the fact that she simply doesn&#8217;t want the job. With Wonder Woman set to come out [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After what many Americans thought to be a surefire casting of Hilary Clinton as America’s next Wonder Woman, Elizabeth Warren is now quickly replacing Clinton as a fan favorite, especially after her <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/elizabeth-warren-defends-planned-parenthood-498171459701">crazy-sexy speech to save Planned Parenthood</a> a few weeks ago, and of course, the fact that she simply doesn&#8217;t want the job.</p>
<p>With Wonder Woman <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451279/">set to come out in 2017</a>, and the new Super Girl series<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4016454/"> out in a few weeks</a>, Hollywood producers and US voters alike are trying to find the woman who truly embodies what it means to be America’s Wonder Woman.</p>
<p>Clinton was originally thought to be perfectly cast for the role. After being First Lady and Senator of New York after that, Clinton rose to fame quickly with her run in 2008, her power suits and bad ass attitude as Secretary of State, and her advocacy for women’s rights worldwide.</p>
<p>But does she really fit the part? As the presidential election heats up, Americans are wondering just that, particularly after <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/25/politics/clinton-testify-benghazi-committee/">Benghazi</a>, her <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/clintonemail-batch4-213164">secret emails</a>, and all the other shady Clinton dealings that are starting to seem more villainous than superhero lady-like.</p>
<p>In fact, Bernie Sanders seems more like a heroine these days than Clinton (And is it just us, or would he kill it in a red bodysuit?), and even the casting of Donald Trump as Republican party saboteur isn’t doing nearly enough damage to make Clinton look good enough to be a shoo-in.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Warren has publicly stated that she’s not running for president in 2016, <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/elizabeth-warren-gives-strongest-denial-presidential-run-yet">again</a> and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sorry-but-shes-not-running-elizabeth-warren-that-is/2015/04/12/61c7ef84-e14a-11e4-905f-cc896d379a32_story.html">again</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/02/elizabeth-warren-run-warren-run_n_7489602.html">again</a> and <a href="http://www.masslive.com/news/boston/index.ssf/2015/08/sen_elizabeth_warren_coy_on_wh.html">again</a>. She doesn&#8217;t want the power, which is why Americans are seeing her as &#8220;that much cooler,&#8221; according to a recent poll.</p>
<p>Director Chris Nolan also thinks she’s perfect for the role. “Warren’s the hero Gotham &#8211; <em>I mean, America </em>- deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we&#8217;ll hunt her. Because she can take it. Because she&#8217;s not our hero. She&#8217;s a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A WONDER WOMAN.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Jeb Bush Is Definitely Running for President. Here&#8217;s Why.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2015 23:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Pierce]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Memorial Day 2015 is over and that means only one thing: the November 2016 presidential election is basically here. Some claim that all candidates haven’t even announced themselves and that the official primary season doesn’t begin until the end of the year. But candidates are already crawling out of the woodwork and making their intentions known. [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Memorial Day 2015 is over and that means only one thing: the November 2016 presidential election is basically here. Some claim that all candidates haven’t even announced themselves and that the official primary season doesn’t begin until the end of the year. But candidates are already crawling out of the woodwork and making their intentions known. Just last month, former Florida governor <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/05/13/for-half-a-sentence-bush-is-an-official-2016-candidate">Jeb Bush declared his plans to run for half of a sentence before artfully backtracking</a>. We at </em>The Gabbler<em> have since been carefully watching Bush’s movements, and through the latest technology (and some good old-fashioned in-person stalking), we were able to determine without a doubt that he plans on running. Below is a list of Jeb Bush’s latest actions, which prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he will announce his candidacy soon.</em></p>
<p>-Went to the dry cleaner (preparing suits for announcement rally?)</p>
<p>-Had Sunday dinner with not one but TWO former presidents (Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush)</p>
<p>-Purchased a diet cookbook at the local bookstore (losing weight to look good in debates?)</p>
<p>-Chatted at length with bookstore salesgirl about local economy (trying to look &#8220;folksy&#8221; and &#8220;down-to-earth&#8221;)</p>
<p>-Went for a brisk walk with wife, forced her to use small hand weights the whole time (attempt to get “Michelle arms”)</p>
<p>-Attempted to kiss baby and puppy at ice cream shop (photo op, anyone?)</p>
<p>-As if that&#8217;s not evidence ENOUGH, quick hack of his personal computer also showed the following searches:</p>
<ul>
<li>what is pinterest</li>
<li>will pinterest help me get the youth vote</li>
<li>will instagram help me get the youth vote</li>
<li>how to win elections with the twitter</li>
<li>do ladies really care that much about abortions</li>
<li>how to relate to youths</li>
<li>dramatic political slogan ideas</li>
<li>low fat slow cooker chili recipes</li>
<li>what dog do american voters like the most</li>
<li>hillary clinton pantsuit designer</li>
</ul>
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