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4th July 2017, 08:46 PM | #201 |
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I guess the idea of getting doxxed isn't as amusing when someone finds themselves in the crosshairs.
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4th July 2017, 08:50 PM | #202 |
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If CNN can find the guy, others can, too.
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If he does get doxxed, he's about to learn the downside of trolling through use of particularly vile hot button material. In this case, other than the CNN/WWE vid, I guess it was mostly racist (I'm not familiar with the postings).
Some non-racists will accept his apology... many will not. Some racists though will decry him for selling out... many others will continue to claim him, perhaps tainting his real name going forward. Is he sincere? Is he not? Either way... his name, among at least some group he'd like to keep friendly with, is now Mudd. Well done dude... well done. |
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4th July 2017, 09:37 PM | #205 |
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You are correct. Obama gave speeches and made comments about everyone coming together, accepting all people of all religions and ethnicity, that we're all in this. He was called a divider by the right-wing.
Trump talks about everyone but white christians as less than, but the right-wing is quiet about the divisiveness of Trump. |
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1. He'd never do that. 2. Okay but he's not currently doing it. 3. Okay but he's not currently technically doing it. 4. Okay but everyone does it. 5. He's doing it, we can't stop him, no point in complaining about it. 6. We all knew he was going to do it which... makes it okay somehow. 7. It's perfectly fine that's he's doing it. |
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4th July 2017, 09:42 PM | #208 |
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"Divisiveness"? What the hell you been smoking? Large numbers of them have loudly and repeatedly stated that Trump has and is continuing to bring the country together. Didn't you get the memo? (Perhaps they mean factions of the GOPers were divided over just how evil Obama was, and now that strife is ended. ) |
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Saying "he isn't dumb" doesn't mean he's particularly smart either. He's smart enough to know he doesn't need to do more than he's already doing, watch TV and rant about it. He has about 40% of the electorate on his side who won't abandon him easily. He gets what he wants - mostly people cheering him - with minimal effort. That's many things, but it's not dumb. Dumb is assuming he's dumb because he's not doing a better job as a president, but that was never his goal - his goal was to be the most powerful and most important man on Earth, cheered by crowds, with the national anthem playing in his honor and his picture hanging in public offices and school and so on. Near as I can tell he achieved his goal perfectly. And he didn't even have to study or work particularly hard for it.
He gets what he wants with almost no effort. You can't call that dumb. Two in five Americans support him in his quest to be cheered at, which should be plenty to see him through his first term. His followers who can't see through him are dumb, down to the last one. The only support for him that isn't dumb is exposing the cancerous parts of the Republican party that pander to the retard vote. He's quite good in this regard, a sort of chemotherapy if you will. McHrozni |
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Now, why am I not surprised?!
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5th July 2017, 04:00 AM | #217 |
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Trump's 4,000 men "surge" in Afghanistan is certain to cost US lives. But given the lack of public interest, I doubt it will cost him votes.
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5th July 2017, 04:01 AM | #218 |
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Winning the presidential election in the US requires quite a bit more than just "a lot of capital", as Hillary found out to her (and our) determent. He was also capable enough to expand his substantial inheritance into true wealth, rather than just blowing it away as your would expect an actually stupid person to do.
Trump is many things that should disqualify him from office, but stupid isn't among them. I'd put him at around average overall intelligence, above average in some ways, below average in others. You don't call a person like that "stupid". To put it another way, he already proved he's smarter than 40% of US electorate (i.e. anyone who supports him), this alone puts him at average. McHrozni |
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Not really, he already poisoned both wells of how this could hurt him. If US forces get killed in action, then he will blame Obama for not doing more during his eight years in power, leaving the mess to him. If US suffers terrorist attacks he will blame the judges for blocking his travel bans. His followers will cheer for him even more and won't care if it's pointed out to them repeatedly the terrorist was homegrown and wouldn't be affected by the ban anyway.
If nothing of the sort happens he will take credit for any victories the mini surge will produce. In other words, he wins either way. Darat, that's not a behavior of a stupid person. Sinister and evil certainly, but not stupid. McHrozni |
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This week it all comes to a head. Qatar, North Korea, the G20 summit, the Trump/Putin meeting (that handshake is gonna be epic!), and other stuff I'd made mental notes about but can't recall right now.
I'm going to be at a 24/7 weekend event and it will be tough not to tune in to the news on my phone every hour or so. |
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5th July 2017, 04:24 AM | #223 |
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Oh sure, he's an ignorant narcissist, which makes him sound dumb.
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Average intelligence is defined as the middle 68% of test takers (1SD from mean), 16% are above average (and above to genius and beyond) and 16% are below average (stupid to retarded all the way down). Even if half of his remaining supporters support him for reasons other than doing a good job ("He's destroying the Republican party, whoohoo, I'll get elected for sure!") he's still well in average segment. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...roval-ratings/ (recovered July 5th, 2017). McHrozni |
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There was a Radiolab episode that took a look at people's vocabularies where they tracked the gradual decrease in vocabulary and related it to the onset of Alzheimer's. I believe it was done with nuns, but it's been a long time.
Of course, one may consciously "dumb down" one's vocabulary in an attempt to appeal to the common man. Intentionally avoiding big words, let's say. To repeat, I found his speaking spontaneously on "space" to be shocking in its vapidness. There really may be something wrong with the man - it would explain so much. edited to add: The podcast was from 2010 and titled "Vanishing Words". Worth a listen. http://www.radiolab.org/story/91960-vanishing-words/ |
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I doubt it's a medical condition. He's just a man of regular intelligence who never red much. A bad choice for a president, sure, but don't get your hopes up about it being caused by a medical condition which could be used in judgment of 25th amendment or something similar.
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Trump is 71 years old, doesn't exercise and eats badly. Even when ignoring his family's history of Alzheimer's, he's at higher risk of dementia than average Americans his age.
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Don't conflate the two, degeneration of mental faculties at that age is a normal process. It could also be a symptom of Alzheimers' of course. If so shall become apparent before his reelection campaign, if he ever gets that far.
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I think it's a positive. I mean, it could be a positive. I'm a very positive guy, and people keep telling me I'm very positive. So it could be a positive. No one thought I could win the election, but we did, and by the biggest margin of any election ever. Biggest inaugural crowd, they say. It was amazing. Just amazing!
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Try to match the no drama administration while you're at it.
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I think the Lyme Disease angle is a red herring, but George Bush seemed to degrade in front of our eyes as well:
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