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12th April 2017, 09:49 PM | #1 |
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Trump: learn while you earn
Isn't the USA a wonderful country? Even a completely ignorant person can be elected to the Presidency with no experience and no knowledge and learn on the job! So I thought I would start this thread by listing just a few of the things that Trump has learned in just the past 100 days:
1. Health insurance is complicated! 2. Russia is probably not our best friend! 3. al-Assad is not a nice person! 4. Fanatically crazy right-wing white-supremists are not ideal National Security Council members! 5. It would be a bad idea to declare China to be a currency manipulator! 6. NATO is not obsolete! I stopped at six for now just because I am soon to head to bed. Not because I've run out of additional examples where Trump has discovered facts in the past few weeks that everyone else knew for their entire lives. Of course there will be some posters who will declare how wonderful it is that Trump is willing to reconsider his positions. Well, my own expectations for a President of the USA are that they should BEGIN with some basic knowledge, rather than having to learn the fundamentals of the job by making mistake after mistake that place the USA and the world at risk. |
12th April 2017, 09:50 PM | #2 |
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Who would have thunk that Donald Trump has no idea what he is doing?
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12th April 2017, 09:53 PM | #3 |
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It's the new version of "The Apprentice." With Trump as the title character!
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13th April 2017, 04:47 AM | #4 |
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I'm hoping 7. will be a Very Special Episode where he learns what happens when you mix bleach and ammonia.
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13th April 2017, 05:11 AM | #5 |
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Hey, another masterclass for our hero:
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By his second term he may learn what the Federal Reserve does. |
13th April 2017, 05:27 AM | #6 |
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13th April 2017, 05:33 AM | #8 |
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I also enjoy that the "America First" guy is learning about foreign policy matters from other countries with their own agenda.
"China just told me that Tibet and Taiwan are theirs. I had no idea. All those monks trying to steal land from China, SAD!" "Hey, I just got done talking to Hitler. He told me the Sudetenland was all German, anyway. Totally cool that he annexed it." |
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13th April 2017, 05:40 AM | #11 |
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13th April 2017, 05:47 AM | #12 |
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Well, I suppose if you, like Trump, believed the relationship between China and North Korea was Employer-Employee, then the revelation would be some sort of weakening.
"What do you mean? I told China they should fire North Korea. They can't do that? Whoa, this is way more complicated than I thought." |
13th April 2017, 06:25 AM | #13 |
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7. Building a wall take some time and cost the US taxpayers money and a few taxpayers their land.
8. Golfing at every opportunity while president is not such a bad thing. |
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15th April 2017, 04:49 PM | #18 |
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Bumping the thread only because the NY Times just came out with a good list:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/15/o...nvictions.html |
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15th April 2017, 06:08 PM | #21 |
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Guys, you know I went to some effort to resurrect a general Trump thread for the last few posts here....
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9. Lincoln was a republican.
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16th April 2017, 01:27 PM | #29 |
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Jesus is going to be so disappointed.
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21st April 2017, 08:40 PM | #31 |
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Just want to circle back to this.
Our doofus in chief managed to ignite a bit of an international incident with South Korea (this seems like maybe the wrong time to piss off South Korea?): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000009 He said that Korea used to be "part of China." So, after his 10 minute history lesson with the president of China, Trump starts spouting Chinese propaganda. In-***********-credible. It's kind of a problem when your president doesn't know anything and can effortlessly be swayed by invested parties. He doesn't even know that what he said was deeply troubling to our ally. He just had a 10 minute conversation and thinks he knows how the world works. Just amazing. |
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Korea was part of Japan from 1910 to 1945. Perhaps Trump would like to give it back to them as well?
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24th April 2017, 10:11 AM | #33 |
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Another lesson for our truly tremendous president:
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