The Idiocracy of Donald J. Trump

[CMRivdogs]

  On 9/5/2024 at 1:52 AM, The Ronz said:

Not to belabor the point because I know it makes people upset but this is what Nazism, eugenics and "The Master Race" are all about.

Trump is implying that he comes from "good stock."

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But we know in reality every litter has its runt

[romad1]

Good point

[romad1]

I didn't know this detail

Knights of Malta is a weird group to be part of. 

[gehringer_2]

  On 9/6/2024 at 6:18 PM, romad1 said:

I didn't know this detail

Knights of Malta is a weird group to be part of. 

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LOL - The VFW logo is a Maltese Cross and in VFW installation rituals people march out (or at least use to back in the day) the pattern of the 'Cross of Malta'. I watched many of those as a kid and and only later as a adult wondered if any of the WWII guys had any idea who the Knights of Malta were. Probably not.

[chasfh]

 

[Tiger337]

  On 9/5/2024 at 1:45 AM, CMRivdogs said:

I don’t get this at all. It makes no sense. I have an uncle who was a plumber. That doesn’t mean I’m great at unstopping toilets

My dad was a landscaper, I’m great at killing plants

 

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My father was an artist.  I can't draw at all.  

[CMRivdogs]

  On 9/8/2024 at 2:44 AM, Tiger337 said:

My father was an artist.  I can't draw at all.  

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My dad did landscaping before it became the big business it is. I cannot tell one shrub from another. (There's a few I know, but don't expect me to design our back yard)

[CMRivdogs]

Not that it would make a difference to MAGA voters, but more of what we already knew about the pre-Apprentice days of DJT

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The first thing they noticed was the stench, a musty carpet odor that followed them like an invisible cloud. Then they spotted scores of chips in the finish of the wooden desks and credenzas. The décor felt long out of date, making the space seem like a time capsule from when Donald J. Trump opened the building early in his first rise to fame.

The place did not exactly buzz with energy either. Fewer than 50 people worked at Trump Organization headquarters in midtown Manhattan. At the office’s spiritual center, Mr. Trump’s own desk bore no evidence of work, no computer screens or piles of contracts and blueprints, just a blanket of news articles focused on one subject: himself.

“When you go into the office and you’re hearing ‘billionaire,’ even ‘recovering billionaire,’ you don’t expect to see chipped furniture, you don’t expect to smell carpet that needs to be refreshed in the worst, worst way,” recalled Bill Pruitt, one of the producers of the new NBC show.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/business/donald-trump-apprentice.html

[CMRivdogs]

I’ll stick with my Mickey Mouse watch, thank you. It is much less expensive and tells correct time

 

 

[CMRivdogs]

JVL on the Trump Watches. He estimates maybe about $20,000 worth of material and “craftsmanship” in the $100 thousand version 

Then there’s this

hellscape is ridiculous?

Trump, September 10, 2024: “People can’t go out and buy cereal or bacon or eggs or anything else. The people of our country are absolutely dying with what [Biden and Harris have] done. They’ve destroyed the economy.”

Trump September 26, 2024: “We’re doing quite a number with watches!”

[RatkoVarda]

people are looking at this wrong.

yes it's unseemly for a "billionaire" former POTUS to be hawking all this crap.

but the real issue is money laundering. $10M seems to be the going price for a bribe for Trump if Egypt report is correct. 

so pick any oligarch in the world; he "buys" 100 watches at 100K - that's $10M.

he does not even need the watches to be delivered. if they are, fine, throw them in the trash.

Trump is accepting payment in bitcoin which is key to evading taxes, sanctions and audit trail

[gehringer_2]

  On 9/27/2024 at 8:20 PM, RatkoVarda said:

people are looking at this wrong.

yes it's unseemly for a "billionaire" former POTUS to be hawking all this crap.

but the real issue is money laundering. $10M seems to be the going price for a bribe for Trump if Egypt report is correct. 

so pick any oligarch in the world; he "buys" 100 watches at 100K - that's $10M.

he does not even need the watches to be delivered. if they are, fine, throw them in the trash.

Trump is accepting payment in bitcoin which is key to evading taxes, sanctions and audit trail

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Bingo

[chasfh]

  On 9/27/2024 at 8:20 PM, RatkoVarda said:

people are looking at this wrong.

yes it's unseemly for a "billionaire" former POTUS to be hawking all this crap.

but the real issue is money laundering. $10M seems to be the going price for a bribe for Trump if Egypt report is correct. 

so pick any oligarch in the world; he "buys" 100 watches at 100K - that's $10M.

he does not even need the watches to be delivered. if they are, fine, throw them in the trash.

Trump is accepting payment in bitcoin which is key to evading taxes, sanctions and audit trail

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That’s exactly what that bimbo Trump crypto is all about

[Tigerbomb13]

BiDen hAs DImEnTiA

[chasfh]

  On 9/30/2024 at 4:28 PM, Tigerbomb13 said:

BiDen hAs DImEnTiA

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Most of the people voting for Trump are doing it primarily because he entertains them, which is why they don't recognize or care about his mental lapses: they think it's all part of the act.

They also don't care about the fascism—the part where the machinery of state crushes individuals—because they think it's going to crush the people they hate, and not themselves.

[smr-nj]

  On 9/30/2024 at 4:57 PM, chasfh said:

Most of the people voting for Trump are doing it primarily because he entertains them, which is why they don't recognize or care about his mental lapses: they think it's all part of the act.

They also don't care about the fascism—the part where the machinery of state crushes individuals—because they think it's going to crush the people they hate, and not themselves.

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Sorry, but I disagree. I think the bulk of the people who will vote for Trump are, whether through ignorance or self-import, in lock-step with his views on race, & policies both foreign & domestic.

Those attending his rallies are a small percentage of his actual voter base, and, yes , they’re all about the entertainment.

[chasfh]

  On 9/30/2024 at 9:12 PM, smr-nj said:

Sorry, but I disagree. I think the bulk of the people who will vote for Trump are, whether through ignorance or self-import, in lock-step with his views on race, & policies both foreign & domestic.

Those attending his rallies are a small percentage of his actual voter base, and, yes , their all about the entertainment.

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I think there are a lot of people as you describe, but I also think there are a lot of people who vote for him because everything they've seen about him makes him look tough and cool, and there are also a lot of people who vote for him because he's entertaining and makes them laugh, and there are still other swho vote for him because everyone they know are voting for him, and yet others vote for him because they are afraid of the outside world he is describing to them. I think people vote for him for all kinds of different reasons.

[Edman85]

  On 9/30/2024 at 9:50 PM, chasfh said:

I think there are a lot of people as you describe, but I also think there are a lot of people who vote for him because everything they've seen about him makes him look tough and cool, and there are also a lot of people who vote for him because he's entertaining and makes them laugh, and there are still other swho vote for him because everyone they know are voting for him, and yet others vote for him because they are afraid of the outside world he is describing to them. I think people vote for him for all kinds of different reasons.

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A lot of them are voting for him because of the R next to his name and they don't have time for the news.

[RatkoVarda]

it is hard not to be pessimistic about our future

 

[romad1]

 

So that we do not forget this in light of Trump claiming that there was no plan 

[Tiger337]

  On 9/30/2024 at 9:50 PM, chasfh said:

I think there are a lot of people as you describe, but I also think there are a lot of people who vote for him because everything they've seen about him makes him look tough and cool, and there are also a lot of people who vote for him because he's entertaining and makes them laugh, and there are still other swho vote for him because everyone they know are voting for him, and yet others vote for him because they are afraid of the outside world he is describing to them. I think people vote for him for all kinds of different reasons.

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I agree a lot of men like him because think he's tough.  In fact, I think a lot of men have traditionally voted Republican because they think the Republican ideal represents toughness and Trump takes that to a new level.  

[casimir]

  On 10/4/2024 at 3:09 AM, Tiger337 said:

I agree a lot of men like him because think he's tough.  In fact, I think a lot of men have traditionally voted Republican because they think the Republican ideal represents toughness and Trump takes that to a new level.  

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I guess I fail to see how loud, obnoxious, and usually wrong equates to tough, but OK.

[Tiger337]

  On 10/4/2024 at 10:57 AM, casimir said:

I guess I fail to see how loud, obnoxious, and usually wrong equates to tough, but OK.

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I don't either, but a LOT of people equate being loud and obnoxious with being tough when in reality that kind of behavior more likely is being used to cover weaknesses.  

[chasfh]

  On 10/4/2024 at 10:57 AM, casimir said:

I guess I fail to see how loud, obnoxious, and usually wrong equates to tough, but OK.

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I’ve long thought it’s a middle school version of tough that red hats never evolved from respecting.

[CMRivdogs]

Quite a potential haul for Benedict Trump