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Schools that get to select their students do well.    one reason public schools always score worse than private is because they have to take every student.  Many students have disabilities acro

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He has immunity though so it’s all good. 

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Deep-seated fears of a Trump autocracy have led me to this path.  It started when I first saw him in a debate in 2015 and I thought "nobody could be this stupid and still have so many people cheering

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  On 3/11/2024 at 2:02 PM, Mr.TaterSalad said:

That line at the beginning where he talks about cutting entitlements should be in ad after ad. The Republicans want to cut your Social Security and Medicare seems a very effective argument for Democrats.

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One of the largest balancing acts for Biden in this campaign is hitting on the freedom side of his message while still speaking to middle class economics (which he did a pretty good job of in his SOTU, imo).

Gifts like this from Trump will help a lot.... but even aside from that takeaway, it's striking how Trump seems even less coherent than in the past, which is saying something. A whole lot of words that make absolutely no sense when you read them aloud.

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  On 3/11/2024 at 2:05 PM, mtutiger said:

One of the largest balancing acts for Biden in this campaign is hitting on the freedom side of his message while still speaking to middle class economics (which he did a pretty good job of in his SOTU, imo).

Gifts like this from Trump will help a lot.... but even aside from that takeaway, it's striking how Trump seems even less coherent than in the past, which is saying something. A whole lot of words that make absolutely no sense when you read them aloud.

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I'm convinced in addition to cognitive decline, that Trump is not surrounded by the same people as in 2016 and it's showing. He had some competent campaign people in 2016. They have been purged for sycophants and it shows. It was always about himself, but he could stay on message and offer simple solutions to the rubes like a wall. Now he just rants about how he's being treated so unfairly. He's also attacking people he needs like Haley supporters. In 2016 he at least attempted to even persuade Sanders supporters. It's almost like he radicalized himself.   

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  On 3/11/2024 at 2:13 PM, Motown Bombers said:

I'm convinced in addition to cognitive decline, that Trump is not surrounded by the same people as in 2016 and it's showing. He had some competent campaign people in 2016. They have been purged for sycophants and it shows. It was always about himself, but he could stay on message and offer simple solutions to the rubes like a wall. Now he just rants about how he's being treated so unfairly. He's also attacking people he needs like Haley supporters. In 2016 he at least attempted to even persuade Sanders supporters. It's almost like he radicalized himself.   

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A lot of this evolution starts from the basic fact that he has never acknowledged that he lost in 2020.... why would the messaging change if you're convinced that you actually won and it was all stolen from you? Why would you think you need Haley voters if you're busy convincing yourself that all of those voters are "all Democrats"?

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Hard to see how Trump can win once he has expelled all the RINOs from the party. 

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Problem is a good number of those RINO's will still vote for him because Biden's old or Kamala or something...

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Trump’s niece Mary Trump who has a PhD in Clinical Psychology has always maintained that he has an “undiagnosed learning disability.”

Trump’s sister, also named Mary Trump, said “he doesn’t read.” She didn’t say he couldn’t read just that he doesn't.

Unlike someone else who is always mentioned as having “dementia” Trump may actually have untreated cognitive issue.

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“Learning disability” was the catch-all phrase they used to apply to kids 50 or 60 years ago when they wanted to justify pulling us out of regular school and putting us on the short bus to special ed. 

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I'd say he's probably dyslexic but is too macho/embarassed to say so and deal with it and instead operates under the belief reading is beneath him, he'll just do the big things and leave the details to others.

 

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  On 3/11/2024 at 4:58 PM, CMRivdogs said:

It was also an era when incorrigible young males were sent to military schools if the parents could afford it. Fork Union was a popular place in our juristiction.

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Who is it that is running for President that attended a military school?

 

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  On 3/11/2024 at 5:01 PM, oblong said:

I'd say he's probably dyslexic but is too macho/embarassed to say so and deal with it and instead operates under the belief reading is beneath him, he'll just do the big things and leave the details to others.

 

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Barron was reputed to be.  

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I'm really curious which thread the Chubb underwriting the E.Jean Carroll bond should go in.   

Is this a Vladdi thread thing?  

is this a new thread for specific Trump kleptocracy "How Krooked is Now?"  (riffing off the Smith's song "how soon is now")

 

 

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  On 3/11/2024 at 4:38 PM, The Ronz said:

Trump’s niece Mary Trump who has a PhD in Clinical Psychology has always maintained that he has an “undiagnosed learning disability.”

Trump’s sister, also named Mary Trump, said “he doesn’t read.” She didn’t say he couldn’t read just that he doesn't.

Unlike someone else who is always mentioned as having “dementia” Trump may actually have untreated cognitive issue.

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Scaramucci said he thinks Trump is smart about some things, but that he has a learning disability that holds him back and that he is insecure about it.  

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In terms of Trump's capacity, the thing that has always been striking to me isn't his intelligence, it's his complete and total lack of empathy. 

He's clearly older and more forgetful now (and, who knows, may have some issues that we don't know about), but even when he was younger, the guy has always just come across like a deeply sociopathic and broken individual.

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