More and more recently, I find myself needing to clarify between "stupid" as a simple insult, and "stupid" as actual low intelligence.
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And him even having a chance at being in that office is a product of a lot American stupidity...but I'm told that we should not blame the voters that voted for this idiot, but blame the Democratic Party for some fucking reason.
The war with iran hasn't been stupid for the Cheeto, it's been a great distraction from the Epstein files
Let's not muddy the waters. "Trump's War With Iran Is a Product of Distracting from the Trump/Epstein Files to Protect Himself and the International Rapist Cabal". His deep stupidity was there all along.
New York writer Fran Leibowitz put it best.
"You don't know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don't."
Disagree. The guy's actually quite media savvy and (somehow) understands how to tap into working class resentment.
(Never mind that people like him fucking regular folks over for decades are the reason the working class is resentful)
He bankrupted two casinos.
All he did in 2016 was say out loud what Nixon, Reagan, and the Bush family said quietly.
He’s playing on easy mode. Conservatives are so easy to fool, and he has a huge media system designed to control their thoughts through the most embarrassingly simple kinds of manipulation imaginable. He works for them as a loud, obnoxious figurehead so that everyone else can contimue to be evil like they’ve a been for many decades.
Literally any of his supporters. The only thing more stupid than being stupid is blindly trusting the dumbest person on the planet.
It's quite the canundrum. Millions of people are tied for dumbest.
In my high school there were always a few senior boys who would make life terrible for everyone. Not just the younger kids, they'd go after the staff as well.
I figured it out eventually. These guys knew that once they graduated their lives were over. They had no skills, no connections, and zero opportunities for advancement. They could get the same jobs as their Dads, or join the military.
This is the mentality of a Trump voter. Their lives suck, so they'll bring everyone else down.
Donald Trump Was the Dumbest Goddam Student I Ever Had.
-Professor William T. Kelley, Wharton School of Business and Finance
"That's like, so relatable"
- Voters in the USA
Not once but twice. 🤦♀️
I, Donald Trump, would like to inform you all of the TRUE reason for the operation in Iran - we need to liberate the TrumpWater™ they stole from me!
The Department of Health has discovered a brand new compound called TrumpWater™ shortly after the start of my second term. All you need to do is breathe it in, and you'll be fully hydrated! And Iran is hiding the stuff on their oil rigs! They have some fancy equipment to detect TrumpWater™, so we need to take that too!
The RADICAL LEFT keeps calling TrumpWater™ dangerous, but they're all lying! Like Sleepy Joe! Oxygen likes to set things on fire, so I, Donald Trump, had the oxygen in water replaced for your safety! I had it replaced with clean, pure SULFUR! Iran knows how good TrumpWater™ is, so that's why they're hiding TrumpWater™ on their oil rigs! From both me and the RADICAL LEFT!
Get your bottle of TrumpWater™ today!
Until then, if you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a rake—forever.
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Trump thought that under massive bombing Iran would surrender. He also thought Iranians would start massive protests against the regime. He envisioned the US involved in producing Iranian oil and making a profit, similar to Venezuela. The problem is Iran is far from the US and Russia and China can exert greater influence.
Fuck Trump on this. It's an issue that everyone else is going with this shit.
Every time this outlet publishes an article about him, I become temporarily hopeful that TNR stands for trap, neuter, release.