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Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

I mean, he's obviously a genius

I can't believe you are doubting me; I mean he's super rich and never failed at anything. Are you richer and more succsessful than Donald Trump? Then how can you say you're smarter than he is hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

(Note: this is the dumbest, worst argument Trump as smart and I HEARD A SELF-DESCRIBED SOCIALIST MAKE IT)

Listen, either he's a absolute moron, or else he's a 4 dimensional chess hyper genius, and clearly he has to be the latter, otherwise the media would be endlessly hanging on the worsts of an idiot, and that's clearly impossible. I'm a big name in media and I got here by being extremely hardworking, not hot or anything. The world is a meritocracy, and therefore the people above us should be venerated and worshiped

I mean if the four dimensional chess thing wasn't true, than Time Magazine just did a story on a guy who looks like a hobo and has views on race so loving stupid our grandparents would have spit on him, and that view is just unacceptable to me

Make the worst arguments that Trump is a genius and has not casually betrayed his own political base ITT

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VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

Transform
and
Freak Out



trump is superman, but the reagan superman from the land of confusion video

1994 Toyota Celica
Sep 11, 2008

by Nyc_Tattoo
'e's fuckin knackered

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

he's an incredible dipshit but he's a confident liar and he's rich so he can get away with basically anything

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

his political acumen is superhuman, relative to a human 2 year old

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
trump's an unremarkable rear end in a top hat but he was born with enough money to become a great man of history hope that helps

Lindsey O. Graham
Dec 31, 2016

"We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term."

- The Chief
neither

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
actually, he's a normal bloke. nigel farage says so.

go ask putin and he'll tell you the same thing.

Pooky
Aug 29, 2004

I post fox news so u don't have to 💋
You know when people go on cooking shows and make a 'deconstructed' dish, but it's just a weird version of the original? That's Trump. He's making deconstructed democracy, and serving it up to the public.

All hail the god emperor.

Lindsey O. Graham
Dec 31, 2016

"We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term."

- The Chief
billions will make you made of teflon, and what trump does, as such, is actually a skill

he was trained by his father, and later on roy cohn on how to rally a crowd around racism, theatrics, the con game, pt barnum mannerisms and the like

you could say he is a trained con man with an astute legal mind, and the preternatural ability to control the media conversation as well as pander to people's lower instincts

he also walks away from nothing, lets go of nothing, and forgets nothing, unless of course it suits him

he lies about everything until lies and fact are equally meaningless, and he has a nose for branding and self promotion,
he is good at attaining money and power, but for him its easy come and easy go, because at the end of the day, he is really a crook, and thats how he makes money in addition, to how he gains his power
he doesnt really know how to do anything else since he never really learned anything else
he went to a military boarding school, then later on, the wharton school of business where he probably learned how to direct rather than how to actually do anything

he knew little about business and real estate, because his pool of knowledge was mostly on being a confidence man, an aggressive litigator, and a branded buffoon

later he learned about marketing, media, and the art of keeping the masses' attention fixed upon him, on reality tv where they mostly use the creation of conflict to boost ratings

cohn probably taught him how to throw more poo poo, so that whenever the public starts talking about any one thing for too long the topic changes, so that nothing sticks

he was trained by an attorney, and before that a fledgling demagogue (his father who tried to run for mayor), and finally came to maturity on reality tv where he learned to drum up media attention and to keep it trained on him

he is also cruel, controlling, and devious, as well as ever willing to take on more and more risk

he is a genius, of a sort, he is an idiot savante if you will
he has learned to manipulate a large segment of the human populace in order to attain power
the problem is he doesn't have the skill to maintain public favor, by building respect, through beneficial action

this is primarily because by trade, he is a confidence man, real estate agent, and tv host
he would be more comfortable in la or nyc than in washington, but he is a compromised russian puppet who won primarily on what people dont know about politics

is it any wonder then, that he appears to have no idea what he is doing?

Lindsey O. Graham has issued a correction as of 08:48 on Apr 8, 2017

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

Good post, Mr. Graham, thank you

I just leader a bit about Roy Cohen. I'm amazed that somebody who was gay could be so hard right

My take is that Trump is Mayor Ford

Rob Ford was a buffoonish councilman in the city of Toronto who got elected mayor. He got elected to end the extravagant waste of the previous administration, David Miller. He knew there was extravagant waste because the previous mayor was leftish and the Sun newspapers told him so.

Once in office, he discovers that the newspapers were wrong; Miller actually ran a tight ship. (How a councilman believed the goddamn sun over his own experiences is just mind-blowing.) Anyway, to the people who elected him he had made a poo poo-ton of promises he couldn't actually fulfill. So now, the only thing he can do is prove his worth by picking at Toronto by removing bike lanes and poo poo. The drugs soon followed

Anyway, Trump only knows what his beloved cable news tells him, which is fear and hate. Aside from that, he's entirely ignorant, which on top of everything else is a hell of a argument to stay away from cable news

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010
trump is really good at a couple of things and complete garbage at everything else

those couple of things are basically the only things a rich white guy needs, though

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

I mean he has to be a genius, considering he won an election with the horrible handicap of the candidate being donald trump.

Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Montasque posted:

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

what if all the dunces are in his cabinet

Khym
Jun 11, 2002
he's fat lol

Lindsey O. Graham
Dec 31, 2016

"We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term."

- The Chief

Nebakenezzer posted:

Good post, Mr. Graham, thank you

I just leader a bit about Roy Cohen. I'm amazed that somebody who was gay could be so hard right

My take is that Trump is Mayor Ford

Rob Ford was a buffoonish councilman in the city of Toronto who got elected mayor. He got elected to end the extravagant waste of the previous administration, David Miller. He knew there was extravagant waste because the previous mayor was leftish and the Sun newspapers told him so.

Once in office, he discovers that the newspapers were wrong; Miller actually ran a tight ship. (How a councilman believed the goddamn sun over his own experiences is just mind-blowing.) Anyway, to the people who elected him he had made a poo poo-ton of promises he couldn't actually fulfill. So now, the only thing he can do is prove his worth by picking at Toronto by removing bike lanes and poo poo. The drugs soon followed

Anyway, Trump only knows what his beloved cable news tells him, which is fear and hate. Aside from that, he's entirely ignorant, which on top of everything else is a hell of a argument to stay away from cable news

:agreed:

cable news and twitter may have simultaneously ended human progress, of that im certain

Percelus
Sep 9, 2012

My command, your wish is

Fallen Hamprince posted:

his political acumen is superhuman, relative to a human 2 year old

idk about that, i imagine the 2 year old would leave a better impression with world leaders they met

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

zeal posted:

'e's fuckin knackered

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Lindsey O. Graham
Dec 31, 2016

"We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term."

- The Chief

if i were to put it in real world terms, i'd say you're correct
however, on what is he knackered given supposedly he doesn't drink?

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