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Trump's Policies Part 5

selmaborntidefan said:
I will still guarantee you he doesn't REALLY know who Capone is or what he did. I mean, he didn't know what Pearl Harbor was for Pete's sake. Come to think of it, he probably HAS heard of Capone because he saw a movie in the 80s ("The Untouchables") where DiNiro played an excellent Capone, but I still bet his limits of knowledge on the subject are that Capone lived in Chicago, went to Alcatraz (I doubt he knows why), and beat a guy to death with a baseball bat (which there's no evidence it ever happened).

He reminds me of an SNL skit where - I think it was Charlton Heston - would go around reading Dr Seuss books as his new economic plan and there was a puppet master behind the whole thing. No, there's no puppet master here, I'm just saying he comes across as just riffing nonsense at the drop of a hat.
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Actually, the first time he mentioned him, he also mentioned the TV show where he had learned about him...
 
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I think there are some deeply-seated biases which have been posited as givens, and apparently accepted as such, which acceptance is not warranted. In the past, it's been found that attitudes towards same-sex unions and attitudes towards transgender acceptance track each other extremely closely, which makes sense. According to the Pew Research Center's research, acceptance of same sex unions went from 2-1 disapproval in 2004 to 2-1 approval in 2019. Think about that. Without getting into the weeds of which groups changed and by how much, two factors tended to weigh heavily in the 1/3 holdouts - age and religion. I know that if you'd asked me 30 years ago, when I was in my mid-50s, what I thought about same-sex unions, I know it would be far different from today. Of course, I had to face it in my own family. In the intervening years, I've learned that I can relate to someone as they present themselves, without my mind going to what their private sex life might be like. It just doesn't occur to me. Now are we to assume that kids from the South and Midwest are that put off by transgenderism? Sure, they tend to be more conservative, and that factors in also, although less important than age or religion. Is it enough to materially affect recruiting. I don't buy it, personally. I think there's a lot of projection going on...
 
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TIDE-HSV said:
Actually, the first time he mentioned him, he also mentioned the TV show where he had learned about him...
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Well then I stand corrected.

He's still not a deep thinker.

I mean, I watched "The Man From Atlantis" but was never dumb enough to try to swim underwater long-term without oxygen.
 
bamacpa said:
Yeah, I am just not buying the idea that Trump is smart. It's sad to me our society has allowed this grifter to rise to this level.
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He's not smart in the intellectual Einstein sense.

He is quite smart at channeling grievance. And while nobody wants to hear it, he was also smarter than Hillary Clinton at formulating a plan to win the Electoral College in 2016. As incoherent as he is about almost everything, his plan was basically the 1992 Clinton plan without the benefit of trying to expand the playing field. (Basically, he went with "we will win the Romney states and campaign only in those that he lost by less than 5 points").

But the guy is definitely not exactly Socrates.
 
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selmaborntidefan said:
He's not smart in the intellectual Einstein sense.

He is quite smart at channeling grievance. And while nobody wants to hear it, he was also smarter than Hillary Clinton at formulating a plan to win the Electoral College in 2016. As incoherent as he is about almost everything, his plan was basically the 1992 Clinton plan without the benefit of trying to expand the playing field. (Basically, he went with "we will win the Romney states and campaign only in those that he lost by less than 5 points").

But the guy is definitely not exactly Socrates.
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I tend to differentiate between "shrewd" and "smart." A lot of people who aren't smart in the general sense are very shrewd at taking care of #1...
 
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TIDE-HSV said:
I tend to differentiate between "shrewd" and "smart." A lot of people who aren't smart in the general sense are very shrewd at taking care of #1...
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I agree, but I tend to use the word “crafty” rather than shrewd. I’ve known people who can scam even the smartest of people, but couldn’t balance a checkbook to save their lives.
 
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CrimsonJazz said:
I agree, but I tend to use the word “crafty” rather than shrewd. I’ve known people who can scam even the smartest of people, but couldn’t balance a checkbook to save their lives.
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I think we're quibbling. Either descriptive would apply to the same type of person. It's a lay shortcut to psychopathic/narcissistic...
 
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The Digital Equity Act tried to close the digital divide. Trump targets it in his war on 'woke'

One program distributes laptops in rural Iowa. Another helped people get back online after Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina. Programs in Oregon and Alabama teach older people how to navigate in an increasingly digital world. Trump has announced his intention to end it all, saying the...
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The Digital Equity Act tried to close the digital divide. Trump targets it in his war on ‘woke’

One program distributes laptops in rural Iowa. Another helped people get back online after Hurricane Helene washed away computers and phones in western North Carolina. Programs in Oregon and rural Alabama teach older people, including some who have never touched a computer, how to navigate in an increasingly digital world.

It all came crashing down this month when President Donald Trump — on his own digital platform, Truth Social — announced his intention to end the Digital Equity Act, a federal grant program meant to help bridge the digital divide. He branded it as “RACIST and ILLEGAL” and said it amounts to “woke handouts based on race.” He said it was an “ILLEGAL $2.5 BILLION DOLLAR giveaway,” though the program was actually funded with $2.75 billion.
 
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Bamaro said:
The mis/uninformed helped
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So did nominating:
A) an opponent loathed by a good portion of the country (not just conservatives) for over 20 years
B) a nominee who was basically coronated as a cover for the cover up at the same time saying things like “he’s a threat to democracy and free elections” and “he’s lies but we tell the truth.”

The vast majority of the responsibility goes on the party that nominated him and the voters who voted for him, but the Democrats don’t get to pretend they are some sort of innocent victims here, either.
 
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