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Posts by Joseph R. Biden Jr, 46th President of the United States of America
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2021-06-24 at 9:22 PM UTC in Biden has a message for you MAGA Oath Taker TypesDeep Pinus
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2021-04-09 at 4:09 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Get off that bus edition
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2021-04-09 at 3:26 PM UTC in What are you doing at the momentWood is gay
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2021-04-08 at 2:07 PM UTC in anime is gayNOODLES
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2021-04-08 at 2:01 PM UTC in Video by a faggot
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2021-04-08 at 4:46 AM UTC in anime is gay
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2021-04-08 at 2:52 AM UTC in anime is gay
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2021-04-08 at 1:09 AM UTC in Video by a faggotWow he's faggy looking, looks like Bill Krozby
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2021-04-07 at 11:59 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....
Originally posted by mmQ I was looking forward to playing video game all day today but NOOOOooooOoo. I have to redownload multiplayer pack 2 which takes 5 FAGGOT hours.
So. I'm going to go buy 8 pounders, and spend the day playing online spades, posting here, giving Hildegard spankings, and fucking off in general.
Please and thanks.
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2021-04-07 at 3:15 PM UTC in The Odroid Go
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2021-04-07 at 3:15 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....I had a volcano too but the pump system got fucked up with some red shit.
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2021-04-07 at 1:31 PM UTC in Stimulus checks
Originally posted by Bill Krozby its really funny how he always has to lay out his "vhs tapes i bought at the library guise" or hey look at my smelly bed room for the 5th time..
its like an annoying 4 year old shoving his new choo choo train in your face as if you give a damn
but anyways I bought some much needed new shoes and did laundry so far with jiden bucks
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2021-04-07 at 1:38 AM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Get off that bus editionI've been using xans
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2021-04-07 at 1:38 AM UTC in The Odroid Go
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2021-04-07 at 12:15 AM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Get off that bus edition
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2021-04-06 at 10:38 PM UTC in The Odroid Go
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2021-04-06 at 9:42 PM UTC in Stimulus checksI'm not poor enough to get one
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2021-04-06 at 9:41 PM UTC in The Odroid GoWanted to play some classic NES/SNES/GBA games etc
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2021-04-06 at 7:37 PM UTC in Why are most of you so stupid?
Originally posted by stl1 headshot
Robert Reich
Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; author, ‘Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few’’
Seriously, How Dumb Is Trump?
For more than a year now, I’ve been hearing from people in the inner circles of official Washington – GOP lobbyists, Republican pundits, even a few Republican members of Congress – that Donald Trump is remarkably stupid.
I figured they couldn’t be right because really stupid people don’t become presidents of the United States. Even George W. Bush was smart enough to hire smart people to run his campaign and then his White House.
Several months back when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a “f—king moron,” I discounted it. I know firsthand how frustrating it can be to serve in a president’s cabinet, and I’ve heard members of other president’s cabinets describe their bosses in similar terms.
Now comes “Fire and Fury,” a book by journalist Michael Wolff, who interviewed more than 200 people who dealt with Trump as a candidate and president, including senior White House staff members.
In it, National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster calls Trump a “dope.” Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus both refer to him as an “idiot.” Rupert Murdoch says Trump is a “f—king idiot.”
Trump’s chief economic adviser Gary Cohn describes Trump as “dumb as sh-t,” explaining that “Trump won’t read anything — not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.”
When one of Trump’s campaign aides tried to educate him about the Constitution, Trump couldn’t focus. “I got as far as the Fourth Amendment,” the aide recalled, “before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head.”
Trump doesn’t think he’s stupid, of course. As he recounted, “I went to an Ivy League college … I did very well. I’m a very intelligent person.”
Yet Trump wasn’t exactly an academic star. One of his professors at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and Finance purportedly said that he was “the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.”
Trump biographer Gwenda Blair wrote in 2001 that Trump was admitted to Wharton on a special favor from a “friendly” admissions officer who had known Trump’s older brother.
But hold on. It would be dangerous to underestimate this man.
Even if Trump doesn’t read, can’t follow a logical argument, and has the attention span of a fruit fly, it still doesn’t follow that he’s stupid.
There’s another form of intelligence, called “emotional intelligence.”
Emotional intelligence is a concept developed by two psychologists, John Mayer of the University of New Hampshire, and Yale’s Peter Salovey, and it was popularized by Dan Goleman in his 1996 book of the same name.
Mayer and Salovey define emotional intelligence as the ability to do two things – “understand and manage our own emotions,” and “recognize and influence the emotions of others.”
Granted, Trump hasn’t displayed much capacity for the first. He’s thin-skinned, narcissistic, and vindictive.
As dozens of Republican foreign policy experts put it, “he is unable or unwilling to separate truth from falsehood. He does not encourage conflicting views. He lacks self-control and acts impetuously. He cannot tolerate criticism.”
OK, but what about Mayer and Salovey’s second aspect of emotional intelligence – influencing the emotions of others?
This is where Trump shines. He knows how to manipulate people. He has an uncanny ability to discover their emotional vulnerabilities – their fears, anxieties, prejudices, and darkest desires – and use them for his own purposes.
To put it another way, Trump is an extraordinarily talented conman.
He’s always been a conman. He conned hundreds of young people and their parents into paying to attend his near worthless Trump University. He conned banks into lending him more money even after he repeatedly failed to pay them. He conned contractors to work for them and then stiffed them.
Granted, during he hasn’t always been a great conman. Had he been, his cons would have paid off.
By his own account, in 1976, when Trump was starting his career, he was worth about $200 million, much of it from his father. Today he says he’s worth some $8 billion. If he’d just put the original $200 million into an index fund and reinvested the dividends, he’d be worth $12 billion today.
But he’s been a great political conman. He conned 62,979,879 Americans to vote for him in November 2016 by getting them to believe his lies about Mexicans, Muslims, African-Americans, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and all the “wonderful,” “beautiful” things he’d do for the people who’d support him.
And he’s still conning most of them.
Political conning is Trump’s genius. It’s this genius – when combined with his utter stupidity in every other dimension of his being – that poses the greatest danger to America and the world.
And…this was written before the whole "Contributiongate" scandal where Trump grifted extra payment from his own unsuspecting donors without their knowledge or approval.
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2021-04-06 at 3:36 PM UTC in Why are most of you so stupid?
