How stupid is Trump - Interesting article
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Trump's stupidity, his inability to accept his own loss in the election, his withdrawal into a fantasy reality in which he could reverse the results, and his willingness to listen to other morons who encouraged that idiocy — all of these things are deeply intertwined. It's true a less foolhardy Republican president would be more competent at governing. But this president would also be far more capable of accepting a political loss, not to mention other inconvenient aspects of reality. When it comes to evaluating fitness for high political office, such a capacity should be considered an absolute bare minimum.
We have trouble acknowledging this because it's challenging to grasp the depth and precise character of Trump's imbecility. It's not that he lacks an education, or that he doesn't have certain talents in abundance — above all, the ability to tap into and exploit the prejudices and fears of a culturally alienated and resentful segment of the electorate. Trump's stupidity has different sources. It arises from emotional defects. He is so incapable of accepting failure that he warps reality around himself, constructing alternatives to the way the world is and then plunging into them, no matter how fantastically daft they happen to be. That makes Trump's idiocy next of kin to outright delusion.
https://theweek.com/politics/1006906/trump-the-idiot
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tRump would be indistinguishable among a hundred million Americans.
Oh. Well... Let's not dive down that one even if it currently seems like it. 
It does occur to me that he's never had to stand in lines like most people. Those could be considered struggles he's missed.
Notably, though, researchers have not identifiedhaving to go to work, juggling bills, and standing in lines as underlying causes of personality disorders. Now, childhood traumas, abuse including sexual and verbal among others, genetics, yes. 
It's not that normal life doesn't help people develop. But privileged lives produce their own expanding experiences, and those tend to produce some useful anxiety and stress also.
Intellectually, though, tRump's privileged world has always been far larger than most people's, with many more interesting, mind-expanding experiences, including everyday exposures to the kind of intelligent, high functioning people who find their way to those levels of society. Kids who grow up with real estate magnate fathers and to top schools that demand performance usually have a big advantage in intellectual (or at least fund of knowledge) development over kids whose fathers drive forklifts or process healthcare claims. But not Donnie.
And the same for adulthood. Millions/billions of people do the same relatively simple jobs each day for years, go home to the same home, same weekend activities, same shows on the TV, same local circle of friends. It's wonderful that we can be very happy with those lives, but privileged lives normally come with greater intellectual stimulation, much greater variety of experiences, higher levels of expected performance, and more new challenges. Also greater happiness-producing feelings of security. Most privileged people do fine in spite of their deficit of inadequate-income struggle. Not tRump.
Let's face it, privileged lives just don't correlate with greater numbers of socio/psychopaths. tRump's family is not typical.
Bottom line, I just can't imagine that tRump'd be a normal, unstupid person if Fred tRump did drive a forklift and Donnie had to work (struggle) to save enough money to train for a welder's certificate before settling happily into the normal struggles of family life. Or that he'd consider doing that for a moment when he could prey on people instead, a skill he started developing as a child.
Donald Trump is many things, but he is first and foremost a moron.
Great opening line 
A downward sloped straight line is the connection of the vertically charted IQ of Republican presidential candidates along their timeline. It's useful for pre-explanation of how the GOP will run a planarian as their 2040 candidate. This, after running a congressman from Texas, an actual elephant and a rather intelligent praying mantis (Not necessarily in that order and the congressman still contends the planarian cheated on his shape placement exam).
I'm a Gemini
apparently it's a lucrative business. 
beer hall putsch taking over the government of Bavaria. The idea, however, isn't delusional or stupid, just poorly executed this time. With the right planning and support, it very well could have succeeded. And 1/3 to 40% of the populace would support it wholeheartedly. 
Does that make him a moron? Maybe ...
He's also a malignant narcissistic sociopath, so he believes his own lies and he doesn't care who gets hurt in the process. Chump is a warped, defective human being. Most people on the planet can't related to how twisted and malformed his soul is, so we assume that he's stupid because he can't see it himself. We assume that he would "fix himself " or seek psychiatric help if he could understand how messed up he is. But that would be the path of a rational person, and that's not what we're dealing with here.
After the last 5 years of Chump, I now understand that he's a real-life version of Hannibal Lector, without the messy cannibalism. His self-delusion, manipulation and evil greed are a perfect storm of bad qualities that we never want to see in someone who leads this country. Like Hannibal Lector, there is cunning and intelligence co-habiting with the evil. I no longer believe Chump is stupid. He's something to be feared and loathed, not pitied.
It would take some intelligence to think up all the scams he's been involved in, even if they mostly failed.
If you look at all the businesses, plus all the nefarious plots and lawsuits, the complexity of his world is unimaginable for most people. I know his sons aren't that complex. Who thought all this up and made it happen?
(From 2016)
to be in prison soon. And forever.
An even better scenario: he leaves this dimension altogether. 
... so he's really doing their evil dirty work for them. I sure hope we find out that Bannon takes money from Putin too, because that would something he'd (probably) go to prison for.
And he is supported by the establishment 1% Dean, just like in the movie.
He is the evil epitome of the 'Me Generation'.
He is the result of the Movement Conservative initiative.
He was their plan all along - or someone just like him.
Than You Raygun. Thank You Rush. Thank You Bush family. Thank You Ayn Rand. Thank You Koch family. Thank You William Buckley. Thank You George Will. Thank You Newt. Than You Cheney. Thank You Rummy. Thank You Nixon. Thank You Jessie Helms. Thank You both-side apologists. Thank You Corporate Media. Thank You Fox News. Thank You Klan. Thank You everyone on the Right who has enabled the Destruction of the US Constitution.
Thank You 1%. Thank You all.
While in traffic today I was behind a vehicle at a light which sported a "Trump 2021" sticker... 
