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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Sep 8, 2016, 10:39 AM Sep 2016

Self-proclaimed “genius” reaches new highs in stupidity: Trump puts his incompetence on full display

This week, Donald Trump has gone the extra mile to remind America he's clueless, dangerous and inept

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

This week, in anticipation of last night’s “Commander in Chief” town hall forum on NBC the two presidential candidates engaged in a war of words over their respective qualifications. On Tuesday, Clinton said that Trump was “temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president.” Trump responded on Wednesday morning with a speech in Philadelphia by declaring Clinton “trigger happy and very unstable, whether we like it or not.”

The Clinton campaign responded with yet another ad featuring Trump’s own words this time disparaging veterans and their families. The anti-Trump Priorities USA SuperPAC went even further with a new spot that shows Trump saying “I love war.” Trump’s campaign manager Kelly Anne Conway responded by saying the bizarre comment was taken out of context but the full quote, which he gave last November at " target="_blank">a wild Ft Dodge Iowa rally (the same one where he called Ben Carson a child molester) is even worse than what it sounds like in the ad:

“I’m good at war. I’ve had a lot of wars of my own. I’m really good at war. I love war in a certain way, but only when we win.”


Trump has never been in the service, although he has said “I always felt I was in the military” because of his education at a military-themed boarding school and believes that he has “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”

That comment “I’m good at war” says everything about Trump as he demonstrated last night at the town hall forum that he is indeed unfit to be president of the United States. There were many aspects of his performance that had people gasping at the mere idea of this man in a position of real power, not the least of which was his comment that President Obama compares unfavorably to Russian president Vladimir Putin who “has an 85 percent approval rating” and is “very much a leader” because he has “strong control over his country.”

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http://www.salon.com/2016/09/08/self-proclaimed-genius-reaches-new-highs-in-stupidity-trumps-puts-his-incompetence-on-full-display/
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Self-proclaimed “genius” reaches new highs in stupidity: Trump puts his incompetence on full display (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2016 OP
"Ich ben ein pendejo" Coyotl Sep 2016 #1
!!! 2naSalit Sep 2016 #2
This needs to be the #hashtag of choice for Trump now: #OrangeIsTheNewOrange Coyotl Sep 2016 #3
I like it! 2naSalit Sep 2016 #4
Just checked. yes, it is a hashtag already, and an account name too. Coyotl Sep 2016 #5
 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
3. This needs to be the #hashtag of choice for Trump now: #OrangeIsTheNewOrange
Thu Sep 8, 2016, 01:58 PM
Sep 2016

Unless someone has a better idea. Has anyone claimed that string on Twitter yet?

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
5. Just checked. yes, it is a hashtag already, and an account name too.
Thu Sep 8, 2016, 08:00 PM
Sep 2016
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OrangeIsTheNewOrange

The account has been there since 2009. Someone is in for a surprise if this catches on. Here's one Trump use:

abu_la_raza ‏@tabu_la_raza Aug 14
@Catcoake1 @RogerJStoneJr not enough popcorn in the world for this shit show implosion. An ideal ending would be #OrangeIsTheNewOrange
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