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https://twitter.com/milesjreed/status/685868341467176960/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)really has no interest in anything else but himself.. Thus his lack of of knowledge about anything except woman and his businesses..
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)just blustery
Jim__
(14,058 posts)Trump's response (as noted in Rolling Stone):
"Well, first of all, I think we need somebody absolutely that we can trust, who is totally responsible, who really knows what he or she is doing. That is so powerful and so important."
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"And one of the things that I'm frankly most proud of is that in 2003, 2004, I was totally against going into Iraq because you're going to destabilize the Middle East. I called it. I called it very strongly. And it was very important."
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"But we have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ballgame. Frankly, I would have said get out of Syria; get out if we didn't have the power of weaponry today. The power is so massive that we can't just leave areas that 50 years ago or 75 years ago we wouldn't care. It was hand-to-hand combat."
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"The biggest problem this world has today is not President Obama with global warming, which is inconceivable, this is what he's saying. The biggest problem we have is nuclear nuclear proliferation and having some maniac, having some madman go out and get a nuclear weapon. That's in my opinion, that is the single biggest problem that our country faces right now."
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Definitely supports the assertion.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Because he sounds just like them.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts). . . Trump (and, to some extent, his idiot supporters) is the guy who thinks he IS the teacher despite having never gone to school for it.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)only because people are hearing it in-person or broadcast without bothering to check whether it was the usual politicese gibberish
http://www.salon.com/2015/08/31/oliver_sacks_brilliant_essential_lesson_what_the_legendary_science_writer_taught_us_about_politics_the_human_mind/
www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1334103
world wide wally
(21,734 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Caribou Barbie, which is a bit scary.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Nobody can make a statement like that, in response to a direct question, and end up President of this country. He is a laughing stock.
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)There are people that think that kind of word salad actually means something.
I have yet to hear an actual valid policy proposal from Trump that in any way has anything behind it besides this kind of gibberish.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)But not enough to elect him.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)...overwhelm Hillary, or Bernie for that matter.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)He's an idiot, but not like Trump. Trump is an idiot, and a racist, bigoted, homophobic and misogynistic blustering idiot at that.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)they higher his number keep going. Trump is scary, but what is scarier is the amount of people that are getting behind him. We take him lightly at our own peril.
ms liberty
(8,549 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)ms liberty
(8,549 posts)laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)Trump is that popular new kid (who is a total fucking liar) that shows up at your school at tells all your friends exactly what they want to hear even when it's not true and it's total bullshit and then they follow him around for the rest of the year thinking he's the coolest thing ever. It's going to take some time for that excitement to wear off and for everyone who was taken with the bullshit to 1) see his true colors and 2) admit they were stupid enough to be taken with the bullshit.
Trump is a sociopath and therefore is pretty good at knowing what people are looking for. He knows what to say to make people think they are getting what they want, without actually giving them what they want. What did he say in that quote? The magic word: jobs. And he told them they were going to get the American Dream back. That is ALL those people need to hear.
I've said it since day 1 and I'll say it again: Trumps bluster is simply a reflection of what a lot of Americans want to hear. Underestimate him and make fun of him at your own risk. There is a large population of people who are thinking exactly what he is saying. Not sure how to counteract it, and it seems to me Democrats have been treating him as a joke, which is exactly what they should not be doing.