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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,173 posts)
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 06:30 PM Dec 2016

You guys want to see something really scary?

Last edited Thu Dec 1, 2016, 07:04 PM - Edit history (1)

This was recently posted on the website of an individual who goes by the name "Gary Forbes" and was a huge social media booster of Donald Trump. It turns out that "Gary Forbes" is actually a guy from New York named Gary Pasquariello and he had some interesting professions that went nowhere before being a Trump booster--a self-help book co-author, a motivational speaker, and most comically, a new aged pianist in the vein of John Tesh. He's pretty much a sham and a kook but it didn't stop him from at one point having thousands of followers on Twitter (before his account was suspended for reasons unknown, although it may have been related to his threats of violence against RNC delegates in the run up to the convention) and being retweeted by the likes of Ann Coulter and Donald Trump himself.

Anyways, he's in the business of creating slide graphics (one of them claimed, in a fashion that would have made Kim Jong Il proud, that Donald Trump had an IQ of 156 and was in the top 99.99th percentile of all human beings) that spread the word about everything Donald Trump. And it looks like he hasn't stopped even after being suspended on Twitter, although thankfully to a much smaller audience.

So this is one of the most recent post-election slides from "Gary Forbes":

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Now, don't get me wrong. This is, or at least should be, considered radical, fringe thinking. But we've just seen the election of a president who encourages this radical, fringe thinking. And with that element in power, what seems radical and fringe now isn't guaranteed to remain on the fringes down the road if given the right circumstances to manifest itself.

By the way, the individual whose pictured with "Gary Forbes"'s manifesto is Wilbur Ross, who's been tapped as Trump's Secretary of Commerce. Take that for whatever it's worth.

(And yes, Donald Trump really has re-tweeted "Gary Forbes"--https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/625123443118358528?lang=fi )

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You guys want to see something really scary? (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2016 OP
Donald Trump has an IQ of 156?? smirkymonkey Dec 2016 #1
Says "Gary Forbes". Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2016 #5
I know, that's what I was laughing at. Sorry, I didn't mean for you to think I was smirkymonkey Dec 2016 #7
Oh, I know that. And he is an idiot. Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2016 #9
More like 15.6 no_hypocrisy Dec 2016 #14
....The duncey libertarian idea that we don't need Government.... JHan Dec 2016 #2
Well, to be fair, he didn't say anything about abolishing the Presidency. Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2016 #6
Yep. He reminds me of those Ayn Rand types -- JHan Dec 2016 #8
Looks NGOs for the word, "fascism"? world wide wally Dec 2016 #15
He's so crazy all the bats in the country are going on a constipation protest. No shit. n/t rzemanfl Dec 2016 #3
Well, a constipation protest WOULD be no shit. longship Dec 2016 #10
But of course. rzemanfl Dec 2016 #11
This is the new normal. HassleCat Dec 2016 #4
It is scary. kentuck Dec 2016 #12
The moment you think you're smarter than everyone is the moment you prove you're not lunatica Dec 2016 #13
"Liberal billionaires and corporations" Wounded Bear Dec 2016 #16
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
7. I know, that's what I was laughing at. Sorry, I didn't mean for you to think I was
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 06:40 PM
Dec 2016

poking fun at you. He's obviously an idiot.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,173 posts)
6. Well, to be fair, he didn't say anything about abolishing the Presidency.
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 06:40 PM
Dec 2016

What's it called when all of the government's power is consolidated in one person?

Dictatsomething or another?

JHan

(10,173 posts)
8. Yep. He reminds me of those Ayn Rand types --
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 06:41 PM
Dec 2016

..who think John Galt types should run everything.... a consortium of Galts.

Wounded Bear

(58,645 posts)
16. "Liberal billionaires and corporations"
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 07:40 PM
Dec 2016

I just love how they throw in that "liberal" adjective on billionaires. RW word games are really getting tiresome.

Even Soros is not that liberal, FFS. Rich folks are not naturally "liberal" because they tend to be very protective of their fortunes, which lends one to conservatism.

This really looks and smells like typical RW misdirection, proclaim "freedom" while driving everybody else into poverty. A neccessitous man is not free.

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