This one nails it.

[sellitman]

Link to tweet

[democratisphere]

1. I disagree!

Only 50 fewer IQ points?

[AgadorSparticus]

2. You beat me to it. That is exactly what I was thinking!

[democratisphere]

3. Great Minds.........

[unblock]

4. interesting question, actually

first, obviously, i appreciate the humor

but to take the question seriously:

nixon apparently was tested at 143: https://brainsize.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/the-iq-of-u-s-presidents/

so subtracting 50 would put donnie at 93.

wiki has a chart of adult accomplishments for various iq levels/ranges:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

this puts him at the "some high school/semi-skilled worker" level.


seems to me that this is close, but it's hard to put him any lower than that.

sure, emotionally, he's clearly stuck in second grade, and his actual station was obviously elevated by his father's wealth.
but i don't think we can really justify claiming that he wouldn't be able to graduate elementary school....

[democratisphere]

5. It is apparent that drumpf failed and continues to fail "sandbox etiquette 101".

Graduating from elementary school would have been a reach.

[unblock]

6. sadly, many adults fail that test....

[MontanaMama]

10. And we call that bunch of folks

Deplorables.

[PatSeg]

14. That is a decent assessment of Trump

If his father didn't have money, Trump would either be a "semi-skilled worker", a used car salesman, or a petty criminal.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Unfortunately I have to recommend a post with generic title "This one nails it."

[randr]

8. It always frightens me when I consider that 100 is the mean at which

half the population is below. Especially now that the lower half are convincing themselves not to trust the upper half.

[lambchopp59]

11. Convincing themselves, delusional a given, but

The RW spin machines created this Frankenstein. They didn't arrive at up is down, rich is poor and live in the "alternative facts" universe on their own. Their lack of critical cognition is the frightening part though.

[randr]

12. Yesterday I heard Thomas Freidman, I believe, say

"if a plane takes off and a small mistake is made in the flight course it takes and enormous amount of work to put it back on the right flight path".
We are all on board the ship of state at this juncture and those lacking critical cognition are steering

[lambchopp59]

13. Part of why I'm studying my portuguese as part of a backup escape plan

I'm not sticking around for another round republican-fabricated joblessness nor the peril all the anti-muslim rhetoric potentiates. Did encourage me somewhat that Sir Patrick Stewart is expatriating to U.S. citizenship to help us out of this mess in 2018. It may be too late by then.
I'll take my chances with Zika, high unemployment and relatively progressive corruption in Sao Paulo over another jobless stretch of months wondering if I'll wind up homeless in the U.S. again. I've been there when Bush Sr. talked about those "thousand points of light out there" that would help me. They didn't. I starved. I camped out in cold winter rains under freeway bridges. I lived on the city busses and BART. I could see those thousand points of light alright on a clear night overhead. They didn't help. I'd rather take my chances in the favelas where the poorest folk imaginable will still share their Pao, rice and their leaky roof with you.

[randr]

15. I like my Grandfather before me think it wise to escape fascism

If only I could convince my wife that a better life may be found in warmer climes.
Still holding out for our system to work however.

[mobeau69]

9. Bartlett's tweets are great!

Thanks for posting. Gotta read 'em all now.

[kairos12]

16. Add complicit MSM.