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(1,493 posts)n/t
Monk06
(7,675 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,284 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)She lowered the bar of acceptable stupidity so low that Trump is now seen as a meaningful candidate.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,539 posts)But within a few months of being sworn in (as Alaska's governor) she and others in her circle noticed that a blogger named Adam Brickley had started a movement to draft her as Vice-President. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/27/the-insiders
Also:
Sarah Palin, Web Invention:
How a college sophomore put Alaska's governor on the map.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2008/08/sarah_palin_web_invention.html
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)http://www.alternet.org/story/105359/the_real_story_behind_how_mccain_chose_sarah_palin
Warpy
(110,913 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,548 posts)Warpy
(110,913 posts)Years ago, he had a better filter. He wasn't much smarter, but he knew when to keep his mouth shut. Those days are over.
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)sticking a finger in the chest, and the fuck you, is his style. And it's exactly what his followers want him to do, to throw caution to the wind...hell, what could go wrong?
anamandujano
(7,004 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)Akamai
(1,779 posts)consequences of getting it incorrect.
What could possibly go wrong? I mean, outside of thermonuclear war, destroying the economy, the social safety net, the environment.
Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns the ones we don't know we don't know." ...
--- Donnie "Delegate It!" Rumsfeld
Hulk
(6,699 posts)It's so hard to argue with an idiot, because they don't get it when everyone else is scratching their head at their utter stupidity.
We finally got palin on the gop ticket, but it's a male version...sort of.
Duppers
(28,094 posts)Since I send these out, I have to look for sources other than twitter. I found these outrageous quotable passages in a New Yorker article:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/26/president-trumps-first-term
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I've learned to trust my instincts and not to overthink things. He added, The day I realized it can be smart to be shallow was, for me, a deep experience.
He prides himself on vengeance and suspicion. If you do not get even, you are just a schmuck! he wrote, in 2007. Be paranoid, he said in 2000.
For many years, Trump has expressed curiosity about nuclear weapons. In 1984, still in his thirties, he told the Washington Post that he wanted to negotiate nuclear treaties with the Soviets. It would take an hour and a half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles, he said. I think I know most of it anyway.
According to Bruce G. Blair, a research scholar at the Program on Science and Global Security, at Princeton, Trump encountered a U.S. nuclear-arms negotiator at a reception in 1990 and offered advice on how to cut a terrific deal with a Soviet counterpart. Trump told him to arrive late, stand over the Soviet negotiator, stick his finger in his chest, and say, Fuck you!
Recently, a former Republican White House official whom Trump has called on for his insights told me, Honestly, the problem with Donald is he doesnt know what he doesnt know."
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An egotistical idiot like this in the White House would be a danger to the whole world.
Thanks for this thread, Kpete.
kpete
(71,901 posts)ThanksI appreciate your research
kentuck
(110,950 posts)It would be damning.
progressoid
(49,827 posts)The DunningKruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of those of low ability to recognize their ineptitude and evaluate their ability accurately. Their research also suggests corollaries: high-ability individuals may underestimate their relative competence and may erroneously assume that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Martin Eden
(12,803 posts)They don't know what they don't know; therefore, they really do think it's a simple matter for Trump to accomplish all his promises to make America "great" again.