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OMG: "he doesn't know what he doesn't know": (Original Post) kpete Sep 2016 OP
And that my friends is the true definition of STUPID Farmgirl1961 Sep 2016 #1
In fact he is behond stupid He's a Meta-Ignoramus Monk06 Sep 2016 #9
Lots of unknown unknowns BeyondGeography Sep 2016 #2
I will never forgive John McCain for foisting Palin on the voting public. dixiegrrrrl Sep 2016 #3
Palin was brought to McCain's campaign's attention by a 19 year old college student LastLiberal in PalmSprings Sep 2016 #14
That's an over-somplification struggle4progress Sep 2016 #18
The problem is really that he thinks he knows it all. Warpy Sep 2016 #4
And what he does know ain't so Midnight Writer Sep 2016 #7
He isn't equippped to tell the difference. Warpy Sep 2016 #12
The whole thing about arriving late, rusty quoin Sep 2016 #5
His middle name is Internationalincidentinthemaking. anamandujano Sep 2016 #6
Yep! GreenPartyVoter Sep 2016 #17
He doesn't know and he doesn't care and he is not concerned about the Akamai Sep 2016 #8
As another 'genius' said ... Jopin Klobe Sep 2016 #10
That's a big part of the "stupid"... Hulk Sep 2016 #11
Trump: "The day I realized it can be smart to be shallow was, for me, a deep experience.” Duppers Sep 2016 #13
I appreciate your research kpete Sep 2016 #15
Could stupidity be introduced as evidence? kentuck Sep 2016 #16
Dunning–Kruger effect progressoid Sep 2016 #19
Trump voters are the same way Martin Eden Sep 2016 #20
and, even worse, he is fucking PROUD of his ignorance. niyad Sep 2016 #21

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. I will never forgive John McCain for foisting Palin on the voting public.
Sun Sep 25, 2016, 11:03 PM
Sep 2016

She lowered the bar of acceptable stupidity so low that Trump is now seen as a meaningful candidate.

14. Palin was brought to McCain's campaign's attention by a 19 year old college student
Mon Sep 26, 2016, 05:40 AM
Sep 2016

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)
18. That's an over-somplification
Mon Sep 26, 2016, 07:20 AM
Sep 2016
... she was courting some .. pundits that work for the Weekly Standard magazine .. and the National Review ... Bill Kristol and his crew came into town for the first lunch ... And .. the second group came .. several weeks later. They were the National Review crowd ... Well .. the cruises come through in the summer of 2007. Fred Barnes goes right back to Washington and writes a glowing column about Palin ...
http://www.alternet.org/story/105359/the_real_story_behind_how_mccain_chose_sarah_palin

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
12. He isn't equippped to tell the difference.
Mon Sep 26, 2016, 02:33 AM
Sep 2016

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)
5. The whole thing about arriving late,
Sun Sep 25, 2016, 11:11 PM
Sep 2016

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?

 

Akamai

(1,779 posts)
8. He doesn't know and he doesn't care and he is not concerned about the
Mon Sep 26, 2016, 12:31 AM
Sep 2016

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)
10. As another 'genius' said ...
Mon Sep 26, 2016, 01:34 AM
Sep 2016

"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)
11. That's a big part of the "stupid"...
Mon Sep 26, 2016, 01:46 AM
Sep 2016

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)
13. Trump: "The day I realized it can be smart to be shallow was, for me, a deep experience.”
Mon Sep 26, 2016, 03:36 AM
Sep 2016

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

"

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 doesn’t know what he doesn’t 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.

progressoid

(49,827 posts)
19. Dunning–Kruger effect
Mon Sep 26, 2016, 12:43 PM
Sep 2016

The Dunning–Kruger 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)
20. Trump voters are the same way
Mon Sep 26, 2016, 01:13 PM
Sep 2016

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.

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