The Things That Makes Trump Different

[IronWing]

This is like shooting aquatic aves in a bin.

 

[RichUK]

Is Trump intellectual?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Is Trump intellectual?

Here's my honest but brief assessment.

In one word -- No.

I have watched this . . . excuse of a human being for a dozen years.

Born with a silver spoon in one hand and a cell-phone in another, he had as much chance as Bush to become a Truth-Seeker and "Man of Knowledge." The military-academy suggests something: whatever behavioral problems put him there, the same problems would've landed me or my brothers in what used to be the Idyllwild Boys Camp, or the Gladiator Academy at Chino.

He never worked for anyone other than his father. He got to go to pretty good schools, for instance, Wharton School of Business U of PA. What you're supposed to pick up through that level of education, I believe he is sorely lacking.

I do not believe he was ever a voracious reader. His verbal acuity is below par. He won't prepare his speeches, because he thinks so much of himself, he doesn't believe it's necessary. What comes out is someone without discipline.

You can tell when he's reading from a teleprompter. As Howard Dean, a physician-turned-politician observed, he inhales like someone who's been snorting coke. But it only occurs when he's reading a teleprompter, because the words that come out are more coherent. Yet his delivery seems contrived, wooden, rigid -- labored.

Notice when he isn't exhibiting these traits. He will use the same word twice -- even more -- like "really really" -- bigly-big-league. His ability to form sentences and choose words on the fly is severely retarded compared to a Colossus like Obama.*

So it's easy to call him "President-elect Asshole." People in my circles -- ordinary but well-educated folk, with modest retirements -- we look down on him. It's enough to make one sneer.

* Even Obama has his little crutches when speaking impromptu. You'll hear him say "Ummm" or "Ah . . . " What he is trying to do there, however, is to maintain some level of articulate speech, searching for a word here or there. Everyone who appears in public has these little flaws, and you can tell what they're doing. But Donnie? "D" or "C-minus" at best.

 

[Sunburn74]

Intellectuals put a high premium on truth and wisdom. The main drive of an intellectual is to make other people intellectuals too by stimulating them to challenge what is commonly thought, said and believed.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Intellectuals put a high premium on truth and wisdom. The main drive of an intellectual is to make other people intellectuals too by stimulating them to challenge what is commonly thought, said and believed.

To me, there is a value-set I probably picked up from my Jesuitical high-school sojourn. I've grown comfortable -- even smug -- in seeing this better side of myself, while the worse side is "in recovery" -- the same problem Trump fails to confront, and which therefore leaves him stuck as a 70-year-old adolescent. I, too, may have spoken about "grabbing pussy" in my earliest adulthood, but I outgrew that. What I didn't outgrow in a reasonable lapse of my lifetime, has in recent years made me wake up every morning with remorse. Real, deep remorse. I have to keep busy to get it out of my mind.

The Truth is more important than anything. If there is some pillar of America that is False, then America is either in deep trouble, or can hardly be worth saving unless the Truth is resurrected.

The second thing of importance is to be a human being and a citizen of the World. This, also, is not inconsistent with the Dream that is America, which is part of the World.

After that -- my country.

 

[Victorian Gray]

The "liberal" Dailymail good enough for you?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-not-working-92-million-people-workforce.html

The Daily Mail is not liberal in any way, shape or form. It's a very conservative tabloid not much better that the Sun.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

The Daily Mail is not liberal in any way, shape or form. It's a very conservative tabloid not much better that the Sun.

I learn new things every day . . . just coming back to this forum.

 

[Victorian Gray]

I learn new things every day . . . just coming back to this forum.

 

[agent00f]

Wow, so because his family immigrated here when he was 3 years old made him a best and brightest, highly motivated professional. He like I learned a skill in the military (no college degree), then found a company that needed someone with those skills, and over years of experience working on the equipment was employed as a technical adviser.

No, his family immigrated here when he was 3 years old makes him an American, not Brazillian. Next time just call him your black friend.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

If I interpret your geographic location properly, I'd guess it's "BC." If so, you are one lucky person. Some of the most beautiful country on the planet.

 

[Victorian Gray]

If I interpret your geographic location properly, I'd guess it's "BC." If so, you are one lucky person. Some of the most beautiful country on the planet.

Yup. No argument from me on that score. I'm originally from Winnipeg and I'd spent a year or so here in '69-'70 and then came back for good in '72. Can't imagine living anywhere else in the world.

My city

and my city a couple of days ago

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Too many Republicans moved to Southern California because the Sissies hate "weather." That's why we have the worst air on the continent. Their hot air of bloviating, and the lack of rain.

I could really love 160 days of rain in western Washington state, or that snowstorm you show provided I had chains on my tires.

Or I could just stay home and throw another log on the fire. Here? What we could call "cold weather" now is a reprieve from the summer.