[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]smh_23 wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]cire13 wrote:
If Trump wins the nomination, you can say goodbye to the Republican party. Most American’s will look upon his nomination as a joke. The International community will do so as well. The Republican Party will spend years trying to regain its reputation. [/quote]
You’re a foreigner, aren’t you?[/quote]
He may be, but he’s dead right about this.
Donald Trump’s most recent foray into the political world, prior to this election cycle, consisted of a public push for birtherism. Birtherism was a conspiracy theory, no less clownish than any other. This is the GOP front-runner – a conspiracy theorist who, in the course of peddling his conspiracy theory, acted every bit the stupid, lying buffoon, claiming to believe (and this is just one example of many) that the newspaper announcements of Obama’s birth in Hawaii had been fraudulently planted. Claiming, too, that the investigators he allegedly sent to Honolulu “cannot believe what they’re finding.” (No word, as of yet, on the object of their disbelief, though he still says he doesn’t know whether Obama was born in the US.)
There is, of course, so much more: his inability to think or speak clearly about anything is so severe that he has a remarkably difficult time conveying lucid thoughts at even a middle-school level of communication (just recently, he found himself repeatedly unable to say whether or not he is in favor of registering Muslims via a national database); he obviously makes all his bullshit up on the fly and is utterly disinterested in anything remotely resembling policy (note that ZEB, as GOP-biased as any person of whom we can possibly conceive, has repeatedly called him a policy lightweight); he is the least masculine presidential candidate in American history, staying up all night in order to exclamation-point his way through one-sided Twitter catfights with Megyn Kelly.
The list goes on and on. But all I really need is that second paragraph above. (Somebody go ahead and try to refute a word of it.) Again: a conspiracy theorist is the Republican frontrunner. The stupid party is showing us that it is literally that.
Donald Trump is an idiot, and his supporters are – by definition – idiots. Complete, utter idiots. Every one of them. They are supporting a candidate who is unelectable – and unfit for the office – not as a matter of policy disagreement, not because he’s flip-flopped or lied (as every politician has since the dawn of cooperative civilization), but at the most fundamental possible level. He is not remotely close to winning the White House, and he never will be. But he has done two things: he’s damaged the Republican party, and he’s given those of us who are academically interested in such matters a general answer to the question “What percentage of GOP voters are truly, irredeemably stupid.”[/quote]
Your disparaging remarks – even if they are true – ignore the dynamics of what is going on here (read the Rush Limbaugh link – I don’t give a shit if you despise Rush or not, read the link).[/quote]
The remarks are true. It is an objective fact – not an interpretation, not an opinion – that Trump is a conspiracy theorist. There is no argument about this. Again, a conspiracy theorist. The frontrunner. There is nothing at play here but complete and utter idiocy. Pitiable buffoonishness. Et cetera.
It is an objective fact that when you analyze his public remarks, you get a pile of ungrammatical, syntactically appalling horseshit on the page. And this is truly amazing in light of the fact that he talks at about a 3rd-grade level on the Flesch-Kincaid test: he manages to muddle and fuck up even the simple, childish words and sentences that apparently constitute his entire spoken vocabulary.
And, again, his histrionic, classically-feminine, utterly unpresidential (and undignified) penchant for exclamative early-morning Twitter catfighting is there for anyone to see. It is not something that maybe didn’t happen.
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In addition, as far as, “He may be, but he’s dead right about this,” that is speculation and the honest to God truth is you really don’t know and neither do I.[/quote]
Granted, in a sort of useless epistemological sense. But some prognostications are (much) better than others. Say the Packers were to choose to trade Aaron Rodgers for Mark Sanchez in the coming off-season. Say you were to criticize this decision. You’d be speculating, and the honest to god truth is you really wouldn’t know how it would turn out – it would be utterly possible, in a logical-metaphysical kind of way, for Sanchez to lead the Packers to the SB. But your criticism would still be smart, and its denial would be stupid.
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I well remember the overwhelmingly massive cascade of negative remarks about Reagan’s intellect and how stupid and dangerous he was way back in 1979 and 1980.[/quote]
As you say yourself, there isn’t really a comparison. Whatever you think of Reagan, he wasn’t remotely comparable to this assclown. Again – and this is just a single example among hundreds – Trump is a conspiracy theorist. A conspiracy theorist.
Well, I certainly know – and I do mean know – that my argument about Trump’s fitness for office (character, intellect, past conduct) is correct. Its individual elements are objectively factual to the last minor detail.
So the only assumption my prediction requires is one of general competence and good faith on behalf of the (majority of the) American people: that this bumbling idiot, this ridiculously buffoonish, confused conspiracy theorist – and, more importantly, the hordes of idiots pushing him to the top of the GOP heap – will continue to be met with the appropriate, rational levels of disdain and ridicule.
Which is a roundabout way of saying, again, that a conspiracy theorist is the GOP frontrunner, and this is intrinsically, by definition, bad for the GOP.