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On the bright side Trump aced the dementia test

Before COVID our economy was on fire
At the rate we were burning through China’s and other loans it Should have been on fire. He was increasing the national debt at a phenomenal rate and the Republicans were saying nothing. Don’t try to pretend he’d been doing a good job! And the corruption! His administration stank to high heaven!
 
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At the rate we were burning through China’s and other loans it Should have been on fire. He was increasing the national debt at a phenomenal rate and the Republicans were saying nothing. Don’t try to pretend he’d been doing a good job! And the corruption! His administration stank to high heaven!
And that's why George Will said he's voting for Joe Biden
 
Normally, we could just say "that's Trump. He always exaggerates. It's the best ever...no one has ever.., etc., etc." But watching the interview you realize that Trump truly believes that Chris Wallace couldn't answer the final questions. Trump actually believes this exam is some kind of IQ test and his passing makes him some kind of genius. It's extraordinary that Trump was elected. He is by far the most incapable POTUS in our history. This is the test.
I looked at the test, and I am surprised that Trump passed. I was sure he would miss half of them.
 
Near the end of my mom's life she was beginning to show signs of some impaired judgement. She had trouble with cooking, writing, math, and driving. She would occasionally forget one of my sisters names or details such as where I was born.

She took the exact same cognitive reasoning exam that Trump is so proud of passing. Count backwards from 100 by 7s. Draw the face of a clock and put in the hours. Draw in the minute an hour hand so that the time reads 10 minutes of 11:00. She got the last one wrong.

An ex- nurse in her early 80s , she knew the test she was taking was intended to measure her cognitive decline. She commented that she was just happy that her husband was there to take care of her while she was getting stupid . Our president is bragging that he passed the same test.
I am leaning on voting for Trump now. I have this curiosity to see what the bottom really looks like for this country.
 
I always get the elephant and the duck mixed up.

The test has an anti-Hoosier bias. Should be pig vs. cow vs. chicken.
Duck or rabbit?

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I'm just saying the question is never whether the current guy is doing a good job or not. The question is whether the alternative would be any better. Before COVID our economy was on fire, ISIS was largely defeated, and he never started any stupid wars. The worst thing he had done was probably saying something stupid on Twitter. No Obamacare, no Iraq, etc. You can argue that he could've handled COVID better but I just disagree.


The economy was not on fire and Trump was not performing some sort of economic miracle.
If you look at the actual numbers, rather than listen to the egomaniacs proclamations, you will see that Trump has done no better than maintain what he inherited from Obama.
Trump has often stated he inherited a disaster and turned it into the greatest economy ever.
Job growth during the last three years of Obama (ie the “disaster”that was inherited) averaged over 200,000 per month under Obama but was under 200,000 a month during Trumps first three years (I am not including the pandemic decrease).
GDP growth has not been better under Trump nor has the percentage increase in the stock market. The idiot continuously brags when the market hits an all time high as if it’s a miracle solely performed by him. Guess what, the market goes up over time and virtually every president has presided over a record stock market.
Trump also took many shots at Obama’s deficit and claimed he would balance the budget. Most conservatives don’t say a word about the deficit, since a Republican is in office, but Trump is running higher annual deficits than he inherited from Obama hitting 984 billion in fiscal 2019 and a projected 1.1 trillion in fiscal 2020 before the c-19 stimulus measures. The actual number will be staggering. The 2019 increase was in spite of “the greatest economy ever” and not incurring the expense of a massive Mideast military presence.

Below is from a January Forbes article in regards to GDP growth under the two presidents:

“Using the same GDP metric of consumer spending plus business investment adjusted for inventory changes, Obama’s last three years in office had growth rates of at least 2.17% and as high as 3.06%.

For Trump the high point was 2.83% in 2018 when the tax cut seems to have had the largest impact and even fell short of Obama’s 2014 and 2015 growth rates of 3.06% and 3.05%, respectively.

In 2019 the adjusted growth rate was only 1.99%. This is less than Obama’s three last years in office and less than five of his last six years”.
 
Did Donald ever plagiarize a law review article and then admit that he was too stupid to understand the rules of citation?

Ha, as Uncle Mark stated it is a very slippery slope to start a ledger.
Did Biden ever....
*Suggest looking into injecting cleansers in your lungs to cure C-19 (The looks of terror on Fauci’s face when Dumpster was saying that was priceless), that this would miraculously go away, that UV light would cure you or say that the doctors are amazed that he has such a “good feel” for the disease?
*Commute the sentence of a person convicted for 7 felonies, most of which were crimes to cover up for the person (Dumpster) granting the leniency. I think this action alone should be impeachable as it is unimaginably corrupt.
*Boink a porn star while his wife was pregnant and then use campaign funds to shut her, and other women, up?
*Has Biden’s personal attorney, national security advisor, campaign manager, deputy campaign manager and personal confident all been found guilty in a court of law?
*Did Biden repeatedly promise to provide his tax returns but instead fight the release all the way to the Supreme Court?
*Lie about his faith (I love Trumps “no one knows the Bible like me” quote. Who the hell believes that?)
*How many of Biden’s co-workers have come to the conclusion he is an idiot? Those that worked closely with Trump have called him dumb as shit, an idiot, having the brainpower of a 6th grader, having low intellect and questionable character, unqualified, etc. Among those using those terms were his Chief of Staff, National Security Advisor, Communications Director (ah, the hiring of the mooch), Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Chief Economic Advisor, etc etc. The Secretary of Defense, Mattis, actually called Dumpster “a threat to the Constitution”...think about that.

Trump is a vile human being that only cares about himself. He is a complete con/fraud when it comes to his faith, dealmaking capability (hello Iran, China and North Korea) and personal, academic and business life. To be fair, apparently he was able to recognize a camel in the test he took (assuming that was one of the questions he nailed).
 
Trump was bragging about his test again today. He could name 5 things and repeat them. He was truly proud of himself.Said the doctors were amazed! I think he honestly thinks he is taking an IQ test. How the reporter didn’t bust out laughing I’ll never know.
 
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I have this curiosity to see what the bottom really looks like for this country.


So now we have a combination of
the plague of 1919,
the unemployment of 1930,
the urban riots of 1967,
the executive branch corruption of 1971,
the racial hatred of the 1920s,
climate change at its most rapid pace in human history

what can we add?
dust bowl? molasses floods?

An asteroid impact and a Yellowstone supervolcano eruption seem outside the realm of political influence.

So I gather we are very near the bottom, though I suppose that political corruption and environmental devastation can always get worse.
 
I'm going to give you the Juan Williams op-ed that twenty posted elsewhere:

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-h...we-must-not-become-numb-to-trumps-abnormality

Normal?

How about a summer in which Americans are not allowed to travel to Canada or Europe? Seriously. That’s due to President Trump’s failure to halt the high rate of coronavirus infections in the United States.

That’s not normal.

Is it normal for an American president to stand in the White House Rose Garden and begin ranting? Trump said if presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden wins this year’s election, Biden will do away with the suburbs and windows.

Yes, he really said that.

There is so much that is not normal at the Trump White House that Rachel Maddow, the MSNBC host, recently spent an entire segment reading off a stunning list of scandalous acts now accepted as normal in the Trump era.

Is it normal, she asked, that Trump “put his son’s wedding planner in charge of federal housing in the northeastern United States ... fired one inspector general who was investigating the secretary of State ... advertised his wife’s jewelry line on the White House website?"

Any of the Trump scandals, Maddow said, would have amounted to “the biggest scandal to ever afflict any other presidency — but by virtue of the sheer number of scandals that surround [Trump] like flies around a pigpen ... [they] have just become part of what we expect, right?”

And it keeps going. Here’s an example from last week.

“The Trump Administration lifted a ban on sales of [gun] silencers to private overseas buyers that was intended to protect U.S. troops from ambushes,” The New York Times reported.

And there’s an eye-opening kicker to that tale.

The Times reported the ban was lifted as a result of strenuous lobbying by a lawyer currently working in the Trump White House. That lawyer previously worked for a firearms group. Now, firearms companies might make $250 million a year in potential sales overseas, the story noted.

That’s definitely a huge scandal in any other administration, sure to stir outrage from defenders of the American military.


It’s just another day in the Trump presidency.

But what about the obvious conflict of interest in that episode?

Well, it is hard to get attention for that argument.

Why?

As the Times explained, Trump’s Cabinet features “a former coal lobbyist as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, a former lobbyist for the defense contractor Raytheon Technologies as defense secretary, a lobbyist for the auto industry at the helm of the Energy Department and a former oil and gas lobbyist as interior secretary.”

This administration is a gusher of conflicts of interest.

That’s why it is easy to become numb to the Trump administration crossing red lines that define normal, ethical behavior by people at the highest level of government.

At this point you might be scandal fatigued. You might agree that it is bad but excuse it as not the end of the world. But then you find out there is more.

How about the attorney general pressuring career prosecutors to recommend a lighter sentence for Roger Stone, an old friend of the president who had been convicted of lying to Congress?

Yes, Attorney General William Barr twisted the arm of federal prosecutors to take it easy on Stone on the basis of “political considerations,” according to congressional testimony from an assistant U.S. attorney, Aaron Zelinsky.

Then Trump took it to the next level. He commuted Stone’s sentence.

Even the conservative editors of National Review couldn’t swallow that one. They wrote that “Trump’s handling of the matter is indefensible. It is another indication of his perverse, highly personalized view of the criminal justice system.”

“An American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president,” is the way Sen. Mitt Romney (R- Utah) described the astonishing act. He summed it up as an act of “unprecedented, historic corruption.”

While that was taking place, the attorney general also looks to have been trying to help another of the president’s friends get out of legal trouble.

In that case, Barr tried to force out the prosecutor reportedly investigating the president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. Barr wanted to install a new U.S. attorney with no experience as a criminal prosecutor.

Geoffrey Berman, who was the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Manhattan, told Congress that Barr made him an unseemly offer if he agreed to quit.

Berman testified that Barr told him he could take over the civil rights division of the Justice Department but really use his time to build up a “book of business,” or list of clients that could help him get a big payday when he took a job at a private law firm.

Now that is a scandal in any other administration. But, again, it is just another day in the Trump presidency.

After all, this is the attorney general who ordered federal troops to use chemical agents and smoke bombs against Americans protesting police brutality. Why? So, the president could create a photo-op. Really.

This is not normal.
I can only comment on what I see and hear but Trump has lost a lot of military support since 2016 and it's because of sh!t like this. He disrespects military people too much. He claims to care but his actions say he don't. I still see many military Republicans but I think many are rethinking that because of Trump and how Pub politicians have sucked up to him. The political damage Trump's done to their party is going to take a long time to fix. If it can be fixed.
 
So now we have a combination of
the plague of 1919,
the unemployment of 1930,
the urban riots of 1967,
the executive branch corruption of 1971,
the racial hatred of the 1920s,
climate change at its most rapid pace in human history

what can we add?
dust bowl? molasses floods?

An asteroid impact and a Yellowstone supervolcano eruption seem outside the realm of political influence.

So I gather we are very near the bottom, though I suppose that political corruption and environmental devastation can always get worse.

You left out a new civil war?
 
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So now we have a combination of
the plague of 1919,
the unemployment of 1930,
the urban riots of 1967,
the executive branch corruption of 1971,
the racial hatred of the 1920s,
climate change at its most rapid pace in human history

what can we add?
dust bowl? molasses floods?

An asteroid impact and a Yellowstone supervolcano eruption seem outside the realm of political influence.

So I gather we are very near the bottom, though I suppose that political corruption and environmental devastation can always get worse.
There are some record-breaking news, though.
. Stock market is at all time high.
. Our president is profiting mightily through his presidency. I hear he is pressuring Great Britain to use his hotel and his golf course.
. He is making frequent visits to stay at his hotels and play golf at his golf course. I bet he doesn’t charge us for those expenses, right?
. I wonder whether we paid for Trump junior’s protected animal hunting trip to Mongolia.

calling him a rat would be too charitable. Right, Lucy?
 

This is probably the only test that he has taken on his own that he's passed.

That interview is reason enough to implement the 25th amendment. It is incomprehensible that we have such a moron running the country and that 90+% of Republicans still support him. I could somewhat understand supporting a complete idiot if he at least cared about the country but with Trump it’s always, and ONLY, about him. Hell, 140,000 people have died and he barely mentions them but goes on and on and on about how great he is and how unfairly he is treated. I never thought I would see this in my lifetime.
 
Mary Trump was on Colbert the other night and basically said that bragging about acing the test is actually an example of Failing the test. Meanwhile, even a 2nd grader could likely pass this test...

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hard-cognitive-test-president-trump-225401073.html
I gave the linked test to my 10 year old son. He got 29 out of 30 (He didn't know which day of the month it was, which considering he has been on an equivalent 4 month summer vacation, that's somewhat forgivable).
 
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hard-cognitive-test-president-trump-225401073.html[/QUOTE]
That interview is reason enough to implement the 25th amendment. It is incomprehensible that we have such a moron running the country and that 90+% of Republicans still support him. I could somewhat understand supporting a complete idiot if he at least cared about the country but with Trump it’s always, and ONLY, about him. Hell, 140,000 people have died and he barely mentions them but goes on and on and on about how great he is and how unfairly he is treated. I never thought I would see this in my lifetime.

It really is amazing to me how transfixed on and proud of that test he is. I love how he says the people who gave him the test were surprised by his results and that no one gets the last question right. It's also pretty great that he thinks he got extra credit on a dementia test.

If you were making a mockumentary about a dumbass that became president, a scene like this would probably get cut because it would seem too unbelievable.
 
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