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On 16/09/2018 at 00:28, VILLAMARV said:

It's intentional. Hiding in plain sight imo.

 

Yup.

Scott Adams has done loads of interviews etc., where he breaks this down clear as day. Pay attention kids.

Don't people remember the whole feudal system and serfs thing from school, way back in the day. Waste of time I tells ya, waste of time.

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He just can't stop himself, can he?

His defence of an alleged would-be rapist is couched in terms of the degree to which he feels sexually attracted to the daughters of said alleged would-be rapist.

Something pretty odd going on here.

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On Tuesday, Trump spoke up for him again, saying he feels “terribly” for Kavanaugh, his wife “and for his beautiful young daughters”.

 

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1 hour ago, peterms said:

He just can't stop himself, can he?

His defence of an alleged would-be rapist is couched in terms of the degree to which he feels sexually attracted to the daughters of said alleged would-be rapist.

Something pretty odd going on here.

 

Imagine if he had said they had a beautiful baby girl... ffs!

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"This is a tough hurricane. One of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water".

And some people on here want to believe he's actually not a complete imbecile.

The man is mentally deficient. 

The incredible thing is, it wasn't even live. They've recorded this, decided it's the best they can get out of him, and have published it. 

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52 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said:

I did actually start writing all the things that were batsh1t stupid with that idea and realised I just don't have the time in my life to get them all out.  I mean, come on.

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3 minutes ago, TheAuthority said:

He makes the best deals

Actually I see climate scientists are drawing inspiration from his ideas.

Perhaps we should accord him a little more respect.  No-one would have thought of this if it hadn't been for him.

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Build walls on seafloor to stop glaciers melting, scientists say

 

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18 hours ago, Davkaus said:

"This is a tough hurricane. One of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water".

And some people on here want to believe he's actually not a complete imbecile.

The man is mentally deficient. 

The incredible thing is, it wasn't even live. They've recorded this, decided it's the best they can get out of him, and have published it. 

American English has a lot to answer for also. It is this exact everyman speech pattern that also helped the idiot Bush and Clinton  who had a charming everyman manner too, he did know how to speak in a more refined manner also, however.

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Re: is Trump a moron, his latest trip to the lion's den to face the fearsome questioning of Sean Hannity might leave some clues:

 

Trump’s latest interview shows Republicans have nothing to run on in November

“Why,” President Donald Trump asked rhetorically during a sit-down with Fox News propaganda broadcaster Sean Hannity Thursday night, “didn’t somebody call the FBI 36 years ago?”

He was referring to Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the 1980s, when both were in high school. Any number of old geezers could easily fail to grasp the dynamics of sexual assault that would lead a 15-year-old girl to be reluctant to report a crime perpetrated by an older boy in her community. But the truly Trumpian coup de grace is that the current president doesn’t seem to understand what the FBI is or what it does.

A normal interviewer might have pressed Trump on some of this, but Hannity is not a normal interviewer. Indeed, through significant stretches of the interview, he can’t actually be bothered to formulate questions of any kind, instead simply issuing supportive statements like “better news with Kim Jong Un. He is not firing rockets over Japan.” To this, Trump sagely replies, “Honestly, Korea, North Korea, South Korea, things are working out very nicely.”

[. . .]

Trump is not conversant in the main issues of American public policy and doesn’t bother studying for interviews, so every time he does one, he ends up spouting risible nonsense.

Here, for example, is the president explaining his trade policy: “It is time to take a stand on China. It has been a long time they have been hurting us. Our farmers are great and starting to do very well again. It is very interesting, but we are putting very, very heavy sanctions and other things on various countries. And we are getting along with some countries. We have been ripped off, Sean, by the world. All of these countries, for years and years, we can’t do it anymore.”

Farmers are, of course, hurting quite badly from the disruption of trade with China. Indeed, the US Department of Agriculture reports that this year farm income “is forecast to decline $11.4 billion (14.8 percent) from 2017.”

[. . .]

Trump is, in general, not really a specifics guy. His main message is that everyone has to vote Republican, but he doesn’t know why.

If Republicans do well in the midterms, holding a House majority and gaining a Senate seat or two, they are going to try to govern the country. They will make another stab at repealing the Affordable Care Act, enact a new round of tax cuts, and move to cut safety-net programs like SNAP.

There’s a problem with this program of cutting taxes for the rich in order to cut useful programs for the rest is: It’s unpopular. So when Hannity asks Trump to explain why people should vote Republican, Trump can’t bother to cite any of their actual policy agenda:

HANNITY: What do you say to those people that love you but maybe aren’t so hot on the Republican House or Senate member?

TRUMP: You have to go out and vote. We need more Republicans. We will get everything we want, but we need more Republicans. Want to protect your Second Amendment, everything, protect all of the great success that you have had over the last little more than a year and a half, think of it, we are coming up — can you believe it — on two years.

[. . .]

Why does Trump have so little actual information about anything that’s actually happening? Well, as he explains at the end as Hannity as wrapping up the segment and throwing to Laura Ingraham, “Laura, I love your show, I watch it all the time. And you know what, you are special. You really are.”

And it’s true. Trump is not just a beneficiary of Fox’s friendly coverage; he’s a genuinely enthusiastic consumer who believes highly biased cable news broadcasts are a good way to get information about American politics and public policy. And it shows.'

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/21/17885486/trump-hannity-interview

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