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[manqiangrexue]

I think I haven't been clear enough in explaining my position - apologies. I think we agree on most things in terms of material reality.

In short, this is my position:

1. competency in governance has no bearing on political success in the USA (save only in disaster situations);
2. as such, Trump is adept at navigating the US political system, despite being incompetent at actually governing; and
3. in that context Trump demonstrates a cunning that the rest of the US political establishment does not.

In that context, to your points.

Agreed - he is incompetent at governing, and this is a good example of it. It's just that this particular situation the incompetence actually impacted on the day-to-day lives of people in a meaningful way, which impacted on his election. Think of all of the other shitshows that Trump did during his first term that didn't end up meaningfully impacting on his re-election chances.


Agreed again - but he played it in such a away that he fed his base red meat politically, and then pulled back early enough that they didn't actually feel that much pain in their day-to-day lives. It was incredibly stupid, but it was not damaging ultimately to him personally in a political way.


Not quite I think - China is playing chess, Trump is trying to flip the table, but he hasn't realised that China has bolted the table to the ground and not even full retard strength can flip it.

And my position is that Trump's navigation of the US political scene is the result of his natural personality defects and stupidity which happen to mesh with the IQ level of the American mass rather than any "cunning." Quite frankly, competency in governance and political cunning are not that different and one cannot really be excellent at one and shit at the other. They're not worlds apart like engineering IQ and romantic IQ. Trump could easily overcome his lack of knowledge by simply listening to the top notch expert advice that is constantly offered to him by intitutions like the CDC. Instead, he fights against such benefits arguing that he knows better than anyone of anything and that makes him just plain stupid.

The older I get, the more I have come to the belief that every gay person, whether male or female, is that way due to unresolved childhood psychological trauma. That is, if they were brought up in a different environment, then they would not be gay but straight. Am I bad for thinking like this?

They discovered a gay gene in fruit flies that they can active and cause a congo-line sex party in all male enclosures. This gene has no orthologue in humans but we might have something undiscovered. The fact is that many homosexuals come from environmental factors that have absolutely no detectable affinity to homosexuality and that homosexual adoptive parents more often than not raise heterosexual children. I think this is multifactorial, meaning that part of it is genetic disposition and the other part is environmental influence. The environment cannot turn someone with no homosexual leaning into a homosexual (and vice versa with heterosexuals), however, it can influence those who have some inclinations to express them one direction or another. Genetic composition and enviromental stimulus come together to form the phenotype.

Your, uh, "cousin's boyfriend", right? Asking for a friend....

You... want his number or something?

 

[Bellum_Romanum]

The older I get, the more I have come to the belief that every gay person, whether male or female, is that way due to unresolved childhood psychological trauma. That is, if they were brought up in a different environment, then they would not be gay but straight. Am I bad for thinking like this?

You're NUTS for thinking like this!!

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Well Western Hills of Beijing might be vulnerable to GBU-57s dropped from B2 bombers.

Still, the White House, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC 20500 United States, is definitely vulnerable to at least one CCP DF-41 MIRV thermonuclear warhead.

There are also more MIRV warheads for the Pentagon, Capitol Hill, and others.

They think they can fly within 10 km of Beijing? Bold assumption.

 

[Sardaukar20]

Kailash Yatra (Pilgrimage) resumed after 5 years.

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Hindus are welcomed to perform their pilgrimage to Mount Kailash. On one condition: Give up any illusions about Akhand Bharat. Mount Kailash belongs to Xizang, China. Period.

 

[supersnoop]

Trump could easily overcome his lack of knowledge by simply listening to the top notch expert advice that is constantly offered to him by intitutions like the CDC. Instead, fights against such benefits arguing that he knows better than anyone of anything and that makes him just plain stupid.

Don’t you think that his dismissal of expert advice is just a sign of his political pandering? Most of his base are very strongly anti-intellectualism. How many people turn to Joe Rogan for medical advice?

 

[manqiangrexue]

Don’t you think that his dismissal of expert advice is just a sign of his political pandering? Most of his base are very strongly anti-intellectualism. How many people turn to Joe Rogan for medical advice?

Trump's base was slightly anti-intellectual by default but they would have accepted it as common sense to take advice from the CDC for a viral pandemic. His base became strongly anti-intellectual because he made them that way, told them that the CDC was the enemy, that masks were for weak people and traitors, vaccines give people autism. It's entirely self-inflicted damage stemming from his stupidity. The only way this could be portrayed as cunning is if Trump were a foreign asset whose job was to damage America.

 

[Ringsword]

Trump's base was slightly anti-intellectual by default but they would have accepted it as common sense to take advice from the CDC for a viral pandemic. His base became strongly anti-intellectual because he made them that way, told them that the CDC was the enemy, that masks were for weak people and traitors, vaccines give people autism. It's entirely self-inflicted damage stemming from his stupidity. The only way this could be portrayed as cunning is if Trump were a foreign asset whose job was to damage America.

Trump isn't smart,intellectual by any means but he DOES have a natural predator's instinct for sensing weakness/vulnerabilities in his victims/MAGA masses and will instinctively say/do things to appeal to that weakness in order to get what he wants-votes/money -along with his malignant narcissusum,greed,sociopathic/psychopathic psyche-he is formidable in that regard and can't be underestimated in any regard.He's no ordinary human being-thankfully he's aging/declining rapidly-dementia et al.

 

[siegecrossbow]

The older I get, the more I have come to the belief that every gay person, whether male or female, is that way due to unresolved childhood psychological trauma. That is, if they were brought up in a different environment, then they would not be gay but straight. Am I bad for thinking like this?

The SeeSeePee can potentially feed CIA disinformation that China is researching chemicals that could turn straight people gay and cause the homophobic neocons to blow billions of dollars implementing a counter.

 

[manqiangrexue]

Trump isn't smart,intellectual by any means but he DOES have a natural predator's instinct for sensing weakness/vulnerabilities in his victims/MAGA masses and will instinctively say/do things to appeal to that weakness in order to get what he wants-votes/money -along with his malignant narcissusum,greed,sociopathic/psychopathic psyche-he is formidable in that regard and can't be underestimated in any regard.He's no ordinary human being-thankfully he's aging/declining rapidly-dementia et al.

Yes, but it's not any more intelligent or sophisticated than you'd expect to see in playground politics where a big bully creates his own clique of little shitty kids who only feel safe when in a gang. He's functional but he's not cunning, not moreso than children. And remember, he's the adult son of a real estate tycoon so he had every advantage and chance to develop his traits while they come naturally to children at play.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Trump isn't smart,intellectual by any means but he DOES have a natural predator's instinct for sensing weakness/vulnerabilities in his victims/MAGA masses and will instinctively say/do things to appeal to that weakness in order to get what he wants-votes/money -along with his malignant narcissusum,greed,sociopathic/psychopathic psyche-he is formidable in that regard and can't be underestimated in any regard.He's no ordinary human being-thankfully he's aging/declining rapidly-dementia et al.

More like US Politics have devolved into the adult version of Mean Girls where popularity must be maintained via appeals to the lowest common denominator.