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Whenever he opens it, Trump makes it abundantly clear that he has no control over his mouth.
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Moron says what?
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Trumps multiple bankruptcies make it clear he has no control over his fatherās money.
And thatās actually a better analogy than Trumpās word salad.
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From the man who knows incompetence. Really though, Iām just dying to hear were Paris Hilton thinks about Ebola. Come on TPM, scoop the story for us!!!
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Wouldnāt it be nice if well-informed, insightful non-celebrities had a tenth of the chance to get their views aired that this ignorant, bull-headed and stupefyingly boring nonentity does?
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Congratulations to the headline writer on a TPM trifecta!
Tinfoil Toupee.
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TPM wonāt allow right wing trolls to post in the comment section but constantly posts articles about right wing trolls. LOL.
By Trumpās logic, comparing the number of dead in Benghazi vs. the number of dead in 9/11, the Bush administration was eminently more incompetent. Gee, he didnāt flap his lips then??
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Donald Trump:
āF*ck Mother Teresa and Albert Schweitzer and every other do-gooder!ā
oh - and you canāt imagine what he would have said to that 'Associates with Lepers" guy - Jesusā¦
Dunning Krueger is the only explanation
Sycophants : Trump :: Warm blood : Vampires.
Why stop there? What about the BP oil spill, Malaysian airliners and the Presidential birth certificate?
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If Iām looking for simple reasons, why not indulge myself with a simpleton?
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Notice how the conversation had little to do with the spread of Ebola, and had more to do with taking shots at the President. I would take my chances with the Center for Disease control over anything Donald trump does to prevent the spread of infection. Unless you can fix it with a bankrupt gambling casino Trump is lost.
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Yet ANOTHER distraction from Benghazi.
BENGHAZI!
ALL THE TIME!
Wait ā¦ Trump may actually have a great idea. Letās privatize the control of infectious diseases and put the hospitals, the pharmaceutical companies, and the morticians in charge of it. The profit lines are off the charts. Why leave this in the hands of the government when thereās money to be made out of this.
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You have touched on a topic I have ventured into in the past. Back when people would rightly note the abominations of censorship and repression in the old Soviet Union. Sometimes I would muse as to how the U.S., in its own way, does the same thing (ācensorshipā-lite) by just not talking about things; by not publicizing views which could enlighten or provoke thought and understanding.
Take race relations. One of my favourite books is one written by Pierre van den Berghe in 1967 in which he has accurately laid out mechanisms for racial animosity and conflict not only for the U.S. but three other societies. Since then, some specifics have obviously changed but systemic patterns remain.
And prior to that is a man, Robert Ezra Park, who, in the early 20th Century, said this (primarily to students of the topic):
THE NATURE OF RACE RELATIONS
Race relations, as that term is defined in use and wont in the United States, are relations between people distinguished by marks of racial descent, particularly when those differences enter into the consciousness of the individuals so distinguished and by so doing determine in each case the individualās concept of himself as well as his status in the community. Thus, anything that intensifies race consciousness, anything particularly if it is a permanent physical trait, that increases an individualās visibility and in so doing makes more obvious his identity with a particular ethnic unit or genetic group, tends to create and maintain the conditions under which race relations, as here defined, may be said to exist. Race consciousness, therefore, is to be regarded as a phenomenon, like caste or class consciousness, that enforces social distance. Race relations, in this sense, are not so much the relations that exist between individuals of different races as between individuals conscious of those differences.
āRobert Ezra Park (1864-1944)ā
The people to whom Trump is appealing are not only the beneficiaries of the dog-whistles mouthed by Trump but also the social rules (enforcement and social codification of āracial differenceā) laid out years ago by the brilliant theorist, Park.
And yet, there could long ago have been a comprehensive docu-series explaining in detail how this operates in the United States.
Not something like the usual (the depiction of āracial animosityā) but the rules, mechalisms and enforcements of the system itself.
No wonder the young get cynicalā¦when those who have the power to enlighten act like Trump.
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Why are we still paying attention to this rag-headed, orange-faced buffoon?? I mean, really, he has nothing to contribute to the debate. Donald Trumpās main vocabulary appears to consist of his names and the adjectives ārich,ā āsmartā and āhyyyuuuuge.ā Heās an ignoramus who has been proven NOT to be a great businessman, ārichā only because his father left him a vast real estate fortune, most of which heās been able to whittle down to nothing. Heās a clown, verging on insanity. Please stop reporting his every breath as though it has meaning; it doesnāt.
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