I personally think it’s pretty low-grade bullshit, and that’s why no one with any brains to speak of is falling for it. This is going to sound elitist, but too fucking bad: the only people buying his BS are those as stupid or stupider than he is.
Our core problem is that there are simply a lot of those people in this country.
Come on, Eric. Say it!
Donald "the draft dodging coward and lying, asshole loser’ trump is dumb as a box of rocks.
LOL…Politi-speak Rosetta Stone: “Trump’s a fucking moron.”
This isn’t the goal, never has been and never will be. The goal is to swing those moderate Republicans who aren’t supporting Trump, to swing those now saying they’ll vote Johnson, and the large percentage of undecideds. Trump can keep every single one of his voters. Clinton doesn’t need any of them. She needs those who aren’t currently supporting him. If she gets only half of the undecideds and half of those claiming they’ll vote Johnson, she wins by a huge margin.
Roy Cohn, C, o, h, n, Roy…its a known name that’s been in the press. Look him up. Explains a lot…
Saying that Trump may lack the intellectual capacity to be President is like calling the ocean damp.
Or of the decade.
Calling Drumpf shallow is gives him too much depth.
MAY lack? Eric, honey, the syphilis has eaten every last one of Trump’s intellectual heft cells.
Half of the population of the United States is below average.
Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
In Defense of Women (1918)
When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost… All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. Mencken
Baltimore Sun (26 July 1920)
“No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”
H.L. Mencken,
Chicago Tribune
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
Notes on Democracy
Henry Louis Mencken-1926
Who is…Michael Bloomberg?
And I’ll take ‘Famous Chamber Music Composers of the 1400’s’ for $1000, Alex…
Maybe not exactly that. But at 70 years old, and exhibiting some of his symptoms, Trump may literally be experiencing dementia.
Great quotes, but I’m not sure what any of them have to do with the fact that Clinton does not need to change the mind of a single Trump voter in order to win a massive landslide victory. And I’m sorry, but the last quote is from 1926, a time when women had only been voting for five years, most black people hadn’t even gotten the right to vote, and Latinos and other ethnic and religious minorities were an insigificiant portion of our voting population. He was almost exclusively talking about what white men will do, a demographic we’ve consistently lost heavily since LBJ passed the CRA.
After hearing Trump say that he doesn’t think about anything when he looks in the shaving mirror, and that he hasn’t changed since kindergarten convinced me that he lacked intellectual heft a long time ago. Still, encountering people who don’t recognize that is depressing.
From the New York/New Jersey metro area know of Cohn ,with the “SLEEPY EYES”,from back in the day.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
C+
I’ll upgrade that to an A if you show your work. Include a couple Venn diagrams. Everyone loves Venn diagrams.
"You mean he’s not smart enough to be president? Rose asked.
“Yeah, I wonder,” Holder responded. “I sometimes think that he hides behind a certain bravado to hide a lack of substance that he has.”
I had to laugh. Yep, dubya was such a great mind by comparison to Trump that dubya never did one single successful business deal on his own. Dubya is only his daddy’s boy. At least Trump is able to fail on his own. Dubya? Can’t do anything on his own, including think.
Yeah, and they all voted for dubya and dick.