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William Farrar's avatar

Stupidity has nothing to do with his ability to manipulate people.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said of Sherlock Holmes, when it came to light that he knew nothing of geography, Holmes response was basically it is irrelevant information.

Al Capone, a Trump hero, was stupid. His emotional IQ though is off the charts, if not he would not have become a billionaire and so powerful, despite having declared bankruptcy, what is it three times.

He is the paragon of pscyhopathy, unashamed, unabashed, no conscience, and able to project power and a charisma that has enemies and idiots alike enthralled.

Show me one Newspaper, one TV Channel, that hasn't mentioned his name at least once, if not more often in the last 9 years.

All those people you named that suffered and died because of him is not because of his stupidity, but because he doesn't give a shit.

You care, I care, so you project your sentiments onto him, and then excuse him by saying he is stupid.

Nah, he isn't stupid Okie, he just doesn't care, the only thing that matters in Trump world is Trump.

If it serves him it is good, if it doesn't it is irrelevant and if it stands in his way, it is bad.

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Sir Okie Doke's avatar

Both counter-replies above are Strawman fallacies.

Trump is altogether stupid in the same way dope dealers are stupid.

You do not kill your clients with fentanyl et al. Nor your constituents.

Trump's megalomania has always gotten the better of him.

He needs voters. Without them he's absolute-zero, bupkis, nada, zip, nothing.

He cannot see that b/c his success has forever been based on effing people over. Including the women he's molested and/or raped.

And when he kills off enough his constituents figuratively and literally, he will find out.

n.b.: Strawman fallacies are given no quarter here.

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William Farrar's avatar

No Okie they are not strawman fallacies, they directly address your claim that Trump is stupid. You need to clarify your definition of stupid.

In your response you did. Whether he can be analogized to a drug dealer selling fentanyl is another story. Only time will tell.

I take your example to Hitler. Hitler was also stupid, his meglamania and belief that he was smarter than his generals, brought the ruin of Germany and his own death.

But stupid people don't become Der Furhrer, Stupid people don't become President twice.

My wife was a building official, one of her inspectors was stupid, but smart in the way of finessing people. She actually tutored him when they were both students and because of her tutoring he passed and became a building inspector, previously he had been a carpenter and poured concrete.

He was shit as an inspector, made snide comments about her being book smart, but not street smart. I wouldn't live in a home that he inspected, he got by by schmoozing the contractors, until he didn't.

Trump is book stupid, but street smart, and that is the point I was making

Best to define terms Okie.

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Sir Okie Doke's avatar

Agree to disagree.

Trump is stupid, but he is cunning.

Foxes are cunning until the hounds of a fox hunt rip them to shreds.

Trump is dumb as a bag of hammers, but he has a feral cunning.

The most important aspect of DJT?

HE'S a TRAITOR.

Why? Because he is too stupid to make money legally. Manhattan real estate tycoons dismiss him as a fop. A FOP.

So how does he fund his beater of a Boeing jet. His 'copter. His fake golf-courses?

2 ways: Branding w/ his fake name.

But most of all by SELLING OUT HIS COUNTRY !!!

If traitorism were sex, Trump'd be a 5 decade old nymphomaniac.

And, yes, your counterarguments are tent-poled by logical fallacies.

Now, I invite you to have the last word. Cheers.

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William Farrar's avatar

You said my arguments are tent poled by logical fallacies.

Please do me the favor of informing me which arguments and how each is a fallacy. That would be helpful

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