Cont: The Trump Presidency Part III

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Was just reading about Buzzfeed's recent write-up of the links between Bannon, the recent freaking Chief WH Strategist, and the very extreme right, when it struck me that such news is the new normal already. Completely, utterly mundane. Even for you, right? Not even news? Finger-drummer. Yawn. And?

And holy cow! Let's rewind to The Matrix and 1999. Y2K did happen, and what it did to reality sucks, bigly.
 
Spindrift said:
It was estimated once at 156. The estimate was filled with errors.

http://www.snopes.com/donald-trumps-intelligence-quotient/
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The Great Zaganza said:
it would be AWESOME to give him any question from an IQ test designed for the 150-160 crowd.
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And lets not forget that high intelligence utterly fails to prevent a person from:
a) being profoundly ignorant; and
b) believing profoundly foolish things.

Trump appears to actually be proud of his ignorance.
 
He is self absorbed and stupid. Stupid alone would be OK. A Forrest Gump type driven to do the right thing would be great but instead America gets a self-intersted buffoon.
 
I am, at age 49, back to school, changing profession to become a nurse.
Most, perhaps al of my fellow students do not qualify for university. Some I would classify as "charmingly dumb".

I'll readily admit that Trump is more intelligent than most of them. Perhaps more intelligent than average. But that's where it stops! His struggle with language is not compensated by mathematical brilliance, nor with social competence. His perception of reality is poor, indicating that lots of synapses are wired poorly. He is unable to conceive of, let alone express, original and complex ideas.

Clearly, his intelligence today is sub-standard among top ranking politicians. Maybe he was somewhat sharper (though not brilliant) in his Wharton years. But sadly, intelligence is prone to decay as we grow into old age.
 
Trebuchet said:
And lets not forget that high intelligence utterly fails to prevent a person from:
a) being profoundly ignorant; and
b) believing profoundly foolish things.

Trump appears to actually be proud of his ignorance.
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Right. There is no way he could put together a coherent essay as many students are required to that woukd demonstrate proficiency in anything core to the job. Obama was alble to do that off cuff in speech. Not this waffling buffoon,
 
Oystein said:
I am, at age 49, back to school, changing profession to become a nurse.
Most, perhaps al of my fellow students do not qualify for university. Some I would classify as "charmingly dumb".

I'll readily admit that Trump is more intelligent than most of them. Perhaps more intelligent than average. But that's where it stops! His struggle with language is not compensated by mathematical brilliance, nor with social competence. His perception of reality is poor, indicating that lots of synapses are wired poorly. He is unable to conceive of, let alone express, original and complex ideas.

Clearly, his intelligence today is sub-standard among top ranking politicians. Maybe he was somewhat sharper (though not brilliant) in his Wharton years. But sadly, intelligence is prone to decay as we grow into old age.
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Wharton? I wish people would stop saying he went to Wharton. While technically correct it is disingenuous. He went to Penn and got a BBA from the business school (Wharton). He did not go to the renowned MBA program at Wharton but he likes for people to infer that. And he transferred in to Penn with average grades from his first two years at Fordham.
 
I was I could live another 50 years so I could know what future historians will call the period. I'm thinking "When America went insane." or "The Demise of America."
 
Interesting perspective on Trump's worldview:
Donald Trump didn't get rich building businesses, despite years of brand-burnishing via The Apprentice and millions of votes from people who craved exactly that experience. Instead, his forte lies in transactions--buying and selling and cutting deals that assure him a win regardless of the outcome for others.
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https://www.forbes.com/donald-trump/exclusive-interview/#26eb0475bdec
 
Oystein said:
I am, at age 49, back to school, changing profession to become a nurse.
Most, perhaps al of my fellow students do not qualify for university. Some I would classify as "charmingly dumb".

I'll readily admit that Trump is more intelligent than most of them. Perhaps more intelligent than average. But that's where it stops! His struggle with language is not compensated by mathematical brilliance, nor with social competence. His perception of reality is poor, indicating that lots of synapses are wired poorly. He is unable to conceive of, let alone express, original and complex ideas.

Clearly, his intelligence today is sub-standard among top ranking politicians. Maybe he was somewhat sharper (though not brilliant) in his Wharton years. But sadly, intelligence is prone to decay as we grow into old age.
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I reject this notion. I'm convinced that he's a dimwit.
 
varwoche said:
I reject this notion. I'm convinced that he's a dimwit.
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I'm with you on this. There is zero evidence to support the idea that he has even 'average' intelligence. Zero. His money came from turning a large loan from his father into high-value real estate... in New York. All evidence is that he has consitently come out behind what one would expect, as well. So, yeah, dimwit.
 
Segnosaur said:
Don't worry... things are actually worse than you think...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/29/reu...-scale-to-save-u-s-coal-and-nuclear-kemp.html
...Energy Secretary Rick Perry has directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to consider a new grid resiliency rule.
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Eligible units must ... be able to provide essential energy and ancillary reliability services and have a 90-day fuel supply on-site in the event of supply disruptions
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Solar and wind farms do not store fuel and gas-fired power plants do not stockpile anything like 90 days of gas on site, relying instead on pipeline deliveries.
So not only are they removing environmental regulations, they are actually considering adding regulations which artificially favor coal fired plants.

The problem is... coal plants may not necessarily be best in an emergency. (When we had a severely cold winter a few years ago, electrical production at coal plants fell because their mechanical components froze up.
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I somehow managed to completely miss this. So the proposed rule would benefit coal and nuclear? I know Trump ran hard on being pro-coal, so that's no surprise. Anybody know what (if anything) he's had to say about nuclear energy?
 
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