Proof that Trump's an Idiot

[JustOneWay]

You can't just compare base rates of corporate tax. You need to also take into account the widely varying exemptions, concessions and reductions which are available in each different country.

Yes we should....

but they never do.

 

[Albion]

You can't just compare base rates of corporate tax. You need to also take into account the widely varying exemptions, concessions and reductions which are available in each different country.

This is true, but I've listened to various non-politicians--economists, and so on--who have appeared on a number of financial news channels, and none of them felt anything but that the American tax on corporations is way too high and hurting the country. We could say that they are all oriented towards corporations, business, or the like, but it seems like they'd at least address this issue you refer to if it were a significant offset.

 

[Strathos]

I voted "don't know", because it's quite possible he is just taking advantage of the people who are deluded enough to believe him.

 

[ScottA]

Two thirds of Republicans say Trump is qualified to be President. I still don't have an answer to my question "What makes him more qualified than Flavor Flav?" He has no political experience; how can he be qualified? Because he's rich and irreverent? Flavor Flav is rich and irreverent! Also musically talented, and he wears a clock.

Not having political experience...is a major plus. But he is a leader, with a track record of seceding against all odds. If anyone could balance the budget, he could. Those are all the qualities needed to be president. Event the best of those other "political" hacks wouldn't get half as much done as he would.

 

[pakicetus]

Don't assume that it's pure bias that accounts for that...

lol. There is no good reason whatsoever to refuse to vote for someone because they're a homosexual, Muslim or atheist.

Continuing to throw around gratuitous, unverifiable insults like that doesn't help us here, especially after that rocky start when you called Trump an idiot but had no actual reason for it.

Either you're deliberately lying or you didn't read my post. I quoted four or five things from Trump that only a broken mind could say.

And lol at "unverifiable insults." You want to verify that Trump insults people a lot? Read his Twitter! Or look up what he's said about John McCain, Carly Fiorina, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and like every other politician in the country.

 

[ScottA]

How so?

Sorry, wrong guy. However, financial success and Trump's track record as a leader, puts him leaps and bounds ahead of many in the ring.

 

[Audacious]

The fact that he's vehemently anti-vaccination, and has had ample time and opportunity to actually bother to research the issue, proves that he is too darned stupid to be President. Or, you know... to be anything. I wouldn't elect him for literally any position.

I mean, yeah, he has all these other completely unreasonable opinions, but it seems to me that none are as stupid as being anti-vaccination. As someone with lots of public influence, he has a duty not to spread views needlessly endangering the immunocompromised, children and the elderly.

 

[Belk]

Not having political experience...is a major plus. But he is a leader, with a track record of seceding against all odds. If anyone could balance the budget, he could. Those are all the qualities needed to be president. Event the best of those other "political" hacks wouldn't get half as much done as he would.

Do you feel that the country should be run like a business?

 

[Honey Parallel]

It's not like we haven't elected idiots into office before.

 

[pakicetus]

Not having political experience...is a major plus.

How so? Does having a political career inevitably corrupt people? If so, why wouldn't it corrupt Trump once he becomes President?

But he is a leader, with a track record of seceding against all odds. If anyone could balance the budget, he could.

How much do we even know about his fiscal policy? He wants to increase military spending without touching Social Security or Medicare, all while cutting taxes. (The military, Social Security, and Medicare dwarf the rest of the federal budget.) Even if Congress goes along with everything he wants, how is he going to balance the budget while doing all that? Has he ever given a specific answer? I'm not saying he's deliberately lying: There's a good chance he doesn't know what's in the federal budget, given his history of doing no research before spreading huge falsehoods he could've falsified with a Google search (e.g. that Romney won the popular vote "by a lot" in 2012, plus the examples I mentioned in the OP).

 

[Albion]

lol. There is no good reason whatsoever to refuse to vote for someone because they're a homosexual, Muslim or atheist.

Either you're deliberately lying or you didn't read my post.

Oh oh, I don't play that name-calling game, my friend, so I'll just point out that there is a reason people are reluctant to vote for a Muslim.

We are at war with Islamofascism at the moment. This may not matter much to you, and the President isn't acting terribly concerned about it, but the American people care--and it's they who were polled. It would take someone who's not been paying much attention..or someone with an ideological axe to grind here, to be so out of touch as to think, categorically, that a reluctance to vote for a Muslim under today's circumstances could not possibly be anything but religious prejudice.

 

[pakicetus]

We are at war with Islamofascism at the moment.

If we were at war with Christian fascism, would most Republicans refuse to vote for a Christian President? Or would they instead distinguish fascist Christians from non-fascist ones?

Plus like I mentioned, most Republicans wouldn't vote for a homosexual or an atheist either. I don't think you could come up with a reasonable excuse for that.

 

[Bknight006]

An elaborate treatise on a fundamentally flawed philosophy like socialism does not equate with intelligence.

Just sayin ...

So... how exactly is socialism "fundamentally flawed?" Canada and the UK (among many others) seem to be doing quite well with the socialist elements of their governments. (So well, in fact, that the "welfare states," as they're called, typically have longer life expectancies, better quality of life, better paying jobs, etc than America.)

That's basically what Sanders is advocating: turning America into a welfare state. It seems to work for the UK and them; why not us? Is it because the billionaires in the Republican party are afraid to lose some of their cash?

EDIT: I'm not trying to continue Hawkeye's attempt at a derail. I'm just curious about the logic (or lack thereof) in the statements about socialism.

 

[Bknight006]

An I.Q. test score that lands in the idiot range. You haven't got that, of course.

IQ is no longer accepted as a valid measure of intelligence.

But seriously, anyone with an ounce of wisdom can see that Trump's an either an idiot or out solely for himself. He thinks that Mexico will be taken in by his "charisma" or his confidence and pay for that wall? No- they're gonna refuse, and the only way he'd be able to make them pay for it would be by mobilizing troops into Mexico. Yeah. War. War against MEXICO. That would be pointless and extremely expensive. He'd be throwing away money, and more importantly, lives.

He also thinks that he doesn't have to know what the elite military units of other nations, particularly enemy ones or potential enemy nations, are called, and he's not an idiot? He thinks he has enough strategic ability to command our fighting forces despite having no experience whatsoever, and that doesn't make him an idiot? He thinks ignoring diplomatic niceties and infuriating other nations, potentially leading us into war with China, Iran, or God knows what other nations, is acceptable, and that doesn't make him an idiot?

Yeah, sounds like a complete cretin to me. Either that, or he's using this as a means to an end.

 

[Bknight006]

The OP doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.

Donald Trump graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and anthropology. Mensa doesn't accept SAT scores from after 1994. However Mr Trump was a student at Wharton when it was possible to derive an accurate IQ core from known SAT scores. Given the usual requirements for admission to a top school like Wharton, I estimate that Mr. Trump has a 156 IQ at the minimum.

The standard description of this level of intelligence is “Genius – Exception intellectual ability and capable of looking beyond known facts.” However, the percentile rating is more revealing than the raw score. A 156 IQ is at the 99.9905490555 percentile. That means that Donald Trump is smarter than 99.99 percent of the people on planet earth. Not only does Trump qualify for membership in Mensa but he could join the Triple Nine Society.
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Calling someone who disagrees with you stupid is the sign of a childish, immature person. We might expect his from a third grader.

I should point out that Before It's News is anything but a reliable source, and that the reporter is named as "A Steady Drip". Also, he states that Good and Evil is something that Donal Trump focuses on, which is anything but true.

 

[Gnarwhal]

NOTE: I'm saying Trump is stupid about political issues. Maybe he's a genius about running casinos or something; that doesn't make him smart at everything else. Arthur Conan Doyle was a brilliant writer (or so I've heard), but he also thought fairies were real and Harry Houdini had magic powers. Plenty of people are smart at one thing and idiotic when it comes to another.

I'll agree with that much.

Don't get me wrong, I do not think the man would be a competent leader. He's not an idiot, but I think his understanding of policy and diplomacy are negligible at best. He's hinging his campaign on an inflammatory persona that is simply not viable in today's geopolitical climate.

The sad fact is, he's winning the approval of undecided voters because they are largely uninformed. He's a recognizable face due to his business success, and—even more sadly—his involvement with The Apprentice. He's drawing on the defiance of the uninformed electorate, and it makes for a potentially dangerous cocktail should he succeed.

I'm intrigued by the concept of a professional executive taking the office in the Executive Branch of the government, but Trump's rhetoric is far too irrational and flagrant to be considered worthy of the dignity that surrounds the Oval Office. Even my parents, consummate conservative Republicans, agree with me wholeheartedly that Trump is a cartoon character and shouldn't be participating in the race.

There are Republican candidates that I, a (conservative) Democrat, would accept. I think Carson is an intelligent individual, though sometimes I wonder if he has the energy to serve as President. I like his demeanor, because I share it, but I'm not sure how well an introverted individual can function in todays political climate (domestically and internationally). That being said, if he were to win, I would accept him.

Another is John Kasich. I realize at this point he's all but disappeared from the polls, but he's another even-tempered and rational thinker on the GOP roster that I would feel comfortable having in office.

I've resolved to do my best not to disparage candidates from other parties. I really believe America needs to break free from the two-party system like Washington originally envisioned country. Even if Bush, Cruz or Rubio were to make it into the White House, I would be concerned on certain levels, but I would not join in the mindless barrage of baseless insults like people hurl at past Presidents and our current President.

 

[wing2000]

I voted "don't know", because it's quite possible he is just taking advantage of the people who are deluded enough to believe him.

Not possibly, he is.

 

[Sistrin]

Now we are using gaffes as proof of intelligence.

That means Bush was a moron.

If gaffes are the benchmark, then Biden is the champion moron.

 

[Belk]

If gaffes are the benchmark, then Biden is the champion moron.

Sorry, but bad as Biden is Quayle has to be top dog in this fight.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

 

[JustOneWay]

If gaffes are the benchmark, then Biden is the champion moron.

Such a short memory, this one has.

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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."

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