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Trump, 79, Claims Nobody Knows What a Magnet Is (www.thedailybeast.com)
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[–] 80 points 1 year ago (13 children)

What everyone glosses over and completely never see.

Is that this idiot represents the entire country.

If you have an idiot for a leader.

Logic says, your country is full of idiots.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Logic says, your country is full of idiots.

    Yeah, we went through this already, George Bush the Second made you guys look very stupid

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    It was less obvious because the world was less connected and not everyone had a high quality video camera in their pocket.

    The media could also be relied upon to edit in a favourable manner. That's still the case today, but he can't get away from the fact that every time he shows up, people film him, because he's always going to say something stupid. The idea that he might manage to have a normal day and not say something insanely dumb, is just inconceivable.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    did you live through the Bush presidency, or are you making assumptions based on the times? Because the media tore Bush to absolute shreds and painted him as a gigantic idiot.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Pretty sure the hegemonic narrative had W as savior of the planet after 911.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictionalized_portrayals_of_George_W._Bush

    Bush was the target of satire for most of his presidency. Most fictional depictions of the President in popular media tend to emphasize his drawl and tendency to use incorrect grammar and malapropisms in speeches, as well as his sometimes awkward hand and facial gestures. Bush is often depicted in caricatures with a large nose and ears, and small eyes, giving him a somewhat chimpanzee-like appearance. This is exemplified in a Fruit of the Loom shirt design in which he is compared to the children's book character Curious George. He is also sometimes drawn in political cartoons as being short in stature.

    Most fictionalized portrayals of George W. Bush have been perceived as negative.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    tbf, he really is the perfect representation of a large subsection of the US population, rich, middle/working class, poor....

    he's dumb as shit and acquired everything because of his name (wasting most of that fortune/legacy to boot).

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I agree. The middle of the bell curve is woefully inadequate. Those dingalings.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I suppose if we've got Einstein and Hawking we must have people like Trump to balance it out.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Einstein was born in Germany and spent much of his life (including the portion where he did a lot of his most significant work) in Switzerland. He only moved to the United States towards the end of his life.

    Hawking was born in the UK and lived his entire life there.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Exactly right....

    You know those old cartoons that were totally not politically correct showing a bad stereotype of a Mexican, with a sombrero and a poncho, sleeping off a tequila bender under the shade of a cactus?

    Well, the orange pedophile is EXACTLY the American version of that: confidently ignorant, morbidly obese, with undeserved resources, zero education, zero manners, zero culture.

    We all know those stereotypes are supposed to be rude jokes barely based on any reality... I mean, there are cacti in Mexico and I am sure more than one Mexican has had a Tequila bender, but there is never the expectation you'll go to Mexico and actually see that.

    And now, Muricans proved theirs not only exists, it is what they look up to apparently.

    That is like France choosing this guy as their next President

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