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Seriously, How Dumb is Trump?

As we know now, trump used to spar with Muhammad Ali. Of course trump was so quick on his feet and moved like nothing Ali had ever seen before, so likely he couldn't ever get a good shot at him, but maybe he did land some and give trump brain damage. Who will ever forget Ali (yes, you guessed it, tears in his eyes) thanking donnie for sparring with a Black man.
Much like every topic known to man, Trump knows more about it than the supposed experts.

 
that the Civil War was unnecessary because it should have been “negotiated,” and that no one would know who Lincoln was if he hadn’t gone to war.
I am afraid he was correct in this assertion. Over 1 million were killed in that war, and we are still fighting over the same issues as before the war ... I think we may have actually lost ground in terms of relative quality of life for blacks.

We almost certainly could have found a better way.


Slavery in Brazil was officially ended by The Golden Law, issued by Princess Imperial Isabel on May 13, 1888. Unlike the United States or Haiti, Brazil's abolition of slavery came without a bloody civil war or a slave rebellion1. The Catholic Church ended its support of slavery by 1887, and not long after the Portuguese Crown began to position itself against it. The legal end of slavery in Brazil did little to change the lives of many Afro-Brazilians.
 
The only way out would have been the dissolution of the United States. The CSA wouldn't have abandoned slavery for decades. In Brazil, where manumission was a widespread practice, the freed black population vastly outnumbered the slave population by the late 1800's.
 
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The only way out would have been the dissolution of the United States. The CSA wouldn't have abandoned slavery for decades. In Brazil, where manumission was a widespread practice, the freed black population vastly outnumbered the slave population by the late 1800's.
Wikipedia lists half a dozen examples of nations/empires that ended slavery without having to kill a million people. It took some time, but after 100 or 150 years each of those places seems more settled in this regard than does the United States.

As a matter of public policy, the Civil War seems like a massive disaster to me; the absolute worst way to resolve the issue of slavery. Whatever the alternative path was, it was better.

How Lincoln has come to be treated as an American hero escapes me.

I see examples everywhere of nations being spun off or divided in two. They seem to be working to varying extents. Has anyone ever game-planned how a U.S.A. and a C.S.A. might have evolved? ... and what solution was eventually worked out for the slavery issue? There must have been a few books written on the topic.
 
Wikipedia lists half a dozen examples of nations/empires that ended slavery without having to kill a million people. It took some time, but after 100 or 150 years each of those places seems more settled in this regard than does the United States.

As a matter of public policy, the Civil War seems like a massive disaster to me; the absolute worst way to resolve the issue of slavery. Whatever the alternative path was, it was better.

How Lincoln has come to be treated as an American hero escapes me.

I see examples everywhere of nations being spun off or divided in two. They seem to be working to varying extents. Has anyone ever game-planned how a U.S.A. and a C.S.A. might have evolved? ... and what solution was eventually worked out for the slavery issue? There must have been a few books written on the topic.
The public policy wasn't initially about slavery, it was about the dissolution of the country. Lincoln was prepared to allow the South to continue to hold slaves to preserve the Union. To avoid the Civil War, either the South would have had to accept that they would lose their stranglehold on Congress as more non-slave states joined the Union or the North would have been required to accept that states could leave the Union on a whim. Neither side was going to accept those terms. Given that, the CW was inevitable.

I've never seen speculation on the total avoidance of the Civil War but Harry Turtledove, among others, has written speculative fiction based on the premise that the South won the CW and extends that alternate history through the 20th century.
 
Dummies want a fellow dummy who speaks their dummy language and makes them feel like it is OK (and even desirable) to be dumb like them. They want a leader who speaks of and exudes 'toughness' as opposed to sensibility, because if there's one thing they know for sure, its that if you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough. They also love to hear childish insults, because many of them intellectually and emotionally align with children, and therefore they feel more comfortable/ less challenged by someone whom employs this style of discourse.
Just curious…what would you say Joe Biden elicits in people’s minds when he speaks, without a tele-prompter?
 
Dumb. If you want to apply this "qualification test" direct to the people electing the idiots to office.

Keep in mind which party has the monopoly on fruitcakes, weirdos and zeroes?

Be honest.

What color are those states?

Gaetz
Boebert
Tuberville
Lake
Orange Turd
Kate Britt (new recruit- future all America dumb)
George Santon (old joke)
Cruz
Biggs
MTG (goes without saying)
Stefanik (when Orange Turd dies, WTF?
DieSantis
Johnson - recently elected leader of wimps

A menu of disasters.
Now, do the wackos running blue states. 😉
 
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with Joe Biden your starting with a normal sized brain then shrinking.
With Donnie Shitzinpantz you’re starting with a pea sized brain then shrinking.
You may have a point. However, it must really eat you up inside that Trump is reportedly leading Biden in the polls. 😉
 
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Much like every topic known to man, Trump knows more about it than the supposed experts.

That fact that video of Trump talking about what he knows more than anyone else lasts over two minutes is absolutely astonishing.

That level of delusion is what people really want to see running the country?

I don’t get it.
 
That fact that video of Trump talking about what he knows more than anyone else lasts over two minutes is absolutely astonishing.

That level of delusion is what people really want to see running the country?

I don’t get it.
They believe that nonsense. To them he is the smartest man ever. Many people are saying this.
 
Do we really need a link for the obvious? I mean did you hear anything about the laptop (other than it was fake) before the election? BTW - it wasn’t fake.

Wasn't there data added to the laptop after the repair shop had it?
 
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