Bigger Idiot contest

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Re: Bigger Idiot contest

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DarkHelmet wrote:
I can't help but wonder - who is the biggest idiot in this, Trump? the Trump-voter?....or the collection of idiots who let a lesser quantity of idiots elect an idiot right in front their face?


Apparently you are, because you fail to understand how elections work. Elections are not an intelligence test. :lol: Trump just needed to get more people to vote for him.

Here's a link that explains how it works
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+do+elections+work%3F

I think you misunderstood the OP.....yeah, you did.

So - Trump just needed to get more people to vote for him...and in order to get these votes Team-Trump apparently (according to you) needed to be dumber than Team-Hillary, because an intelligent person does not know how to win an election.

got it!
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Re: Bigger Idiot contest

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Kevin Graham wrote:Then there was Andrew Napolitano who claimed that unnamed intelligence sources had told him that late last year, a British spy agency had surveilled Trump on behalf of then-President Barack Obama. Sean Spicer even cited FOX's report in one of his briefings. But that turned out to be utter BS and judge Napolitano took a leave of absence and no one on the Right has ever owned up to the fact that they spread fake news, including our idiot President.

except for that pesky report from CNN that proved it was not utter bs

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/13/politics/ ... index.html

but that's cool, i get ya...you are struggling with the notion that you and the other members of your circle jerk got outwitted, yet again, by a bunch of people you believe are so much dumber than you....that has gotta be so frustrating, especially since it keeps happening so much in front of your wife.
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Re: Bigger Idiot contest

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America's current predicament is a wake-up call to the rest of the world in what can go wrong with a Western democracy. When they consider how American voters put a party in power that wishes to jeopardize the health and lives of millions of its citizens for a windfall monetary saving for a few, it will help them rethink their priorities.
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Re: Bigger Idiot contest

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Demagogues/con-artists usually prosper in the short term. But reality has a habit of biting them on the butt in the long term.
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Re: Bigger Idiot contest

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In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.

Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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Re: Bigger Idiot contest

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subgenius wrote:So - Trump just needed to get more people to vote for him...and in order to get these votes Team-Trump apparently (according to you) needed to be dumber than Team-Hillary, because an intelligent person does not know how to win an election.

Well, Hillary Clinton did score more overall votes, so one could argue that the 'smarter' voters - if that is your premise - did what they needed to do. Regardless, the outcome is determined differently than the picture you paint here.

Are you suggesting that smarter folks should re-jigger the electoral college system? :smile:
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Re: Bigger Idiot contest

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subgenius wrote:except for that pesky report from CNN that proved it was not utter bs

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/13/politics/ ... index.html


Earth to idiot, from your link: Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, said that "based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016."

Yet, at some point you read through that article and concluded Judge "I have no life without FOX" Napolitano was vindicated when he said Obama spied on Trump and wiretapped his hotel. This is absolute fake news which is why FOX benched him. And now it looks like this idiot is at it again, and again no consequences for the fake news machine.

And I notice you have nothing to say about Hannity continuing his wild Alex Jones conspiracy theory despite FOX denouncing it.
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Re: Bigger Idiot contest

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/29/politics/lawmakers-react-trump-tweet-joe-scarborough-mika-brzezinski-morning-joe/index.html

That's our President.

- Doc


Remember when Republicans were laughing off Trump's campaign rhetoric and saying this is just campaign mode? As President he'd never act this way, denigrating women, bullying anyone who crosses him, etc. At least that was their argument. How wrong they were.
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Re: Bigger Idiot contest

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subgenius wrote:So - Trump just needed to get more people to vote for him...and in order to get these votes Team-Trump apparently (according to you) needed to be dumber than Team-Hillary, because an intelligent person does not know how to win an election.

got it!


No, you misunderstand. Elections are simply popularity contests. And to steal a line from Dan Carlin, in the case of the 2016 election, it was an unpopularity contest and Hillary Clinton won. Elections aren't about getting people to think critically and logically about the candidate. It has nothing to do with intelligence. It's all about emotion. Trump was able to tap into your emotions. He is a salesman, so it comes naturally to him. He tapped into your hatred and paranoia of libtards and cucks. So I guess I am admitting that Trump, and his team, are very smart and savvy salespeople. Most of us saw past it. But back to your OP, the answer has to be the Trump voter. Sorry.
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Re: Bigger Idiot contest

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Kevin Graham wrote:
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/29/politics/lawmakers-react-trump-tweet-joe-scarborough-mika-brzezinski-morning-joe/index.html

That's our President.

- Doc


Remember when Republicans were laughing off Trump's campaign rhetoric and saying this is just campaign mode? As President he'd never act this way, denigrating women, bullying anyone who crosses him, etc. At least that was their argument. How wrong they were.


I'll just re-post this anytime Trump and SG synergize into a perfect storm of dumb:

You literally can't make this up. There is literally nothing our resident couch stain can't stomach from Trump. You could literally list off dozens of egregious Trump-examples of incompetence, graft, lying, espionage, hubris, and perversion and the points would plink off subgenius Ajax88's skull like 9mm rounds plink of metal practice targets. In fact, I have provided a list with dozens of examples compiled by /u/MaximumEffort433 that catalogues just that. Subgenius Ajax88 posing as /u/Maxine Waters is absolutely impervious to reason and how it all fits together in the real world.

Unfortunately, he's emblematic of a wider phenomenon, a perfect storm of dumb, narcissism, and the inability to think abstractly. Not that that is reserved solely for Republican voters. I'd put around 60%-70% of the electorate into that category. However, I'd put ~80%-90% of the Republican bloc into the pot.


- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.

Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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