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Normally there wouldn’t be but look what happened last November. Everything has a non-zero chance of happening.

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There are people who actually believe Trump has a zero chance of winning in 2020?

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Apparently the Trump children do, how else can they increase the worth of the family brand?

MSM will do their damnedest to give him a good shot too:

In alternate Earth2 where HRC won (or hell any Democrat), I’m sure the press would laud any 180 degree flips as a result of “experience.”

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No kidding. lol at “experience”

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Ideally yes, but Jesus, suddenly we’re dropping eleven billion ton bombs and talking quite casually about war with North Korea, Syria, Russia…

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Strike the word billion, but yeah, a ridiculous display.

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So Trump just says all 59 missiles hit and the Fox talking head says “Unmanned.” Yes, that’s how missiles normally are. There’s no little smurfs in it either.

Someone in the background says “Brilliant”, really soon after too. Not sure if it was in response to that comment…

1:10 mark.

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Ya, I heard this too. They are dumb.
http://dallascomedyhouse.com/media/stranglovebombride.jpg

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Holy shit, I bet they just outright eliminate the top poll choices. Bye CIA!

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I guess we’ll only hear about his visitors when we finally go to trial.

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Literally every single thing that Donald Trump does, he has previously condemned in a public tweet.

Seriously. I defy anyone to find an instance where this is untrue.

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The only exception I’d guess would be condemnation of father - daughter incest.

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This is great:

What is endearing, terrifying and hilarious about Trump is not simply his ignorance, really his militant ignorance, but his complete lack of self-awareness about his ignorance. Trump told a reporter for The Wall Street Journal that his understanding of the problem of North Korea changed dramatically after hearing ten minutes of history from the President of China. Needless to say, Trump didn’t need to admit this. But neither was it candor.

So far the Trump Presidency has been a sort of Mr Magoo performance art in which the comically ignorant Trump learns elemental or basic things that virtually everyone in the world of politics or government already knew – things that the majority of adults probably know. Health Care: “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” North Korea: “I felt pretty strongly that they had tremendous power. But it’s not what you think.” There are perhaps half a dozen examples equally stark.

In other words, President Trump is open about his discoveries and even eager to share them but universally projects his previous state of comical ignorance onto the general public or whomever he is talking to. In other cases, this would make sense. If Trump discovered that humans could fly if they hold their nose, close one eye and say “Shazam!” I’d want to know. Because that’s awesome. And I wouldn’t think worse of Trump for not knowing it before. Because this is new and amazing information. But learning that health care policy is complicated is a different kind of discovery.

Remaining ignorant is probably a good adaptive strategy for him because it allows him to pretend that everything is obvious, that he can solve any problem and generally act like he can do anything – in a way, this allowed him to become President.

What is key though is to understand that this is not just ignorance. Ignorance is just the first stage of Trump’s fairly advanced problem. He is not only ignorant but clearly unaware of his level of ignorance. This is compounded by a seeming inability to understand that everyone else isn’t equally ignorant to him. Those of us who are parents know the wonder of discovery experienced by small children. They find out there were things such as dinosaurs or close primate relatives called lemurs. As loving parents we indulge them, sometimes feigning ignorance of things we actually already knew to support a child’s joy in discovery.

But Donald Trump is a 70 year old man. And not a terribly nice man.

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https://istrumpatmaralago.org/

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Weekly Address up on Facebook:

The editing is hilariously weird.

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His Drudge Report retweet almost destroyed @burnedyourtweet.

And that may have somehow saved the @FLOTUS retweet from the fire.