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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Oct 18, 2024, 04:16 PM Oct 2024

Mary Trump - The Republican Candidate Knows Nothing [View all]

Donald had yet another banner week on the campaign trail. Between cutting his Pennsylvania town hall short to listen to songs from Cats and Shrek for 39 minutes, to his rambling, incoherent performance at the Economic Club of Chicago, it’s hard to see how anybody thinks my uncle is still tethered to reality.

If the town hall was the best example so far of his cognitive decline, the interview with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Economic Club of Chicago was perhaps the best example I’ve seen of an interlocutor revealing both Donald’s inability to handle pushback and his stunning ignorance. The titan of business and master of the art of the deal clashed repeatedly with Micklethwait—over January 6 and the economic impact of increased tariffs—and he came out of every exchange looking like a complete fool whose lack of knowledge was surpassed only by his contemptuousness.

Donald’s con all along has been to surround himself with sycophants and useful idiots who tell him exactly what he wants to hear. If you listen closely to the conversation with Mickletwait, you can hear MAGA supporters cheer even Donald’s most inane comments in order to mask the stunned silence of the economists in the audience. The painful truth, which has been obvious to those of us who’ve been paying attention for the last several decades, is that Donald knows as little about business as he does about running the government; which is to say, nothing. He doesn’t understand how the American government works, and he has no plan to move America forward.

If only we’d seen more pieces with headlines like this in 2016:

The myth of Businessman Trump has collapsed

https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-republican-candidate-knows-nothing

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And has the apparent backing of half of the country. Klarkashton Oct 2024 #1
It was in the News. Bluesman49 Oct 2024 #2
Welcome to DU! FakeNoose Oct 2024 #3
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