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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Trump is...a poor man's idea of a rich man and a weak man's idea of a strong man."--Carl Sagan
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"Trump is...a poor man's idea of a rich man and a weak man's idea of a strong man."--Carl Sagan (Original Post)
Gothmog
Jan 2019
OP
Sometimes the humor is simply so obvious it's overlooked in a fit of pique.
LanternWaste
Jan 2019
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Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)1. With billions and billions of burgers...
Ohiogal
(32,057 posts)2. Remember Paul Krugman said
(back a few years) ....
Newt Gingrich was a dumb man's idea of what a smart man is.
All such good quotes!
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,431 posts)3. Carl Sagan did not say that.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)7. I know, right? Wtf?
Sagan was gone long before the dolt became well known.
choie
(4,111 posts)9. actually Sagan died in 1996
Trump was definitely a known quantity at that time and before (see his role in the Central Park Five case 1989)
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)10. So...did Sagan say that?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)8. Sometimes the humor is simply so obvious it's overlooked in a fit of pique.
If you ever hear someone refer to a 'random act of kittens...' try not to take it literally either.
Kingofalldems
(38,475 posts)11. Proof?
Any comment on the text of the quote?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)4. And a stupid man's idea of a smart man.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)5. And a stupid person's idea of a smart person-Guill.
cpamomfromtexas
(1,247 posts)6. My Husband said "Straight from Ricky Bobby"
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)12. And a Russian man's idea of a puppet.
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