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Tadpole Raisin

(1,977 posts)
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 03:53 AM Sep 2022

Trump's mental powers reasoning - this is epic!

Last edited Thu Sep 22, 2022, 06:46 AM - Edit history (1)

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-declassify-thinking-telepathically/

Snip:

Legal experts on Wednesday largely disagreed with Donald Trump's Fox News argument that he had the ability to declassify documents with his mind.

Attorney and former FBI Agent Asha Rangappa joked, "he’s actually invoking the Secret Telepathic Unilateral Preemptive Irreversible Declassification (S.T.U.P.I.D.) defense."


She nailed it!
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Trump's mental powers reasoning - this is epic! (Original Post) Tadpole Raisin Sep 2022 OP
Stable genius says WHAT? Aussie105 Sep 2022 #1
If it was physically possible for Hitler and J. Edgar Hoover to mate agingdem Sep 2022 #2
I will admit the idea of powering the Las Vegas strip with a rusty hamster wheel... Hugin Sep 2022 #4
DEPEND on it agingdem Sep 2022 #9
The emails possibly being at MAGA Lardo was a ridiculous statement even for him. alphafemale Sep 2022 #21
He said one thing that is true. chriscan64 Sep 2022 #35
Hamberders & covfefe from red button, special toilet that flushes documents Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2022 #10
From the same guy that wanted to use a nuclear bomb on a hurricane Norbert Sep 2022 #3
Isn't that how he declared bankruptcy 6 times? Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2022 #5
From a month ago underpants Sep 2022 #17
When Rex Tillerson said he is a fucking moron BigmanPigman Sep 2022 #6
When Tillerson said that Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2022 #11
I wish he was able to speak freely. BigmanPigman Sep 2022 #29
Oops, I was writing that as a joke. I have no idea of whether he held back or not. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2022 #32
I'm sure he held back... BigmanPigman Sep 2022 #33
Sad thought Roy Rolling Sep 2022 #7
As Forrest Gump sez... SouthernDem4ever Sep 2022 #8
and republicans are worried about Hillary's email server?? mnmoderatedem Sep 2022 #12
Predictably, he believes the POTUS is all-powerful -- especially if HE is POTUS. n/t allegorical oracle Sep 2022 #13
She NT greblach Sep 2022 #14
Corrected ty Tadpole Raisin Sep 2022 #18
"she" nailed it (Asha Rangappa is a woman) - but yep S.T.U.P.I.D. is as stupid does :) nt FreepFryer Sep 2022 #15
Can't believe I missed that - thanks Tadpole Raisin Sep 2022 #19
no worries ! :) nt FreepFryer Sep 2022 #20
So, that'll be his defense. jaxexpat Sep 2022 #16
The Think System! tanyev Sep 2022 #22
The Man from S.T.U.P.I.D. Kid Berwyn Sep 2022 #23
S.T.U.P.I.D. Martin Eden Sep 2022 #24
Cultists already believed this EnergizedLib Sep 2022 #25
It's still a red herring Johnny2X2X Sep 2022 #26
This is the stuff of insanity hearings. gordianot Sep 2022 #27
"Legal experts largely disagreed"!!!??? central scrutinizer Sep 2022 #28
Trump, "Obama declassified them for me in Kenya" LeftInTX Sep 2022 #30
Perfect! honest.abe Sep 2022 #31
Since Trump declassified the top secret stolen documents with his mind LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #34

Aussie105

(7,927 posts)
1. Stable genius says WHAT?
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 03:57 AM
Sep 2022

Marbles . . . lost them.
Bats in the belfry . . . screeching louder every day.

Can we set up a room in the Institution for Terminally Confused patients to look like the Oval Office and lead him to it? Non-working phones, of course. But stacks of Highly Classified fake documents for him to gloat over.

agingdem

(8,851 posts)
2. If it was physically possible for Hitler and J. Edgar Hoover to mate
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 04:41 AM
Sep 2022

Donnie Trump would be their spawn...racist, antisemitic, cruel, crude, vengeful, prurient, profane, narcissistic, messianic, thuggish, despotic, deranged

and while everyone is honing in on the Donnie's Vulcan "it's legal if I think it" mind-meld, I thought Donnie suggesting the FBI searched MAL for Hillary's emails was almost as entertaining...

Hugin

(37,848 posts)
4. I will admit the idea of powering the Las Vegas strip with a rusty hamster wheel...
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 05:34 AM
Sep 2022

Is amusing.

Maybe as a second act he could direct his superhuman cognition at being continent.

 

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
21. The emails possibly being at MAGA Lardo was a ridiculous statement even for him.
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 07:13 AM
Sep 2022

Wait?

You've had them all along?

chriscan64

(1,789 posts)
35. He said one thing that is true.
Fri Sep 23, 2022, 07:34 AM
Sep 2022

"There's speculation.." He buried the lead, though, the speculation was being created live on the spot by him. An exclusive!

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
10. Hamberders & covfefe from red button, special toilet that flushes documents
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 05:55 AM
Sep 2022

Daily visits by his Princheska Ivanka. Weekly visits by Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Annual visits from Melanoma.

9 foot high portrait of His Orangeness entitled "Greatest Of All Time".

Norbert

(7,765 posts)
3. From the same guy that wanted to use a nuclear bomb on a hurricane
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 05:23 AM
Sep 2022

I think we all know he would say something similar.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
11. When Tillerson said that
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 06:00 AM
Sep 2022

... he struggled to be restrained and was able to avoid saying what he really thought.

BigmanPigman

(55,171 posts)
33. I'm sure he held back...
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 06:19 PM
Sep 2022

That's what they all do/did. After all, they DID kiss his ring. Then years later some of the characters in this nightmare decide to finally speak the truth...but only in book form and for $$$. No heroes in this case.

Roy Rolling

(7,633 posts)
7. Sad thought
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 05:43 AM
Sep 2022

The GOP and Putin will push any empty suit as a Republican candidate.

To better understand, think of Trump as a white Herschel Walker.

It’s what happens when the unwritten rules of behavior are replaced by laws as the only limit. Gone are the days when politicians were guided by The Honor System.

Now, if there isn’t yet a law written to keep up with their treachery and criminal behavior they will push the envelope of decent behavior to gain power. Without ethics, we’ll always be a step behind criminals who make the laws with loopholes to benefit themselves.

 

jaxexpat

(7,794 posts)
16. So, that'll be his defense.
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 06:38 AM
Sep 2022

"Hey, I was crazy, whudelse can I say? I couldn't help it. I've been in a heroic battle with insanity for decades. Now, I've emerged victorious, triumphantly, like nobody else ever coulduh done. And you're gonna punish me for those things that terrible person did? Did I mention that I alone was able to destroy him?"

EnergizedLib

(3,040 posts)
25. Cultists already believed this
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 09:12 AM
Sep 2022

I had to block somebody on Twitter who said he could declassify documents simply by standing on his head and passing, swear on my life this true.

I also wanted to announce to all of you I’m getting married to a supermodel, that simply by thinking about it, we’ll be soulmates. You’re all invited to the wedding.

Johnny2X2X

(24,210 posts)
26. It's still a red herring
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 09:16 AM
Sep 2022

As the decision yesterday eloquently stated, even if they were declassified, it doesn't change the fact they were not his property, and it doesn't change the fact that they contain information vital to national security.

gordianot

(15,772 posts)
27. This is the stuff of insanity hearings.
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 09:53 AM
Sep 2022

Sure he has serious Personality issues but his Fox interview was the stuff of magical thinking a whole another level. I do wonder if he is setting up an insanity plea.

central scrutinizer

(12,654 posts)
28. "Legal experts largely disagreed"!!!???
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 11:26 AM
Sep 2022

That implies it wasn’t unanimous derision. Any legal “expert” who gave this bullshit any credence should be put in a rubber room so they can’t hurt anyone.

LeftInTX

(34,302 posts)
30. Trump, "Obama declassified them for me in Kenya"
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 05:47 PM
Sep 2022

"You know you they gotta a really good system in Kenya. I called Obama and he said sure. Just imagine you took them to Kenya. And so I did. You know what? It worked. I imagined the documents were in Kenya and just like that they were declassified".

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