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Showing Original Post only (View all)All you ever need to know about Trump is contained in this quote: [View all]
"Look, having nuclearmy uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smartyou know, if youre a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the worldits true!but when you're a conservative Republican they tryoh, do they do a numberthats why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortuneyou know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because were a little disadvantagedbut you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers meit would have been so easy, and its not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was rightwho would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisonersnow it used to be three, now its fourbut when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they havent figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, its gonna take them about another 150 yearsbut the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us."http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2015/07/31/donald_trump_this_run_on_sentence_from_a_speech_in_sun_city_south_carolina.html
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I'm usually that way, too, but I took about a minute of one of his rants, and realized
Gabi Hayes
Aug 2016
#32
Or in the case of Trump, the stream of unconciousness might be appropriate n/t
TexasBushwhacker
Aug 2016
#67
Smart people are too smart to boast about being smart. He was never wise, either. . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2016
#21
I know, but that sort of thing always comes to mind. did you notice how they're
Gabi Hayes
Aug 2016
#13
he keeps saying all these other ethnicities are such better negotiators than we are
Fast Walker 52
Aug 2016
#28
did you see the clint eastwood eruption about getting over it? IOW, too bad if you
Gabi Hayes
Aug 2016
#38
Beckel kept trotting out, "How many blacks were with Washington at Valley Forge?"
csziggy
Aug 2016
#43
same here, with the racism. the first dirty harry is still one of my favorite movies,
Gabi Hayes
Aug 2016
#56
The prison yard scene he described is, imo, the imaginings of too many of these action . . .
brush
Aug 2016
#59
Hopefully these old white guys won't live long enough to see Hilton Head Island
Fla Dem
Aug 2016
#46
I understood every word , every context, every theme - What's wrong with you people?
packman
Aug 2016
#55
At least Sarah Palin had/has a sort of poetic quality to her inane ramblings.
KittyWampus
Aug 2016
#63