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The Blue Flower

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7. She was referencing the lead article in Foreign Affairs magazine

Reply to Bluepinky (Original post)

Wed Apr 19, 2017, 07:51 AM

Apr 2017

I've seen it expressed by someone on FB as: "It's hard to tell where he is on the stupid/evil spectrum." An old friend of mine used to say, "The devil always overplays his hand." In other words, evil is fundamentally stupid. The destructive impulse always ends up being self-destructive. Evil = stupid.

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Stupid or nefarious? [View all] Bluepinky Apr 2017 OP

He's an evil moron. Gravitycollapse Apr 2017 #1

Too much of both. oasis Apr 2017 #2

I'll let Prime Time answer for me Dammit Jim Apr 2017 #3

I think there is a third choice. murielm99 Apr 2017 #4

Oh, I don't think there's any "if" about it... llmart Apr 2017 #6

they are, of course, ashling Apr 2017 #5

She was referencing the lead article in Foreign Affairs magazine The Blue Flower Apr 2017 #7

they are a perfect mixture of both, and with Trump, some senility Fast Walker 52 Apr 2017 #8

Nefarious with white male entitlement Dunning Kruger Syndrome.... (nt) ehrnst Apr 2017 #9

It's varying mixtures or both. By the way: "aircraft carrier". . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2017 #10

You mean"Armada"??? Pachamama Apr 2017 #11

Rachel was amazing last night Gothmog Apr 2017 #12