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dixiegrrrrl

(60,156 posts)
Tue May 16, 2017, 03:55 PM May 2017

Stunning takedown of Trump from a very conservative columnist [View all]

We’ve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar.


He is thus the all-time record-holder of the Dunning-Kruger effect, the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence. Trump thought he’d be celebrated for firing James Comey. He thought his press coverage would grow wildly positive once he won the nomination. He is perpetually surprised because reality does not comport with his fantasies.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/opinion/trump-classified-data.html
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Yep! skylucy May 2017 #1
He has reached his Peter Principle superpatriotman May 2017 #2
K & R L. Coyote May 2017 #3
Brooks, it would appear, is profoundly ignorant . . . MousePlayingDaffodil May 2017 #4
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