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buzzycrumbhunger

(1,596 posts)
77. Don't forget...
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 10:41 PM
1 hr ago

Over half of Americans read below a 6th-grade level. This is by design, specifically thanks to arseholes like the Koch brothers. (Check out the book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, which you can find for free on the Internet Archive.)

These buffoons are probably not pretending the orange boobie is a brilliant genius, they probably think he really is—at least compared to them.

They are indeed pathetic, but they were cultivated to be so—stupid, gullible, and willing to be led.

https://www.investigatetv.com/2025/12/01/more-than-half-american-adults-read-below-sixth-grade-level/

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How do people sit there and listen to that? He is so deranged. SunSeeker 20 hrs ago #1
if they just listened that would be one thing Skittles 4 hrs ago #74
Aardvark, Beaver, cat . . . .zebra! Aussie105 20 hrs ago #2
How 'bout A Badger 19 hrs ago #6
Good test. I had trouble with U. Lonestarblue 16 hrs ago #16
Wait till you get to X! Polybius 14 hrs ago #28
Xenomorph? Dave Bowman 12 hrs ago #45
Xerus Mossfern 6 hrs ago #70
Unicorn work? KS Toronado 11 hrs ago #50
Platypus, Quokka, Wallaby, IronLionZion 15 hrs ago #20
Wouldn't 99% of us fail that one? Polybius 14 hrs ago #26
We know he'd recognize a beaver. COL Mustard 9 hrs ago #64
Has no reporter ever asked WHY? Americanme 20 hrs ago #3
My late mother-in-law, with diagnosed Alzheimers, "passed" agingdem 16 hrs ago #15
Digital generation can't read or draw a clock. Or use letters when dialing a phone. Or. Will have to redo the tests. cbabe 11 hrs ago #52
We will never know Nasruddin 9 hrs ago #62
The digital generation can still draw a circle .. agingdem 9 hrs ago #65
Exactly Strelnikov_ 15 hrs ago #21
WTaF? UpInArms 20 hrs ago #4
And he said they're "not easy". llmart 16 hrs ago #12
Dementia Donnie was smugly boasting he could discern a agingdem 12 hrs ago #41
Why would anyone be taking these tests repeatedly Demobrat 19 hrs ago #5
The orange shite isn't smart enough or lucid enough to realize that. paleotn 15 hrs ago #19
Well, except for the "unable to feed himself" part of your wish list, YodaMom2 11 hrs ago #48
Why would anyone one take the first one johnnyfins 12 hrs ago #38
You get past 65 and they start checking on an annual basis, part of the wellness exam Maeve 11 hrs ago #49
Probably not in use Nasruddin 9 hrs ago #63
I don't think it is routinely done. karynnj 2 hrs ago #75
that's my question... agingdem 12 hrs ago #44
Exactly. buzzycrumbhunger 2 hrs ago #76
More gaslighting of America. AZ8theist 19 hrs ago #7
I'm ready for my soon-to-be favorite record, 3Hotdogs 16 hrs ago #10
Are you ready for a brand new day? Stardust Mirror 11 hrs ago #53
Cheeto's dead and the time is right IzzaNuDay 10 hrs ago #55
Banana, chair, sunrise. I aced it too, back in November. twodogsbarking 17 hrs ago #8
River, nation, finger for me. mwb970 14 hrs ago #27
Maybe you could be President. There may be an opening soon. twodogsbarking 14 hrs ago #29
Ask him the name of his present wife. Fail. twodogsbarking 17 hrs ago #9
To be fair... llmart 16 hrs ago #14
I wouldn't want to be linked to any of those kids either. twodogsbarking 16 hrs ago #18
"Ivanka, Ivanka, Ivanka, and Ivanka" PatSeg 14 hrs ago #23
Oh yeah. llmart 11 hrs ago #47
I always stumble over Hippy-ponty mist. 3Hotdogs 16 hrs ago #11
NOW you did it! You gave trump the answer! (nt) Paladin 16 hrs ago #13
A third one? The Madcap 16 hrs ago #17
What's even worse nwduke 15 hrs ago #22
I like that the Independent used pedo Trump's exact words Farmer-Rick 14 hrs ago #24
"It's like trying to translate the words of a child just learning to speak." Talitha 12 hrs ago #39
And did his worshipers cheer in response to this idiotic nonsense? mwb970 14 hrs ago #25
Don't forget... buzzycrumbhunger 1 hr ago #77
Go to your grocery store and walk up to random people and tell them you aced the cognitive test. twodogsbarking 14 hrs ago #30
Good one!!! Talitha 12 hrs ago #40
Bragging about taking cognitive tests, just shows he has dementia... Fil1957 13 hrs ago #31
No Sitting President In History Has Done a Better Coloring Job DrFunkenstein 13 hrs ago #32
I took a similar test just yesterday. chouchou 13 hrs ago #33
These tests are only given to people who are suspected of having mental issues. The more doubt, the more tests. eppur_se_muova 13 hrs ago #34
Hey Traitor .......I don't know who your doctors are (they are military right , taxpayer funded .....or do you remember) turbinetree 13 hrs ago #35
For anyone who has never actually seen the real Montreal Cognitive Assessment Bluetus 13 hrs ago #36
There is also a similar test: SLUMS Bluetus 13 hrs ago #37
This is the test my doctor gave me .................. turbinetree 11 hrs ago #46
I was given several tests when rehabing from a cardiac arrest. Historic NY 12 hrs ago #42
The question is was it a one humper or two humper camel? Historic NY 12 hrs ago #43
trump is not well and is lying about his medical condition LetMyPeopleVote 11 hrs ago #51
I agree with Lieu: this isn't the flex Trump thinks it is. Beartracks 10 hrs ago #54
We really don't know if those animals were the ones on the test. Beartracks 10 hrs ago #56
This isn't the flex he believes it is... EarthFirst 10 hrs ago #57
My 2 cents... homegirl 10 hrs ago #58
In the early stages of frontal lobe dementia, my mom passed same test crimycarny 9 hrs ago #59
Trump is a regular brainiac. democrank 9 hrs ago #60
How would we know if his animal identification was correct? Harker 9 hrs ago #61
The fact they are even giving him tests like these shows he's lost it. iemanja 8 hrs ago #66
He probably knows the difference between Diet Coke and a Big Mac Tetrachloride 7 hrs ago #67
Viper, Hyena, Badger Clouds Passing 7 hrs ago #68
Constant cognitive tests to a single person means just one thing to those of us with a brain... slightlv 6 hrs ago #69
I'm good with animals. Whenever I see a picture of Trump I always think horse's ass. flashman13 5 hrs ago #71
Eric, Donald, Ivanka? tavernier 5 hrs ago #72
Did Miss Barbara give you star little dopey? mdbl 4 hrs ago #73
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