When the World is led by a Child

[Coyote]

David Brooks has it spot on in his column, and it is pretty effing scary...

The Dunning-Kruger effect: " the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence"
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When the World is led by a Child

At certain times Donald Trump has seemed like a budding authoritarian, a corrupt Nixon, a rabble-rousing populist or a big business corporatist.

But as Trump has settled into his White House role, he has given a series of long interviews, and when you study the transcripts it becomes clear that fundamentally he is none of these things.

At base, Trump is an infantalist. There are three tasks that most mature adults have sort of figured out by the time they hit 25. Trump has mastered none of them. Immaturity is becoming the dominant note of his presidency, lack of self-control his leitmotif...

but but but...OBAMA

Seriously, that's all you guys can come up with? Obama! Hillary!

Obama is out of office, Hillary lost the election, Trump is coming on 6 months in Office - it's time to stop dragging out the zombies.

 

[whitehall]

It kind of represents the former president. An angry half white and half black kid who blamed the only person who ever cared for him, his grandmother, for being a racist. A kid who grew up with dreams of his father but his father was a chronic alcoholic bigamist anti-American African nationalist. A young adult who spent almost 20 years listening to the rants of an anti-American preacher. A future politician who's political mentor was an actual domestic terrorist. We were led by a confused child for about eight years and during that time the democrat party went from a political power to a leaderless whiny faction that lost the presidency, congress, most governors and more than 3,000 elections and is still in denial.

 

[BluesLegend]

President Trump, the man I sent to Washington to clean up that shithole is doing exactly what I sent him there to do. If you don't like it tough shit, try to win the next election if you can.

Such an intelligent reply. Thank you for your input.

Intelligence is not a quality Trump voters possess

Right, the man becomes a billionaire and he's not intelligent? Your statement is the poster child for stupidity.

He's a poster child for the saying "Born on third base and thought he hit a triple."

That being said, my post was in reference to Trump voters, not Trump himself.

You might want to work on your reading comprehension skills.

Now you are lying, a lib deflects with lies wow shocker. /sarcasm Yes every time dumb ass liberals lose an election its because the American people are stupid. Probably why the American people are sick of you assholes. Goddamn you idiots have been using that excuse for 50 years, we get it, anyone who's not a fucking liberal is dumb, liberals smart, blah blah.

 

[Crixus]

David Brooks has it spot on in his column, and it is pretty effing scary...

The Dunning-Kruger effect: " the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence"
View attachment 127098

When the World is led by a Child

At certain times Donald Trump has seemed like a budding authoritarian, a corrupt Nixon, a rabble-rousing populist or a big business corporatist.

But as Trump has settled into his White House role, he has given a series of long interviews, and when you study the transcripts it becomes clear that fundamentally he is none of these things.

At base, Trump is an infantalist. There are three tasks that most mature adults have sort of figured out by the time they hit 25. Trump has mastered none of them. Immaturity is becoming the dominant note of his presidency, lack of self-control his leitmotif...

Very true. Trump has much work to do cleaning up after Half Black Jesus. Watching you welfare queens melt down as your bamanphones are getting turned off.

 

[BluesLegend]

President Trump, the man I sent to Washington to clean up that shithole is doing exactly what I sent him there to do. If you don't like it tough shit, try to win the next election if you can.

Such an intelligent reply. Thank you for your input.

Hello earth to Coyote president Trump is not a professional politician. How do you expect him to act, like Bush? Obama? Hell maybe Trump should go on national TV and tell the American people that if they like their doctor and plan, they can keep them oh and they will save $2,500 a year on their health insurance. And Bush the man could barely complete a sentence. What exactly is the standard you people are judging president Trump by?

Not talking about "professional politicians" - talking about competent professionals.

Go ahead, make a rational argument that a man brilliant enough to become a billionaire, and having never run for office before run for the highest office in the land, beat the entire GOP establishment and their money in the primary, then beat Hillary, Bill, Obama, their $1.2 billion dollar war chest, the entire liberal media, and a bunch of GOP hacks in the general, go ahead make a rational argument that this man is not competent. You can't, its an utterly stupid argument. Go lick your wounds lib.

I'm not sure how much brilliance there is when you started out life as a billionaire. But moving beyond that - "brilliance" doesn't necessarily translate as "competence" in other fields.

I prefer competence to brilliance, and if the two come in the same package so much the better. Unfortunately, they don't seem to.

You lie, wow shocker. Trump did not start out in life as a billionaire, that's a lie you just made up. Go wash your mouth out with soap.

 

[Coyote]

President Trump, the man I sent to Washington to clean up that shithole is doing exactly what I sent him there to do. If you don't like it tough shit, try to win the next election if you can.

Such an intelligent reply. Thank you for your input.

Hello earth to Coyote president Trump is not a professional politician. How do you expect him to act, like Bush? Obama? Hell maybe Trump should go on national TV and tell the American people that if they like their doctor and plan, they can keep them oh and they will save $2,500 a year on their health insurance. And Bush the man could barely complete a sentence. What exactly is the standard you people are judging president Trump by?

Not talking about "professional politicians" - talking about competent professionals.

" talking about competent professionals"

That is an oxymoron when discussing politics. Hillary is a perfect example of this.

Again, who cares about Hillary? This is about Trump.

And no, I disagree. There's this idea that anyone who is a "professional politician" is automatically bad. That one can't be "competent" and a "politician", but I disagree.

Here's what "competence" means:
The understanding that being President is not the same as Emperor - there are 3 coequal branches of government.
The understanding that just because you make an EO doesn't mean it's Constitutional or a decree.
The understanding that in order to get things done you have to be able to work with diverse groups - not just your supporters.
You need to be able to negotiate, make deals - and that means give and take.
You need to be mature enough to realize the world isn't composed of only "winners" and "losers" and that a "win-win" outcome is often desirable.
You need to accept defeat gracefully and use it as a template to adjust your strategy.

and more.

 

[Coyote]

It kind of represents the former president. An angry half white and half black kid who blamed the only person who ever cared for him, his grandmother, for being a racist. A kid who grew up with dreams of his father but his father was a chronic alcoholic bigamist anti-American African nationalist. A young adult who spent almost 20 years listening to the rants of an anti-American preacher. A future politician who's political mentor was an actual domestic terrorist. We were led by a confused child for about eight years and during that time the democrat party went from a political power to a leaderless whiny faction that lost the presidency, congress, most governors and more than 3,000 elections and is still in denial.

but but but OBAMA!

Whataboutism - RationalWiki

 

[Coyote]

Such an intelligent reply. Thank you for your input.

Hello earth to Coyote president Trump is not a professional politician. How do you expect him to act, like Bush? Obama? Hell maybe Trump should go on national TV and tell the American people that if they like their doctor and plan, they can keep them oh and they will save $2,500 a year on their health insurance. And Bush the man could barely complete a sentence. What exactly is the standard you people are judging president Trump by?

Not talking about "professional politicians" - talking about competent professionals.

Go ahead, make a rational argument that a man brilliant enough to become a billionaire, and having never run for office before run for the highest office in the land, beat the entire GOP establishment and their money in the primary, then beat Hillary, Bill, Obama, their $1.2 billion dollar war chest, the entire liberal media, and a bunch of GOP hacks in the general, go ahead make a rational argument that this man is not competent. You can't, its an utterly stupid argument. Go lick your wounds lib.

I'm not sure how much brilliance there is when you started out life as a billionaire. But moving beyond that - "brilliance" doesn't necessarily translate as "competence" in other fields.

I prefer competence to brilliance, and if the two come in the same package so much the better. Unfortunately, they don't seem to.

You lie, wow shocker. Trump did not start out in life as a billionaire, that's a lie you just made up. Go wash your mouth out with soap.

I stand corrected - he inherited millions not billions.

 

[Correll]

David Brooks has it spot on in his column, and it is pretty effing scary...

The Dunning-Kruger effect: " the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence"
View attachment 127098

When the World is led by a Child

At certain times Donald Trump has seemed like a budding authoritarian, a corrupt Nixon, a rabble-rousing populist or a big business corporatist.

But as Trump has settled into his White House role, he has given a series of long interviews, and when you study the transcripts it becomes clear that fundamentally he is none of these things.

At base, Trump is an infantalist. There are three tasks that most mature adults have sort of figured out by the time they hit 25. Trump has mastered none of them. Immaturity is becoming the dominant note of his presidency, lack of self-control his leitmotif...

A "child" that made fools of ALL OF YOU.

And the polling industry. And the pundit industry. And the media.

over and over again.


Your rationalizations for you crushing defeat is the only infantile thing here.

 

[Coyote]

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David Brooks has it spot on in his column, and it is pretty effing scary...

The Dunning-Kruger effect: " the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence"
View attachment 127098

When the World is led by a Child

At certain times Donald Trump has seemed like a budding authoritarian, a corrupt Nixon, a rabble-rousing populist or a big business corporatist.

But as Trump has settled into his White House role, he has given a series of long interviews, and when you study the transcripts it becomes clear that fundamentally he is none of these things.

At base, Trump is an infantalist. There are three tasks that most mature adults have sort of figured out by the time they hit 25. Trump has mastered none of them. Immaturity is becoming the dominant note of his presidency, lack of self-control his leitmotif...

A "child" that made fools of ALL OF YOU.

And the polling industry. And the pundit industry. And the media.

over and over again.


Your rationalizations for you crushing defeat is the only infantile thing here.

It's not about a "defeat" anymore - you all need to move on. It's about who (or what) is sitting in the White House right now.

I'm not comfortable about his careless handling of classified material (cue: but but but Hillary) - and no, I don't think he's some kind of Putin spy - he's impulsive, careless and inattentive in his need for validation.

 

[Correll]

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David Brooks has it spot on in his column, and it is pretty effing scary...

The Dunning-Kruger effect: " the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence"
View attachment 127098

When the World is led by a Child

At certain times Donald Trump has seemed like a budding authoritarian, a corrupt Nixon, a rabble-rousing populist or a big business corporatist.

But as Trump has settled into his White House role, he has given a series of long interviews, and when you study the transcripts it becomes clear that fundamentally he is none of these things.

At base, Trump is an infantalist. There are three tasks that most mature adults have sort of figured out by the time they hit 25. Trump has mastered none of them. Immaturity is becoming the dominant note of his presidency, lack of self-control his leitmotif...

A "child" that made fools of ALL OF YOU.

And the polling industry. And the pundit industry. And the media.

over and over again.


Your rationalizations for you crushing defeat is the only infantile thing here.

It's not about a "defeat" anymore - you all need to move on. It's about who (or what) is sitting in the White House right now.

I'm not comfortable about his careless handling of classified material (cue: but but but Hillary) - and no, I don't think he's some kind of Putin spy - he's impulsive, careless and inattentive in his need for validation.

A child would not have won like he did.

A sore loser would spend their times bad mouthing their betters.

 

[Coyote]

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David Brooks has it spot on in his column, and it is pretty effing scary...

The Dunning-Kruger effect: " the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence"
View attachment 127098

When the World is led by a Child

At certain times Donald Trump has seemed like a budding authoritarian, a corrupt Nixon, a rabble-rousing populist or a big business corporatist.

But as Trump has settled into his White House role, he has given a series of long interviews, and when you study the transcripts it becomes clear that fundamentally he is none of these things.

At base, Trump is an infantalist. There are three tasks that most mature adults have sort of figured out by the time they hit 25. Trump has mastered none of them. Immaturity is becoming the dominant note of his presidency, lack of self-control his leitmotif...

A "child" that made fools of ALL OF YOU.

And the polling industry. And the pundit industry. And the media.

over and over again.


Your rationalizations for you crushing defeat is the only infantile thing here.

It's not about a "defeat" anymore - you all need to move on. It's about who (or what) is sitting in the White House right now.

I'm not comfortable about his careless handling of classified material (cue: but but but Hillary) - and no, I don't think he's some kind of Putin spy - he's impulsive, careless and inattentive in his need for validation.

A child would not have won like he did.

A sore loser would spend their times bad mouthing their betters.

Jimmy Carter won.

Think about that for a moment.

You don't have to be brilliant or competent to win - you just have to be a good salesman.

Trump is a good salesman - we all know that.

And, again - it's time to move on from losing/winning/election - it's almost 6 months into his term. Y'all starting to sound like the snowflakes you accuse others of being.

 

[OldLady]

Well, I agree with you, Coyote, Trump is a hollow man. The things you bolded in that post are all part and parcel of the personality disorder. A crying, inconsolable infant desperately demanding the people around him fill an emptiness that can never be filled. It's about his personality formation, deeply vulnerable with an immature expectation of the world. The way that plays out with Trump is as much a factor of a man who has been lucky enough to have his way most of his life as it is any kind of ingrained "disorder," though.

The more interesting thing in this thread, though, is the fact that NOT ONE of his supporters can actually come up with any support for his actions in this past week's news. It's mad deflection and insults and that's all they got right now. These people are in the woods themselves at the moment. Trump is stepping in it right and left. I think a lot of the media are being a tad hysterical about it, but he's in trouble. And his supporters don't know what to say.

 

[Coyote]

This has been said by multiple people, multiple times - not just by Trump opponents. Seems like it would explain a lot - especially his resorting to twitter.

GOP Media Strategist & Political Consultant Rick Wilson had some harsh words for Trump and his inability to focus on the job of being president. The strategist appeared on All-In with Chris Hayes.

Hayes asked Rick Wilson about the decision-making process in the White House.


"Chris, this is a president with a stalking gigantic case of ADHD," Wilson said. "He cannot focus for thirty seconds on anything. Every bright and shiny object distracts him. He doesn't believe anything in his heart. There is no ideological North Star for this guy. There is nothing he truly cares about except for his own ego. Everything is drawn irresistibly into the event horizon of his ego. And he is not a guy who has thought about issues, thought about policies beyond what he thinks gets a good applause line at his rallies. The fact that this is a guy with a famous slogan on a red hat is not a legislative or political or governance agenda at all. He is a guy who, everything is contingent. He doesn't believe anything. And that's why he is gonna have a really tough time either getting Republicans on board with a legislative plan or Democrats to bring them over. There is no path there where they trust this guy to be consistent."​

 

[The Original Tree]

David Brooks has it spot on in his column, and it is pretty effing scary...

The Dunning-Kruger effect: " the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence"
View attachment 127098

When the World is led by a Child

At certain times Donald Trump has seemed like a budding authoritarian, a corrupt Nixon, a rabble-rousing populist or a big business corporatist.

But as Trump has settled into his White House role, he has given a series of long interviews, and when you study the transcripts it becomes clear that fundamentally he is none of these things.

At base, Trump is an infantalist. There are three tasks that most mature adults have sort of figured out by the time they hit 25. Trump has mastered none of them. Immaturity is becoming the dominant note of his presidency, lack of self-control his leitmotif...

Apparently this is the agreed upon narrative of The Anti-American Resist Democracy Left today. How many of these threads is "Management" going to allow?

Just another Troll to add to my IGNORE LIST.

 

[Coyote]

David Brooks has it spot on in his column, and it is pretty effing scary...

The Dunning-Kruger effect: " the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence"
View attachment 127098

When the World is led by a Child

At certain times Donald Trump has seemed like a budding authoritarian, a corrupt Nixon, a rabble-rousing populist or a big business corporatist.

But as Trump has settled into his White House role, he has given a series of long interviews, and when you study the transcripts it becomes clear that fundamentally he is none of these things.

At base, Trump is an infantalist. There are three tasks that most mature adults have sort of figured out by the time they hit 25. Trump has mastered none of them. Immaturity is becoming the dominant note of his presidency, lack of self-control his leitmotif...

Apparently this is the agreed upon narrative of The Anti-American Resist Democracy Left today. How many of these threads is "Management" going to allow?

Just another Troll to add to my IGNORE LIST.

So you can't really discuss the topic in other words? How is this "Anti-American" - or, is that just part of your automatic babble when confronted with a deeply flawed President?

Cue: but but but Obama!

The election is over, Trump won - let's address what is sitting in the Oval office now.

What are your thoughts on his obsessively impulsive twitter storms when he is criticized or is he above criticism?

 

[OldLady]

David Brooks has it spot on in his column, and it is pretty effing scary...

The Dunning-Kruger effect: " the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence"
View attachment 127098

When the World is led by a Child

At certain times Donald Trump has seemed like a budding authoritarian, a corrupt Nixon, a rabble-rousing populist or a big business corporatist.

But as Trump has settled into his White House role, he has given a series of long interviews, and when you study the transcripts it becomes clear that fundamentally he is none of these things.

At base, Trump is an infantalist. There are three tasks that most mature adults have sort of figured out by the time they hit 25. Trump has mastered none of them. Immaturity is becoming the dominant note of his presidency, lack of self-control his leitmotif...

Apparently this is the agreed upon narrative of The Anti-American Resist Democracy Left today. How many of these threads is "Management" going to allow?

Just another Troll to add to my IGNORE LIST.

I don't think you can ignore a mod.

 

[Doc1]

President Trump, the man I sent to Washington to clean up that shithole is doing exactly what I sent him there to do. If you don't like it tough shit, try to win the next election if you can.

Such an intelligent reply. Thank you for your input.

Hello earth to Coyote president Trump is not a professional politician. How do you expect him to act, like Bush? Obama? Hell maybe Trump should go on national TV and tell the American people that if they like their doctor and plan, they can keep them oh and they will save $2,500 a year on their health insurance. And Bush the man could barely complete a sentence. What exactly is the standard you people are judging president Trump by?

Not talking about "professional politicians" - talking about competent professionals.

" talking about competent professionals"

That is an oxymoron when discussing politics. Hillary is a perfect example of this.

Again, who cares about Hillary? This is about Trump.

And no, I disagree. There's this idea that anyone who is a "professional politician" is automatically bad. That one can't be "competent" and a "politician", but I disagree.

Here's what "competence" means:
The understanding that being President is not the same as Emperor - there are 3 coequal branches of government.
The understanding that just because you make an EO doesn't mean it's Constitutional or a decree.
The understanding that in order to get things done you have to be able to work with diverse groups - not just your supporters.
You need to be able to negotiate, make deals - and that means give and take.
You need to be mature enough to realize the world isn't composed of only "winners" and "losers" and that a "win-win" outcome is often desirable.
You need to accept defeat gracefully and use it as a template to adjust your strategy.

and more.

LMAO, everyone of those could be applied to the Magic Negro. Look Trump sucks, but you don't seem to have the integrity to accept that your side had nobody who could beat him. I never said ALL professional Politicians are bad, but the current crop from either suck equally.

 

[Doc1]

As an aside, there is also no discernible difference in the actions of any of them.

 

[Manonthestreet]

David Brooks has it spot on in his column, and it is pretty effing scary...

The Dunning-Kruger effect: " the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence"
View attachment 127098

When the World is led by a Child

At certain times Donald Trump has seemed like a budding authoritarian, a corrupt Nixon, a rabble-rousing populist or a big business corporatist.

But as Trump has settled into his White House role, he has given a series of long interviews, and when you study the transcripts it becomes clear that fundamentally he is none of these things.

At base, Trump is an infantalist. There are three tasks that most mature adults have sort of figured out by the time they hit 25. Trump has mastered none of them. Immaturity is becoming the dominant note of his presidency, lack of self-control his leitmotif...

Rubber Room.

the same old bilge they pulled on every Repub President