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pretty sure there's plenty of people on the American right (trad GOP) who think he's a fucking idiot as well.
Totally, as an insult and also because relative to most high in politics he is dumb. The guy is an uneducated arse and the stupid person’s rich guy.
I doubt they truly believe he is of less than average general intelligence ... but I may be wrong.
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Another bit of the Trump story (an account by Michael Wolff). Worth a read.
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I think there is an argument to be made that the personality-related noise generated via twitter is not where energy is best focused if you care about the politics.
At best it preaches to the converted, at worst it snowballs (where the most outlandish views stick) before being picked up by other echo chambers only to be presented as an example of outlandish views.
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Sometimes I wonder what'll happen if it all goes a bit Homer Stokes over something...
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More Trump tales from ‘that book’ :)
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Thats a spoof I believe:
https://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/949100087350710272
see his follow up tweet.
The worst bit is had this been written about Obama or indeed almost any other politician (I am not including Boris, he's not a politician) you would instantly spot its a spoof.
Oh how the world has changed.
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Yes, it is, of course, a spoof. However, it seems like a lot of people in the Twittersphere fell for it. It is worryingly believable.
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Yeah, I agree. I did think that a defensive ploy from Trump's gang could be to create a load of similar spoofs by way of distraction/dilution. Much like the trick Boris Johnson deploys with his use of elaborate language.
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Balls. "I understand Trump and you're all ignoring his base and flattering your own prejudice".
Balls.Trump isn't a genius or a great communicator, he's just who he always was. In the past, that mostly made him a joke. It turns out that it was enough for him to win, this time in these circumstances, against a terrible communicator who has long been loathed by a significant section of the voting public. And even then, he nearly lost.
All you're doing is inventing a fictional narrative for something that wasn't at all inevitable. People tend to do that after victories (not just in politics). Same thing happened over here for Thatcher and Blair, both of whom became party leader and then prime minister by luck and then acquired mythical reputations for political mastery.
Meanwhile, Trump is cruising on reactionary autopilot. There's nothing smart about that, nor about the incompetence and ineffectiveness of his administration. If he were actually smart, the number of things he could achieve in his position are frightening. His arrival in the White House does change the game, proving that you can get away with things that most career politicians didn't think were possible. Smarter bastards than him are recalibrating their ambitious on that basis. But he isn't even smart enough to make effective use of what he won.
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Gorillagate shows how shitty Trump is or how full of shit Wolff is ..... depending on your flavour of stupid.
The good news is Vice actually made one: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1DXxyEeArRExM
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This is not a parody account. This is the President of the United States of America. This is actually really happening... https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
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Like really smart - so not actually really smart
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Right, but the election isn’t decided by having the highest percentage of smart people vote for you is it? My point is that focusing on Trump’s intelligence makes you feel good about yourself but for the American left doesn’t really get them any closer to understanding what sort of strategy is necessary to flip at least some of these voters.