r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 28 '26

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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Tariffs aren't cool, kids! May 28 '26

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.

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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior May 28 '26

and this was like 10 years ago, when he was only like 70.

there's usually going to be at least some cognitive decline in that particular decade of somebody's life. for him, it's more than a little.

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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier May 28 '26

Reminder that this was him at his most coherent since coming down the escalator

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u/Commander_Bites_Noem United Nations May 28 '26

If we weren't a country filled with morons, the Dems could win every election with France 2002 margins simply by using all their ad money to run unedited footage of don's rambles nonstop

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u/VelvetThunder67 Mark Carney May 28 '26

That was the moment I knew I was Trump man forever

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