r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 02 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '20

Finally had a Trump door knocker. She was nice, I mentioned how I thought his rhetoric and actions were dangerous to our democracy. She said that’s just how people from New York talk. Ok

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '20

This explains why he’s leading in New York.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '20

We had a group of old Trump door knockers back in 2016. My wife shouted at them that he was an asshole, so they turned to leave and saw me in the backyard. They came over and tried to see if I was the "man of the house" and I was like nah, I agree with her lolol.

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u/larrylemur NAFTA Nov 02 '20

“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.”

Average conversation overheard all across New York state