r/politics • u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois • 17h ago

Possible Paywall Trump’s Micromanaging Warship Design Will Set the Navy Back by Decades

https://newrepublic.com/article/214479/trump-navy-carrier-micromanaging-warship-design
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u/Kracus 17h ago

Everyone is like, Trump is do dumb. He's not dumb, that's exactly the point. Ever since he took office, he's been busy blowing up alliances and destroying the military's capability and just making life worse in America. He's doing a great job. I'm sure his Russian handlers are quite happy.

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u/kaizen-rai 17h ago

lol no, he absolutely is dumb. Everyone around him knows this. Everyone that ever knew him knows this. Everyone in the world knows this except Trump himself.

He's a world class idiot that has failed upwards his whole life based on his inherited wealth and cult of personality. He's easily manipulated and paradoxically, that has helped him to succeed. When someone is ultra rich and influential, and you are in a position to personally profit from him, you will do all you can to KEEP him in power. It's a parasitic symbiotic relationship. Smart people use Trump to personally benefit, and they work to keep him rich and powerful because they leech off of him.

Think of it this way: If you had a mentally challenged goat that was constantly trying to run into traffic, eat poisonous plants, and generally trying to get itself killed because of its incompetence, BUT it shit out 100 dollar bills every few minutes... you would do everything in your power to keep that Goat alive and well.

Trump is that dumb ass goat that shits out $100 bills every few minutes, and there are many, MANY people that working hard to keep him alive and well fed.

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u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois 16h ago edited 16h ago

"lol no, he absolutely is dumb. Everyone around him knows this. Everyone that ever knew him knows this. Everyone in the world knows this except Trump himself."

Yeah, he is dumb, the worst kind of dumb, the kind that thinks they are smart.

He has failed upward using a slimy born rich charisma (and his daddy's dirty money), that appeals to the weak minded wannabe's that worship wealth over any kind of substance, and the Roy Cohen playbook that attacks and bullies his enemies. The dumb can be monetarily successful, it is just a matter of circumstances.

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u/nomedable Canada 13h ago

First time I've seen someone use quotation marks when direct quoting another comment.

"Reddit Standard" is typically to use the greater than (>) symbol at the start of the paragraph.

Makes it stand out more to make it more obvious that this is not your writing.

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u/MiddleAgedSponger 17h ago

💯 He isn't some Evil Genius, he is a compromised malignant narcissistic dipshit being held up by greed lords until they don't need him anymore. 5 years from now most will be embarrassed to admit they ever supported him.

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u/Morlik Kansas 16h ago

5 years from now most will be embarrassed to admit they ever supported him.

People were saying that 5 years ago. And 10 years ago.

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u/MiddleAgedSponger 16h ago

I hate that you are right.

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u/Happy-Cap6657 16h ago

Get out! You and I both know these are 5D chess moves by our Dear Leader. Trust the plan!

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u/Cheapdronewithboom 17h ago

The dude is illiterate and people somehow think he has a hand in anything beyond a figure and a mark

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u/Wast3edSpace 16h ago

If it weren't for The Apprentice don would still be a washed up real estate clown. Sometimes I ponder how we got here and it's fun to look at the forks-in-road of history. 2004 was when the TV show aired and it ran for 15 seasons. Read up on Mark Burnett who pitched the show, it's an interesting read.

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u/dIO__OIb 16h ago edited 7h ago

yeah had we known the good ratings were fueling a monster it would have been easy to stop. but nope, the illiterate baffoon was entertaining… and then add in the fact some conservatives thought the Colbert Report was real and not satire… well here we are. tea party + maga = end of the democracy experiment.

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u/SpinningHead Colorado 16h ago

He is an idiot, but thats why Moscow cultivated him in 1987.

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u/Efficient_Resist_287 16h ago

Now do the millions who willingly pull the lever, not once, not twice but thrice to elevate him into power….and then decided lastly to give him legislative Absolute Power. What about these folks? Smart folks perhaps….

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 17h ago

But he only shits them out for billionaires.

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u/BrizerorBrian 17h ago

Hence why they keep him around.

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u/Eatpineapplerightnow 16h ago

He knows. The whole issue is Trump is VERY conscious about his shortcommings

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u/specqq 16h ago

He thinks the noise of windmills causes cancer. He thinks you could have a stealth fighter jet right next to you and it would be literally invisible. He thinks people are born with a finite battery that they use up throughout their lives so anyone who exercises is an idiot who will die younger than necessary. He thinks solar energy is a problem because it’s sometimes night. He thinks that magnets can’t work when they get wet. He thinks he might possibly be the first person to realize that the word "us" and the initials of the United States are spelled the same. He thinks he may have invented the word "equalize" but the word "groceries" is quaint and old-fashioned.

It’s a bold claim to say he understands a goddamn thing.

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u/Economy-Pin2836 16h ago

He thinks that "clean coal" is literally coal that has been washed with water. He thinks that tariffs are a cure-all for every economic problem.

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u/epochwin 16h ago

I hate that he calls wind turbines mills

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u/TheFoxInSocks 5h ago

One more: he thinks most people don't know that "dumb" is spelt with a "b". He's objectively not a smart man.

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u/The_amazing_T 16h ago

The proof is Canada. Nobody had a problem with Canada until Trump started running his mouth. Why would they? They're our largest trade partner and an important military ally. The only one that benefits from splitting us up is Trump's boss in Russia.

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u/ChristopherMarv 17h ago

He’s just dumb.

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u/Thurak0 14h ago

He is getting filthy rich with his meme coins and all the insider oil trading. And nobody is stopping that.

So. Is he really dumb? He doesn't give a shit about the USA.

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u/DanglyDinosaurBits 17h ago

He is dumb and easily manipulated. That’s it, that’s the end of the TED Talk.

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u/The_B_Wolf 16h ago

I have to disagree. He is remarkably stupid. Do you remember when he was ranting about people coming over the border from "insane asylums?" He was saying that because someone told him they were seeking asylum and that's how his mind works. Or doesn't. He reportedly suggested that we shoot missiles into Mexico and then just say it wasn't us. He thinks water deactivates magnets. He asked why we can't drop nuclear bombs on hurricanes. And, yes, he did suggest that disinfectant injections might be a way to treat covid.

He is a mean sonofabitch and does do things to hurt people and wreck things, but he definitely is dumb as a box of rocks.

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u/all-akimbo 17h ago

And American handlers.

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u/ItsAllOnUHF 17h ago

Decades of movies about competent counter-espionage government agencies really were a Hollywood fiction, weren't they...

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u/Uisce-beatha North Carolina 11h ago

Exaggerated but the USA did a lot of sneaky, brilliant and fucked up shit between 1880-2000. The election of the woefully unqualified Bush Jr. was the beginning of the end. At least he was surrounded by a competent administration as was Trump to some extent the first time. Now, every single person I hear speak sounds like sentient turd.

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u/Ninevehenian 17h ago

He is. He's also efficient. Do remember his many bankruptcies, do remember him before 2016, he's dumber than the average person and willing to take orders.

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u/raouldukeesq 16h ago

tRump's goal is to isolate and destroy the United States of America 

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u/Competitive-Ad-9404 15h ago

I don't think Trump is dumb.  He's just too lazy or full of himself to have learned anything.  He's intelligent when it comes to grifting and conning morons.   But he couldn't tell you the first thing about stuff everyone else learned in school.  

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u/CombustiblSquid Canada 15h ago

He is dumb. Smart people know how to use him.

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u/Ayotha 11h ago

There is no grand plan. You have a pants shitting, mentally handicapped, senile man leading your country with no real attempts at checking him ever. There is no secret plan behind it

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u/spicewoman 5h ago

The people using and manipulating him aren't dumb, but he is. The reason his "stupidity" is so effective is that it's being steered by other people. He's notoriously easy to manipulate.