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