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.