• @solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    1079 months ago

    don’t forget trump threatened to basically firebomb his college if they released his transcripts

      • @solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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        349 months ago

        it’s absurd and terrifying that someone who can’t be assed to sit through a daily briefing as president because he thinks he “already knows enough” was able to attain to such a powerful position. arguably the MOST powerful position in the world

        it’s by design that people are so fucking gullible. useful idiots. it takes a special kind of stupid to think that a blatant con man muppet like trump actually cares about anyone or anything except himself

  • @Snowclone@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Remember when W was the dumbest president we had? Like people mocked the shit out of him, and yet, he read books that would guide his domestic policy actions, showed up to work everyday, and could read at a 12th grade level. What a time to be alive.

      • nifty
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        99 months ago

        The bar is so low it’s underground now

    • @ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      69 months ago

      W was pretending to be dumb. He’s not a genius or anything like that, but there are plenty of clips of him from the '90s as governor of Texas where he speaks like a normal, educated person in complete sentences and everything, and he even pronounced “nuclear” correctly. Republicans these days intentionally speak at a 5th grade level; Trump’s big innovation is just speaking at a 4th grade level.

  • Hubbubbub
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    999 months ago

    They also like to deride AOC as a waitress and say she knows nothing when she has a degree from Boston University in international relations and economics. Facts are not really their strong point.

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      589 months ago

      Even more so she is the epitome of pulled up by her bootstraps.

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          259 months ago

          To further emphasize your point, while in college, her dad died. She learned a lot about the (in)justice system going through probate. She also interned for Ted Kennedy. Once she graduated college, she most likely could have had an instantly “successful” career. Areas, she moved back home and became a waitress/bartender so she could help her mom who was struggling. As if that wasn’t enough, she also started working with and promoting her community.

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              69 months ago

              I mean she’d probably make a great veep or pres, but I feel like where she’s at now she can do the most good. It’s not yet her time.

    • ddh
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      109 months ago

      Waitress (or any other retail service) experience is worth a lot in my book.

  • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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    559 months ago

    Remember when everything Obama did was unconstitutional? Yeah. A professor of Constitutional law, at Harvard.

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      9 months ago

      Knowing the law and upholding the law are not necessarily the same thing though.

      Britains Labour party leader Keir Starmer is also a lawyer specialised in international human rights, yet he repeatedly claimed Israeli war crimes not to be war crimes.

      Germany currently has a scandal, where the ministry of education tried to defund researchers who signed an open letter, defending students rights to protest. First of all this is highly unconstitutional and unethical, because the constitution grants both freedome of speech and freedom of science. Second of all, targeting dissident scientists is particularly icky in Germany, given the Nazi history. The executor of that ministers order, who was then sacrificed to take the whole blame for it, was the head of Germanys ethics advisor council to the government.

  • Sunkblake
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    269 months ago

    If you elect me as president, Linux will be the must have OS for public sector, Self-hosting will become a recognized extreme sport and your specific Linux distribution will be the best one by law.

  • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    109 months ago

    He would be a president of the idiots. The problem is that there are enough idiots in the US that he got in office once and, as idiots don’t learn from their mistakes, might even have another chance.

  • @supertrucker@lemmy.ml
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    19 months ago

    So, if you’re a medical doctor or an economics expert, don’t bother running for office as a Democrat. They only want lawyers telling their followers how to think