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

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      https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/09/14/donald-trump-at-wharton-university-of-pennsylvania/

      It’s rare for a professor to disparage the intelligence of a student, but according to attorney Frank DiPrima, who was close friends with professor William T. Kelley for 47 years, the prof made an exception for Donald Trump, at least in private. “He must have told me that 100 times over the course of 30 years,” says DiPrima […] “I remember the inflection of his voice when he said it: ‘Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!’” He would say that [Trump] came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything, that he was arrogant and he wasn’t there to learn.” Kelley, who passed away in 2011 at age 94, taught marketing at Wharton for 31 years, retiring in 1982.

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        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

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    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.

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      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.

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    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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        Exactly. She worked for a living while paying for her education, and once she was educated she advanced to bigger things. Somehow they want to frame that as a negative mark on her, when it should be the opposite. They can’t celebrate someone working hard and doing it on her own because she plays for the opposite team.

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          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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              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.

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

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

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      I remember thinking that constantly. Like, no, idiots, this is his job, and he’s good at it

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      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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Sure they passed the bar…but would you want to have a beer with them at the bar?

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        Clinton is a fascinating guy. He has something like an Eidetic memory and can recall names of people he’s only met briefly. He can also work a room like no one else can. If there was ever anyone who was just born for politics, he’s it.

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          Clinton called every person that worked in the White House by name.

          I don’t even know all my coworkers and I’m sure it’s less than the number of people that worked in the White House.

          Hell, I don’t even know everyone in my family tree.

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        Im fairly certain I’d drink with any of them other than Trump. Bush would probably be fun to drink with, even if I don’t agree with his political ideas. A drinking session with Carter might be his last, but if he was offering, sure

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        Ugh, Bill Clinton gave me one of the worst handshakes of my life one time. Total limp fish, the kind that makes you feel like maybe you should wash your hand to get rid of the feeling. I feel like I’d pass on him.

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            He also couldn’t be bothered to stop the conversation he was having with a staff member (about nothing important) or even glance my way. He engaged with everyone before and after me, so it really stood out, to the point that a couple of people commented on how rude it was. It was kind of crushing - I was like, 20, and had really admired him as a kid, and then I paid what was a ton of money for me at the time and waited for hours for nothing. Now that I’m older and a lot more cynical, I wouldn’t pay to meet him in the first place, and I definitely wouldn’t be surprised by a politician acting like an ass, but back then I was still young and idealistic and had feelings that could be hurt.

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    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

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      An economics expert… with the Republicans? That’s hilarious. The party of horse and sparrow, massive debt and deficit, and wealth inequality. Also, what would a medical doctor bring to the administration of a government or geopolitics? These Democrats trained for the job: history, politics, economics, law. What would be the advantage of welcoming unqualified people?

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        When you treat your political affiliation like a religion, everyone who doesn’t agree with you sounds like a heretic

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      I like it. Tell that to the Republican party that are currently doing the rounds pretending Kamala is some sort of incompetent dummy. Trump said that she is stupid because she had to work too hard to pass the Bar after earning a doctorate in law, while he himself never even pursued grad school and witness accounts point to his undergrad transcripts being a horror show.

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      A degree in law and passing the bar does in fact show someone knows about the law, a prerequisite for following it in the context of being a lawmaker.

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      Say you are uneducated and do not understand the benefits of education without saying those words, please.