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Liam's avatar

When Ed Koch was fumbling and bumbling, and babbling and prattling, it was Trump who built the ice rink in NYC.

When Trump's father begged him not to invest in Manhattan real estate because their family wasn't part of the elite, he did it anyway and built some of the nations most iconic skyscrapers and golf courses.

Real Estate development is not a profession for dummies. His grandfather was a saloon operator in the wild west. His grandmother invested in properties in queens and his father expanded on that business; his Uncle taught at MIT, and his children are well behaved and thoughtful which resembles good parenting. This doesn't sound like a family of dummies and degenerates. On the other hand, smoking crack cocaine and sleeping with prostitutes might say something about someone's character.

Trump is guilty of being uneducated about politics, law and philosophy; in this way he resembles the average citizen. He's not interested in intellectual pursuits; he could care less about art and music and the refined sensibilities of "polite society." He is probably more like his wild west grandfather than his MIT uncle; he is a rough around the edges; but that has nothing to do with innate intelligence; McWhorter doesn't know anything about building skyscrapers. He couldn't organize it; he couldn't even build a house. He wouldn't know where to begin.

How many successful businesses does McWhorter own?

I like John, but let's get a grip with reality. Knowledge in a particular area doesn't equate to innate intelligence. Unintelligent people cannot show up to a rally, unprepared, with no idea what they're going to talk about, then speak for three hours -- mostly coherently, with the occassional blunder throw in, and in the process convince millions of people to vote for them.

Indeed, you might consider him authentic which in a world of inauthenticity is attractive. How would Obama fair if he wasn't reading from a prompter where every word was carefuly chosen by a political scientist.

People who vote for him are well aware of his weaknesses, but they hope that his strengths and his authenticity and his toughness can help bring common sense solutions to political problems, or at the very least shed some light on a very corrupt political establishment class. Not to mention, his policy positions, for the most part are pretty good.

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Marty Holloway's avatar

Taibbi, Weiss, and Schellenberger are making the case that Twitter and Facebook censored the Hunter Biden laptop story at the FBI’s behest. The FBI was also complicit in the Russian collusion hoax. Perhaps Trump is a bumbler like Peter Sellers’ Inspector Clouseau, but he’s revealed how far the security state is willing to go to control the American people.

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