By Hal Brown, International blogger
Here are some of the most recent publicly revealed examples of just how dumb Trump is. I’m not even going to get into how Trump promoted a doctor who has claimed alien DNA was used in medical treatments. That was so yesterday. Also so yesterday was Trump making in an all statement all too revealing of his infantile narcissism. He wondered why, as CNN put it “'Nobody likes me': Trump ponders pandemic popularity of Fauci and Birx”. That was a truly stupid thing to say.
I am sure there are myriad examples of Trump’s ignorance, lack of cognitive ability, and how scatterbrained he is that those who try to work with him every day see and try to ignore or rationalize away.
Above is a tweet from the conservative Washington Times column by Andrew “Napolitano How Totalitarianism Begins in The United States”. My guess is Trump didn't grasp the meaning of the title and just liked the photograph.which begins with this CS Lewis quote: ““The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own consciences.”
Perhaps you could excuse Trump for not being aware that totalitarianism was a bad thing and liking the photo and not understanding the CS Lewis quote. He may have only read the first five paragraphs which simply described what was happening in Portland.
He may not have noticed that the column ended abruptly after five paragraphs and seen that you had to click to read the remainder:
If he had clicked he would have discovered that the column went on for 14 paragraphs to describe how peaceful protesters were assaulted with pepper spray and hit with nonlethal exploding bullets, how a young man riding a bicycle away from the chaos was attacked by five of these feds, and how the Navy veteran was attacked.
The column concluded as follows:
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires the government to protect speech, not assault those who exercise it. If these indiscriminate beatings and kidnappings are intended to deter folks from publicly dissenting, it is profoundly unconstitutional, counterproductive and will be costly to the federal government.
Under the Constitution, the ability to regulate for health and safety belongs to the states and local governments. The feds simply do not have the lawful authority to fill in gaps in local law enforcement, no matter how offended they may be.
This is how totalitarianism begins. The feds claim that federal property needs protection and the folks assigned to do so need help. When help arrives, it does so by surprise, under cover of darkness and shielded by anonymity. Then, the reinforcements beat and arrest and harm protesters because their bosses in Washington do not approve of the protesters’ message.
Public dissent against the government is a core personal freedom. It is as American as apple pie. It was integral to the creation of our republic. Government repression of dissent is totalitarian. It is as un-American as the governments against which we fought world wars to preserve our core freedoms.
Here’s another example of his stupidity from when he was in Texas yesterday.
Trump Mocked For Saying Biden Aims To Reach Net-Zero Emissions For Buildings By ‘2:30’
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“I don’t think Biden’s going to do too well in Texas,” Trump said. “If these far-left politicians ever get into power, they will demolish not only your industry, but the entire U.S. economy.”
He railed against policies “seeking an even higher level of restrictions mandating zero carbon emissions ― which frankly, is impossible ― for all new homes, offices and buildings by two thirty.”
Ostensibly, Trump was referring to Biden’s sustainable energy and infrastructure plan released earlier this month, which details a net-zero emissions standard for all new commercial buildings by 2030. However, it does not mention any mandate, as Politifact noted when it fact-checked Trump when he made a similar claim earlier this month.
Twitter users were inclined to agree that achieving this goal by 2:30 ― whether Trump was referring to a.m. or p.m. ― was optimistic.
This is the best response I found to the carbon neutral remarks because it brings in Trump’s racist appeal to white suburbanites:
This morning I wake up to see that Trump is tweeting about delaying the election which, of course he cannot do by executive action;
I expect we’ll see some of the choice replies to this in various articles. These are the top two replies as I write this diary:
The ever snarky anti-Trump Republican Rick Wilson, who is often on MSNBC, had the next tweet:
My title question is whether or not members of Trump’s MAGA cult really want a president who is this stupid. Perhaps if they are getting all their news from Fox they never hear about these examples or if they do they are not capable of realizing how utterly dumb their leader is.
Perhaps they think he is a genius compared to them. It is even worse to contemplate that perhaps they think he is the greatest genius of all time.
What do you think?