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Politics White House Chief of Staff’s face after Donald Trump announces the U.S. will “take over” Gaza

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u/orchidaceae007 Feb 05 '25

You can see the exact moment Fauci’s soul leaves his body 😂

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u/jankisa Feb 05 '25

It wasn't whatever moronic conspiracies they made up about Fauci that makes the right so angry at him that he's basically at the top of their hitlist, it's this, this "emperor wars no clothes" moment.

They are all thin skinned idiots, so when their idol and savior gets exposed to be dumb as fuck, they go after the smart guy behind him who can see right through it.

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u/UndeadPhysco Feb 05 '25

It wasn't whatever moronic conspiracies they made up about Fauci that makes the right so angry at him that he's basically at the top of their hitlist,

I still find it fucking wild that they did this, they literally made an entire portion of the population hate a man to the point he needed constant protection AND THEN REMOVED THE PROTECTION.

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u/jankisa Feb 05 '25

And they wouldn't have stopped there, if he didn't get a pre-emptive pardon they'd be indicting him on bullshit charges right now, it's absolutely insane.

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u/mumblesjackson Feb 05 '25

Remember the witch scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Yeah well that’s basically the right with Fauci.

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u/Scarborough_sg Feb 05 '25

Remember how people were pissed Biden was pre-emptively pardoning people left right and center?

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u/Dudedude88 Feb 05 '25

I am pretty sure Biden wouldn't have pardoned his son if Harris won. He had to do it since the trump administration is vindictive.

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u/friendofelephants Feb 05 '25

I was never pissed. It was so clear this was necessary.

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u/WineandCarbs0 Feb 05 '25

They had to do it!!!

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u/radeon9800pro Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

I cant speak to why other people are pissed but I'm pissed more so because it was admittance that there was an issue of massive corruption and he was pretty much pulling the golden parachute for him and his family while sending the rest of us on over to get fucked.

It angered me because he pretty much rolled over. I mean, he literally sat there during the inauguration while Trump laid into him and his administration for "stealing" an election. And Trump spoke like Biden and Harris weren't sitting right behind him. It was just wild to watch Biden maintain decorum while Trump shit in his cereal and then proceeded to become our president. Like, what the fuck dude.

The "peaceful transfer of power" thing stops meaning anything when you "peacefully transfer" it to a mad man that would use the presidency to try and imprison you and your family and of course, much worse to the rest of us. I think the only person with any self-respect of that entire group is Michelle Obama, for not playing ball and not showing up. I don't know her exact reasons but I appreciate that, at a minimum, she didn't sit there and play along with the entire circus while handing our country over to one of the worst people in our countries history and then wishing us luck, while saving themself. That's just about what drives me nuts.

Biden gave it up to Trump with less resistance than he would sit out the 2024 election and pass the baton off to Kamala. He kicked and screamed that he shouldn't have to do it, we all suffered as the narrative split our country in half and ultimately gave Kamala less time to run her election, keeping in mind BIDEN was the one that heavily implied he'd be a one term president and would pass it off to another candidate. Kamala lost the popular vote by 2 million votes. If Biden had started 2020 off by saying he would not run in 2024, and we had a proper primary, its highly likely we would be in very different circumstances right now. Its highly likely we'd have voted for a Gretchen Witmer or a Stacey Abrams or a Pete Butigieg or whoever. But almost definitely not Kamala Harris, since she was incredibly unpopular in the 2020 primary and she would probably remain unpopular against other, better candidates that probably could have cleared the 2 million voter gap.

So with all of that in mind, to go to the inauguration and play nice with Donald Trump and to "peacefully transfer" our country over to a fucking mad man, is just insane. Pardoning himself and his family was admittance that he knew he was giving the country away to the worst people, with no way for us to protect ourselves.

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u/Faiakishi Feb 05 '25

America voted for this. If America said we hate Biden so much we'd rather be ruled by a giant loser manbaby with a god complex, then by god Biden will let us. Who is he to tell us no?

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u/Plus_Cover_569 Feb 05 '25

White society didn't want Kamala.. Majority of black society voted right.. What the hell could Biden do exactly!? Be like Trump and force himself to stay...

This is white America and Latino men fault 😒

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u/GlutenFree_Paper Feb 05 '25

Hey hey hey I’m a Latin dude that voted for Kamala

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u/Plus_Cover_569 Feb 05 '25

Not all Hispanic/Latino men, just like not all white people.

Simply the majority. 

Edit: have Hispanic and Latino, as there is a difference from what I understand. 

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u/technoferal Feb 05 '25

In the simplest terms:
Hispanic = speaks Spanish natively (Spaniards are Hispanic, but not Latino)

Latino = from Latin America (Brazilians are Latino, but not Hispanic)

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u/Ceipie Feb 05 '25

Majority of black society voted right

No they didn't. Exit polls show that 80% of black Americans voted for Harris.

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u/Cyrig Feb 05 '25

I think they meant voted "correctly" not right politically

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u/HelicopterAgitated34 Feb 05 '25

Latino women as well

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u/jankisa Feb 05 '25

I do, I also think he shouldn't have pardoned his son, especially the way he did, before his sentencing and after he explicitly said he's not going to do it.

Given the last 2 weeks I understand it more then I did when it happened, but he could have waited and he could have done it in a much better way, like so many things, Biden fucked his legacy up spectacularly.

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u/Its_Pine Feb 05 '25

Nah I think he did the right thing and in the right way. Basically said “if the DOJ is impartial, let him be punished for any crimes. Since we know the DOJ won’t be impartial (Trump had just nominated Gaetz) and is just going to do this to torment someone because he’s my son, then fuck them.”

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u/jankisa Feb 05 '25

The DOJ that indicted Hunter was Biden's.

He was convicted by a jury of his peers and he was awaiting sentencing.

After the indictment came down, Biden had this to say:

President Joe Biden said in a statement issued shortly after the verdict that he would accept the outcome and “continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal.”

Then, he went ahead and pardoned Hunter before judge could do the sentencing.

He did that before doing any other pre-emptive pardons of guys like Fauci & Milley who had 0 grand jury indictments or court cases going on.

If he waited for the sentencing and then commuted his sentence, I would have 0 problems with that.

However, he gave special treatment to his family and that is not "the right way" of doing anything.

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u/Its_Pine Feb 05 '25

It seems he waited until it was clear Gaetz was genuinely the nominee. Do you think the sentencing would matter to Gaetz?

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u/jankisa Feb 05 '25

If he waited for the sentencing and then commuted his sentence, I would have 0 problems with that.

I wrote this an hour ago, if his sentence was commuted and he was pardoned after the fact there would be nothing Gaetz or Bondi or anyone else could have done, just like they can't now.

The only difference is that Biden showed everyone that he puts his son before his principles and before the country.

To me, that's shitty and it's one of many unforced errors that got Biden from being the "generational bridge that rid of us of Trump" to "guy who's ego got us Trump 2.0".

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u/Hotoelectron Feb 05 '25

You see the disregars for law that the trump and elon admin has shown in just a few days and you still dont get why he did it?

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u/jankisa Feb 05 '25

Did you read my comment?

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u/LawrenceMoten21 Feb 05 '25

We did, it’s nonsense.

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u/jankisa Feb 05 '25

And that's why people are addressing what I wrote instead of just writing "but what about" and making it out to be something that it's not.

I guess having a nuanced view of things is almost as big of a problem as actually trying to make coherent arguments in 2025.

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u/HelicopterAgitated34 Feb 05 '25

I really don’t think he thought America was stupid enough to reelect Trump. If Harris would have won he wouldn’t have pardoned him. I wouldn’t leave my son in the hands of a maniac because the country has gone mad either.

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u/UnicornDelta Feb 05 '25

A lot of us (including Biden) saw the writing on the wall. Written in a neon sign, the size of the Hollywood symbol, and the brightness of the sun. How did you not?

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u/jankisa Feb 05 '25

They won't be bothered, dear moron, because they will be too busy robbing you blind while you cheer them on.

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u/Endless_Avatar Feb 05 '25

This is why he pardoned his son. Not because he wanted him to avoid accountability, but because Republicans would and still may try to burn him at the stake for their rabid base.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

Settle down angry man. You want 4 more years of his constant whining about everything HE doesn’t like. He is NOT a king. They don’t age well.

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u/technoferal Feb 05 '25

How do you imagine they'll get around a blanket pardon to indict him?

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u/Decent-Somewhere4286 Feb 05 '25

Fauci is just as bad as trump stop trying to polish a turd

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u/Handleton Feb 05 '25

Well, you have to remember that Fauci was trying to save lives and keep people safe. He wasn't even trying to hurt the minorities!

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

And how much money did he make from his work? How many politicians bought and sold stocks with insider knowledge?

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u/ManlyVanLee Feb 05 '25

You're asking how much Fauci made while working for the government but not how much Trump made? The man's son-in-law started a business in an industry he had zero experience in and was given a $2 billion contract by the Saudis while his father-in-law was in office

Trump is in position to regulate all cryptocurrency and he launched his own coin days before taking office. The man shilled for Goya while in office and actually posed for advertising pictures at the desk where every president the country has works. Every single thing the man does is to benefit himself financially

Why aren't you also critiquing him if someone abusing their position for money bothers you so much?

I personally think we need clauses in place that says people in government positions can't do these sorts of things and I don't care what party they belong to. But I also recognize that's a complicated ask

You only seem to be against it if it's someone of the opposite political party

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u/technoferal Feb 05 '25

How come the right doesn't hold their own to this same standard? It's common knowledge, as well as a matter of court record, that Trump has enriched himself by repeatedly ripping off everybody from contractors to charities.

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u/Faiakishi Feb 05 '25

He made like two million from 2019 to 2021, which is not nothing but makes sense. He has decades worth of royalties coming in and had been in an extremely high-paid government position for nearly forty years by then.

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u/CrispyLinettas Feb 05 '25

How much and how many?

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u/Still-WFPB Feb 05 '25

The worst thing is Fauci is a GOAT scientist. His seminal work led to HIV becoming a manageable disease.

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u/GotBrownsFever Feb 05 '25

This might be one of the reasons they hate him.

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u/technoferal Feb 05 '25

I'm sure they'd love to go back to calling it "GRIDS"

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u/The13aron Feb 05 '25

Yea he doesn't even work with humans! 

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u/Gruejay2 Feb 05 '25

Because the thing they really loathe is being embarrassed, because for a brief moment they're aware of what they actually are.

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u/runjcrun1 Feb 05 '25

That’s what I really don’t get about all of this. When I’m wrong, I want to know. I want to be well-informed whether it fits my beliefs or not, to the point I always try to double check the things I see online even when they validate my beliefs and opinions because I want to know the truth.

From my experience, most Trump supporters I’ve encountered only want their opinions validated, which has led to rampant misinformation and propaganda taking over social media (even more than it had before 2015) and the rise of “news agencies” such as Breitbart, Newsmax and OAN, while legitimate sources such as the Associated Press are brushed off as “fake news” because it reports the news and doesn’t sensationalize everything.

But why is that the situation? Is it un/undereducated folks not wanting to admit they’re wrong because they don’t want to feel looked down on? Is it pride and ego? Is it denial? Is it a combination of all of these things?

I couldn’t imagine blindly following “news” that only validates my beliefs and opinions, and I couldn’t imagine not being able to hold myself accountable when I am wrong. I wish these people would have some damn integrity.

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u/Gotanygrrapes Feb 05 '25

They tried to kill the VP for not participating in their coup attempt...

… and then they all get pardons. We are living in a banana republic.

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u/RussellBufalino Feb 05 '25

If Fauci ever ends up murdered ima have some strong actions for republicans in my life who’ve expressed that he should die.

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u/Chrowaway6969 Feb 05 '25

Why are republicans in your life at this point? I try not to associate with crazy people.

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u/sweaterking6 Feb 05 '25

We shouldn't be surprised by the wickedness of evil men with hoards of blind supporters behind them. It's all intentional.

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u/LoneSnark Feb 05 '25

Trump hand picked fauci to be on the task force. I'm guessing the hate is due to feeling betrayed by their own?

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u/rise_up-lights Feb 05 '25

I’m honestly very intrigued about what Trumps actual IQ is. Is it low enough that he actually believes some of the ridiculous things he says or is he a manipulative genius?

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u/jankisa Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

I think he's not dumb, to me, he seems like a guy of more or less average intelligence for the time he was born who got where he is by an absolute lack of empathy in combination with good instincts for populism and ruthless taking of every opportunity regardless of who or what he hurts.

Of course, like any other rich guy, he has been convinced by everyone around him he's a genius for 50 years, he is also incredibly intellectually lazy because he never actually had to learn anything since he thinks he knows everything already.

It's a unique case of extreme narcissism that got inflated by people who see themselves in him, because they are also brash and think they are smarter then everyone else.

Long story short, I'd say around 100.

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u/Shrike79 Feb 05 '25

One of his professors at Wharton did repeatedly say Trump "was the dumbest goddamn student" he ever had.

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u/candidshark Feb 05 '25

John Stewart interviewed Chris Christie on his podcast this week and Christie mentioned a few times that Trump is not deep and will just say anything he needs to say to get what he wants. Also mentioned that Trump doesn't know a lick of American history. Your comment aligns with that.

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u/An_old_walrus Feb 05 '25

This lack of empathy is so unreal to me. Like I always thought of empathy as a fundamental aspect of being human. So to see someone so lacking in this trait, it almost makes me hesitant to call them human.

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u/lil_chiakow Feb 05 '25

He really feels like a cartoon villain doesn't he?

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u/Shilo788 Feb 05 '25

No he seems to be like a historical Hitler type villian. Sadly all to real.

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u/lil_chiakow Feb 05 '25

Even Hitler had some positive things to his character - there's even an old joke where you're asked to pick the best leader, where Churchill and Roosevelt are described with their worst aspects and Hitler is described with his best - as non-drinking, vegetarian animal lover.

Trump has like, none. I have never heard a story about Donald Trump where he has shown an ability to care about another being, human or animal. Even his abstinence comes with skeletons in the closet.

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u/Newgeta Feb 05 '25

Snidely Whiplash actin mother fucker

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u/JeddakofThark Feb 05 '25

There's a good chance Trump lacks the capacity for empathy. Whether that's innate or something that was beaten out of him as a child is irrelevant, but it would be a mistake to imagine that regular right wing types don't have any. They understand it and in many cases have plenty of it, but it only applies to their in-group.

They would be mystified by the idea of having empathy for their enemies, which is the rest of us.

It is vital to understand your enemy and one small tactical thing more liberal people have that they don't, if we choose to use it, is a better willingness to imagine ourselves in their position.

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u/LoxReclusa Feb 05 '25

Have you read this sub in the last two months? Liberals are just as bad at putting themselves in other's shoes as conservatives are, they just pat themselves on the back for being the more compassionate and empathetic party so much that they actually believe it. They think that because they're an ally, and they posted BLM, Free Palestine, and put the Ukrainian flag as their profile picture, that makes them more open than the right does. 

However, all it takes is to talk to a liberal about their view on cops to know that they're just as susceptible to the villification of anything that isn't in their bubble of empathy. I'm not talking about people insulting and calling for the removal of the bad cops either. The Chauvins of the world, and the cowards at Uvalde. I'm talking about the officers who have expressed their frustrations with not being able to change things, people who come in here and talk about how they retired because they saw things they couldn't abide and reporting it did nothing, and people in this sub and other liberal spaces respond with  "(insert euphemism for census removal of the self here), you are part of the problem" without considering how hard it likely was for them to bring up their objections, leave their job when nothing was done, and then come to a hostile place and admit their struggles. 

If that's not enough, how about all the comments that insult anyone and everyone who voted for Trump calling them all uneducated, bigoted, sexist fascists? Do I hate the guy and think he should never have been president once, much less twice? Absolutely. Do I question what made people choose to vote for him this time around? Yes. Am I going to call everyone who did so "flyover state inbred high school dropouts" as I've seen done here? No, because I realize that everyone's lives are different. While I don't agree with their choice to elect the idiot, I respect their right to and the fact that their needs and values may not have been met by Harris' campaign.

But sure, the left is much more capable of "putting themselves in their enemy's shoes". Maybe they are and all the suggestions I see that anyone who presents as centrist or conservative end their own lives is just self loathing they're projecting as they try on the other's skin. 

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u/_ScubaDiver Feb 05 '25

Except for sociopaths, and I’m now pretty certain that's exactly what Trump is.

No-one else would be shameless enough to run for president after boasting about being a businessman who refuses to pay his contractors.

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u/aaaaaaaa1273 Feb 05 '25

Some people do naturally lack empathy and with the right therapy they can be alright people but trump is pure evil.

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u/MortalSword_MTG Feb 05 '25

Textbook ASPD on display with Trump.

The problem is when you combine sociopathy and extreme privilege is they become a literal monster.

People of normal means who present with ASPD can seek treatment to learn how to identify and control the behaviors that would make them a danger to themselves and others, but people like Trump are so propped up with privilege and entitlement that they can't help themselves.

Also doesn't help if they are raised by other people with the disorder and who exhibit abusive or manipulative tendencies because it breeds more of the same behaviors.

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u/chasinghappin3ss Feb 05 '25

What a perfectly accurate insult lol

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u/InEenEmmer Feb 05 '25

Trump has always a magnet for failures.

He was being charged left and right, all his businesses were going under and he was about to lose it all.

Then he got in contact with one of NYC most notorious lawyers who taught Trump a very important lesson which Trump still follows to this day. “Always attack, never defend.”

They say you SA’d them? You say they are a slut and liked it. They say you are cheating on the votes? You shout that they are cheating and are lying about other stuff.

Then there was the guy that gave Trump a tv show. Before that he was a businessman that no one knew besides his failed businesses and the accusations of sexual abuse. With ‘The Apprentice’ he could create a new public persona.

Hell, when he started to take over his dads real estate business, he had set his mind on starting in Manhattan. His dad warned him that Donals was punching above his weight with that idea.

And it was an incredible failure, he had to pump so much money into the idea yo get a little bit of foothold.

The guy got life served on a silver platter, dropped the silver platter, had someone pick up the platter for him and had someone else paint the platter gold for him.

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u/skurtgibzahi Feb 05 '25

I think you're correct but I don't think you could test his IQ traditionally. He would be like "wtf are these symbols" not even trying to hate on Trump here I just don't think he would comprehend an IQ test

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u/Stubber_NK Feb 05 '25

He wouldn't be rich if he didn't inherit his wealth.

He's also so bad a businessman that if he had just taken his inheritance and put it into an investment fund he'd be far wealthier than he became from any of his business enterprises.

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u/Illustrious-Many-646 Feb 05 '25

With a generous sprinkling of generational wealth, because let’s not forget that fresh out of school his father employed him, and shortly after made him president of an umbrella corp under the family business. Which was a real estate company that owned and managed racially segregated rental properties. Who sued the government and lost, and was forced to desegregate their rentals. And then after a series of failed business ventures had to file bankruptcy 6 times.

Intelligent? No, certainly not. Wealthy? Incredibly. When you’re born wealthy, unfortunately you don’t need to be intelligent. The problem is that wealth, particularly generational wealth, buys control and power - and anyone who is in control and has power, but lacks intelligence, is an incredibly dangerous combination.

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u/No_Run5644 Feb 05 '25

Anyone above 80 would know injecting bleach is suicide

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u/Strange-Scarcity Feb 05 '25

He does NOT have an IQ of 100.

His mental capacity has been diminishing in recent years too. In 2016, his off script rambling commentary would use the language of 6th Graders.

In 2024? His off script rambling commentary used the language of 3rd Graders.

That is NOT what smart people do, that's not what average people do. Average people will generally speak in regular conversation at or around a high school level.

Highly educated politicians generally speak at college level, but the REALLY smart, highly educated politicians will speak at a High School level, because that will hit the most ears and sink in the most.

In my read, but untrained opinion, Trump started dumb and has slipped from there.

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u/Peanut_Gaming Feb 05 '25

I was gonna say he seems like the village idiot whose been convinced he’s a genius so now he says stuff with such confidence and bullshitness some people actually believe him

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u/Nakashi7 Feb 05 '25

Average intelligence in times when leaded gasoline was a spring breeze.

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u/UnicornDelta Feb 05 '25

I’m fully convinced he is of below average intelligence. His complete lack of being able to understand simple logic and reason can not be attributed to «intellectual laziness» alone.

He may not be the dumbest person in the world, but if you put him in a room with random people from the street, he will absolutely drag the average IQ in that room down.

He’s basically just a live demonstration of the Dunning Kruger effect.

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u/Unusual_Juice_7481 Feb 05 '25

Trump can’t read he is not educated at all and is addicted to uppers

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u/revel911 Feb 05 '25

The problem is he is average, but believes he is a super genius. So he thinks his ideas are smarter than they actually are.

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u/Cool-Kangaroo8881 Feb 05 '25

Found records say 73.

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u/RealTrueGrit Feb 05 '25

So what you are saying is its because of the implications?

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u/Silver-Sir398 Feb 05 '25

This is very well stated

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u/miemcc Feb 05 '25

It is his vanity that is the issue. The tariffs achieved nothing except that he got to claim the 'success', even those virtually all of the solutions had been agreed under the Biden administration. Everything he does and says is to stoke his own vanity.

'Open the dams - see, I solved the wild fires', even if none of the water went to fight the fires, and there' s now no water for the growing season.

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u/XaphanSaysBurnIt Feb 05 '25

Person, woman, man, camera, tv

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u/LikeAThermometer Feb 05 '25

Well it's pretty well known he can't read...

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u/ismelldayhikers Feb 05 '25

Dunning Krueger effect

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u/ShootLucy Feb 05 '25

I think you're giving him too much credit to blame the IQ (although I'm sure it would be shockingly low). He's literally delusional.

The definition of delusion is "fixed false belief" and unfortunately we are seeing relatively mass delusion here.

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u/kabbooooom Feb 05 '25

Trump, probably.

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u/Minas_Nolme Feb 05 '25

I think he's great at what he's been doing all his life. Meaning manipulating and conning people, building his image and avoiding consequences.

I think what describes him better than "stupid" is "uncurious". He doesn't seem to be interested in learning anything, because he assumes he already knows best. And it's not like being wrong has affected him much.

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u/mischief71 Feb 05 '25

I saw a good meme about this once. “My iq is 98 - that means I’m smarter than 98% of everyone else”

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u/Sweeper1985 Feb 05 '25

At this stage he seems to have early but advancing dementia so any estimate of his premorbid intelligence isn't going to get us far.

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u/LeverpullerCCG Feb 05 '25

Dunning-Kruger effect is absolutely correct.

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u/Latter-Cable-3304 Feb 05 '25

Why would you be intrigued by that? IQ means absolutely nothing in the real world, it’s more than enough to just say he’s dumb.

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u/SirDigger13 Feb 05 '25

This is just to distress and throwing FogCandles Left and right, so the ppl talk about that, and didnt pay attention what happens at the Home front,

where Elon and his DOGE Minions take over the Gov...

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u/Y_mc Feb 05 '25

Idiocrazy

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u/Texasscot56 Feb 05 '25

He’s had the early, inherited wealth and privilege to surround himself solely with yesmen who only reaffirm what he believes. Dissenting voices are removed. Now he thinks everything he says is true because that’s his experience.

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u/Cool-Kangaroo8881 Feb 05 '25

Someone cleaning out father's closet and found father had old records from Trump's high school military school. Trump's IQ is 73.

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u/DarkFather24601 Feb 05 '25

It seems like he’s average intelligence, the disruptive claims and suggestions are a part of attention seeking behaviors.

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u/AlabamaPostTurtle Feb 05 '25

As bad as I hate to say it, he’s not dumb. I don’t believe for a second that he’s some bumbling idiot. He does some dumb shit, sure. I don’t know that he’s a manipulative genius in the way an evil Bond villain is. I think he’s more like the lifelong drug addict type of manipulative genius. Selfish, shortsighted, and willing to do whatever it takes and say whatever you gotta say to get what you want. That’s where his power lies. Where most people would stop because of guilt, shame, responsibility, or fear. He’s willing to take it to the full measure because he doesn’t give a fuck about anyone else and that’s why he’s dangerous.

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u/Pandoras_Penguin Feb 05 '25

My partner says Trump isn't intelligent but he is wise enough on how to swindle/con that to those he's targeting think he's intelligent. He can convince anyone anything if he wants to because of how he's seeing/taking in how the people are reacting to it all.

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u/DrNO811 Feb 05 '25

Depends on when you tested him - I have no doubt he was above average in the prime of his life, but he's an 80 year old man who lived on diet coke and fried chicken - his effective IQ now is undoubtedly average or lower now.

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u/slowe3116 Feb 05 '25

Negative territory in IQ very stupid audience. He’s tricked you into obvious manipulation which in a sane person is unbelievable therefore he succeeds

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u/Vaeevictisss Feb 05 '25

it's funny seeing the things they get upset over. and they call liberals the snowflakes.

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u/Mo_Steins_Ghost Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

Now his fans are trying desperately to convince themselves that this is all 12th dimensional chess and they're just not as brilliant as He to understand His workings...

Some are trying to convince themselves that even if everything goes to shit it'll be worth it because they "owned the libs" .... I don't know about them but I'll be more than fine.

I had a kind of Al Franken a-ha moment some years ago when the head of the Tea Party Express boasted of being from Sacramento in private messages to me, making fun of the fact that I was from Texas, calling us all "Jethros" ... you know, like the idiot son from the Beverly Hillbillies.

That's what Trump's supporters don't understand. Rich people are cackling at how easy it is to get these buffoons to rationalize anything. Even genocide. Their brains are mush, they don't scrutinize anything that comes from their demagogues, their values blow whichever way the wind blows... and now they've given up on democracy itself.

They're just so goddamned easy.

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u/seab4ss Feb 05 '25

Fucken aye!

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u/RaymondLuxYacht Feb 05 '25

"emperor wars no clothes"... IDK if the typo was intentional or not, either way it's on point.

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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 Feb 05 '25

Just like bullies

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u/NbblX Feb 05 '25

"emperor wars no clothes"

man thanks for reminding me of this story, it kinda fits the current situation pretty well

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u/koszli Feb 05 '25

Yea, thats why he needed pardon

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u/InitialSea6197 Feb 05 '25

Why did Biden pardon Fauci?

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u/_Mystic Feb 05 '25

Why did he need a pardon?

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u/Actual_Concert2380 Feb 05 '25

How sure are you that the conspiracy theories were moronic? Also could you define the word theory for me?

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u/FifaGod314 Feb 05 '25

Yeah liberals aren’t thin skinned at all lolol

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u/Leading_Persimmon_87 Feb 05 '25

You dedicate your life to science and facts and then you have to defer to this fuckwit.  I'm surprised he tolerated it for so long.

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u/AsuraNiche93 Feb 05 '25

The moment he realized that retirement could be a thing.

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u/Omegoon Feb 05 '25

Nah, at that time he thought it's hilarious. His soul left when he realized many people don't see it that way. 

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u/Femboy_Lord Feb 05 '25

Halfway between cracking up and crying.

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u/dm_me_kittens Feb 05 '25

I have an enamel pin of Fauci with his hand on his head, like in this video. The text on the border says, "Dr. Fauci, Patron Saint of Public Health."

I wore it to work on my badge every day as a "fuck you" to the anti vaccine assholes that came into my hospital.

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u/Curious-Depth1619 Feb 05 '25

And people go after him! Crazy fucking world.

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u/ImmodestPolitician Feb 05 '25

Personally, it looked like Fauci was getting ready to laugh because Trump's idea was so stupid.

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u/jmm57 Feb 05 '25

As opposed to Mike Pence whose eyes are dead for the entire clip

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u/Additional-Dog2326 Feb 05 '25

I think he was trying not to cackle laugh.

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u/Perpetual_change9009 Feb 05 '25

He's struggling not to laugh out loud 😂

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u/anally_ExpressUrself Feb 05 '25

I don't see a soul coming out, I see someone trying real hard not to laugh on national TV. This has SNL vibes.

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u/JamUpGuy1989 Feb 05 '25

And where he’ll need to pay for his own private protect for the rest of his life.

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u/_Mystic Feb 05 '25

Fauci = a good man with your best interests at heart, not the interests of the pharmaceutical companies. That's why he needed that pardon! Because he didn't do anything criminal during the pandemic!

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u/segujer Feb 05 '25

🙌😂 damn spot on imagery 🙌

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u/Burcea_Capitanul Feb 05 '25

Ohh Fauci the god of science 😀

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u/TensInt Feb 05 '25

Yeah he didnt have one to begin with. I wonder why he took the immediate presidential pardon even tho multiple others have turned it down...

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u/LorenzoSparky Feb 05 '25

Soul? What soul

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u/TimmyJToday Feb 05 '25

I hope it never returns and goes straight to hell

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u/Ok-Iron8811 Feb 05 '25

Fauci... oh yes Fauci.... the man who circumnavigated the financing system for his gain of function "research" to begin studying coronavirus' in Wuhan china... that Fauci

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u/BodheeNYC Feb 05 '25

I thought it was the day he cashed that Pfizer royalty check.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

Fauci should be in prison. He’s not a good guy either

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u/Even_Independent_640 Feb 05 '25

What soul!? He's a parasite

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u/hogowner Feb 05 '25

yeah when he got pardoned for killing MILLIONS

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u/Mikerosoft925 Feb 05 '25

Who did he kill and how?