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(2,541 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Who knew one would be elected POTUS?!
SeaDoo77
(540 posts)Step by step how to bring down a democracy.
At least the Germans were starving. They had an excuse.
Americans are simply stupid.
2naSalit
(86,743 posts)Martin Eden
(12,874 posts)What Hamilton feared has come to pass.
triron
(22,011 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,226 posts)hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,226 posts)And be considered an advanced species?
Aristus
(66,436 posts)If people want to use this to draw a parallel with Trump, please ignore this phrase. It's completely unsuitable for the argument.
Trump possesses no talents whatsoever. It is this very fact that inspired people to vote for him. Talentless, brainless, useless people.
Trump, and not Antonio Salieri of Amadeus, is the Patron Saint of Mediocrities...
dsc
(52,166 posts)He is massively talented at playing to people's fears, entertaining people, lying repeatedly, and playing the race card. He has used those talents to wrap the base of one political party around his fingers while betraying most of what that party purports to stand for.
He is ignorant, pathological, and perhaps delusional, but his talent as a con man is evident by the fact he became president.