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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,446 posts)
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 06:33 PM Feb 2019

This is like saying someone's a genius for responding to a Nigerian email offering free money.

It's not that they *couldn't* get a meeting.

It's that granting a meeting is a monumentally stupid idea.

This is like saying someone's a genius for responding to a Nigerian email offering free money.



Spammers have been calling our office phone for years, but I'm the only person smart enough to pick up and answer! The others couldn't negotiate a deal to extend their car warranty!



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brush

(53,778 posts)
9. He's a lot like his stupid father. They both think they're brilliant.
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 08:02 PM
Feb 2019

He's thinking he made a profound revelation—trump got a meetin with Kim.

Whoop-de-effin-doo! Kim has been trying to get a meeting with every other president before the idiot one we have now.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
4. Stupidity level: Off the charts
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 06:49 PM
Feb 2019

Kim relishes a meeting with any U.S. president. It gives him standing on the world stage. Previous presidents were smart enough to know not to grant him a meeting so he could brag about it.

I thought Eric was the stupid one. If he beats Junior on stupidity it's amazing he can tie his shoelaces.

Botany

(70,504 posts)
5. Ever since Eisenhower and up to Obama every American President has refused to meet with any ....
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 06:51 PM
Feb 2019

.... of the Kims ... Kim Jong Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong Un.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
6. There was never a meeting before because NK realized that none of our previous
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 07:02 PM
Feb 2019

presidents could be such patsies to fall for NK's "promises to denuclearize". Further, most of our previous presidents were smart enough to know they'd never get any meaningful and trustworthy concessions out of NK.

With tRumpie in office, NK sees its chance to become legitimized on the world stage. With tRumpie in office it also means NK sees that he's so stupid he'll believe anything that's blown up his butt. NK knows tRumpie is so stupid and naïve he'll believe anything Un has to say as long as it's served up with enough platitudes to satisfy tRumpie's ego.

Those are the reasons tRumpie was "able to" get a meeting with NK, and Donnie Jr. is too dumb to realize it. Like father, like son. Dumb and dumber.

Win/win for NK; lose/lose for us.

procon

(15,805 posts)
7. That entire family consists of morons and
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 07:17 PM
Feb 2019

BS'ers. Jr is a chip off the old block, too stupid to understand that No. Korea was the only beneficiary in meeting with Trump. Kim gained prestige and status by having a US President gushing about his undying "love" while Trump was praising a brutal dictator as his new BFF.

Thanks to Trump, the US now looks like a idiotic fool while Trump goes fawning over Kim and offering him wealthy business deals with posh resorts and hotels (grifters are greedy), and promises to lift sanctions and cancel war games. Yeah, Jr., you peabrained idiot, your papa got a meeting alright, but that's all that he got for giving Kim practically everything he wanted.

Rhiannon12866

(205,368 posts)
8. Jimmy Carter met with Kim Jong-un's grandfather in 1994
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 07:41 PM
Feb 2019

On behalf of the Clinton administration. As a nuclear physicist, he had the background and he was also a diplomat. The agreement they made continued successfully between his son and SoS Madeleine Albright. In fact, when Bush* was selected in 2000, he asked if he could still deal with Albright.

The 1994 agreement still held until 2002 when Bush* broke it by including North Korea in his "Axis of Evil" statement. That's the history, but apparently Junior has no knowledge of history, same as Trump senior.

Takket

(21,568 posts)
10. none of them got in the room because...
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 08:06 PM
Feb 2019

This is the first time the North Koreans have an american president they know they can get to concede to anything as long as they compliment him on his nice tie.

Hekate

(90,686 posts)
11. The stupid, it burns. The mad king just handed North Korea a priceless gift...
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 08:10 PM
Feb 2019

The Kim Dynasty has been working towards this for three generations: to be seen on the world stage as the equal of the US and the US President.

And Trump gift wrapped it and gave it to Kim 3 just like that.

keithbvadu2

(36,806 posts)
12. Dotard gave Kim legitimacy as a world leader. No wonder Kim 'loves' Trump.
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 08:47 PM
Feb 2019

Dotard gave Kim legitimacy as a world leader.

No wonder Kim 'loves' Trump.

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