Thank you for saying this. People are gradually sobering up that Trump and co. know what they are doing. For many years, people are insulting him as dumb. But would a dumb person not be elected twice into the world's most powerful position? If he is dumb, who is the one wielding the power right now? Who is the one lording over us right now? There is the ongoing notion that the concept of intelligence means being smart in broad cognitive aspects. But academics are re-evaluating what intelligence means because we can clearly see that everyone being good at specific things, but not so with the others. Can we call a successful rich banker dumb for being bad at biology and vice versa? A demagogue may not know what "transgenic" means, but he certainly knows what levers to pull to incite the base emotions of voters into supporting him/her. That takes certain skills.

I would still laugh if someone tries to dismiss Trump as "dumb" even after these comments. The principles of Sun Tsu's "Art of War" can still be conceptually applied into everyday life, and one of the key tenets is to never underestimate your opponent. Keep calling Trump dumb, but who is the one in charge right now? Sure, his government policies are irrational amd harm everyone else, but not to himself and his cronies. He just performed insider trading in last two days after all. That still takes certain skills that most of us can't do.

Then you've got Bill Maher meeting him in person and then dick-riding him on his show talking about how sane, charming, self-deprecating, and how he has a sense of humor afterall, and listens to criticism calmly.

Then Maher gets offended when a guest says 'the president played you'

I mean, jfc, Maher is in the entertainment industry how has he never met a charming backstabber before?

I just read that DOGE literally manhandled and dragged a career Social Security worker out of the offices because he wouldn't let let put alive people on the dead people list to cut off their benefits.

Sane/Insane - the work they are doing is crazy, illegal, immoral, unethical - we need more Jasmine Crockett type people loudly calling this out.

We need people with her visibility and charisma out-shouting Margie with actual truths instead of made up bullshit.

At this point the truths are more wacky than the hacky shit being made up about space lasers and weather control.

You blocked them and now you're using the fact that you don't see similar posts from the people you say you've blocked to justify that your blocks were correct?

I'm certain she is. Jasmine Crockett is the same lady who told Trump to "stop being Putin's ho". She told Musk to "Fuck off". She's an outspoken progressive. She's trying to spur the Democrats and non-MAGA Republicans into action.

Two impeachments would disagree. They teed the republicans up to cut the trump hemorrhoid off, but they (republicans) were too chickenshit.

That said, they need to grow some balls and start swinging. It takes more than Bernie, AOC and a few other loud progressives to start cracking the fortress of shameless greed republicans have been building over the past 40 years.