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u/pseudonym82 9d ago
"Being a veteran myself makes me an expert on the nuances of global economics. So you know... Biden. Also, I'm a complete moron."
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u/The_Chodenator 9d ago
Ikr, since when does being a veteran make you understand global geopolitics. Dude seems like couldnt point out where he toured on a map
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u/Legendary_Bibo 9d ago
They use it as a shield as if they are somehow wise sages and can't have their opinion challenged but should instead be highly regarded.
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u/smrtgmp716 9d ago
I’ll bet a gallon of gas he’s not even a veteran.
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u/Oct0tron 9d ago
There was one singular thing my recruiter told me before I joined that was true and stayed true the whole time I was in. He said the moment that I think 'surely this is the dumbest person that could ever get into the military.' not too long after having that thought, I'll meet someone dumber.
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u/soba_set 9d ago
As someone that's worked in military circles before, it's true. There are a lot of great people in the military, and I've met some very smart people in there. There are also a lot of people you're just thinking "holy fuck almighty, how can someone be so dumb and why do you have any ounce of responsibility at all?"
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u/NihilistPorcupine99 9d ago
The infantry conundrum.
Everyone is either the dumbest or smartest person you’ll ever meet. No in between.
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u/Apocresi 9d ago
Got to my first unit after OSUT and my squad leader asked my GT score. When I told him his response was “why the fuck did you join the infantry??”
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u/_IRONBANE_ 9d ago
Years ago we had a guy come through our unit who forged his dad's signature for a loan on a decade old truck with a rotted out bed. Max interest, all the awful shit. We tried to talk him into giving that lemon back or selling it. Instead he went awol and stole a trailer with someone's boat attached.
If you talked to him all he would talk about was the jews, 9-11 and how liberals made everything worse. If you called him out on his wack Conspiracy theories he would quote the exact definition of the word "conspiracy" and then call you a lib. When we finally chaptered his ass out of the army we saw that he was living in a garden shed with a bucket system with hoses for a shower and he was hoarding moonshine pickles and empty cat food cans... like rows of them.
It is a volunteer army. Not every veteran is a shining example of selfless service and integrity.
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u/Flimflamsam 9d ago
Anyone who’s ever had to do any classroom training with the military will know for sure.
Heck you can even find it in places where there’s very diverse recruitment - or even in volunteer positions and such. As an adult having to sit through PowerPoint with people who couldn’t even sit still for 5 minutes to concentrate, let alone comprehend the slides.
It’s an eye opener.
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u/Hungry_Kick_7881 9d ago
I’m a bit of an economicsst myself. if you were not aware.
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u/BagOnuts 9d ago
Anyone who lets you know they’re a veteran without being prompted is a confirmed idiot in my book.
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u/Kiwi_CFC 9d ago
As a New Zealander, this is how I view every and all republicans.
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u/According_Cheek8280 9d ago
As an American, this is incredibly accurate. Every republican I know at this point in time is this regarded, genuinely. Zero critical thinking skills, all of them. Like they really can’t comprehend or understand basic things, yet they somehow manage to drive to work and feed themselves. It’s baffling.
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u/PaddyScrag 9d ago
Well, remember when Trump first entered the scene and would shit out false information on repeat? And we all thought he was crazy. This is the result of years of that, combined with party-aligned news media and social media to amplify it. These poor peoples' brains have been overloaded, and they weren't too smart to begin with. It's sad and frightening.
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u/TooMuchTape20 9d ago
I disagree- they lack intellectual discipline and actively seek out misinformation that affirm their worldview. Complicit media doesn't help but ultimately this type of thinking is borne out of weakness.
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u/D3kim 9d ago
bingo, theyre driven by regarded spite its intentional because they dont align themselves based on policy
they align themselves based on birth, are they white? christian? wanna go to heaven and keep things the way they used to be (white supremacy)
think about it, everywhere they turn they see change and progress
they want a safe haven and actively seek it
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u/No_To_All_Religion 9d ago
Poor people? Fuck that. I don't know how these people get their news, but when you turn on the tv, I know for a fact that there's more than fox or newsmax or o a n to watch. Because I myself go out of my way to watch new different news channels and to look for stations that are outside of the US, just so I can get an outside view of what the fuck is really going on here. Because our media is not telling us shit.
If people really don't know what's happening in the country, it's strictly because they are just purposely ignoring it, because it's all being done by republicans, so they don't care.
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u/meh_69420 9d ago
Only about 30% of Americans get their news from primarily from TV whilst 53% get it from social media according to Pew. Social media is the problem.
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u/No_big_whoop 9d ago
It’s the massive unearned confidence they have as they say the dumbest shit imaginable… I’ll never get used to it
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u/i-split-infinitives 9d ago
The confidence comes from "doing their own research," aka reading a Facebook post that backs up their point of view with a couple of made-up statistics.
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u/DampDragonTail 9d ago
That void created by lack of critical thinking is easily filled by red hat propaganda. Idiocracy at work: "I love poorly educated".
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u/wiscoguy20 9d ago
Exactly. This guy is on a steady IV of Newsmax, OANN, and all of the right wing grifter podcasters.
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u/Not_Your_Romeo 9d ago
Don’t be fooled. That’s only half of them. There are others who simply don’t care. They know they’re ruining the country, but because Trump is promising to get rid of all of the brown people, they don’t care. Half are fueled by ignorance, the other half by willful hatred.
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u/og_coffee_man 9d ago
You also forgot all the ones who make good money destroying the country by enriching themselves.
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u/WhatAboutTheBothans 9d ago
They have answers, no matter how wrong, for everything. When they know they're wrong or can't justify their views, they start their response with "All I know..."
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u/wiscoguy20 9d ago
That's because their answers are trained talking points by right wing propaganda disguised as media.
These people regurgitate the scripted talking points. If you keep pressing them with questions trying to get clearer answers, you can actually see them short out in real time when they run out of scripted responses. Then they default to "look, all I know...", "we're done here", or a blank stare or just walking away.
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u/Who_dat_goomer 9d ago
Sometimes they are fairly intelligent in other ways, sort of like autistic savants, but there is a blind spot in regards to politics. Everything they perceive as bad is the fault of liberals, everything good is attributed to conservatives. In that way, they have reverted to toddler level.
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u/No_To_All_Religion 9d ago
I'm just trying to figure out how Democrats and the rest of us in this country are directly responsible for all the bad shit that Republican politicians have done!
Christy Nome walked off with 200 million dollars and never got charges and is currently working in another high paying taxpayer funded job!
BUT I CAN'T GET A SINGLE REPUBLICAN TO EVEN TALK ABOUT IT, MUCH LESS ACKNOWLEDGE ALL THE FUCKED UP SHIT THAT'S HAPPENING DIRECTLY BECAUSE OF REPUBLICAN CRIMINALS!
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u/whateber2 9d ago
You could teach a dog a task based daily routine. But I like dogs, these guys on the other hand…
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u/Annies_58008 9d ago edited 9d ago
There are so many dumb fuck Republicans here... it's so annoying. I'm sorry we affect the world so much. Our bad. We're working on it. Help?
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u/Positive-Editor-3007 9d ago
UK here, sorry we can't help because we've got our very own Trump-wannabe parroting all the same shit about how EVERYTHING is the fault of immigrants. The Trump brainrot has spread all over the world and we're all fucked
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u/Equal_Refuse_4591 9d ago
I keep trying to tell people Drumpf isn't the disease, he's the symptom
The hard right are sick in the head worldwide
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u/Ill-Caregiver9238 9d ago
It's like a fucking trumpitidis, even Straya is catching it. Right wing populism, blatant lies, grifting, and most likely Russian or Chinese bot farms driving the division in a society..and the gullible fall for it
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u/notarobot1020 9d ago
As a kiwi in USA. Thats how I experience them in my work place. Never talk politics at work your will only be disappointed
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u/HappyFuzzy 9d ago
Or fired. They'll find reasons and ways to get rid of people if they don't bow down to red hat stupidity.
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u/Practical_Breakfast4 9d ago
Ive experienced quiet firing. I work in a trade, theres a lot of idiots making the world go around. Once they find out you're not one of them they'll do everything they can to annoy, harrass, under pay and over load you until you quit.
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u/ShitWaterExpress 9d ago
Practically got chased out of a whole town because of this. I made the mistake of putting a Bernie sticker on my car. Two separate jobs tried to frame me for crimes I didn’t commit, and because of “right to work” laws, I couldn’t fight it. Fuck republicans, they’re all rapists in one way or another.
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u/Large-Sign-900 9d ago
So does the rest of the world outside of America mate.
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u/HlGHFALUTlN 9d ago edited 9d ago
So do those of us on the political Left in the US. You think it's maddening seeing clips like this online? Imagine living with these baffoons. Their party is actively destroying the country, and people like this even faced with higher gas prices are in this fairytale version of reality where everything is fine, and Trump is making things great. It's insanity.
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u/whateber2 9d ago
But is the percentage of idiots really that high? You lot over there have some of the smartest people on the world. Yet… I can’t, just can’t believe that Dump was legally elected.
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u/HlGHFALUTlN 9d ago
We have some of the smartest people, because people come from all over the world to attend our colleges. Sadly that intelligence is not shared by all of our general population. We have just as many native born idiots as any other country. And with money in politics, most of our politicans have sold out to companies. And our idiots are easily swayed like sheep by shepards claiming to have their best interests.
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u/Muchisi 9d ago
America is great at attracting smart people from around the world. Half of silicon valley were not born in the US.
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u/Akkilles78 9d ago
So does the rest of the people in America that aren’t republican.
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u/Traditional-Hat1927 9d ago
It’s genuinely terrifying to see how stupid and ignorant some people are - and these people can vote, and have kids!!
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u/StaticSystemShock 9d ago
"Democrats don't allow him to fix prices"
My boy in red hat, who controls the oval office and the entire senate? Republicans are fully in control. If they gave a fuck they could already fix something, but they don't want to which is why they haven't.
"Donald runs country like a business, he's a businessman"
Yeah, same "businessman" bankrupted a casino. Twice. How fucking incompetent you have to be to bankrupt a literal money printing business. Hell, motherfucker got defeated by a reflecting pool. A fucking reflecting pool!
Yeah, it is terrifying to see people like this. This kind of people shouldn't be allowed online and they shouldn't be allowed to vote, because their critical thinking is non existent. In fact I wonder how motherfuckers like this manage to actually live and survive every single day.
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u/Glyph8 9d ago edited 9d ago
Two small corrections: he bankrupted FOUR casinos; and not due to his incompetence per se, but rather due to his incessant criminal grifting and greed. He is indeed running America “like a business”, in that he’s squeezing everything he can into his pockets while it goes up in flames. “Incompetence” implies he TRIED to run a good business but failed. But Trump only tries to benefit Trump; he bankrupted these businesses on purpose and succeeded.
Lipson also published an op-ed in USA Today about how Trump’s bankruptcy tactics helped shape his political style.
Trump’s casinos in Atlantic City have been through four bankruptcies, Lipson noted. No other large business has been through more than three, he said.
“Trump has justified the bankruptcies as ‘an effective and commonly used practice...to restructure a business and ultimately save jobs,’” Lipson wrote. “While that is one reason Congress created chapter 11, the evidence shows that Trump twisted the process to benefit himself, even as the casinos continued to hemorrhage jobs and lose money.”
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u/Mstablsta 9d ago
Thank you! It's need to be pointed out that it was greed and not incompetence. It's basically a smash and grab on America for the rich, powerful, and evil.
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u/Flimsy_Nebula_299 9d ago
It makes no sense. If hes running the country like a business, then hes in completely control. Also if hes running this country like a business, that means the citizens are the customers. A "good" business man isn't going to leave $ on the table, hes gonna squeeze every penny he can outta his customers. And hopefully with out them being the wiser. The best way to achieve those things is blaim rising prices on an outside source, like a regulatory agency or the competition. Funny enough those are his 2 favorite scape goats..... 🤔🤔🤔🤔
We been telling maga, with power points & songs & graphs & even got the bouncing ball bouncing on top of the words so they practice reading while following along at home, and they still cant comprehend. Thats indoctrination baby! Indoctri-this-nation!!!
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u/Cashew-Miranda 9d ago
Not stupid, childish. He knows exactly why gas is so high, he would just rather suffer with everyone else than ever admit that he made a bad call on who to support
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u/MermaiderMissy 9d ago
I hate how stubborn they are, that their willing to ruin their own lives and not even give a shit about it
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u/BeneficialLanguage83 9d ago
The country's problem is that there's no off ramp for guys like this. They've spent 10 years aligned with Trump, it's a huge part of their identity, and finally admitting that the guy is an incompetent, narcissistic moron would put a clown nose and clown shoes on them.
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u/Who_dat_goomer 9d ago
The off ramp is admitting they have been wrong about everything their entire lives, not just Trump. I don’t expect them to have the fortitude to do that. I figure I wouldn’t either.
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u/ManaSpike 9d ago
These are all regurgitated talking points. He isn't thinking, he's just repeating what he's been told.
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u/Ted-Crilly 9d ago
Scary that this guy said he did 2 tours
Imagine the atrocities someone like this could be/probably was ordered to commit and he's too stupid to know it's illegal
He probably genuinely thought he was fighting for Americans freedom back home by killing civilians in the middle east
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u/buddhist557 9d ago
This was the worry. They are baptized in ignorance and never feel the need or are pushed to grow. He’s a POS, ideally he gets isolated and rots
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u/UrsineBasterd 9d ago
It's sad how this should seem fake because it's hard to believe someone can be this stupid, but here we are.
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u/onlysaysisthisathing 9d ago
I'd love to tell you there are dozens of them. But the truth is so much worse.
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u/Hungry_Kick_7881 9d ago
It not intelligence unfortunately. It’s hate and fear. Their entire world view and political position is based around who they hate (which is just fear in a mask) and what they are afraid of. It’s really easy to manipulate someone in that position.
They have a totally different reality because their algorithms feed into that. If you’ve never compared instagrams with someone who you disagree with. It’s almost like we are all getting different “facts” and tons of morons who sound confident and intelligent enough that they believe it’s a valid position shared by many. When half those accounts are not even in America. Or they are bots.
These algorithms and these practices will be written about as the source of sooo much destruction and already have been. It’s not just political. It’s men against women and vice versa. It’s races against one another by highlighting the worst instances to substantiate those backwards beliefs. We’ve let them do so for 25 years with absolutely zero regulation or oversight.
An entire generation of kids were born into this and we will also write about the damage this did to an entire generation. Not as a failure of mothers. But a system that is so greedy it cannot even allow a mother time to be with her newborn child. Yet we sit here with 25 brands of Dr.pepper knock offs and giant cheap TVs. We have division to levels we’ve never seen. Poor people sorted into teams by our media and the great algorithm. Then taught to hate each other.
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u/hadee75 9d ago
Yes, I thought for sure this was staged. No one can (should) be this ignorant.
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u/Spardath01 9d ago
They are out there. Someone who used to be my best friend literally builds turbine engines, that is no small feat, yet he is actually like this man on the video. Counterintuitive. That is the problem when politics are run by belief and even worse now that religion (biggest belief system) has fully taken over politics. Christians are trained to follow a belief system and MAGA has weaponized that into a form of unquestionable authority.
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u/Ryoga476ad 9d ago edited 9d ago
As someone living in Europe, how are the right wing media covering the higher gas prices? Are they brushing it off? Are they actually blaming the Democrats? Or they are calling them a "necessary evil" to defend the US from the Iran threat?
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u/SammyK123 9d ago
Most big news outlets have been infiltrated by MAGA and are not reporting on big issues that make Trump look bad. And if they are, it’s severely downplayed or skewed in some way. And these people do not get anything but MAGA in their algorithm, they only get spoon fed MAGA slop, so it’s no wonder they have no fucking clue what’s going on. This is exactly how this administration wants us Americans, stupid and uninformed. That’s why Trump said stupid people love him and smart people hate him.
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u/NeverNeverSometimes 9d ago
The true MAGA have been conditioned by Trump and just automatically assume anything negative about Trump is "fake news" from people with "Trump Derangement Syndrome".
Marketing towards idiots is literally the only thing Trump was always truly good at. Hence why they all believe he's a brilliant businessman despite all the evidence to the contrary.
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u/10lbs_Shit_N_5lb_Bag 9d ago
My father in law this weekend told me verbatim that “I don’t see anything about Trump being in the Epstein files on my news channels” before telling me I had TDS. Told him “well you watch state regime media, what do you expect? Here’s the entire Epstein library where you can see it for yourself”. But that was just Democrat AI fake stuff according to him.
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u/Middle-Bed-1883 9d ago
I stopped engaging with my father in law because theres no undoing what 20-30 years of right wing radio and tv has done to his brain. If he says stuff like this I don’t even give it a response (request of my wife to “keep the peace”), and I just stare off in the distance like that dog in the 1000 yard stare meme. Now if I’ve had a few beers and I’m hosting a bbq I might let some comments slip but so far no fist fights have broken out. His wife, my mother in law, is like 100x worse. Always angry too. She seems to have a miserable existence and I feel sorry for her. No one taught them how to critically think about anything and I’m sure as hell not going to try anymore because they’re too far gone and I don’t have the energy to teach the uneducated nor do I give a shit what they think anymore.
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u/macguyver3000 9d ago
Fox is very picky about what it reports on. Let’s say one day, gas prices fell to $3 for some reason. Even if they skyrocketed back up the next day, all you would hear on Fox is how low Trump has gotten has prices compare to Biden.
When gas prices are high, like now, you don’t hear about it. Instead they get to cherry pick another story that makes the right look good, or makes the left look bad.
And MAGAs will just keep that one-day news report in their head as the norm.
Fox is basically state run TV right now.
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u/SeaFlaky9768 9d ago
Republicans are standing in front of the Senate fearmongering about Furries being airline pilots this week
I'm not joking
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u/angrybox1842 9d ago
Mostly they’re covering them like they’re something transient, something that’s bad but going to change as soon as Trump makes some grand deal to end to war.
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u/adjective_noun_d1git 9d ago
After Brexit in the UK I started checking out right wing news more often just to make sure I don't live in a total bubble and at least have an appreciation for why people think the way they do.
Looking at Fox you can see it's mostly ignored. Search for gas prices / oil etc and you'll see some articles but no major coverage.
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u/triplediamond445 9d ago
I do the same, it seems the new attack path is it was all the previous admins faults for empowering Ukraine who are crippling the Russian refineries for years. They say the strait has actually very little impact, it’s all Ukraine’s fault.
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u/Alert_Elephant2045 9d ago
The narrative now is that we have to be at war with Iran to keep them from getting a nuclear weapon, and high gas prices are an unfortunate price to pay for us not being nuked
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u/Federal-Business-796 9d ago
That changed. As of yesterday, high gas prices are because Ukraine is blowing up Russian refineries.
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u/Decent-Box5009 9d ago
Exactly the reason America needs to invest heavily in its educational institutions. They’re literally too stupid to help themselves.
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u/Spazero 9d ago
As an American, going through our school system, I knew it wasn't great, but I didn't think it was this bad. People still like Trump because they think he's funny.
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u/Brawlstar112 9d ago
Online source (Google) says around half of all Americans read below 6th grade level. It is bad
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u/Xenos_Scum 9d ago
Is education illegal in the US?
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u/ImmediateClass9650 9d ago
The top 5% of maga tells the lower 95% that education is indoctrination, and it's horrible to sentence your kids to academic prison. Then the top 5% send their kids to Harvard, Yale and Cornell.
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u/Fun-Frosting-7239 9d ago edited 9d ago
It’s crazy how common anti-education sentiment is here. A lot of families straight-up treat schools like the enemy. You get a lot of that "my kid, my rules" attitude, so schools end up getting blamed for everything wrong with kids just to take the heat off parents. It’s easy to single out schools, too, because everyone went to one. It hits this weird mix of nostalgia, regret, pride, and community that most other things just don't. That means everyone has a strong opinion, but it's usually backed by outdated memories and whatever is being reinforced by people around them
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u/Electronic-Sun-9118 9d ago
The irony is that he is completely ignorant and yet he is wearing a shirt that promotes one of the largest universities in the country.
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u/Fuzakeruna 9d ago
No, his ignorance is completely consistent with the team he's repping.
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u/Abeytuhanu 9d ago
There's a few things working against education. Firstly, our military relies on volunteers and attracts most of them from poor and less educated neighborhoods. Fixing education would directly reduce their volunteer pool.
Secondly, Republicans have realized that well educated people were less likely to vote for them and have done a lot to worsen education.
Finally, there was a bad study on how reading is learned that ruined a couple of generation's literacy
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u/DJCSpade97 9d ago
He's 100% an ice agent if he's for real
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u/Time-Leadership-7649 9d ago
Judging by this interview, I don’t think he can spell ice
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u/FearlessCloud01 9d ago
I'm pretty sure it's one of the qualification requirements. Prevents ICE agents from ever being able to admit on written record that they're ICE agents.
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u/hlvr25 9d ago
These kinds of dummies is why we can’t have nice things. The lack of critical thinking among the populace of this country is just astounding.
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u/_Clit-Commander_ 9d ago
He definitely just bought that Ohio State hoodie I doubt he went to college
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u/Far_Weakness_1275 9d ago
Every ounce of critical thinking is transferred into the mental gymnastics to blame everything towards the left
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u/Jesterhead89 9d ago
I was about to say, it's not that this guy can't use his brain. It's just that he's so caught up with the political mudslinging, that maintaining the agenda is where his mental effort goes
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u/Training_Guide5157 9d ago
Fellow voters.
People don't like to hear it, but this is why democracy sucks without a strong foundation of education and limits on influence.
On the former, the founders of the US knew this was an issue, which is one of the reasons why the electoral college exists.
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u/froopadiddilydoop 9d ago
Interesting that he’s done two tours and doesn’t understand the direct correlation between war in oil rich countries and the price of fuel.
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u/Downunderphilosopher 9d ago
The real correlation is between going full blown patriot, and the inability to think critically.
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u/Newvil450 9d ago
He didn't serve for jack, man has zero common sense.
Had he served he wouldn't return because both of his only two braincells are competing for 3rd place.
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u/DerelictCruiser 9d ago
Men like this are pretty par for the course in the military. Are you implying idiots don’t do war good? I assure you he is much closer to a median sample than an outlier.
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u/beerdrunkraccoon 9d ago
"Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair. Boys throwing stones at birds. Life. The foolishness and the vanity, the selfishness and the waste. The pettiness, the silliness. You think in war it must be different. Must be better. With death around the corner, men united against hardship, the cunning of the enemy, people must think harder, faster, be...better. Be heroic.
Only it's just the same. In fact do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it's worse. There aren't many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they'll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work. There's no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more." Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
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u/MakeLikeATreeBiff 9d ago
He probably did serve. Remember, there's many jobs in military service and you don't have to be a savant to do them.
Probably a door kicker.
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u/Long_Pomegranate2469 9d ago
They're not exactly enlisting the brightest.
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u/Evolutionary_sins 9d ago
75% of the US military is logistics. You don't need to be a genius to load crates onto a truck.
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u/IceeSlyce 9d ago
Or be president,or the VP, the "secretary of war," the secretary of treasury, secretary of health. The list keeps going.
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u/theNixher 9d ago
Did we just find the dumbest human alive?
EDIT: no just found out he's an average American, don't worry.
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u/Wareagle930 9d ago
As a veteran I can confirm most veterans are complete fucking idiots.
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u/Sosemikreativ 9d ago edited 9d ago
He knows. But he can't say it in public or even out loud at all. Because years of sucking Trumps shrimp very vocally would make him look like an idiot. His breaking point to finally admit he was wrong 10 years ago is still far beyond the current level of madness in the White House.
But it's definitely humbling for him to realize without a Maga leader telling him exactly when to clap to some utter bs told on stage he's like a fish out of water. Cause there's no foundation at all to it. They need the crowd around them, the online echo chamber, the bot posts and the easy slogans to feel like they're right. All alone with someone asking uncomfortable questions to their reality it caves in all too quickly.
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u/RoyalMushroom6202 9d ago edited 9d ago
I’m paraphrasing, but “I’m a veteran so I know what I’m talking about” is one of the most cocksure statements. You’re a veteran because you were a D student in high school, Chad.
Edit: I work with vets, and many are some of the brightest and hardest working people I’ve ever met. But around 2/3 of them identify as Republican. If there was a Venn diagram, I think there would be a big overlap of that 2/3 and the ones that clearly had no other option than the military because they are idiots, not because they couldn’t afford college or any other good reason to enlist.
Edit 2: Corrected Venn diagram and admit I had no idea it was spelled that way since I haven’t made one in about 25 years. But at least I’m not an OSU fan.
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u/taglius 9d ago
And being a D student is what drew him to the right, because they told him his failings and struggles were someone else’s fault.
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u/cumulonimubus 9d ago
That’s what it means to be “saved”. Once you accept JC as your personal lord and savior (or at least publicly declare so), you aren’t responsible for anything that you do wrong for the rest of your life. God loves you despite the fact that you are imperfect so you can go about being a shithead and not giving a crap about people outside of your immediate household. That’s why you can’t be a Demoncrat and be saved. Too much critical thinking and empathy which makes you gay. /S
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u/9447044 9d ago
Hey man!! I moved boxes in Kalamazoo for 2 years. I know everything about oil and global economics. Its all in basic training lol
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u/By_Way_of_Deception 9d ago
I am a veteran and I dislike how it seems to qualify you for sainthood these days. Lots of assholes and idiots have been veterans all through history. That did not suddenly stop circa 1990. Lee Harvey Oswald, Tim McVeigh, Nidal Hasan, the list is long.
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u/Kennyvee98 9d ago
vin number, venn diagram
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u/RoyalMushroom6202 9d ago
It’s always humbling to make an error like that as you’re commenting on someone else’s intelligence. Thank you for keeping me grounded! 😆
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u/Haunted_Voyager 9d ago
The U.S. truly has some of the dumbest people on planet Earth.
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u/xhopesfall24 9d ago
Stupid people are far easier to manipulate and ease into fascism. Same reason the us oligarchs are saying they don’t want college educated people, the dumber you are, the more compliant you’ll be.
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u/MesozOwen 9d ago
Humans really are doomed as a species. How can someone be this stupid? How does he put his shoes on in the morning?
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u/philosophicalmachine 9d ago
The lack of sensible reasoning really is disturbing. It’s Bidens fault because… because. The prices will be fixed because Trump is a businessman. Wars in oil rich nations don’t affect oil prices because… they don’t. He’s not able to back up a single one of his conclusions
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u/mderschueler 9d ago
"that war has nothing to do with gas prices"
mhm, and being a vet has nothing to do with being educated.
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u/Abject-Worker688 9d ago
Did he take a blow to his head when he served? Because this guy is not the sharpest tool in the shed.
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u/5pankNasty 9d ago
He's not the sharpest salmonella in frozen berries.
He's not the sharpest listeria in the ready to eat goat and chicken products.
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u/SnowSherrif 9d ago
"He is a businessman. He runs the country like a business" No shit Sherlock. You know what else businessmen do, they forever go after profits. That's what he's doing.
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u/feel-the-avocado 9d ago
A businessman with a record of bankruptcies and a trail of people who are collectively owed millions of dollars for work he never paid for.
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u/CheckoutMySpeedo 9d ago
Actually Trump has bankrupted every business he’s ever been involved with, casinos included. So if you think a guy who literally drives businesses into the ground is a good businessman, you’re as dumb as you look.
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u/Munchkinasaurous 9d ago
Terrible businessman, excellent conman. Which doesn't make any sense. I don't know how an obnoxious troll that has no eloquence, gains people confidence in order to scam them.
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u/lonesome_pierrette 9d ago
I mean the guy got one thing right. Trump does indeed run the US like it's a buisness.
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u/FormerTerraformer 9d ago
I showed a co worker (veteran) a video of the 2nd nepal flood that just happened, an no shit, he says, "where did that happen?" "Nepal, same place it happened just recently" "ehhhh, I don't care. Fuck em, America first."
Even looks like this douchebag. Fuck all these people.
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u/OleksKhimiak 9d ago edited 9d ago
This guy is a great soldier. Because he is succeptible to any kind of BS been poured into his ears.
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u/StoneTussler 9d ago
I think he was choked with his own umbilical cord in the womb for too long.
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u/SkillPointProblems 9d ago
Her mistake was to ask him for his “thoughts”, not realizing where they would come from:
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u/SmellSilly1537 9d ago
He certainly didn't use the G.I. Bill for any education. To say, with a straight face, that having a Democrat president for "a very long time" is the reason for high gas prices is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. He should be wearing an Ohio State Elementary School hoodie.
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u/Commercial-Archer248 9d ago
I guess it really is possible that some people are dumb enough to truly believe the earth is flat.
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u/davidk86_1 9d ago
Interviewing people in Ohio State gear and then expecting a not dumb-as-fuck answer is such low hanging fruit.
Full disclosure, I'm a Buckeye.
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u/Combei 9d ago
"the democrats aren't really allowing him to do that"
The legions of democrats in positions of power. What is he supposed to do with his, like he said, enormous leverage?
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u/jdwtriton 9d ago
The lack of critical thinking skills in combination with a neutered media creates the vacuum filled by the authoritarian state. They adore the authoritarian model because it fulfills the American cowboy myth while simultaneously not asking for them to become anything more than a compliant consumer. Freedom from personal or societal growth — perfection! /s
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u/Visceral99 9d ago
"Democrats aren't allowing him" bro Republicans have the WH, the Senate, The house of representatives and SCOTUS 6/3
What the fuck is this oyster IQ
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u/PeachScary413 9d ago
It all makes so much more sense now, how could Joe Biden do this to us?
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u/MrHappyHammers 9d ago
Is it just me or does he seem too young to have served 2 tours like he’s saying? Probably wrong, something about him just feels like it’s bs
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u/Conscious-Loss-2709 9d ago
Funny thing is, Biden is apparently so competent that he can undo every Trump did in the previous 4 years and sabotage him in the current 2 years
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u/CantAffordzUsername 9d ago
“I’m a vet”
Now vets thing they understand how the world runs becuase of “yes sir” “no sir”
The IQ points are just pouring out of this guy
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u/SunsetDrifter 9d ago
This is exactly how stupid they want every trigger pulling body that signs up for the military. Smart enough to take orders, dumb enough to not ask questions or independently think.
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u/Captain-Dak-Sparrow 9d ago
"I love the poorly educated." "Smart people don't like me." ~ Donald Trump
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