Trump makes fool of himself with lack of knowledge on Ukraine

While I agree that bail outs weren’t the best option, allowing them to fail would have likely led us farther into recession as housing prices plummeted, which in the end might not have been the worst thing that could happen, but it would be rough. Our economy is built on credit and the incurring debt systems that stem from an actual lack of money required to do things. It is virtually impossible for the average person to buy a house without a home loan/ mortgage, hell it’s nearly impossible to by a new car without a loan, but our economy is based on these impossibilities. To fix this problem (if you think of it as a problem) we need a complete restructuring of how our economy works.

We’ve in the throws of a shift from a goods economy to a services economy, the question is, what’s next?

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Groat.

The word is “groat.”

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The guy is a doofus saying doofus things like doofuses do. The less he talks the better. His campaign manager needs to tell him to focus on beating Hillary instead of giving her more and more ammunition. Or maybe they’re fucking geniuses and I’m the doofus.

Actually that could be true:

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Sure… sounds totally unbiased and knowledgeable! :wink: I’d argue that the obvious bias is a major problem.

To be fair, I doubt Clinton’s team is unbiased either, but I’d guess she’d find someone who is knowledgeable on the topic, from a cultural and historical perspective.

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I would say that Trump and his campaigners are warped geniuses insofar as making the doofuses believe that things like basic knowledge of world geography are secondary to chutzpah and machismo.

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Pretty sure a groat is worth more than a farthing, and probably more than a Pence.

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Dang. In my defense, I was thinking of an actual oat groat:

I need to learn more about British copper coinage! Fine excuse for a quick foray…

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/moneyold.htm

I stand corrected. Thank you!

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I’m with you all the way. Other than the less punchable face thing.

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I don’t understand. This is seriously the rambling of a crazy person. He either had a seizure, or he’s as incredibly dumb as Palin.

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I don’t know what to make of this. The vote percentages are correct, but much of the rest is incredibly inaccurate.

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But none of that would entitle France to invade Canada and snatch Québec.

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I want to see serious interviewers spoofing this fuckwit with red herrings.

Eg. ‘What do you think about China’s Mars mission? Is there any scope for another space race?’

‘Is Jaques Chirac wise to send troops into Pakistan? Will you be answering his call for allies now that France has declared war against Islam?’

‘What’s your opinion of the Frito-Lay strike? Would you take action against the unions to ensure the flow of Cheetos?’

Etc.

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What did Khrushchev have to do with that? Ukrainian SSR existed as a separate entity since the revolution, and was a founding member of USSR.

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Is this what the kids call “rekt”?

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Yeah, like all the neoconservatives who have already endorsed her. Kagan, Krystal etc.

I’m surprised there are so many neoconservative fans on BB. I guess you can never have enough Iraq wars.

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‘Groat’.

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Er, there actually is: Self-determination - Wikipedia

Sure, it’s not clear-cut, but it’s long been the legal basis for this sort of separation (Czechoslovakia becoming Czech + Slovakia, Yugoslavia becoming Slovenia+Croatia+Bosnia+Serbia+Montenegro, Kosovo, USSR, etc etc).

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The latter. For all the noises about classless meritocratic US, these people don’t need to know much to be part of the upper class in 2016.