He’s going to be threatened while on another state on vacation? Jeepers. I thought an armed society was a polite one, but we’d never threaten anyone for such a thing out here…
When hosting SNL, Donald Trump ‘struggled to read,’ says former cast member. Can the President read?
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Unless they mean political correctness in its original sense (what Trump is doing)
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maybe he means this kind of PC destroying
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That’s interesting, and I’m not sure that any US history narrative would frame it in those specific terms, especially given the way most narratives highlight the revolutionary goals, which included a strong anti-monarchial view. But I think your HS history teacher raised some very good points. I do think that executive has gained more power over the 20th century, so that might be a more modern set of circumstances?
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I see you’ve spent 14 minutes on this site – Welcome to BoingBoing Steve_Bourg!
Why do I think that you will not stay long?
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This reminds me of the nicest conversation I’ve ever had with a cabbie – a man from Iran who drove me to the airport in Salt Lake City. We had the loveliest discussion about French novelists from the first half of the 20th century. Okay, I mentioned Camus and he talked about loads more authors.
No question of that cabbie’s literacy, that’s for sure.
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I scrolled through this whole thread wondering if anyone was going to remember how GWB was also variously accused of being illiterate, a functional alcoholic, and a coke fiend. I seem to recall Michael Moore devoted a whole chapter of “Dude, Where’s My Country” to the subject, and I don’t think he was being entirely satirical in doing so.
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If she goes now, that means the trees win.
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Don’t blame the messenger.
- Gerald Ford
- Ronald Reagan
- Dan Quayle
- Dubya Bush
- Sarah Palin
- Rick Perry (almost)
- Trump (won by being even dumber than Perry)
Maybe one or two of these people got a bad rap.
Maybe they were just pretending to be dumb to get elected.
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Right?
The apparent disconnect from the same plane of reality in which most of us live is very concerning…
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Fuck that! It’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me! That said, I don’t have a problem reading, which just leaves the poor spelling and handwriting, which these days isn’t a problem (whoever first put a spell checker into a web browser gets my undying thanks).
I’m probably biased, but trump doesn’t seem dyslexic to me, because he doesn’t seem intelligent enough.
Maybe he has a learning disability that makes reading hard for him, but it doesn’t seem like he’s ever put any effort into trying to improve it.
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Huh?
I don’t understand why this is so hard to believe for some people. I notice a Trump’s defenders in this forum tend to suggest that illiteracy is the same thing as stupidity, like this:
Illiteracy doesn’t mean stupidity. There are plenty of perfectly intelligent people out there who don’t know how to read. In fact, if you have had a decent measure of success without being literate, one might suspect that you are very intelligent, since you’ve needed to develop and implement compensating strategies, and presumably you’ve had to pass for a literate person many times.
And struggling to read isn’t the same as not knowing how to read anyway. Trump might know how to read but struggle to do so, or even struggle only under certain circumstances (lighting, fatigue, certain emotional states, who knows).
Of course people who think Trump might not be able to read are probably also using that as a sign he’s stupid. There’s something to that because he obviously had plenty of opportunity in his life to learn to read, but I think it’s still a mistake. I don’t know how to drive, that doesn’t make me stupid, it just means I never learned.
Don’t confuse inability to read with lack of intelligence. Trump seems like a stupid guy, but that’s true whether he can read or not.
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Isn’t that what I said?
Yeah, but have we seen evidence to the contrary for those things?
I thought the coke and booze thing were taken pretty much as fact?
And as a lotta people in this thread have said, functionally illiterate peeps can get very far in life.
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This. Dyslexia and other forms of LD are indicators that someone is very high functioning in intelligence, so it’s noticeable that there are one or two areas that don’t work they way they do for most people.
For example: if he were dyslexic, he’d still be able to form coherent sentences when speaking.
This is a dullard, who’s too lazy to work hard to try to overcome that handicap. Big difference.
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Funny how those are all Republicans, isn’t it?
Is it really so impossible to build a case that any prominent elected Democrat might have some learning disability or debilitating mental condition? (I suppose the Clinton sex thing doesn’t count.)
though this is probably related to your European peer-group with similar views and interests. we have lots of the other type, too - it’s not extremly surprising that the right-wing parties are currently (imo: too) successful.
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