US Politics Thread

[laserblue]

Trump was further demolished by Bret Baier when he said he'd introduce the death penalty for drug dealers. Baier pointed out that in 2020 he pardoned drug dealer Alice Johnson who, under his latest proposal, would have been executed. Trump did his usual Johnsonesque mumbling and bumbling as he does whenever he's caught out.

Baier confronts Trump: Alice Johnson would "be killed under your plan"

"No, no. No. Under my, oh, under that? Uhh, it would depend on the severity," a stumped Trump replied.

www.salon.com

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Oof

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Oof

How the fuck did this **** idiot get into Yale AND Harvard?

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

How the fuck did this **** idiot get into Yale AND Harvard?

Well I don’t really know how college entry works over there so I am speculating but I suspect people may overlook a few mental deficiencies if you’re captain of the varsity baseball team with the best batting average in the school.

 

[BayernMan]

How the fuck did this **** idiot get into Yale AND Harvard?

The same way Trump got into the Wharton School…

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

How the fuck did this **** idiot get into Yale AND Harvard?

Are you trying to tell us that you can't buy yourself into Ivy League universities?

 

[BayernMan]

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Are you trying to tell us that you can't buy yourself into Ivy League universities?

Well his Dad installed cable boxes on top of TVs and his mom was a nurse. So I assume the baseball thing is a more likely explanation. And to his credit he did well at Yale.

Maybe it's just the infectious disease of politics/politicans and saps away one's mental acuity.

 

[roman totale]

How the fuck did this **** idiot get into Yale AND Harvard?

I know your question is rhetorical, but money and connections.
In the early 90s, my partner was one of the top handful of high school graduates in the whole of Ohio, she got full scholarship offers from a bunch of places, including Stanford, CalTech, the US Army and NASA. She was from a working-class family from a working class suburb of Cleveland and went to a public school. She aced all the testing hurdles for Harvard, Yale and Princeton. The last step for all three was an interview with an alum. She says that all three interviews judged her within 2 mins and were focussed on digging into where she and her family sat in the social strata. Princeton gave her an offer via a ‘disadvantaged/ diversity and inclusion’ program. Yale and Harvard turned her down.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Oof

I feel like they're reaching a bit there. It's not massively controversial to suggest that being good at basketball is largely down to physical advantages you have no control over.