how does she really feel?

no room for doubt about how she feels!

Shrub Bush was dumb, and Reagan was no genius, but Trump takes the cake. I think that Claire nailed this one.

-Laelth

They both actually listened to people they believed were smarter and wiser than they were. Trump compounds his stupidity by also wrongly believing he is always the smartest person in the room, no matter who else is in the room and no matter what they are trying to tell him.

Trump is so stupid that he doesn’t even KNOW that he’s stupid. That makes him very DANGEROUS.

-Laelth

It's his narcissim. It's his belief that he is immune from consequences. That he can outwit any mere reporter. It's the same reason he's not doing mock debates in prep for his debate with Biden. Is it a stupid choice? Yes. But he's not making the stupid choice out of stupidity, he's making it out of his psychotic belief in his own superiority.

Essentially, he acted upon his belief that he could “charm” anyone and bring them over to his side. It’s hubris.

-Laelth

I just saw video, I guess it was from the press conference... he recognized Woodward's name as a bigwig journalist, but he didn't really know who he was or what he had done. He apparently didn't know this was one of the guys who brought down Nixon. Geeez.

to quote Forrest, "Stupid is as stupid does." And boy, did Stupid do here!

Is there a category beyond "galactically stupid"? If so, put Little Donny in it. The Narcissist Ninny.

it was a combination of both stupidity AND narcissism. His overwhelming narcissism blinds him to his stupidity.

: rofl:

He may have been too stupid to realize just how compromised he was.

....as angry as I've seen any of them:

Briahna Keilar
Wolf Blitzer
Claire McCaskill
Anderson Cooper
Atlanta Mayor Bottoms

And there may be more.

Plus, for the first time I saw some people pushing back vigorously to the garbage that McEnsanely spewed today.

Just about every person in the country knows someone who died from this disease, so EVERYBODY in the country now has some level of anger about this.

Rare, rare, rare, in public life, political or otherwise, to hear someone lambasted as "the stupidest".

I would say, with all that's gone down over the last week - on corona virus and the US military - there's blood in the water.

casual gathering ?

"Stupid" just doesn't describe the extreme, unbelievable nature of what he is.

So stupid you don't have any idea how stupid you are but everyone else knows that you are the most stupid possible while also being barely able to breathe unassisted.



❤lmsp

Utterly uncaring and unfeeling.

He has no care for you, for me, for his supporters, for his voters - not for anyone, but......

He has only one care. Dare I guess you may know what that one care is?

Of course you do. You are members of Democratic Underground.

That is precisely why I am also a member of Democratic Underground.

She is a breath of fresh air.

I would love a panel with her, rick wilson, James Carville

Claire McCaskill is great. Bookmarking that for the next time I need a pick-me-up.

Link to tweet

McCaskill could have won reelection, but she stupidly refused to campaign in blue areas--cities--and work on GOTV. Her own campaign staff were frustrated.

Instead she used her energies in red rural areas, having some nutsy idea she could convert them. Boasting to be a "senator for all" became being a senator for none.

shoulda', coulda', woulda'
The Senate seat in Missouri went Republican because -- Missouri, like a lot of the rest of the "flyover," is trending redder than a fire engine in a 4th of July parade. (PA, OH, MI, WI, IA, KS -- and yes, not coincidentally, MO) Trump took nearly 60% of the Missouri vote in 2016. There are exactly THREE blue counties in Missouri -- and, no (regardless of what the progressives are telling you) you do not win that state in 2018 by concentrating on your base. Your base is no longer big enough to win in state.

And there's always whinging and crying about "well they didn't pay any attention to us .." Nonsense. Grow up and get your ass down to the polls.
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Because she was a Senator from Missouri, a purple, leaning red state, I always felt she hedged her bets and played very middle of the road.

But since she’s been on msnbc, she has really let it fly. All those years of pent up opinion, she has finally let loose.

that we're seeing "McCaskill unleashed" since she's no longer having to play to a red-state electorate.

at what Trump actually said.

Of course, what he said is jaw dropping and is indeed stupid even for him.

talking to THAT reporter was
(over a LONG period of time -- AND on tape)
What could possibly go wrong?

As if king of the world. The founding Fathers never envisioned Smart Phones, Trips to the moon or a master fuck up Senate and a throng of enablers and Trump.

Senator Graham.. Thanks!

Ego will be his downfall, I hope an pray.

I was thinking to myself, "Isn't Bob Woodward the guy who already kicked trump's ass with a book a couple years ago?"

Why yes... Yes, same guy.

Until this thread, I was thinking that trump sat down to do 1 or 2 interviews with Woodward this year. But he did 18???!!!!

I hate to say it and sound elitist but it’s because a large majority of them are stupid too.

Stupid, dull, unimaginative, bigoted and xenophobic. Boring too while I’m at it.

We need a much better educational system but when educators try and broaden horizons the parents freak. Not all but the ones who do are noisy and persistent. Often very religiously “Christian”.

Don't know her name, sorry. Just sits motionless and closes her eyes, an enigmatic half-smile on her face as the piece ends. i couldn't really tell what she was thinking, but it struck me as either "OMG! Did that just happen? What's going to happen???" OR "Oh, I wish I had the freedom to say that. That was fantastic!"

She's just amazing.....and yesterday she was absolutely perfect....

do anything if he thinks a person of perceived substance wants to stroke his ego. he is all talk and bluster.

Trump is stupid.

She just gave a master class in how to destroy someone while adhering to the truth.