Archy1221 Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Just now, ZRod said: Thanks for the laugh covfefe No worries mate. 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 4 minutes ago, ZRod said: Thanks for the laugh covfefe Remember how he bragged about acing the cognitive test, even though the last five questions were really hard? I took a closer look at the cognitive test Trump claims to have aced As the president started boasting about his results, Wallace laughed. “I took the test too when I heard that you passed it,” the Fox News host told Trump. “It’s not – well it’s not the hardest test. They have a picture and it says ‘what’s that’ and it’s an elephant.’” This, according to Trump, was “misrepresentation”. “Yes, the first few questions are easy,” he conceded. “But I’ll bet you couldn’t even answer the last five questions. I’ll bet you couldn’t, they get very hard, the last five questions.” He added: “I guarantee you that Joe Biden could not answer those questions.” Trump is right about the start of the test being easy. But when it comes to the last five questions, his claim that they’re “very hard” is unsettling (although not surprising) in what it reveals about his relationship with reality. If you remember, Trump bet Wallace that he “couldn’t even answer the last five questions” of the test. But for a mentally healthy person, the last five questions should be as simple as the rest. The fifth-to-last question on the test asks you to repeat a sentence out loud, before naming as many words as you can starting with F. In the following “abstraction” section, you have to spot the similarity between different objects such as trains and bicycles (modes of transport), or a watch and a ruler (measuring devices). Next, you have to recall the random words that were included in the earlier memory section. This may be the part that’s easiest to trip over. And finally, for the orientation part of the test, you have to … say what the date is. For Trump to claim these are hard is worrying because for any cognitively healthy person, they shouldn’t be. But before we start any armchair diagnosis, you have to weigh up two probabilities against each other. Is it really likely that he found the last five questions hard? Or is it more likely that he’s misrepresenting about how hard they were, in order to look “smarter” than Joe Biden? In the same interview, Trump got his team to pass him a chart that he said showed the US had “one of the lowest mortality rates in the world”, when it didn’t do anything of the sort. This is shocking, but not surprising – Trump has now made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims since he took office. So it seems more likely that Trump’s difficulties at the end of the test tell us nothing that we don’t know already. His prolific lying and self-aggrandisement, two things we have empirical evidence for, should be what worries us. For, similar to his “stable genius” claims, you’ve got to ask yourself: how many smart people brag about their supposed intellect so much, and in such a misguided way? 2 Link to comment
Enhance Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 The foster care post was moved to the miscellaneous thread in the lounge. Some of the responses to it were moved to the P&R tangent thread in the Shed. While indeed a feel good story, this thread isn't really a landing strip for anything that happens in America while Biden is president. It's more for things that happen under his presidency that are in some way attributable or relevant to Biden, his policies, his cabinet members, some type of notion or culture he's cultivating, etc. 1 Link to comment
Redux Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 7 hours ago, RedDenver said: FYI, you claimed Trump had ended a war when he hadn't. I was correcting/informing you. A 20 year long war has a ton of blame to go around. Congress deserves most of the blame since they have the war powers. Last 3 Presidents also share blame for not ending the war. Trump gets a bit more blame since he talked about ending the war but didn't. Biden will get more blame than Trump if he doesn't end the war since it'll have been going on for 24 years by the end of his first term. https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-can-end-afghanistan-war-if-adheres-to-trump-deal-2021-3?amp Good we agree, Trump set it up to end. It hasn't yet that's fair, all Biden has to do is stay the course. No need to go back on this order. 1 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 7 hours ago, knapplc said: I wonder if the SJWs railing against cancel culture realize they're making the people who did the thing they're complaining about rich? This is the newest iteration of them chucking their Keurigs out of windows because Hannity told them to. Or rushing out to buy MyPillows or Goya beans. Or perhaps staying at one of Trump's gaudy establishments or getting stranded out in the freezing cold after being out in it for hours for a rally. Hardcore cons are rubes. I don't understand why they get suckered into parting with their money for such ridiculous reasons. Imagine being a grown-a$$ adult breaking the bank to purchase a treasure trove of children's books thinking you're making a political statement. 3 Link to comment
B.B. Hemingway Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 6 hours ago, knapplc said: Remember how he bragged about acing the cognitive test, even though the last five questions were really hard? I took a closer look at the cognitive test Trump claims to have aced As the president started boasting about his results, Wallace laughed. “I took the test too when I heard that you passed it,” the Fox News host told Trump. “It’s not – well it’s not the hardest test. They have a picture and it says ‘what’s that’ and it’s an elephant.’” This, according to Trump, was “misrepresentation”. “Yes, the first few questions are easy,” he conceded. “But I’ll bet you couldn’t even answer the last five questions. I’ll bet you couldn’t, they get very hard, the last five questions.” He added: “I guarantee you that Joe Biden could not answer those questions.” Trump is right about the start of the test being easy. But when it comes to the last five questions, his claim that they’re “very hard” is unsettling (although not surprising) in what it reveals about his relationship with reality. If you remember, Trump bet Wallace that he “couldn’t even answer the last five questions” of the test. But for a mentally healthy person, the last five questions should be as simple as the rest. The fifth-to-last question on the test asks you to repeat a sentence out loud, before naming as many words as you can starting with F. In the following “abstraction” section, you have to spot the similarity between different objects such as trains and bicycles (modes of transport), or a watch and a ruler (measuring devices). Next, you have to recall the random words that were included in the earlier memory section. This may be the part that’s easiest to trip over. And finally, for the orientation part of the test, you have to … say what the date is. For Trump to claim these are hard is worrying because for any cognitively healthy person, they shouldn’t be. But before we start any armchair diagnosis, you have to weigh up two probabilities against each other. Is it really likely that he found the last five questions hard? Or is it more likely that he’s misrepresenting about how hard they were, in order to look “smarter” than Joe Biden? In the same interview, Trump got his team to pass him a chart that he said showed the US had “one of the lowest mortality rates in the world”, when it didn’t do anything of the sort. This is shocking, but not surprising – Trump has now made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims since he took office. So it seems more likely that Trump’s difficulties at the end of the test tell us nothing that we don’t know already. His prolific lying and self-aggrandisement, two things we have empirical evidence for, should be what worries us. For, similar to his “stable genius” claims, you’ve got to ask yourself: how many smart people brag about their supposed intellect so much, and in such a misguided way? One of the more unique dumbasses in human history, I would guess. Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 2 hours ago, Danny Bateman said: This is the newest iteration of them chucking their Keurigs out of windows because Hannity told them to. Or rushing out to buy MyPillows or Goya beans. Or perhaps staying at one of Trump's gaudy establishments or getting stranded out in the freezing cold after being out in it for hours for a rally. Hardcore cons are rubes. I don't understand why they get suckered into parting with their money for such ridiculous reasons. Imagine being a grown-a$$ adult breaking the bank to purchase a treasure trove of children's books thinking you're making a political statement. No kidding. I’m gonna sell all of my households books and make up for that Covid stimulus Biden says I’m not eligible for 2 Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 This is turning into a big issue for the admin to get ahold of 2 Link to comment
FrantzHardySwag Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 14 minutes ago, Archy1221 said: This is turning into a big issue for the admin to get ahold of Looks like the caravan is back on the menu boys!!!! 2 Link to comment
funhusker Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 14 minutes ago, Archy1221 said: This is turning into a big issue for the admin to get ahold of I'd love to know more about that photo. My gut tells me that if immigrants are organized enough to have fresh looking t-shirts that there might just be someone organizing things. Who is it and why are they doing it? 3 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 2 minutes ago, funhusker said: I'd love to know more about that photo. My gut tells me that if immigrants are organized enough to have fresh looking t-shirts that there might just be someone organizing things. Who is it and why are they doing it? Yeah, I'm guessing an immigrant that is struggling to feed their family and migrate thousands of miles to find a better life.....really isn't going to spend the time to design and buy a brand new tee shirt for a photo op. 3 Link to comment
FrantzHardySwag Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 2 minutes ago, funhusker said: I'd love to know more about that photo. My gut tells me that if immigrants are organized enough to have fresh looking t-shirts that there might just be someone organizing things. Who is it and why are they doing it? I tried to find out more by clicking the article, but there was basically no info in the article and my computer was viciously attacked by "Save Mike Lindell Ads".....I've been to shady porn sites with less spam. 5 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 10 minutes ago, FrantzHardySwag said: I tried to find out more by clicking the article, but there was basically no info in the article and my computer was viciously attacked by "Save Mike Lindell Ads".....I've been to shady porn sites with less spam. Hmmmm....is there a chance the tag on the shirts say, "Made in Wisconsin"? Link to comment
admo Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 13 hours ago, funhusker said: I'd love to know more about that photo. My gut tells me that if immigrants are organized enough to have fresh looking t-shirts that there might just be someone organizing things. Who is it and why are they doing it? So it's not WYSIWYG? Who cares about gut feelings now. During his campaign JB clearly stated he was for the people, all people. So why disbelieve it? Why turn anyone down? Are you immigrant phobia? Homophobia? Let them in and do what they want, man. I have no problems with it. Neither should you or you or you or you... So smile and be happy. Cheer it on. It's time for people to be free and do whatever they want. And bring people into the US. The admin was all for it during his campaign, so we need to get on board with it. I love immigrants and so should you. Let's make it happen, and bring anyone in that wants to be an American (Merica). This admin campaigned for it and rightfully so. We should not deny immigrants from this country, or anyone that wants to be free and happy and part of the US. We are all in on being democrats. And it's a great day to accept anything, as we are for anything, that does anything for democracy and the democratic principle. 1 Link to comment
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