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Trump and Intellectualism
Townhall.com ^ | November 5, 2016 | Elliot Resnick

Posted on 11/05/2016 8:17:44 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Trump has more intellect and a firmer moral/ethical compass than all those who try to say he and his supporters ain’t that bright/educated...


41 posted on 11/05/2016 10:12:26 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Kaslin
I'll give them some "Intellectualism"

“Do what I like
Like what I do
Kinda hope you like it too
You don’t like it, F88k You,
Find another Monkey to dance with you"

 photo Dancing Monkey FU_zpshyj0rvwr.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqCUJ_HbVzA

42 posted on 11/05/2016 10:18:29 AM PDT by Zeneta
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To: Zeneta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqCUJ_HbVzA


43 posted on 11/05/2016 10:18:48 AM PDT by Zeneta
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To: IronJack

I agree that what you propose would be ideal. Frankly, an anarcho-capitalist society would be the ideal. All services are privatized from fire departments to the military, but how are we supposed to have that with all the feral malcontents?? Even societies that have had homegenous populations haven’t been able to realize that kind of ideal. Seems too “pie in the sky” for me.


44 posted on 11/05/2016 10:22:14 AM PDT by delete306
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how are we supposed to have that with all the feral malcontents?

Eliminate them. Ship them off somewhere or kill them.

Every society has a right to defend itself against those who would prey on it. THEY are the offenders, not us. THEY should pay the price.

If they owe us nothing, we owe them nothing.

45 posted on 11/05/2016 11:27:34 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: marron

Disappointing to hear that about Pence. He’s been trained too well in conventional behavior. Too bad he couldn’t just answer: “You’re asking me if Crooked Hillary is corrupt? Next question.”


46 posted on 11/05/2016 12:26:06 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: Kaslin

Ben Shapiro and Andrew Klavan lost me in January, when they started parroting Cruz’s lies. Donald likes Obamacare. Donald wants single-payer.


47 posted on 11/05/2016 12:28:38 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: Kaslin

“It’s because common sense and innate morality often steer people better than intellectualism.”

Yes, and a brilliant scholar by the name of Clive Staples Lewis profoundly understood this.


48 posted on 11/05/2016 4:37:50 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Ohioan

Ohio is fortunate to have you speaking the real truth.


49 posted on 11/05/2016 4:39:55 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Kaslin

Shapiro

Hate to say it but stereotypical anti pluralism


50 posted on 11/05/2016 6:38:36 PM PDT by wardaddy (the traitorous GOPe deserves Third of May 1808 if ever a party did....)
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To: Ohioan

No kidding

BS in economics from Wharton

Fourth ranked in nation B School

IQ of 156...

Pretty damn smart and turned 200 million family biz at its zenith into 4-11 billion for himself and many multiples increase for family members

Yeah he’s a real dummy isn’t he?

My IQ used to be around 150

30 on my 1973 era ACT

713 on old score LSAT

My brain was always impatient on others and I retain snapshots like a hard drive which frankly is a curse

Just ask my wife

I’m old now and bad heart and IQ has slumped to around 140

I can tell I’m sharper than 19 out of 20 folks unless I’m in the M&A room at Morgan

But I can also tell Trump is way smarter and his energy defies gravity

Very few can do it


51 posted on 11/05/2016 6:50:53 PM PDT by wardaddy (the traitorous GOPe deserves Third of May 1808 if ever a party did....)
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To: Kaslin

Shapiro just talks fast

If that meant smarts then guys like Jackie Mason or Mark Levin would rule the world

Talking fast just means you can

And that you don’t genuflect before mouth moves

Any southerner knows this is a Yankees most overrated asset


52 posted on 11/05/2016 6:53:08 PM PDT by wardaddy (the traitorous GOPe deserves Third of May 1808 if ever a party did....)
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To: SandRat

This republic was founded on Gut Patriotism.


53 posted on 11/06/2016 2:14:58 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: central_va
Only if the car is imported from Japan or other country could Oklahomans legally do that.

I've a few Syrian 'refugees' that I want to ship to your hometown...

54 posted on 11/06/2016 2:17:48 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin

Many intellectuals identify as such because they believe that justifies why everyone should follow what they believe and do what they themselves deem the best.


55 posted on 11/06/2016 7:36:31 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Kaslin
But should expertise in the writings of John Locke or Milton Friedman be a sine qua non for supporting a Republican nominee? Did Bush, McCain, or Romney possess such expertise? And isn’t it rather foolish to write people out of our movement who share our beliefs for the “wrong” reasons.

NeverTrumpers hold Trump to absurdly high moral and intellectual standards that they never seemed to apply to GOP establishment candidates. This is because the alleged reasons they give for opposing Trump have nothing to do with their actual motives, but provide good cover for their real agenda.

For instance, Trump is criticized for his lack of ideological purity by people who had no trouble supporting Romney or "compassionate conservative" George W. Bush. And now people who defended Bush to the death against charges of being inarticulate and unintelligent throw the same charges against Trump. If Trump isn't fit to lead because he isn't a great scholar of political philosophy or Constitutional Law, the same standards should apply to establishment candidates. I really can't picture George W. Bush studying Locke either, but the establishment GOP talking heads never held that against him.

The bottom line is that lack of ideological purity or being unlearned isn't the reason the elites hate Trump, since they have no problem with liberal positions and less than stellar intellects among their candidates of choice. They hate the fact that Trump voters picked a candidate that appealed to them rather than a candidate picked by party elites. That's what all of their objections are really all about.

56 posted on 11/07/2016 1:42:32 PM PST by ek_hornbeck
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