OFFICIAL LRC President Donald Trump SECOND TERM Thread

How is the trillion dollar deficit bill to fund the tax cuts for billionaires coming?

Musk broke ways when he found out Trump was going to pump the deficit even higher to fund tax cuts for people earning a million dollars a year and higher, right?

Honestly, with the deterioration going on in his head, does it really matter how much his body is failing?

It was many years ago that his closest security advisors could not get him to even read briefings, and he has only gotten worse.

Now we are starting to compare trump-voters with the old german nazis. How accurate is this? They both want/ed a leader who stood higher than law, targeted specific groups, weakened the justice systems, used feelings in their speeches rather than logic, have mostly uneducated voters etc.

“Just well studied”: Take two 12-year-olds who test at the same level of ability (pretty modestly intelligent; let’s say around 120 IQ).

For 15 years, Have one study hard across broad fields of knowledge, with eventual focus on something challenging (you mentioned engineering, so that’ll work). The other one can loaf and skate by.

I’m willing to bet that you’d identify the hard worker as smarter. And not just if you ask about one particular area of expertise or object of study. If you provide both with new information and a set of complex intellectual tasks, it’s very likely the former will learn more quickly, retain knowledge better, and apply knowledge/solve problems better (yep, “real world” ones, not just a contrived exam).

I’m also betting that such a phenomenon will be true as the people involved move upward and reach the category of “smart” people.

And that still doesn’t do much to address the distribution of intelligence across a broader population, and without dealing with that, I’m not sure what point you want to make
And if “they are a mess at engineering,” who are the “they”? Have you ever contemplated any possibility of availability bias, selection bias, or a similar problem with your heuristics as you develop your understanding of the “real world.”

You work with “the Indian Americans”? A representative sample? And your work with a similar set of engineers from a different demographic group is also a representative sample 9f them?

I couldn’t imagine I’d be able to construct a kind of probability distribution regarding ability level, but as I run through some thoughts of many engineers I know, thinking of ones who are very good and not very good, I’m not coming up with any one demographic seemingly good or poor (e.g., yes, women are strongly outnumbered by men overall, and you may care to draw conclusions about ability from that, but the numbers of outstanding women and underperforming women are, I believe in my experience, consistent with their overall representation).

You want to tell us more about the intellectual shortcomings of others?

Spot on

It is all fueled by personal inadequacies, a sense of victimhood, a desire for "retribution", fear and hatred of "the other".

Ummm . . . OMFG.

Trump wins AGAIN.

Your party is deteriorating- no chance of winning the WH in 2028.

CPI up 2.4% year over year compared to 2.3% last month. So much for bringing prices down. What a f*cking imbecile.

Ok, Cowboy/Sally, you said that this would happen by today, 6/11

The S&P hit it.

Dow currently at 43,029

NASDAQ at 19,779

I'll admit that you aren't off by miles, but they won't get there. One outta three ain't bad?

May CPI inflation came in at 2.4%, which was lower than expectations.

But, but, but the dems kept screaming that tariffs would spike inflation.

Fear-mongers lose again.

Inflation did go up and the reason it didn’t go up more was because Trump chickened out.

Tariffs have not spiked inflation because President TACO keeps chickening out.

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You guys can have fun trolling with the “chickens out” point (ok, … I’ll acknowledge R Armstrong of FT),but there’s long been speculation about the guy going back decades before he entered politics and stemming in part from remarks made by people close to him:

— he is a vain man with a fragile ego

— he would like to have a real and tremendous accomplishments

— those accomplishments can be incredibly hard, even for the best among us

— so he short circuits the process by continuing “breaking” something or fouling it up

— and then even some kind of mediocre restorative performance “fixes” things

— and he gets to feel like a tremendous success for having fixed it

(obviously, that stands alongside his pattern and habit of grifting the rubes, gaming the system, and refusing fairness by failing to pay contractors or abusing litigation so that favors those with the most time, money and access to better lawyers — he usually had the last part of that when in business against the little guy)

And now he’s discovered the most beneficial (psychologically, financially, and with other traditional markers of success) arena in which to proceed through his long-established MO:

A hyper-partisan political climate has left it so that he has built-in access to followers who are so desperate for him to “succeed” (for many reasons) that they will ignore what he does to break things and show him with ever more adulation for “fixing stuff.”

Incorrect!

You sound just like Silly Willy:

"Mueller is coming, the clown is done, Russian collusion, the 13 Keys are never wrong, etc."