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incandescent ĭn″kən-dĕs′ənt adjective Emitting visible light as a result of being heated. Shining brilliantly; very bright. synonym: bright. Characterized by ardent emotion, intensity, or brilliance.

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Yes, if you leave out the word ‘stupid’ from the phrase where those two words were obviously meant to go together, you would have a point.

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I didn’t have a point. I thought it was an odd choice of words, so I looked up the definition and posted it. And then wake up to downvotes for something I meant to be benign. Not everything has an agenda.

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That’ll teach you to share the definitions of words for everyone’s benefit!

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-1 points

It seems that people got a little twisted over this.

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-95 points

And you expect Biden to have a sound mind to understand these memos, let alone to actually remember them for more than a day? Compared to the elderly and dementia patient Biden, Trump is a theoretical physics professor.

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Yes, Trump is VERY good with the nuclear! He could have discovered the atomic bomb if he was born a little earlier!

Anyway, if you listen to Biden speak for more than 10 second clips on Fox or some pathetic internet underbelly, it’s extremely obvious that is not accurate. He can answer questions and sound normal for 30-60 minutes, but if he stumbles over a word internet pundits, Fox, newsmax etc will jerk off about it for months. Meanwhile a speech by Trump is basically him talking about how great he is, interrupting himself, sneering and insulting various people for 45 minutes.

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53 points

No. We aren’t debating this. There aren’t two sides here. No one is buying your what about bullshit.

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16 points

There is no evidence Biden has dementia. None.

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25 points

My grandpa passed away from Alzheimer’s. He needed help swallowing and he had to have a cup strapped to his hand when drinking (through a straw) because his muscles forgot how to grip. Biden is fine.

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Cool, so Trump is now the same age Biden was when he gearing up for this presidency. People with your (incorrect) view were saying Biden was too old then. So that means Trump’s too old now, right? I’d also love to know why a life long stutter equates to dementia. If that’s true, then people I know have had dementia since they learned to talk.

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7 points

It’s always hilarious seeing common people desperately sucking corporate or politician cock. Who named Biden dude?

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2 points

I’d rather have neither, but at least Biden isn’t a card-carrying villain; just a very old, decrepit man who’s way too old for the job (which Trump is too btw).

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I can’t be the only one not surprised by this

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25 points

I’d be surprised if it doesn’t come out that he had to have people read documents to him. because he can’t read.

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24 points

The ghostwriter for “Art of the Deal” said “I seriously doubt that Trump has ever read a book straight through in his adult life.”

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5 points

My first thought

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3 points

I think we both know…that THERE’S NO FILM IN THAT CAMERA!

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3 points

I am. I was surprised he actually gave him words. I figured it’d be pictures

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220 points

Ok a 50 page memo? That’s pretty friggin long. Depends how many of those you get a day.

But:

I summed up this highly classified memo into Trump’s sort of bombastic language because it was the only way he was gonna understand," Taylor added. “I mean, I literally said in there, ‘You know, if we leave Afghanistan too fast, the terrorists will call us losers. But if we wanna be seen as winners, we need to make sure the Afghan forces have the strength to push back against these criminals.’ I mean, it was that dumb and that’s how you had to talk to him.”

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No. The President of the United States of America needs to be able to internalize and contextualize the details of the current geopolitical climate over corn flakes. This “only human” bullshit has got to go.

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Absolutely agree with you. The point I wanted to make is that there are different ways to summarise, say, in this example, a 50-page memo. The sad thing here is how the official needed to resort to the good versus evil false dichotomy. This oversimplification to have been required because, unfortunately, Trump is stupid.

I guess I’m saying that it’s a shame that there are probably a lot of smart people trying to make sense of all the geopolitics, picking things apart, critical thinking… but in the end it was all for nought; they had to appeal to someone - Trump - who never really wanted to, nor was able to, internalise or contextualise it.

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A 50 Page memo is too long. It is relevant for the discussion of the details between the specialised people, so they reach a highly qualified opinion, but the cause and effects of different decision options need to be summarised on a few pages. Of course the president needs to be able to understand what the bullet points entail, but it is literally impossible for a president of a country the size of the US to read up on the details of every decision.

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6 points

Yeah I’m a normal human and I have no trouble reading at a highschool level why can’t the president do it?

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17 points

Yep, it’s literally the job (or what it should be).

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There is a succinct summary and then there is saying things like “If we don’t do this, the bad guys win,” which is the level of dumbing down that had to be done.

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#ExplainlikeImTrump needs to be a thing

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42 points

#ExplainLikeImOrange

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53 points

When /Explainlikeimfive is too complicated.

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61 points

Please no…

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19 points

I could take about 30 seconds of it, but nothing more.

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2 points

We had an insentient lump of lard in the oval office.

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10 points

Jesus fucking Christ man, what the actual fuck?

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