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President Trump's Genius Gut

lpetrich

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Trump says his 'gut' is more reliable than everyone else's 'brains' | MSNBC
The Washington Post yesterday asked Donald Trump why he’s “skeptical” of his own administration’s National Climate Assessment. “One of the problems that a lot of people like myself – we have very high levels of intelligence, but we’re not necessarily such believers,” the president said. “You look at our air and our water, and it’s right now at a record clean.”

... While complaining about the Federal Reserve raising interest rates, Trump added:

“I’m doing deals, and I’m not being accommodated by the Fed. I’m not happy with the Fed. They’re making a mistake because I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.”

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In July 2016, for example, Trump conceded that he doesn’t often read because he doesn’t think he has to. The then-candidate told the Washington Post at the time that he believes he reaches the right decisions “with very little knowledge other than the knowledge I [already] had, plus the words ‘common sense,’ because I have a lot of common sense.”
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Yet more and more narcissism. He thinks that he is a great genius, and that he knows everything that he needs to know.

Donald Trump buried a climate change report because 'I don't believe it' - CNNPolitics
President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed a study produced by his own administration, involving 13 federal agencies and more than 300 leading climate scientists, warning of the potentially catastrophic impact of climate change.

Why, you ask?

"I don't believe it," Trump told reporters on Monday, adding that he had read "some" of the report.

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Just over eight years ago, he tweeted this: "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." In 2014, he penned this tweet: "It's late in July and it is really cold outside in New York. Where the hell is GLOBAL WARMING??? We need some fast! It's now CLIMATE CHANGE."

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And then, this from last Wednesday: "Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS - Whatever happened to Global Warming?"
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By CNN's count, he has dismissed the idea of global warming and climate change at least 20 times.

Trump says he has 'natural instinct for science' when it comes to climate change - POLITICO
President Donald Trump told the Associated Press that he has a "natural instinct for science" that informs his understanding of climate change and allows him to see through the political bias that he accused some scientists of holding.

In his interview, published Wednesday, the president reiterated his belief that the climate is changing but argued that the climate "goes back and forth, back and forth." He claimed that scientists are divided on whether climate change is the result of human activity, even though the vast majority of climate scientists believe that it is.

"You have scientists on both sides of it. My uncle was a great professor at MIT for many years, Dr. John Trump," the president said. "And I didn’t talk to him about this particular subject, but I have a natural instinct for science, and I will say that you have scientists on both sides of the picture."
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I'd like to see if he understands what a controlled experiment is. Like Francesco Redi's classic experiments some 350 years ago, experiments that were counterevidence to spontaneous generation.
 
lpetrich said:
I'd like to see if he understands what a controlled experiment is.
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I think we're way past trying to figure out what he understands about science or the scientific method. Only two things matter now: keeping him away from the "button", and how quickly Mueller can roll things up.
 
No reason to disagree. After all, he is a successful casino magnate like Sheldon Adelson.

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Oh... wait.
 
To be fair I know lots of ignoramuses like Trump. He's just their rich mouthpiece.
 
This whole business about "listening to" one's "gut" is just the male equivalent of female intuition, which is to say it's an excuse to make decisions without any valid arguments or evidence.

It's like faith, but without the fancy rationalizations.
 
Possibly NSFW.



Is this the gut that does all the thinking? It does seem to be his most prominent feature.

I think we're fucked.
 
You can have intuitions, but they are really just connecting present data with past data.

But you can't have intuitions about scientific reports.

Trump can't understand the report no less know if it is false or true.

This is just total shit pulled from a fat con man's ass.

In a sane world he never would be where he is.

He is a sign that the US is seriously diseased.
 
Elixir said:
Not that there's anything wrong with that... right, Tom?
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So, all of a sudden I'm the arbiter of what's right and wrong? Why, because I'm a white male? This thread has gotten very racist very quickly. :mad:
 
Tom Sawyer said:
Elixir said:
Not that there's anything wrong with that... right, Tom?
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So, all of a sudden I'm the arbiter of what's right and wrong? Why, because I'm a white male? This thread has gotten very racist very quickly. :mad:
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Who said you were a white male? And a white male WHAT?
A white, male TAPEWORM?? Always claiming persecution...

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