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I have just now sent this message to my Senators, Representative, and the White House. Please do the same.

Here is a good place to find their contact information. https://www.govtrack.us

“The GOP candidate for President is obviously failing. He appears to be incompetent.

We do not have a procedure for this situation, and we badly need one immediately. We CANNOT allow the people around Trump and Vance to set a self-serving precedent. This subject MUST be an immediate item of discussion in Congress. There is no more serious situation in our country.

Please discuss this with Congress and work to develop a solution. Please.”

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I have a really hard time thinking the audience at the Bloomberg event was full of serious business people-seems more likely the Trump campaign was allowed to stack the audience full of Trumpers

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One thing to keep in mind: with the exception of the cheering section, the audience was made up of the same people who shunned Trump the businessman. Chances are, they were all making good money back when Trump was playing a pretend businessman on a game show while shilling for rebottled vodka, crappy steaks and a sham university.

Curious if the Trump team had a hand in the setting. The talk show like cheering section sounded like the minority, but because the audience was in the dark, you couldn't tell who or how many sat on their hands while Trump trolled the audience with his bizarrely stupid applause lines.

One way teachers check for learning is to require from the students an exit slip with a response to the day's objective. The organizers should have requested the same thing of attendees. Even something as simple as "3 Top Words" to describe their opinion. Give the option of anonymity for those fearing retribution. Most important, make it public.

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That man has no more idea of what google is and does than he does about IVF (even though he did get it explained to him recently since he had no idea what it was, and who knows how much of the explanation does he remember?).

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Loved seeing Bill on the stage with Harris this afternoon in PA. Go Bill!

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Mr. Micklethwait, editor of Bloomberg News, was brilliant, absolutely brilliant, interviewing the fpotus. Unfortunately, the audience appeared to be full with maga supporters - cheering fpotus, laughing like it was sheer entertainment, and booing the interviewer. If these are truly the economic movers and shakers, we have a deep state indeed - the lackeys of fpotus. If all interviewers covered fpotus like this one, fpotus would never have any possible edge in this election. MSM are failing us.

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Of Trump ... "He may be one of the world’s easiest marks." Andrew goes to the heart of the matter with this keen observation. Perfect. And you know who figured that out before many, many others? MELANIA.

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This is for Tm Miller: The reason Jason Calacanis doesn't think highly of Kamala Harris is that he is a man, and he is from Texas. He said he thinks she is dumb, unimpressive, and Trump would do better internationally. These are feelings of his: a bias not based on fact, her history, or performance; or for that matter on Trump's history and performance.

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| It’s way worse than you thought.

Has it ever not been thus with Trump.

Maybe there's a reason Trump doesn't want his Wharton grades made public.

| But what the audience really wanted was Trump.

Why else attend an event at which Trump would be speaking? The sensible, rational business people in Chicagoland would know better than to waste an hour or so at a Trump event like this. They'd know that if Trump said anything insightful, it'd be news (of the Sun didn't rise in the morning variety), so they'd find out about it within an hour. Why spend an hour for only the chance of a few moments of coherence?

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Loved seeing Bill at the Kamala Harris event today!!!!

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Excellent today, particularly Andrew.

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So great to see Bill with Kamala n Pennsylvania today!

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Stephen Miller characterizes Trump's performance at The Economic Club of Chicago as the greatest live interview on the economy in our lifetimes. Reminds me of that Roger Rabbit movie, when they break down the wall and enter toon town. Stephen is definitely past that wall.

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With that statement, Miller wiped away any semblance of brains he had.

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“He’s the antiwar candidate,” one Democrat in Pennsylvania told pollsters. “He says he wants people to stop dying, and that sounds good.” How is it possible for anyone to think Trump is an anti-war candidate, but even if he were it would do nothing to mitigate the fact that Trump is the guy who along with his co-conspirators tried to implement an illegal multi-pronged scheme to overturn what Trump knew was a free and fair election in order to have himself installed, dictator-like, for a second term. Trump wanted a riot. Trump employs violet rhetoric all the time hardly a characteristic of an anti-war candidate. ALL patriots oppose Trump.

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One of the common errors in a lot of thinking (especially by averge Joes) is that successful people are more qualified and smarter than them. It is one of those "common sense" things that has no real basis in fact. A lot of "common sense" doesn't have a basis in fact. It proceeds from an often erroneous/incomplete understanding of the world--IOW, identity.

The vast majority of people (regardless of who they are born to or what situation they are born to) are at or near average. People born to advantageous situations do not need to be as capable to be successful as people born to poverty, especially if (in this country) they are not white and male. Brian Klaas talks about this.

In 2023 there were 748 billionaires in the US. according to Forbes, only 7 of them are black.

Many` of the women on the list are members of rich families (like the Waltons) or were married to billionaires.

And for the umpteenth time, this election is not about policy, economic or otherwise. I would be willing to bet that most of the people sitting in that room /members of the club are white males. They have an identity interest in being for Trump that likely outweighs their supposed economic interest (but they are also probably okay with lower taxes and less regulation, too, even if they have to pay Trump vig).

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There are smart people who put a priority on doing what they find interesting and meaningful rather than what will earn them the most money.

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I am going to say this (as an exemplar) even though it might come across the wrong way...

I have a tested IQ of 165 (at one point I went through a series of tests because of psych issues). I have training or degrees or experience in multiple fields (primarily nuclear engineering/chemistry, art, rhetoric, IT). Over most of the course of my life I have read an average of one (non-fiction) book a week (I am 63) on whatever subject I was interested in/curious about at the time.

Born to a blue collar family, both parents graduated High School (my mother barely).

I was reading at university level and reading university texts in 6th grade. I was a mediocre student, especially if it was a subject I found boring or wasn't interested in). I rarely paid attention in class, never did homework (had a low A average though). Teachers would not call on me to answer questions, even if I ws obviously not paying attention (which ws most of the time) because my answers were often inconvenient and rather long.

I am not money motivated, it doesn't interest me so long as my bills are paid and my (low) expenses are met. Expenses are mostly food, books, art supplies, and gaming.

I have little to no interest in status because I am a severe introvert (bordering on pathological when I look back at my psych testing) and don't really like or want to be around other people.

My primary motivator is curiousity. How does this work? Why is this this way? What are people thinking (or not thinking) and why? How do all these things interrelate (or do they)?

I am one of the laziest people you will ever meet... also one of the smartest and most well and roundly "educated."

But I am a High School art teacher, basically because I fell into that job and once there, couldn't be bothered to move on from it.

Probably would not be judged to be "successful" and I am certainly not rich or wealthy.

But I am largely content (other than the fact that I have to work at a job that I find exhausting or often irritating, but I have found every job I have had that way)... and contentment is what I am generally after. I understand, intellectually, why people like Elon or Trump are they way they are, but I can't feel it.

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Another thing: Highly assertive - and aggressive - people are likely to make more money. Assertiveness does not correlate with intelligence.

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Klaas observed that psychopaths tend to perform better/be more successful in business and politics, as well. But yes, being asssertive is a plus.

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This resonates with me. Thank you.

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For the Trump supporters I know, their reason for supporting him starts and ends with race. Before Trump, no Republicans were willing to attack minority groups. What they say is that they are apoplectic over crime; they don't want to be ruled by minorities; and they want the nation to remain majority white. And, they told me, they are happy to vote for a Nazi, if that's what it takes.

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you must know a lot of vacant people

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