Today's Doonesbury Say What

[thewayne]

"I think a president should not have learning disabilities, okay?... Gavin Newsom admitted that he has learning disabilities, dyslexia -- everything about him is dumb."
-- Trump

"We have a smart president, whereas in the past we've had dumb presidents."
-- JD Vance

So let's see. We have a governor who has overcome a learning disability to become very high achieving, versus someone with, as far as we know, no learning disability who has achieved very little and instead chosen to do nothing except bully, extort, rape, molest, steal, threaten, belittle, insult, and I could go on. And we also have a lackey who changes political positions with the slightest change in the wind. Said lackey who also failed to learn from his predecessor that he's likely to get thrown under the bus the moment that the going gets tough for his boss.

Truly a pair made for each other.

Comments

[kaishin108]

To carelessy start a huge regional war is dumb. (And careless and dangerous).

[dewline]

Trump and Vance deserve each other. How best to prevent/reduce the collateral damage?

[disneydream06]

They both need to be arrest and thrown into the same small cell. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs, Jon

[ranunculus]

So, now tell us how your -really- feel! ;)

[thewayne]

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[ranunculus]

*LOL*

[thewayne]

I thought that might amuse you. I should have thrown in a [REDACTED].

[ranunculus]

At least TWO [redacted]!

[halfshellvenus]

I saw that Trump quote. There's some thought that TRUMP might even be dyslexic. He isn't a reader, and his daily briefings had to be largely conveyed using pictures in his first term.

He's such an idiot. And apparently that includes not realizing that people can accomplish things despite learning disabilities. It doesn't make them incapable of learning. Unlike whatever Trump's own condition is. :(

[thewayne]

Quite true.  He was never a high academic achiever, though it was said that he was pretty good at baseball.

[conuly]

Also, to be clear, you cannot be diagnosed with dyslexia or other (US terminology*) learning disabilities unless your IQ is at or above the average range.

(IQ is, as always, a poorly defined and vastly overrated metric, but still.)

* UK usage of "learning disability" means what "intellectual disability" means in the USA.

[silveradept]

Nobody pressed them for details abbot why they thought these things, Even knowing that what they would gear would mostly be word salad and worse?

Not that these are credible people whose assessments of anyone's intelligence should be believed, but this seems like one of the classic examples of giving someone enough yarn to unravel their own sweater.

[thewayne]

Getting a straight answer from the POTUS is pretty much an impossibility, unless the question is "Why are you so wonderful?"  If you need actual information, you won't get it, and if you want an explanation for something stupid that he did, you'll probably get insulted.  I feel really sorry for actual reporters stationed in DC who want to report on reality.