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> Please no more "geniuses." This cult of personality celebrity idol worship is toxic.

Agreed. Just look at Trump, his I.Q. is one of the highest and yet his presidency has been among the worst in American history.

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Was his IQ high because he was a stable genius, and had a good you know what?

Trump is not the problem: he is a symptom. The millions of idiots that voted for him, twice, are the problem.

If you remove everything he said and a pandemic which his opponent stopped him from instantly responding to in promoting disease. Was it so bad really? No new wars for one thing.

> If you remove everything he said

Now that's asking for a lot. But maybe you're right, it's way better to have a president who doesn't say much of anything.

Amazing how a sitting president can have an opponent 3.75 years before the next cycle, unless you mean Pelosi and Schumer similar to how Obama had McConnell. Of course Trump had a lot of opposition within various levels of government but that’s also not a new phenomenon, just one he played up by constantly talking about it as a means to working through it. Arguably if he’d just shut up, he’d have given up his biggest political strength and more co-opted by the corporate deep state.

And then there is the massive PPP wealth transfer he oversaw, both to criminals (not necessarily his fault, just his responsibility) and via the US Treasury (definitely on him). But these things are also nothing new compared to other recent POTUSes except for the most powerful playing constant victim.

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