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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: AOC’s thoughts on Taiwan
Date: 02/17/26 7:20 PM
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I do. Absolutely. I'd match my brainpan against his any day of the week. He's a mental midget.

That doesn't mean he doesn't have some skills/talents. You have enumerated them elsewhere. But from an intellectual standpoint, he's an idiot.


If you think he's a mental midget, then I think you're seriously misjudging him. What you're referring to as "an intellectual standpoint" is only a specific slice of mental capacity, one that us college kids value very highly but is not the only aspect of mental acuity.

I'm sure that you (or I) could trounce him in writing a graded essay on a piece of literature, or in a formal Lincoln-Douglas debate, or in a basic math competition (I once knew how to do math too, back in the day!). But I wouldn't sit down at a poker game against Trump with anyone else's money, or want to compete against him in Survivor or a game of Mafia or any other endeavor where reading people and sussing out their weak points is essential. If you ever watched Game of Thrones, I'd put my money on him doing well in that game of wits over any of the more intellectually accomplished folks I've known over the years.

If you match your brainpan against his on a field that favors you, I'm sure you'd win. In a contest that depends on reading your opponent, deception and guile, bluffing, operating with incomplete information, or a match of wills? I'd put my money on Trump over most of the folks I know from my college days, and those are some quite smart cookies.

He is an ignorant, incurious, anti-intellectual, self-absorbed, inattentive and easily distractible, inarticulate and generally uninformed man who seems to lack any capacity for self-reflection or contemplation. None of that makes him a mental midget.
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