and he swallowed the dice.
Donald “I especially like Article 12” Trump is complaining about the weak libel laws in the US, which allow people to just make stuff up in books like Fire & Fury.
I got to admit - I kind of want to see Donald make it a law where it’s illegal to just say whatever comes into your head. Won’t happen, of course. But Donald “Obama is literally the founder of Isis” Trump would violate that law every six seconds.
Won’t happen, obviously.
What kind of idjit actually declares himself to be “a very stable genius”? One guess: http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/06/politics/president-donald-trump-stable-genius-smart/index.html
The unstable kind.
Serious question: As evidence that he is really smart, Trump offers “because I went to the best colleges, or college.”
Does he not remember whether he attended one college or two?
The stupid unstable kind.
Misstatement. He’s got the BA from Penn, in “real estate.” Although he likes to give the impression he’s a Wharton MBA, he has no grad degrees. (Even Bush the Lesser managed to wangle a Harvard MBA.)
Or possibly he’s convinced himself he went to Columbia and Harvard (President Obama) or Georgetown and Yale (President Clinton).
Trump transferred to Wharton from Fordham, so he has in fact attended multiple colleges.
But, but… isn’t Fordham a (horrors) ***CATHOLIC ***college?
What difference would that make? His metaphysical outlook is solely about the Universe revolving around HIM.
Heh, my parents are both Fordham graduates from the same entering class as Trump, and I was really curious about how he did with the “everyone must take 18 credits of philosophy and theology” requirement, but my dad says the requirements for the business school were different.
The business school at Fordham took 18 year old freshman undergrads? Aren’t you supposed to get an education, y’know, read a few books, before focusing your studies on grinding widows and orphans under your heels?
A stable genius, eh? I just can’t even.
Does a stable genius means he’s not an ass but a mule ?
Neigh.
my bold - did President Orange Jumpsuit get the memo?
No - not clusterfucky at all.
my bolded shudder - isn’t that, like, six fucking courses of that shit?
I’m picturing starving, half-naked, somewhat hirsute lost souls chained up to dank, subterranean brick walls for such piled-on curricula.
I took those courses at my college and they were not shit. Not at all.
Quite the opposite, actually.
That’s was college/university used to be for: to educate a person.
Yeah, I wasn’t sure why I needed a Philosophy & Logic class as a Biology major. But it was the most fun class I took! I wrote one exam in the form of a Pythonesque parody of The Merchant of Venice, the teacher organized cricket matches in the quad, and he invited us all to London to watch him get knighted!
Oh, he’s written a lot of fun stuff, including YA SciFi, and he dedicated his pop logic book "“How to Win Every Argument” to our class.
Edited To Stay On Topic: Trump’s pissed me off by hating education like this.
Whereas my first philosophy teacher flunked me because I disagreed with him on things, and my philosophy-curriculum logic class was a surreal experience where people genuinely struggled with the concept of “and”. YMMV definitely applies.
One of the most enjoyable classes I had at Yale was Chinese Poetics of the Late T’ang Dynasty, taught by the young Stephen Cohen, whose enthusiasm was contagious to me and the other four kids in the room.
It didn’t make me rich or help me “network,” but I’ve continued to read Asian literature ever since, and I know a heck of a lot about how wars were fought in old China, about the ninth century in general, and that Chinese people look up into trees to see flowers instead of down at bushes or borders (it makes a big difference in the context of poetry).