The (Current year) General Political/Salma Hayek discussion Thread Part V

[ArcadiaGP]

Im pretty confident that many Americans don’t know where Kansas City, MO actually is. However, it’s one of those things. I thing they guy holding the highest office in the should know.... but as I’m sure you are aware, I never believed the POTUS all that particularly intelligent.

Let's boil it down to a single question:

Is this it, chief?

 

[Ingomike]

Im pretty confident that many Americans don’t know where Kansas City, MO actually is. However, it’s one of those things. I thing they guy holding the highest office in the should know.... but as I’m sure you are aware, I never believed the POTUS all that particularly intelligent.

What is actually funny is people patting themselves on the back thinking they are so smart by making fun of slip ups humans make, only to make fools of themselves with their own ignorance. The President was not wrong to congratulate Kansas as part of the Chiefs win, they are a KC NFL market as is Missouri. Per Ticketmaster Kansas buys more Chiefs than any other team...

Is it Kansas or Missouri that was the 57th state Obama went to?

 

[Alpo]

I don't mind so much that someone confuses Kansas and Missouri as it relates to Kansas City and the Chiefs. Before Arrowhead Stadium, there was Municipal Stadium and a lot of people thought that was in Kansas City, Kansas. It's one big metropolis now, in any event.

If someone couldn't find Ukraine on the map and Crimea, maybe they ought to brush up geography. Don't want to send Rudy to Bengladesh!

 

[nonobaddog]

I've never been to Arrowhead stadium. I thought it was in Kansas City KS and I am well aware there is a Kansas City MO. That isn't much of a mistake, not enough to get yer panties wet about.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Im pretty confident that many Americans don’t know where Kansas City, MO actually is. However, it’s one of those things. I thing they guy holding the highest office in the should know.... but as I’m sure you are aware, I never believed the POTUS all that particularly intelligent.

Meh. The NEW YORK Giants play in NEW JERSEY. Are they geographically challenged as well?

 

[Kutnupe14]

What is actually funny is people patting themselves on the back thinking they are so smart by making fun of slip ups humans make, only to make fools of themselves with their own ignorance. The President was not wrong to congratulate Kansas as part of the Chiefs win, they are a KC NFL market as is Missouri. Per Ticketmaster Kansas buys more Chiefs than any other team...

Is it Kansas or Missouri that was the 57th state Obama went to?

 

[Brad69]

I travel to KC three times a week the stadium is on the MO side by about a mile. The people of the metropolis considers the team the KC Chiefs with no state identity. In fact the state line means nothing to the residents kind of a unique situation in the U.S. I don’t know of another area quite the same?

So you can call President DJT dumb all you want in fact you have about five more years to do it. I feel bad for those who value decorum and manners above results.

 

[Alpo]

In fact the state line means feel bad for those who value decorum and manners above results.

So YOU were the guy who farted in the MRAP and made everyone's eyes water......

 

[jamil]

Missouri, Kansas, what the **** do people care about either when they just fly over both and think about how deplorable those people must be down there. Of course that’s between wondering what evolutional force cause all those circles.

See, everyone is absurdly ignorant about something.

 

[Kutnupe14]

I travel to KC three times a week the stadium is on the MO side by about a mile. The people of the metropolis considers the team the KC Chiefs with no state identity. In fact the state line means nothing to the residents kind of a unique situation in the U.S. I don’t know of another area quite the same?

So you can call President DJT dumb all you want in fact you have about five more years to do it. I feel bad for those who value decorum and manners above results.

The title "president" will always follow DJT, so unless I die within that 5 years, I'll have the rest of my life to call him dumb, due to him actually being dumb. So Lord willing, 5 years is a conservative estimate. :wink:

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Hardly the stupidest thing a New Yorker or Californian has said about the Midwest.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

This is Chris Cillizza.

Don't be like Chris.

 

[nonobaddog]

I think that mistake matters only to little tiny minds with TDS.

 

[jamil]

I think that mistake matters only to little tiny minds with TDS.

Or even large minds with TDS. You can be smart yet still possessed by delusions of biased perceptions.

As mistakes go, it's pretty minor, unless you really need to make your experienced world match your perceptions.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Or even large minds with TDS. You can be smart yet still possessed by delusions of biased perceptions.

As mistakes go, it's pretty minor, unless you really need to make your experienced world match your perceptions.

How many minor mistakes before you start to wonder about someone's actual knowledge?

 

[Birds Away]

How many minor mistakes before you start to wonder about someone's actual knowledge?

I'm pretty easy going. You're still good.

 

[d.kaufman]

I'm pretty easy going. You're still good.

 

[BugI02]

Thank you Mr. Kaufman. Let's all try a little harder at staying on topic here folks.

So the topic here is extreme outliers on the bust to hip ratio chart?

 

[jamil]

How many minor mistakes before you start to wonder about someone's actual knowledge?

When Trump's administration started, we had some really dangerous things going on in the world. We had the last administration seriously thinking that war with NK was probably inevitable. We had the **** going on in Syria. Of course ISIS. Domestically, the economy was moving, but just seemed to be held back.

Today, the world doesn't seem as bad off. I didn't think Trump's policy of wiping his chin after every meeting with KJU was all that grand. But, I can't argue much with the results. Letting KJU get his satisfaction from Trump's chin seems to have averted the inevitability of war that Obama was so worried about seems to be working, at least in the near term. Lobbing a few missiles at empty hangers, I thought, was not the way to handle Syria. But that crisis seems to be less now too. Not sure how much Trump had to do with that but it does not appear it is nearly as volatile as it was. ISIS is not what it was when Trump took office. I was happy for the tax cut. It did improve my bottom line in a way that was definitely more than just peanuts. I was very skeptical of Trump's trade policies, I thought raising tariffs was going to spark inflation and a trade war. Not so much. And in fact it caused some trading partners to renegotiate. We'll see where we end up with China. Anyway, the economy is humming along nicely.

Did Trump do all that? I have what I call the Jar Jar theory. Jar Jar Binks seemed to have an ability to bumble his way into causing good things to happen. Or, maybe he's an ingenious Sith Lord who just made it seem like serendipity followed him around. Maybe Trump doesn't know a lot about policy and how the world of politics work, but he may understand some basic things about human nature, and how people operate to make some of his own luck. I'm certainly not accusing him of playing 4D chess. It still seems to me that he lucks into a lot of decisions which ends up working out okay. But the world around us is better now than the world was in January, 2017.

How many minor mistakes does it take before you start understanding they're minor? I still don't like the tariffs. I don't like the authoritarian ****. But I'm better off now than at any time under Obama, and I'd bet you are too. Not that it's all Trump's fault. But making a silly mistake about in what state the KC Chiefs are based is not going to cause the world to start crumbling. I have to say, so what?

 

[BugI02]

I don't mind so much that someone confuses Kansas and Missouri as it relates to Kansas City and the Chiefs. Before Arrowhead Stadium, there was Municipal Stadium and a lot of people thought that was in Kansas City, Kansas. It's one big metropolis now, in any event.

If someone couldn't find Ukraine on the map and Crimea, maybe they ought to brush up geography. Don't want to send Rudy to Bengladesh!

I challenge you to find Bengladesh on a map, lolz