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As I have posted on other days, Donald is not dumb, at least not by the popular definition. He is learning disabled. There's a difference. His learning disability was concealed mainly by his father spreading his wealth around. (Mary Anne was too absorbed in her own hypochondria to be much involved.)

Fred's money got Donald into schools he never would have gotten into otherwise. When Donald failed, Fred covered his failures with more money. Over time, Donald came to believe that the rules were for others, not for him.

When Donald ignored the rules and got into legal trouble, Roy Cohn taught him how to exploit our legal system. Because Donald is learning disabled, it took hundreds of litigations for him to learn his lessons from Cohn, but he did.

Donald's so-called "success" derives from his dependence on people who are NOT learning disabled: his managers, his lawyers, his TV producers, his campaign managers, and now, the architects of Project 2025. They are flattering weak-minded Donald into carrying out their plans, and he is too distracted by the illusion of power to realize they are exploiting him for their own purposes.

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Dale, I think this makes perfect sense. I've long thought he was learning disabled, not stupid, which isnperhaps why he needs pictures and doesn't read the teleprompter well.

My own late father, I believe, was learning-disabled. He left school after the 8th grade to work, and his parents gave their permission. He always had trouble reading; i never once saw him read a book, and when he read aloud he sounded out words like a child does. But he was NOT a stupid man, he had excellent smarts.

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Sycophants!

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The Architects of Project 2025: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identitarian_movement

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