The other day a friend asked how the heck we had gotten to this stage. What he meant was the Trump candidacy. How did a gibbering toupeed psychopath become the candidate of the Republican Party?
What on earth were the war-profiteers thinking?
Given the comparatively large number of irrational people on the right, to me it seemed merely a natural development. Much like syphilis left untreated.
Today in Florida Trump made his most absurd assertion yet.
"In many respects, you know, they honor President Obama. He’s the founder of ISIS. He’s the founder of ISIS. He’s the founder. He founded ISIS. I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton."
According to Wikipedia:
"The group has had various names since it was founded in 1999 by Jordanian radical Abu Musab al-Zarqawi under the name Jamāʻat al-Tawḥīd wa-al-Jihād (lit. "The Organisation of Monotheism and Jihad"). When in October 2004 al-Zarqawi swore loyalty to Osama bin Laden, he renamed the group Tanẓīm Qāʻidat al-Jihād fī Bilād al-Rāfidayn (lit. "The Organisation of Jihad's Base in Mesopotamia"), commonly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq or AQI. Although the group never called itself al-Qaeda in Iraq, this remained its informal name for many years.
In January 2006, AQI merged with several other Sunni insurgent groups to form the Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC). After al-Zarqawi was killed in June 2006, the MSC merged in October 2006 with several more insurgent factions to form a new group, ad-Dawlah al-ʻIraq al-Islāmiyah, which translates as the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). The ISI was led by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who were killed in a US–Iraqi operation in April 2010, after which Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi became the group's new leader."
End cite.
The dates alone mentioned above should serve to deflate Trump's berserk theory, but we know that Teaparty boobies are not constrained by any shade of reality. Nor, seemingly, ever even influenced by it.
Trump and his supporters are not sane.
They are utterly delusional.
And dangerous.
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And it continues: more Trumpsense.
He's the gift that keeps on giving.
Trumpshit.
"And I would say,' Trump added more solemnly, getting to his election-year point: 'The co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton. Co-founder! Crooked Hillary Clinton! And that's what it's about!"
From his tweets: "My I.Q. is one of the highest - and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure, it's not your fault."
Before an audience of his supporters, he would indeed be one of the higher I.Q.s present.
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