© AFP 2016/ Laura BuckmanTrump speaks during rally in Dallas
On Tuesday evening, after easily winning the state's Republican caucus with 46% of the vote, Trump spoke at a rally at the South Point Hotel and Casino, and bragged — albeit bizarrely — about how diverse his base is.
"We won the Evangelicals," Trump said. "We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated," he continued, "I love the poorly educated! They are the smartest people, the most loyal people."
His closest competitor in the Nevada race, Marco Rubio, came in 22 points behind the former reality television star, with 24%, while Ted Cruz came in third with 21%.
Based on an algorithm called the Flesch-Kincaid readability test "that crunches word choice and sentence structure and spits out grade-level rankings," the Boston Globe previously scored all candidates' announcement speeches, and found Trump's to be the lowest.
In comparison, Bernie Sanders speaks at a 10th grade level, while Cruz is at 8.9, and Rubio at 8.6.
An entrance poll conducted by CNN found that Trump had 57% support among those who had only a high school education or less, a whopping 37 points higher in this demographic than any other candidate.
"What the hell is caucus?" Trump asked at the rally. "Nobody even knows what it is. Just vote."
These were not Trump's only rather unpresidential moments of late. When a protester was being escorted from a Las Vegas event Monday night, Trump declared that he wanted to punch him in the face.
"There's a guy, totally disruptive, throwing punches — we're not allowed to punch back anymore," Trump said, in another moment where the line between the film Idiocracy and reality became blurred. "I love the old days. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They'd be carried out in a stretcher."
"I'd like to punch him in the face, I'll tell ya," he added.
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Trump is the response is the 'average Joe' or 'poorly educated''s response to the whole PC crap spreading in the USofA, which is like a virus starting to go pandemic it seems, so what to do if the 'poorly educated' don't want to vote for the usual suspects in the establishment? Will they vote for Bernie? Not most of them, so what's left but the Donald? That is the state of politics in America these days, don't like it? Have you any other choice? Will Jesse and Cynthia team up to run this summer?
Why are the average Joes and Janes so 'poorly educated'? Isn't that a result of decades of being dumbed down by the very establishment that until Trump, has taken them for granted? They know Trump from the last couple of decades of his showman style of self-promotion with his gaming hotels and his reality tv. They simply don't know any of the establishment candidates on either side. Hillary has proclaimed her good deeds for a few decades now, but even the 'poorly educated' ain't buying her BS, and Bernie seems to need a kick in the ass to bring out the big guns and as Cornel West has had to do himself recently: [Link]
Will the average black voter keep voting for the candidates their establishment black politicians tell them is best for them? The average white voter has been doing just that for many decades in the 'dumbing down' process, and surely a black president has taken care of his own people, so women can count on Hillary to take care of their needs, right? Are they really that 'poorly educated'? Perhaps so, it's hard to break free of the control matrix and its paradigm of ignorance, compounded by the state media, school system and corporate criminal elite. It hasn't been easy for any of the average Joes and Janes, with the establishment proclaiming them stupid and ignorant if they vote for anyone but the establishment candidates promoted to them. Just listen to the usual right wing radio talk shows and hear how they are hyping anyone but Trump, as the left wing tv shows just sit back and watch the Republican party implode before their eyes, something that usually happens for both parties in the countries revolutionary times... it's time, same as last time when Lincoln came to power with a third party, something the Matrix no longer allows, so as The Paul family has found out, one needs to attack them with guerilla tactics of asymmetric warfare, something the Donald does naturally without even trying, it's just his style and his biggest problem, as he really doesn't seem to know he's doing it... he's a natural system buster, not the type most of us here expected to see, is it?
Want an idea of what the man is really like? Take a look at his wifes, all strong, smart and sexy. How many guys marry such strong, independent women? As for his policies? It's all meaningless crap until you get in office and see the huge pile of crap left behind by your predecessor. It usually comes down to who is put on the team, which shows you the real policy driving them. Will he use the usual suspects like all of his predecessors? Or does he have enough common sense to bring in the take down artists the country needs? The PTB are already putting the crash dynamics in place, so anyone that gets in office will be swamped by complete chaos, so does it really matter who gets in? Add the hidden dynamic of all the cosmic crap headed our way, and it really doesn't matter does it? But if all we can do as 'poorly educated' voters here in the States is kick the establishment in the ass by voting for a showman like Trump, is that a bad thing? There isn't much more that can be done by this point... the system runs itself, on autopilot like that ole British show "Yes, Minister", and it's way too late to 'fix' the system, same as Wall Street and the whole Deep State issues of oligarchic rule here and around the western world. So prepare for the last stages of the police state setting up with billions of hollow point bullet shells ready and aimed at you if you protest, and even if you don't. What is left to do but reverse the mirror of fear on the puppet show players themselves and give them a little catalyst to work on?
Donald is just another sign of the times. It really is as simple as that.
How many personalities through time have reached mediocre or even "shameful" "school grades" yet have created amazing lives for themselves and others?
They do that when not being indoctrinated through one system or another and following their hearts on paths few now follow.
We are indeed cursed to live in interesting times...
Typical business man.
Four bankruptcies later..yes I know it wasn't him...it was his dam Company's idea...Shameful of them..Poor Trumpy...!!!
Just what the the requirements of the Office of President requires.
Oh & supporter of those ever so loving & sacrificial Jews & that lovely non oppressive non Nazi mentality non segregationist attitude.
More of what a real President requires.
Yes he would suite the Office of President very well indeed.
But what are the options...NON... They all support the narrow hegemonic view & policies of the Establishment...and will serve it well..
Yes he has all the perfect qualifications to be the next President.
The PTB can 'take him out' anytime they so choose, but if they have engineered a collapse into chaos, maybe this is what they want to happen?