In an argument about Trump, someone said they would've voted for Putin ....

@pianoplayingsteve not yet, but in the context, the guy said he would've voted for Putin ... implying something of the sort.

@WoodyAq I don't see how it implies anything of the sort.

@pianoplayingsteve well, Putin is Russian, and couldn't run for president of the US unless ...

@WoodyAq He doesn't want to run for president of the US

@pianoplayingsteve no. He'd just want to run it through a quisling ... like Trump. That's where I was going ...

@WoodyAq Okay, well your post doesn't make sense. And you question his choice of quisling, so you'd prefer a different quisling?

@pianoplayingsteve no. But if it had to be a Quisling, I don't think I'd choose Trump. Somebody who has thoughts that are longer than 140 chars maybe.

@WoodyAq That is only because of the twitter limit. He's known as someone that says some pretty controversial stuff and I'm pretty sure that requires more than 140 characters. And that is still more thought than the Twitter feminists that hate him for "misogyny" whilst saying nothing on FGM.

@pianoplayingsteve yeah ... ever read his "longer thoughts"? Most of them are multiple 140 char thoughtlets strung together that are, at best, unconnected.

@WoodyAq Are you any better? I mean, your OP made no sense, and I doubt you are as successful as him.

@pianoplayingsteve yeah, I didn't get his father's money. I don't know if I am better, but I'm also not tasked with running the free world ... But if your standard for presidential intellect is the richest of all the random blowhards on Twitter, now doubt you'll be impressed with his performance.

@WoodyAq I'm pretty sure that if he was voluntarily voted to run the free world, he must have more going for himself. And I never spoke of presidential intellect so don't twist it. You aren't as successful as him, that's my point. You are some middle aged guy moaning anonymously on the internet about someone more successful than yourself, and not even grammatically comprehensibly, at that that. That is pretty pathetic.

@pianoplayingsteve we were talking about lengths of the president's thoughts ... pretty sure that's
synonymous with presidential intellect.

@WoodyAq So, you believe that you have greater intellect?

@pianoplayingsteve I believe the president needs a greater intellect than Trump obviously has. I also believe I'm not the president... so your question is moot.

@WoodyAq I know you don't believe you aren't the president. But in calling out someone else's intellect, your own intellect will be called in question.

@pianoplayingsteve And in defending it, so will yours. I think it is perfectly valid to question if the person who is supposed to act on our behalf is suited to the task. I don't think the opposite question is valid ... unless we've chosen someone really unsuitable.

@WoodyAq I'm not the one making posts attacking the intellect of people more successful than myself. Seems you want to deflect from the credibility of your own intellect and instead try to make yourself feel better by attacking the intellect of more successful people.

@pianoplayingsteve I am not attacking hos intellect, I'm attacking his integrity and his willingness to defend the country.

You just asked me if I had to choose a quisling, who would I choose. And I answered: somebody with more intelligence than Trump has on display.

@WoodyAq "I believe the president needs a greater intellect than Trump obviously has".

I'm not going to bother with this conversation any more if you are going to deny what you said and then pose a slightly different opinion to avoid substantiating them.

@pianoplayingsteve Well, I do believe that ... And admit it, Trump isn't a latter day Marcus Aurelius.

But that's not my preoccupation in this post ... It's yours. I'm more worried about his basic integrity... And would be irrespective of what I believe about his intellect.

@WoodyAq Again, I never claimed he was a genius, merely that he is more successful than yourself.

@pianoplayingsteve okay. Again, so what? I'm not his president. He's mine.

@WoodyAq My point being, look at the fruit of your own labour before you judge someone else. My thought is merely he's more successful than you, nothing more, nothing less. There really is nothing more to say.

@pianoplayingsteve well except, being president isn't a lifetime achievement award, it's an active job to represent your and my interests, and it is in our interests and our civic duty to judge how well he's doing it, as he does it. And if we think he isn't doing it well now, then it really doesn't matter how successful he was in the past doing other stuff.

I don't think he's doing it well on a number of fronts. But I'm particularly concerned about how he may compromise American interests vis a vis the Russians.